Employee Recruitment, Selection and Compensation

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Established : 1981Infosys Technologies Limited (BSE: 500209, NASDAQ: INFY) is a multinational information technology services company Headquarters: Bangalore, IndiaChairperson: N R Narayana Murthy MD: S GopalakrishnanIt is one of India's largest IT companies with 103,905professionals (including subsidiaries) as of Jun 30, 2009.It has offices in 22 countries and development centres in India, China, Australia, UK, Canada and Japan.

About Infosys

In November 2005, Infosys Technologies Ltd. (Infosys), based in Bangalore, India, was named 'The Best Company to Work for in India' by Business Today magazine in a survey conducted by Business Today, HR consulting firm Mercer and international market research firm TNS .

Infosys offerings

• Industries• Consulting services• Engineering services• IT services• BPO services• Products and platforms

Selection process at infosys

Sources of Recruitment

Multiple channels of talent sourcingPremier institutions & business schoolsAdvertisementsWalk-in /Call-Ins interviewsEmployee-get-employee schemesPlacement consultantsWeb based recruitment

Process

Duration of selection process is 2.5 hours which includes:• Filling an application form• An aptitude test(Analytical thinking

and arithmetic reasoning) and a test of communicative English language.• Interview: Purely HR based, to test

communication skills of employees.

Induction Training

Once a candidate has been selected at Infosys, they have to undergo a formal training conducted by Education & Research (E&R) department. There are two types of foundation programs:

• A 10 week short cycle/ fast track program for CSE/IT background candidates.

• An 18 week long cycle program for fresher with Non-CSE/IT background candidates.

• As a part of orientation, a manual-’induction Kit’ is provided to the trainee to go through important links of organization.

Other Training Programs

• Role Based training(RBT)• Just in Time(JIT)• Virtual Classroom sessions• E-learning• Certification• Higher education support(HES)

Policy

Performance appraisal

• Infosys allows 360 degree feedback,that has four integral components:

• Self appraisal• Superior’s appraisal• Subordinate’s appraisal• Peer appraisal

Employee compensation

Copensation trends at market

place

Differential compensation

strategies

Reinforcement of high

performance work ethics.

Performance linked multi

variable pay

Compensation Trends