Mastek to hire 5,000 IT professionals

ITs BOOM TIME: Total number of IT professionals in India have grown tremendously from 1999 to 2007.

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New Delhi: IT company Mastek needs 5,000 IT professionals for its new campus at Mahindra Industrial Park in Chennai. During the first phase the company will recruit over 1,100 professionals, it said in a release.

The company listed by Forbes Asia as the ‘best under a billion’ is into designing and integrating business applications. The company’s new centre at recently launched Chennai facility is set to acquire competencies in mainframe software technology in the insurance vertical, said the release.

The recruitments for this unit are under process, the company release added. During the recent times, IT and ITES industry has seen sudden spurt in India. Even European entrepreneurs are now recognising India as a bold, hungry market that is likely to assert itself in new ways and eclipse much of the west in the coming years.

According to figures provided by Microsoft Learning Services the total number of IT professionals in India have grown tremendously from 1999 to 2007. In fact in the year 2009 there might see a shortfall of around 2.5 lakh IT professionals, says company’s survey.

Another survey by NASSCOM reveals that India’s IT industry is poised to become US $ 70 billion market within next two years.

With agencies inputs