All you need to know about HCL's First Careers program (2024)

HCL Technologies has announced a ‘First Careers’ program, which it says will help college graduates get their first step right in building their global IT career. According to the company," the advantage of HCL First Careers program lies in its ability to identify your first job at HCL, train you to be successful in it within 6 months and place you in it at the end of training."

Here is everything you need to know about HCL’s 'First Careers' program:

Program Duration:

6 months inclusive of 3 months virtual Class Room Training

Program Fee:

• Fees for the Program: Rs1,50,000 + applicable taxes
• The training for the program will be conducted by HCL Training and Staffing Services, a subsidiary division of HCL. Deployment will be at HCL post the successful completion of the training program across all criteria.
• Bank Loan Assistance available
• Starting salary: ₹2.75 Lakh per annum

Eligibility Criteria

• BE / B.Tech / MCA / M.Tech / M.Sc (IT/ Computer Science) degree holders with 0 to 2 years of professional experience from all regions of India can apply
• B.Sc (IT/ Computer Science), B.Voc (CS/IT/Software Development) and BCA graduates with 0-2 years of experience from Lucknow, Nagpur, Vijayawada and Madurai cities alone can apply. On getting selected, these candidates will be trained and placed in their respective cities only
• 65% and above Marks in Class XII and Graduation or Post Graduation
• Year of Graduation should be 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021
• All selected candidates will be trained for IT Engineer roles

Selection Process:

• Registration
• Online Counselling
• Online Aptitude Test
• Online Interview

The company also announced a few months ago that it would be hiring 20,000-22,000 freshers this year and a further 30,000 freshers next year.