Cognizant to rent 20,000 freshers in 2025 amid AI push
US IT agency Cognizant, which has an enormous worker base in India, has introduced plans to rent 20,000 freshers in 2025 — a transfer meant to reshape the corporate’s expertise pyramid, notably to assist managed providers and AI-led software program growth.
Whereas the corporate’s total headcount remained almost flat in comparison with earlier quarter at 3,36,300, Cognizant’s management highlighted the strategic significance of expertise amplification because the agency accelerates its progress and innovation agenda.
“As we acknowledged at our Investor Day, we’re hiring 20,000 freshers as a part of our technique, which is greater than double what we did final 12 months,” Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S stated.
This 12 months, Kumar famous that the corporate plans to rent many extra contemporary graduates to construct a stronger workforce pyramid, particularly since managed providers tasks have elevated over the previous two years.
“However it additionally comes equally with a overhead of carrying larger bench at a decrease value and truly offshore,” he stated.
He stated the corporate is specializing in three areas — hiring freshers, growing productiveness by way of AI, and enhancing utilisation to handle human capital prices successfully.
Cognizant shared that 14,000 former staff have rejoined the agency, with 10,000 extra in pipeline.
“…with amplifying expertise, we’re strengthening our expertise pipeline with expertise wanted for the AI period. As you heard us discuss in the course of the Investor Day, we’re upskilling our workforce at scale, leveraging AI to satisfy demand sooner and figuring out expertise swimming pools to handle new areas unlocked by AI,” Kumar stated.
The New Jersey-headquartered agency has reported 7.45 per cent year-on-year progress in income to USD 5.1 billion for the January-March quarter of 2025.
