Thursday, May 22, 2008

Infosys plans restructuring HR policies

If you are a software professional and thought a single entrance test will secure a seat for you in Infosys campus, think again.

Be prepared to sit for a test every year at Infosys and not just for your engineering skills but also for what the company calls the 'soft skills' which will include how well spoken you are and how you deal with your colleagues.

A credit rating system requires you to appear for a test every year and you can accumulate these ratings over a period of time, so when your eligible for a promotion you can bank on them to climb up the corporate ladder.

This rating will hold for junior to mid management levels and what if you choose not to sit for these tests well, then you will simply will not be promoted despite being eligible.

But will this not deter people from joining Infosys, as the management says on the contrary it will help weed off the underperformers.

However, the management knows only raising the performance bar will not help but they will have to train employees at every level to increase the utilisation rates beyond the current 75 per cent levels.

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