How to get top job at Infosys, Wipro, TCS and other IT companies

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  grsalvi

  I would like to ask two issues
  
  1 : Don't you think IT sector has lost its golden days.The market seems slow since the first recession.
  
  2: What skills are actually required ?
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  My opinion -
  
  1. IT, like any other industry, will have its own ups and downs. The companies might have tough times and they'll have fly-time. So I'd not say it's through the golden days already. The best may be yet to come.
  
  2. The first post briefly mentions the skills require from the next generation of leaders. Overall; they expect a problem solver type of attitude who can go well with the clients as their next leader.
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  Henri

  truely
  

  The_Big_K

  The late 80s and early 90s saw a huge revolution in India called 'Indian IT' - a lot of companies started during that era rose to unimagined heights and became huge corporations. As these companies matures and the initial founding teams attain the retirement age, the companies are finding for the next leaders to lead the companies in tough times and take over the responsibility. If you're eyeing for a tob job at Infosys or Wipro, the companies have developed a blueprint for you.
  
  Matt Barney, the VP and director of the Infosys Leadership Institute says that the next generation leader will need more courage than ever before to sail the company out of troubled markets. He says that until few years ago, there was no Java and there was no cloud. The technologies are being developed at a break-neck speed and one needs to be disruptive to be able to win the clients and newer businesses.
  
  Wipro is developing their own psychometric tests to spot the next set of leaders among their own employees. The phoenix attitude; that is how people have bounced back from their failures is one of the important measures for Wipro in determining their next leader.
  
  The global economic slowdown is forcing changes in business models and the way businesses are executed. Until now, the IT services was mostly a numbers game. The more 'resources' put up on a job would ensure more overall billing. That was a liner-business model where more resources would typically mean more revenues. However, the companies are now heading over to a non-linear model where they can maximise the revenues per employee. Infosys and TCS have been working on this for the last 5 years and have seen the revenue/employee growth of about 15 - 20 %.
  
  India's HCL, an IT success story, wants to see the ability of engaging with the clients, problem solving and understanding other industries (apart from IT) as one of the important characteristic in the next set of leaders.
  
  If you are planning to chalk out your growth story - make sure that you've what it takes for the leader. And start now, so that in the next 10 years' time; you'll be the leader material that your companies will be looking for.

  remarkable resource....am eyeing to be a leader..i hope your advice comes handy