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In this rapidly changing IT world, it is imperative for a In this section, we give you helpful tips on how you Take a peek at one of our many innovative
professional, as well as a student to keep pace with can groom yourself into a thorough corporate advertisements, which will you introduce you the HCL
the latest developments and industry trends. In this professional. philosophy and beliefs and help you know us better.
section, we have an article about the IT industry, and
its ever-changing dynamics.
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So, how much do you know about HCL? In this
section, we have put together some facts and figures
about HCL, which we are sure will help you gain a
better understanding of the organization and what we
do. 5 Future Perfect 6 Lite Byte 7 Can U?
HCL is in a people-oriented business and employees
are key to its success and future.

• Our employee strength comprises individuals from

72 nationalities as on December 31, 2010

• As a global company, with a rapidly growing global

footprint, we have employees working across 30
countries; 160 offices; representing 72 nationalities
as on December 31, 2010.
• After successful forays into Europe, the United
States and South East Asia, HCL is now making its
presence felt in Latin America.
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Every organization likes to believe it is unique but at
HCL, we are indeed a class apart from the rest. How?
Well, simply because of our extraordinary philosophy
of Employees First, Customers Second! In a world
where companies put their customers before anyone
else, we beg to differ.
read more
Had your share of the serious stuff? Well then, it’s
time for some light read! In this fun-filled section, we
will bring you the latest from the entertainment world.
read more
This will be the section with a quiz for you to wrack
your brains over. If you think you know the correct
answers, send us your replies, and maybe you’ll win
yourself something!
read more

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So, how much do you know about HCL? In this section, we have put together some facts and figures about HCL, which we are sure will help you gain
a better understanding of the organization and what we do.

HCL is in a people-oriented business and employees are key to its success and future.

Our employee strength comprises individuals from 72 nationalities as on December 31, 2010
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As a global company, with a rapidly growing global footprint, we have employees working across 30 countries; 160 offices; representing 72 nationalities as on
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December 31, 2010.
After successful forays into Europe, the United States and South East Asia, HCL is now making its presence felt in Latin America.
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We have already started functioning out of Argentina and Brazil, and are well on our way to setting up base in Mexico as well.
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With strategic partnerships with leading Fortune 1000 firms, HCL Technologies has become the no. 1 company in the world in the benefits-led SAP services area after the
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acquisition of the British AXON Group plc.
HCL Technologies’ formidable growth trajectory has made the world sit up and take notice:
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Forbes magazine included HCL Technologies in its prestigious ‘Asia’s Fab 50 List’ for 2010.
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Corporate Research Foundation (CRF) named HCL Technologies Ltd. as one of Britain’s top employers in 2010 for the fourth consecutive year.
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WorldBlu featured HCL Technologies on the 44th place in its ‘WorldBlu Most Democratic Workplaces in the World 2010’.
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Fortune listed HCL Technologies as an organization with the world’s most modern management.
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Businessweek included HCL Technologies in the ‘World’s 5 Most Influential Companies to Watch Out For’ along with Facebook, Craigslist, SKS MicroFinance,
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and LI & Fung.
Hewitt crowned HCL as the Best Employer in Asia and India for 2009.
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The average age of employees as on December 31, 2010 was 30.09 years.
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In this rapidly changing IT world, it is imperative for a professional, as well as a student to keep pace with the latest developments and industry trends.
In this section, we have an article about the IT industry, and its ever-changing dynamics.

Indian IT companies logging in high growth

Dilip Maitra

Software engineers in India, with at least two to three years of experience, are in great demand, thanks to the revival in the fortunes of the Indian IT industry. Rising from the
ripple effect of the global recession from 2008 till the middle of 2010 that adversely impacted hiring of engineers, Indian IT companies are now on a massive hiring spree.
Salaries too are skyrocketing as companies are vying with each other to hire and retain the best brains.

Just sample the following: at the time of its recent announcement of quarter 3 (Q3) result, the country’s largest IT firm TCS said it will hire 62,000 to 65,000 people in the
financial year 2010-11 as against the company’s earlier projection of 50,000 gross additions during the year. “With this, TCS’ headcount will be more than 200,000 at the end of
March 2011,” said TCS Vice-President and Global Head Human Resources Ajoy Mukherjee at the recent result announcement press meet in Mumbai.

Growth is back
While better pricing realization and cost containment has helped, Indian IT companies have also shown good volume growth. Infosys’ volume growth in the last five quarters
was 5 per cent and that of TCS was 6.5 per cent. Another important indicator of market improvement is that the discretionary spends by the IT clients are coming back after the
recession when they almost came to a standstill.

While the conventional cost arbitrage opportunities will continue to drive volume growth for IT vendors, discretionary expenditures on consulting, enterprise solutions, package
implementations, etc, are coming back.
Conventional revenue streams like application development and maintenance (ADM) which used to account for 80 to 90 per cent of the revenue for Indian IT companies are
now down to around 50 per cent.
To cater to growing demand Indian companies need to tackle the supply side as well. Large scale recruitments are in vogue, utilization rates of billable people have risen, and
companies are spending more money in training and skill development.

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In this section, we give you helpful tips on how you can groom yourself into a thorough corporate professional.

