{"id":1009920,"date":"2026-05-26T08:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009920"},"modified":"2026-05-26T08:24:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:54:53","slug":"global-firms-rethink-gcc-hiring-in-india-as-ai-shifts-skill-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/26\/global-firms-rethink-gcc-hiring-in-india-as-ai-shifts-skill-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Global firms rethink GCC hiring in India as AI shifts skill demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global companies in India are becoming more selective in their hiring as AI \u200breshapes roles, intensifying a crunch for talent \u200bwith advanced tech skills. <\/p>\n<p>Heads of global capability centres (GCCs) and senior executives at multinationals told Reuters \u200bthat while hiring continues, finding candidates with the right mix of technical expertise and adaptability was becoming increasingly difficult. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the color for every job and role will change &#8230; The biggest challenge is to get the right talent with the right AI skill,&#8221; said Puneet Chandok, president \u200cof Microsoft India \u2060and South \u2060Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global companies in India are becoming more selective in their hiring as AI \u200breshapes roles, intensifying a crunch for talent \u200bwith advanced tech skills. Heads of global capability centres (GCCs) and senior executives at multinationals told Reuters \u200bthat while hiring continues, finding candidates with the right mix of technical expertise and adaptability was becoming increasingly difficult. &#8220;I think the color for every job and role will change &#8230; The biggest challenge is to get the right talent with the right AI skill,&#8221; said Puneet Chandok, president \u200cof Microsoft India \u2060and South \u2060Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009939,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009920\/revisions\/1009939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}