‘Technology companies will start hiring domain experts for growth this year’

Interview of the Day: ‘Technology companies will start hiring domain experts for growth this year’

Sundararajan Narayanan, Vice President and Global HR Head, Virtusa

Which industry will be hiring the most in 2013? Why?
There are three levels of IT hiring that we expect in 2013:
a) Fresher level – Limited/ restricted hiring
b) Middle Level – Extensive hiring in the niche skills/ special category. High hiring on dual/multi-skilled technical professionals
c) Senior Level – Moderate level of hiring
Which will be the top ten in-demand professions in 2013? Why? 
- Niche skills areas like mobile application development, user experience architects, cloud architects will lead the pack as companies want to invest and are ready in these high growth areas
- Architects and Specialists with skills at mid to senior level will have good traction
-  Domain specialists will be in demand as companies who are technology oriented will start hiring domain experts for growth
- Sales professionals hiring – to bring in more revenue and build pipeline
- Quality and Process professionals – Industry will look at optimisation during this period and explore possibilities of cost optimisation with better processes/ frameworks
What will be the strongest recruitment trend in 2013?
2013 is going to be about cautious hiring with reduced cycle time to onboard resources which means companies need to have a pipeline of candidates who are assessed, with appropriate fitment, and competencies.
2013 will be the year of….
Consolidation and circumspective approach on IT hiring will be followed.