IT companies look for employees with specialised AI skills

NEARLY 50% of IT services company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)' lateral hires are coming in with high-end skills including Artificial Intelligence/ Gen AI and others.

- UMA KANNAN @ Bengaluru

Milind Lakkad, chief HR officer of TCS, said, "If you look at our trainee intake, the percentage of hires we have in digital is 40% compared to 17% last year."

The company has been seeing major adoption of data and AI initiatives. In Q4, AI, GenAI, data and cloud IoT, DE and enterprise solutions drove strong client engagements and growth for TCS. "Our pipeline of AI, GenAI engagement is higher than in last few quarters, and we saw a major rise in deal wins across AI for IT and AI for business," TCS CEO K Krithivasan said.