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Follow Us"We are planning to recruit 3,500 people by May 2012 and all will be permanent hires," said Sandeep Mathur, managing director, Oracle India, on Thursday. At the end of the process, the company would have about 24,500 employees, up from its current strength of nearly 21,000 in the country.
The new people will be absorbed across verticals, such as technical, sales, engineered services, support and marketing.
The recruits, according to Mathur, would comprise fresh talents and lateral mid-level recruits to be attracted extensively through the social media, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube, besides their own HR blog.
On Oracle India employing third-party vendors for increasing its headcount, he said that they never used any, since they have their own recruitment teams. It explains the tech major's heavy dependence on online platforms.
Announcing as much, Mathur didn't say anything about the break up of talent pool from campuses, other freshers and lateral recruits, as well as whether it is their largest recruitment drive in India yet.
A question on region-wise recruitment ratio between Americas — where it already has 43,968 employees — and India, too, drew a blank, as he "didn't have those details" .
In Mathur's own admission, this was the first instance of the company specifying just the numbers it actually did this time.
As for their key focus areas realignment after the acquisition of Sun Microsystems and i-flex, he would broadly mention that government projects, banking and telecom, which are high-growth sectors currently, were the ones.
"After three months, we would have the figures of the employee strength of Oracle and Sun put together in India (after the take-over)," he said.
On the same issue, an official spokesperson said that the integration process of employees from both organizations was ongoing.