Deloitte to double Hyderabad staff to nearly 80,000 in the near future
Global professional services firm Deloitte has revealed gargantuan plans for the Indian market over the next half a decade, indicating that it might add as many as 40,000 professionals to its staff in the country. The new professionals will join the firm’s Hyderabad outfit, which already houses 40,000 employees.
Big Four rival KPMG’s announcement last month that it plans to recruit 9,000 employees in the near future has now paled in comparison, as Deloitte’s plans scale four times that volume. The plans come amid a wave of recruitment amongst consulting firms in India, as they look to cope with rapidly expanding demand in the market.
Hyderabad is currently the firm’s centre of operations in India, supported by a number of innovation centres and housing as many as 40,000 employees already. The biggest operations in India aside from Hyderabad are in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Delhi, which collectively house between 9,000 and 10,000 professionals.
The firm now plans to double its staff in Hyderabad over the next 3 to 5 years, taking it to a staggering 80,000 professionals. The plans were revealed by Technology, Media and Telecommunications leader for Deloitte India Hemant Joshi, which indicates the department where most of this recruitment will be concentrated.
The new recruits, according to Joshi, comprise of “a lot of engineers and software professionals,” which will mostly be recruited from academic institutions and other firms in the country. Deloitte has previously demonstrated its comfort with poaching talent from its rival consulting firms in India.
The focus on the technology domain is consistent with the trend across the consulting and IT services industries in India, which are all attempting to develop their in-house expertise in a range of Industry 4.0 domains. These intentions are driven by the demand for support in these domains among firms from all sectors in India.
As the population in India becomes increasingly digitalised, most businesses are under pressure not only to find a way of selling their products and services on the online domain, but also to design digital marketing campaigns and strategies that will reach all the new online users in India.
Deloitte is looking to tap into this market with full force, and will deploy most of this new strength towards its Industry 4.0 services. “We are building (facilities in Hyderabad) ahead of hiring and we are hiring as rapidly as we can,” said paul Sallom, Global Leader TMT Leader for Deloitte.