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India's Tata opens training center in New York

NEW YORK - India's largest IT company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has opened a training center in Buffalo in New York state as part of its program to expand its presence and bring jobs to the area.

A global information technology services provider, TCS will provide advanced training in IT to new recruits and exiting employees in the North American region. The training center is named "Chrysalis", a word signifying the evolution of a larva into a butterfly.

Company executives explain that this reference is analogous to the emergence of bright new talent into advanced IT professionals who will lead the technology industry into the future. The firm said it had already hired 20 recruits, primarily from western New York, and had plans to triple that number by the middle of the next year.

TCS, in an apparent attempt to take the heat off opposition to outsourcing, is recruiting both experienced IT professional and new graduates. It is working with the universities in the region to identify candidates.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Buffalo mayor Anthony M Masiello said increasingly national and international firms are discovering that this region is home to a highly skilled, committed workforce.

"TCS is one of those companies that will benefit from putting roots in Buffalo, but certainly Buffalo also benefits from TCS, its position as a global technology player, and its leadership in corporate social responsibility, from which New York citizens are already benefiting," he added.

(Asia Pulse/PTI)


Jul 21, 2004


 
     
         
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