‘Acquire Relevant Years Of Experience Before Moving To An Onsite Location’

At some point or the other in your career map, it’s important to get onsite exposure, suggest experts

No matter what your line of profession is, it’s never too late to add an extra “something” to your portfolio. It can be adding new projects or taking up vocational courses/training, or even taking up an onsite role. Experts believe that it’s a great idea to get onsite exposure, as it adds value to an employee’s profile and personality.

Onsite roles are most common in the IT industry – and over the past decade, professionals have made good use of these opportunities. Today’s IT professionals are young and ambitious. They are constantly looking for newer challenges and better growth. An onsite role is just the right opportunity for these professionals, opine experts.

With the increasing number of projects in the IT companies, they are looking at specialty hiring (read: candidates with specialisations). Companies are either looking to hire people for their off-shore clients/partners or for their overseas divisions. In both these cases, however, they are looking at similar set of skills.

IT companies assign onsite projects to those employees who possess unique project handling skills and are equipped with everything that the onsite client is looking for. Depending on the employee’s years of experience and specialisation, the company determines which onsite project to assign.

During a recently held TimesJobs.com High-Tea chat session, Suvarna Deorukhkar, head – global HR – Policies & Practices, Fulcrum Worldwide, spoke about the technical requirements for onsite projects and the kind of skills that companies usually look out for.

“There’s tremendous scope for onsite data analyst roles. But one requires to have relevant years of experience and need to enhance his/her skills before moving to an onsite location,” she suggested. At Fulcrum, we assess employee’s technical and soft skills, before assigning them an onsite project. “In case we have more resources in one project, we manage the skills for different projects,” she added.

According to experts, some of the technologies which are popular outside India are informatica, virtualisation, data warehouse, web logic, liferay, service-oriented architecture and cloud computing. Talking about the onsite locations, Deorukhkar said, “We are focused on the US/European market; Brazil is another hub coming up for IT technology.”

Organisations are also providing relevant onsite trainings to freshers as well as existing employees. This is only to make sure that they match up the employees’ skill sets with that of their onsite partners/clients. Deorukhkar echoed similar views, “We have our major client base onsite – for this reason, we need to have employees travelling onsite frequently, both on long and short-term basis. We have our L&D and OT training departments, which takes cares of various training globally.”

It’s important that organisations constantly encourage the employees to take up onsite projects – for a global exposure and better understanding of the various business functions. According to experts, onsite exposure always adds value to an employee’s profile and personality. “Onsite project prepares you to take up a global role, where you can work under the culture and best practices across the globe,” said Deorukhkar.

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