Career development, training & mentoring, networking, and
international opportunities valued highly by interns
BENGALURU, India, Dec. 1, 2021 /CNW/
-- Infosys (NSE: INFY) (BSE: INFY) (NYSE: INFY), a
global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting,
today announced that its flagship global internship program,
InStep, was ranked as the 'Best Overall Internship Program' in the
2021 Vault Internship Rankings. The rankings published by
Vault.com—a career intelligence organization, distinguished Infosys
as the only global organization to have received this ranking four
times in a row.
Instep earned the top rank in the following categories:
- Best internship for the Tech and Engineering industry
- Best Internship for Compensation, Employment Prospects,
Networking Opportunities, Overall Career Development, Quality of
Assignments, Quality of Life, Real-Life Experience, and Training
& Mentoring
- Best Internship by role for Software Engineering &
Development, and Strategy & Business Development
- Best Internship for Overall Diversity
Vault has joined forces with Firsthand, a premier career
mentoring and engagement platform for students and alumni. While
announcing the rankings, the Editors at Firsthand said, "The
Infosys InStep internship program held the top spot for an
impressive fourth year in a row. InStep interns gave their programs
fantastic reviews, praising the caring and supportive people from
diverse backgrounds, collaborative culture, exciting and
challenging projects, great work/life balance and schedule
flexibility, top-notch compensation, and mentoring, networking, and
learning opportunities."
In the wake of the global medical crisis, Infosys InStep is
being conducted virtually with over 250 interns representing 123
universities and 39 nationalities working remotely throughout the
course of the program. As a fully paid internship, Instep provides
interns with an opportunity to work on real-time projects across
corporate functions and business units, including financial
services, strategic engineering group, artificial intelligence,
data analytics, and cybersecurity. Infosys InStep additionally
offers a well-defined career progression plan that last year
resulted in over 70 percent of eligible interns receiving full-time
offers.
Pravin Rao, Chief Operating
Officer, Infosys said, "This recognition reflects our
commitment to enable talent, enhance skills and capabilities
through education, learning and meaningful work. Infosys InStep has
brought together the power of digital platforms and learning tools
to ensure the safety of interns and deliver on its commitment to
provide them the best learning experience, across geographies. As
we are moving towards new ways of working, Infosys continues to
nurture an ecosystem that encourages and guides young talent to
shape a meaningful future and ensure progress for all."
"Many congratulations to Infosys InStep for this latest
recognition. Infosys and the University of
Cambridge have long had a fruitful relationship involving
our students, graduates, and faculty. I personally enjoy my regular
discussions with colleagues at Infosys regarding their HR approach
and other topical subjects of great interest to our students in
their career journeys," said Prof. Dr. Thomas Roulet, Deputy Director of the MBA
Program & Associate Professor in Organization Theory,
University of Cambridge.
"Infosys and Kellogg School of Management have a long-standing
partnership and it is exciting to see the continued impact of the
Infosys InStep internship program. The program offers an immersive
learning experience by connecting students with some of the most
brilliant minds at Infosys in technology arenas like cybersecurity,
IoT and Machine learning. We look forward to many more years of
collaborative academic experiences with Infosys," said Prof.
Mohanbir Sawhney, Associate Dean of
Digital Innovation and the Director for Center for Research in
Technology and Innovation, Kellogg School of Management.
About Infosys
Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services
and consulting. We enable clients in more than 50 countries to
navigate their digital transformation. With over four decades of
experience in managing the systems and workings of global
enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through their digital
journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered
core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower
the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented
levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning
agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and
transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our
innovation ecosystem.
Visit www.infosys.com to see how Infosys (NSE, BSE,
NYSE: INFY) can help your enterprise navigate your next.
Safe Harbor
Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth
prospects, financial expectations and plans for navigating the
COVID-19 impact on our employees, clients and stakeholders are
forward-looking statements intended to qualify for the 'safe
harbor' under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995,
which involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause
actual results to differ materially from those in such
forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to
these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and
uncertainties regarding COVID-19 and the effects of government and
other measures seeking to contain its spread, risks related to an
economic downturn or recession in India, the United
States and other countries around the world, changes in
political, business, and economic conditions, fluctuations in
earnings, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, our ability to
manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those
factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in
India, our ability to attract and
retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on
fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration,
restrictions on immigration, industry segment concentration, our
ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for
technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication
networks or system failures, our ability to successfully complete
and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on our
service contracts, the success of the companies in which Infosys
has made strategic investments, withdrawal or expiration of
governmental fiscal incentives, political instability and regional
conflicts, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring
companies outside India,
unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic
conditions affecting our industry and the outcome of pending
litigation and government investigation. Additional risks that
could affect our future operating results are more fully described
in our United States Securities and Exchange Commission filings
including our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended
March 31, 2021. These filings are
available at www.sec.gov. Infosys may, from time to time, make
additional written and oral forward-looking statements, including
statements contained in the Company's filings with the Securities
and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. The
Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements
that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company
unless it is required by law.
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