{"id":989900,"date":"2026-02-05T08:04:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989900"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:58:30","slug":"cognizant-to-hire-about-25000-freshers-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/05\/cognizant-to-hire-about-25000-freshers-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognizant to hire about 25,000 freshers in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT services major Cognizant on Wednesday said it aims to hire about 24,000-25,000 freshers in 2026 as part of its strategy to expand &#8220;bottom of the pyramid&#8221; workforce.<\/p>\n<p>The hiring target represents an increase of approximately 20 per cent over its 2025 intake, where the company onboarded close to 20,000 graduates.<\/p>\n<p>During the company&#8217;s Q4 2025 earnings call, Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S said the company is focused on a &#8220;broader pyramid&#8221; strategy, shifting high-value tech expertise to entry-level employees through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT services major Cognizant on Wednesday said it aims to hire about 24,000-25,000 freshers in 2026 as part of its strategy to expand &#8220;bottom of the pyramid&#8221; workforce. The hiring target represents an increase of approximately 20 per cent over its 2025 intake, where the company onboarded close to 20,000 graduates. During the company&#8217;s Q4 2025 earnings call, Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S said the company is focused on a &#8220;broader pyramid&#8221; strategy, shifting high-value tech expertise to entry-level employees through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI).<\/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-989900","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\/989900","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=989900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}