The importance of Personality Development

Personality Development has many benefits that are the outcome of a strong personality development procedure. In fact, it is true that there are only benefits and no
disadvantages to personality development.
The benefits of personality development are plenty. It brings with it a lot of new, fresh approaches; it brings with it a lot of scope for varied interests, which in turn, lead to healthy
brain-storming and discussions at work places, rather than unpleasant politics.
The list below exhibits the benefits of personality development for simple and quick reading and comprehension:

One of the key benefits of Personality development is the change it brings about in the overall demeanor of a person. He/she becomes more vibrant, and undergoes a
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sharpening of the personality for the better.
Another key benefit is the confidence and morale that automatically gets a boost and a push with good personality development.
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Another advantage of personality development is the opportunity to be able to form a healthy rapport with anybody of any age bracket.
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Methods of achieving better Personality Development

Try to always be polite and bring a smile to your face. It is essential to always react according to the situation. Being polite can highly work in your favor, whether you
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are at the work place at home, or at a social event.
Bring about a positive attitude towards life. Being positive in life can always work in your favor. Block out the negatives in order to scale the heights of success.
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Enjoy the work you do. This is a crucial part of personality development. If you are not having fun while carrying out office or household work, it will not make you feel
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happy. Ultimately if you are not happy, it won’t assist in personality development.

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Every organization likes to believe it is unique but at HCL, we are indeed a class apart from the rest. How? Well, simply because of our extraordinary
philosophy of Employees First, Customers Second! In a world where companies put their customers before anyone else, we beg to differ.

The aim of our Employees First, Customers Second philosophy is to empower you to bring about a difference in the functioning of the organization – both in the business and
beyond work. We firmly believe that our Employees First vision will be realized only when every HCLite becomes a transformer – and that is why we formed the Employee First
Councils.

Employee First Council (EFC) is a participative and democratic forum developed for HCLites and run by HCLites. The EFCs give an opportunity to a diverse group of individuals
to come together and work towards a common cause that they are passionate about. There are six Employee First Councils at HCL.

EFCs organize close to 5,000 distinctive, interesting, dazzling, intellectually stimulating, athletic, vigorous and philanthropic events, with many of these getting rave reviews and
close media attention.

There are six Employee First Councils at HCL:

Grey Cells, Ambassador Council, Sports Council, Talent Council, Community Service Council, Wellness Council
Apart from these councils, there is the Women First Council, specially dedicated to women HCLites

Watch this space for more about the exciting events these Councils organize, and the HCLites who make them what they are!

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world. Movie and music reviews, gaming news, the latest gadgets…you name it, and we have it!

Mayank Shekhar, Hindustan Times

Dhobi Ghat,
Director: Kiran Rao
Actors: Prateik, Aamir Khan, Monica Dogra
Rating: ***½

Munna (Prateik, immeasurably natural), Shai (Monica, easygoing) dig into keema pav at a local Irani cafe. The boy’s handsome. The
girl’s hot. The two would yet make for a weird couple at a restaurant in Mumbai.

The boy’s reticent, restrained, quiet, burdened by the finality of his class. He’s poor, from Darbhanga district in Bihar, a dhobi (washer-
man, a profession that doesn’t exist in the First World anymore). He services Mumbai’s rich.

The girl’s chic, a non-resident Indian banker. She can afford luxuries like, what the Americans call a “sabbatical”, long leave to pursue
passions like photography. A deracinated worldview
accessed from the West alone, I suppose, allows her to share tea, hang out, make relaxed conversations with the boy as an equal.
They’re still boy and girl. She fits in. He never forgets his boundaries. The connect remains warmly odd, oddly real, incredibly satisfying.

The film is about 90 minutes long. There is still time to observe this delicate chemistry gently play out between the two. Which storyteller will want their audiences to suddenly
switch off? There is no interval. Script finally wins over the great Indian extortionist cinema snack counter. Finally!

Bombay is the centre of this film’s attention. It’s probably the only city in the world where so many classes so closely merge into a common river of sorrows, beauty or hope:
unaware of how each affects the other every day.

I step out of the theatre; feeling slightly quiet in the head, walk straight into the noisy city this film is set in. Popular songs play for background score in my cab. The busy
street has people rushing, as usual, for God knows where: each unique within a mass. The chatty cabby shares with me some story of Aamir Khan, of all people. We still
have something in common, for only a moment, of course. It seemed a scene from Dhobi Ghat!

Source: Hindustan Times

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Think you know your Asian Games? Send us the answers at campus@hcl.com. The answers to the quiz will be published in next week’s Campus Café. Please mention
Campus Café Contest in the subject line.

1) Where did India finish on the medal tally at the Doha Asian Games, 2006?
2) Which country finished top of the medal tally at the first eight Asian Games?
3) Which Non-Asian country was officially denied entry to the Asian Games in 1996?
4) Who won the first gold medal at the first-ever Asian Games?
5) Which country competes in the Asian Games under the name Chinese Taipei?
6) What are the Asian Games also known as?
7) How many athletes/players took part at the 2010 Asian Games?
8) Which famous monument was depicted in the logo of the 1982 Asian Games held in New Delhi?
9) Who finished on top of the medal tally at the first-ever Asian Games held in New Delhi?
10) Body Building made its debut as an event at which Asian Games?
11) In which Asian Games did all 44 member nations of the Olympic Council of Asia participate for the first time?
12) What is the motto of Asian games?
13) The first Asian Winter Games were held in 1986 in which Japanese city?
14) The Asian Games have not been without controversy. Which Asian nation has been officially excluded from the Olympic Council of Asia, and is therefore unable to
participate in the Asiad?
15) How many medals did India win at the 2010 Asian Games?

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