Tech haze: IT cos revisit campus hiring playbook, defer onboarding
Major IT companies in India are delaying onboarding and withdrawing campus job offers for fresh engineering graduates due to shifting business demands. This trend marks a departure from the long-standing industry practice of guaranteed employment for campus recruits.
Why it matters
It signals a cooling labor market in the IT sector and creates significant uncertainty for thousands of new graduates entering the workforce.
Bengaluru:It's no country for freshers.Campus offers are being delayed, onboarding schedules are being pushed back, and in some cases, roles are quietly withdrawn. Joining dates are increasingly tied to shifting business demand, leaving thousands of engineering graduates waiting months—sometimes over a year—for jobs they once assumed were guaranteed. For decades, a campus offer from an IT company came with an unwritten promise: graduate, join training and begin work. That certainty is beginning to disappear.The language companies are using reflects this new reality.IBM recently wrote to candidates waiting for an offer: "While we are trying to get you an early joining, there needs to be appropriate available demand to map you to that project.
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