Vodafone wants fresh ideas, bets big on campus hiring!

Vodafone India is looking for fresh talents! The company has added six new campuses to its list across management, technology and engineering and legal institutes in the country.

‘Discover’, Vodafone's flagship management trainee programme, was launched in 2010. The telecommunications company has hired 440 fresh graduates in the past six years via this programme, reported the Economic times.

Ashok Ramchandran, director, HR at Vodafone India said: "This year our target is 160 management trainees from tier-1 business, technology and legal schools of India. Year-on-year we are increasing our presence in educational institutes. We revisit the list of institutes every year based on organisational needs.

He added that the company hired 145 students with a 58% diversity ratio in 2015. The company headquartered in London provided jobs to 78 and 114 trainees in 2013 and 2014 respectively across campuses in the country.

The company also offered more pre-placement offers or PPOs this year. It offered PPOs to 57% interns who did their summer internship with them this year compared to 37% PPOs in 2014.

According to Ramchandran, the firm’s programme ‘Discover’ is a long term business investment for it and enables trainees to work across functions, undergo customised training modules and provides an exposure to Vodafone's growth and career opportunities.

Graduates are hired for roles in sales and marketing, HR, finance and accounts, CA, supply chain management, IT and technology driven roles in their network.

Ramchandran said the company places a substantially large weightage on performance and potential of current and past ‘Discover’ batches from the respective campuses before revisiting them.

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