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The Silent Collapse of Entry-Level IT Jobs in India
- India's tech services sector has seen a decline in entry-level IT job opportunities due to changes in work nature, affecting hiring at firms like TCS and Wipro.
- The impact of AI has resulted in a lowering of entry barriers for tech talent, widening the gap between average and excellent engineers.
- AI and automation are taking over tasks traditionally handled by entry-level engineers, leading to changes in hiring metrics and skill requirements in the industry.
- The shift from coding skills to prompt engineering is becoming crucial, highlighting a new benchmark in talent acquisition for companies.
- Global capability centres are evolving into innovation hubs, posing challenges for traditional Indian IT firms dependent on entry-level roles.
- The decline in fresher onboarding, limited salary hikes, and shrinking profit margins signal a reckoning for traditional IT services models.
- GCCs are raising the bar by seeking talent with a combination of engineering expertise, technological fluency, and domain knowledge.
- Internships and apprenticeships are increasingly becoming the primary hiring pipelines in the GCC world, emphasizing behavioural readiness and domain adaptability.
- GCCs are focusing on building a tech workforce through structured internships and industry-academia collaborations to bridge the skills gap.
- The evolution in hiring trends underscores the importance of domain depth, system-level thinking, and broader skill sets in tech talent acquisition.
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