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“I'm going to hire more entry-level school graduates than last year.”

At the Fortune COOS ummit, Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S said the company plans to hire more than 20,000 graduates this year—including biologists, historians, and candidates from non-STEM backgrounds.

"We only hired engineers before," Kumar S said. "What we want to do is to give people a chance."

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00:00We're broadening the pyramid, which means I'm going to hire more entry-level school graduates
00:06than last year. Last year we hired 20,000, this year we're going to have more than 20,000.
00:11The year before we hired 12,000 school graduates. So as you broaden the pyramid and restructure,
00:15you're hiring more entry-level. You're hiring more non-STEM disciplines. I spoke about historians,
00:21I spoke about biologists, we only hired engineers before. So we are hiring non-STEM disciplines.
00:26We're hiring player coaches. What we want to do is to give people a chance wherever they're actually
00:33working on coordination, orchestration kind of jobs. We have something called an AI fluency meter in the
00:40company. We kind of ask people to navigate through the process and become player coaches. I mean,
00:46player coaches, higher productivity, having small teams, interdisciplinary talent is what the future
00:52is going to look like. And as long as you are in that mix, you're going to do well.
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