Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) said it will hire up to 5,000 employees in northern region this fiscal and 70 per cent hirings will come from smaller cities.

"The company is set to hire 3,000 at trainee level and 2,000 positions will be filled through lateral hirings in the northern region. We plan to hire over 70 per cent candidates from tier II and tier III cities due to quality talent present in these places which we don't want to miss out on," TCS Vice-President Human Resources Thomas Simon said.

The company believes that the knowledge base of these candidates is as strong as their counterparts belonging to bigger cities. However, imparting training in areas of language, soft skills and etiquette is essential to give them a finishing touch, he said. The compensation and rewards for employees across centres would be similar, Simon added.

Eligibility criterion for trainees would remain to be a minimum 60 per cent score in all the degrees attained. As for hiring experienced professionals, the cut-off has been kept at 50 per cent, Simon said.

Hirings would be taken up for positions based in the NCR region apart from Lucknow. While experienced professional hirings would be done for pre-mapped positions, the trainees would be sent to Thiruvananthapuram for initial training.

The company had earlier said it planned to ramp up head- count by 32,000 across India this fiscal.

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The overall client PC market in India grew 22.1 per cent, recording 1.53 million shipments in the second quarter of 2007 calendar year as against 1.25 million in the corresponding period last calendar year, market research firm IDC said.

Desktop PC shipments showed a growth of 11.3 per cent while notebook PC spurted by 73.1 per cent during the same period (April-June) this year.

In the overall client PC (notebooks and Desktops combined) market,the rankings remained unchanged. HP retained the top spot with a market share of 22.2 per cent, followed by HCL at 12.8 per cent and Lenovo at 10.3 per cent in terms of unit shipments during the second quarter, IDC said.

In terms of desktop PC shipments, HP managed to regain its top position with a market share of 16.7 per cent, followed by HCL and Lenovo in second and third spots

respectively.

In terms of notebook PC shipments, HP retained the top spot with a market share of 40.4 per cent. Lenovo occupied the second spot while Dell climbed up to take the third spot.

Notebook PC market momentum continued unabated in the second quarter, IDC said, adding that brand value and service capabilities would define future market leaders, while volume growth is expected to help make notebook PCs more affordable.

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