MNC Software company Oracle plan to hire 3500 engineer at India

Oracle has announced an aggressive recruitment drive in India to hire 3,500 employees across all its businesses that support domestic and global customers," the company said in a statement.

The company, which has the current workforce of 21,000 in the country, is looking to recruit new employees before May 2012, it added.

The hiring exercise would be part of the company's ongoing recruitment drive in Asia Pacific region and it needs additional manpower in India to support its growth across all business units --software, hardware, middleware,

The maharatna and the navratna PSUs have decided to recruit fresh graduates of various engineering colleges based on their Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) score

 the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), a maharatna company, has written to engineering colleges saying they will recruit candidates based on their GATE score, group discussions and the interview and asked the institutes to encourage students to appear for GATE.

The PSUs say this will make a qualitative difference in the recruitments and that it will set a standardized process, but the engineering institutes are divided over the matter. While confirming recruitments will be based on GATE score, Deepna Mehta, a spokesperson of NTPC, said:

"We won't conduct our own exams for recruitment and will rely on GATE score followed by GDs and interviews. Though, for the time being, we will continue our campus visits, it will be restricted. This to encourage recruitments based on GATE score." An HR official of Power Grid Corporation of India Limited, a navratna company, said, "Setting eligibility criteria based on GATE score will ensure credibility and give qualitative impetus to the process."