Athira Sethu
Kochi, 2 May 2025
Cognizant, a huge US-based IT firm with thousands of employees in India, has revealed plans to recruit 20,000 new graduates in 2025. This is as part of the company’s move to expand and enable sectors such as managed services and AI software development.
Although the company’s overall staff remained at around 336,300 individuals, the management of Cognizant indicated that the recruitment of new talent is crucial to the growth of the company. Ravi Kumar S, Cognizant’s CEO, indicated that the company will recruit over twice as many new graduates as it did last year.
The rationale behind recruiting more freshers is that there is greater demand for managed services, which have increased over the last two years. By recruiting fresh graduates, Cognizant wishes to build up its workforce and make sure it has the proper blend of seasoned workers and new additions.
But increasing the number of fresh graduates poses challenges. The firm must reduce the number of new employees while keeping expenses low. To deal with this, Cognizant will apply artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance employee productivity while keeping costs in check. This helps the firm maintain pace with increasing demand for talented employees while keeping expenses down.
Three primary objectives exist for Cognizant in 2025:
- Hiring New Grads: To expand the pool of talent to address increasing business demands.
- Embracing AI to Enhance Productivity: To assist workers in being more efficient.
- Enhancing Employee Utilization: To ensure that workers are utilized efficiently and waste is minimized.
Apart from recruiting fresh graduates, Cognizant has also rehired 14,000 who used to work for the company, and it plans to recruit 10,000 more. This indicates that the company appreciates experienced workers who have previously worked for the company.
Cognizant is also concentrating on upskilling its existing staff to enable them to adapt to new technology, particularly AI. This will enable the company to remain competitive and continue to provide innovative solutions to clients.
For the first quarter of 2025, Cognizant posted a 7.45% revenue growth to $5.1 billion. This indicates that the company continues to grow despite obstacles in the global economy.
