IT services will continue to be significant part of India’s job environment: TCS CEO

New Delhi: IT services will remain a significant part of the job environment in India as the demand for talent and services continues to grow in the country, according to Tata Consultancy Services CEO and MD Rajesh Gopinathan. He also emphasised on the need for experienced IT professionals to embrace automation and other new technologies to remain competitive even as youngsters, who could be native to these new tools, enter the workforce.
“…in absolute terms, Indian IT’s employment potential will continue to be quite strong and will relatively keep growing in pace with where we see the opportunity. The relative ratio of IT to other industries is a factor of what happens in the larger economic scenario…in the foreseeable future, IT services will remain very attractive and a significant part of the job environment in India,” Gopinathan said in a recent webinar on LinkedIn.
He added that this is on account of the demand for talent and services, which is “only going to explode given the role that technology is playing today and in future”.