Cognizant to Hire 20000 Freshers in 2025 to Boost Talent Pipeline

Cognizant, a provider of information technology (IT) services, intends to hire 20,000 new hires by 2025. The company wants to broaden its talent pyramid and get ready for managed services and software development driven by artificial intelligence (AI).

"Since we are now receiving a lot of work related to managed services, the 20,000 new hires will now form our pyramid. Therefore, that will begin to accelerate our headcount," said Cognizant’s Chief Executive Officer Ravi Kumar S. He informed about this development at a news conference following the results of the March quarter.

"It's a good time to re-baseline the pyramid now that organic growth has returned," Kumar continued. In the IT industry, a pyramid structure typically means that there are more people with less experience and fewer with higher expertise, which lowers wage bills.

Due to significant acquisitions in the financial services and health sciences verticals, the US-based IT services company exceeded Street revenue projections in Q1 Q1CY25.

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Due to uncertainties in the market climate, Cognizant's Indian peers have refrained from disclosing the precise hiring goals for FY26 at the same time as the announcement of the fresher recruitment. However, according to management commentary thus far, the top five IT companies are expected to add between 80,000 and 84,000 IT jobs during the current fiscal year.

Executives from the company have noted that the real number can fluctuate greatly. Cognizant's own development platform, FlowSource, which blends machine-generated and human code, will be used to train the new hires. In reference to the AI-first method being implemented at the freshmen level, Ravi stated, "When you're doing it for the first time and doing it that way, that's the only way you'll know how to code."

It is anticipated that implementing code help platforms early on will increase productivity throughout the development cycle. Additionally, Cognizant is still hiring specialist candidates from Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and National Institutes of Technology (NITs) for positions as full-stack developers and power programmers.

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The company, which is headquartered in Belcan, is also investigating the development of new positions as part of the "Vector 3 of agentification". This term refers to next-generation service models that may not necessitate conventional engineering skills.

 The CEO highlighted new prospects for non-engineers with operations, domain, and other experience, saying, "These are labour pools we didn't address in the past." According to Ravi, the services major employs over 60,000 people who joined the company straight out of college and have worked there for more than ten years. "

And that is the middle management of the company, which is the core of the business." With talent depth in both India and the US, Kumar claimed that Cognisant stands out in the Global Capability Centre (GCC) market thanks to its extensive industry-spanning subject expertise. As of right now, the company has six GCC transactions, and more than twenty are in the works.