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Opportunities for skilled Bilingual, Technical candidates…here is some hot news of the press.
This further confirms our view that targeting Japan would pave way for an
excellent & unique career opportunity for students. This news article is not about just one company, this is the trend amongst many IT companies. Read on……..
1. The Economic times Dated 11th July 2007
“…………..HCL Technologies has inked a deal with Konica Minolta group, to provide software services for the latter’s multi-function peripherals, printers and medical equipment business lines for three years.
"After successfully foraying into the US and other geographies,
Japan is the next market that HCL is looking on to sign big partnerships such as our agreement with Konica Minolta.
HCL expects around $30 million worth of business in three years through this deal,"
The company’s Japan business units based in Chennai and Noida will provide the necessary Japanese support for fulfilling this partnership….”
2. NEC., Fujitsu to hire more China, India developers Tokyo,JuIyl4 - Business Line – July 15th 2007 Japanese electronics conglomerates NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd both plan to increase their
number of software developers in China, India and other Asian countries outside Japan to
more than 10,000 each over the next three years, the Nikkei business daily reported on Saturday. The mass hiring, which will include NEC boosting staff in China by 75 per cent and
Fujitsu tripling its engineers in India, is aimed at countering a
shortage of developers in Japan, the newspaper said. No one at NEC or Fujitsu could be reached for comment.
Japanese technology companies are behind their global peers in tapping the cheap talent pools of Asia. IBM, for example, employs 53,000 engineers in India while Accenture has 30,000, the Nikkei said.
NEC plans to double its staff of engineers outside Japan to more than 10,000 by 2010. That includes boosting staff in China to 7,000 from 4,000,
doubling headcount in India to 2,000 and hiring more in the Philippines and Vietnam, the newspaper said.
Fujitsu plans to double its development staff in China to 2,000 by 2009 and
triple staff in India to 10,000 by 2010, it said. Both NEC and Fujitsu plan to tap the new hires to develop software for cell phones and electronics while keeping basic design development in Japan, the newspaper said.
Japan has about half a million software developers.
With corporations increasing investment on information
technology, the country
is currently thought to be short of about 150,000 & developers,
the Nikkei said.
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