Onsite Deputation Advantages And Disadvantages

IV. Overseas deputation opportunities –This has been one of the biggest motivating factor for people to join Indian IT industry. Even today, Indian IT industry’s business backbone is what is known as onsite-offshore model. In simple terms, it is built based on the concept of a few team members being located onsite (i.e. at the customer location) which the larger team being located offshore (India). Let us take an example of a leading banking customer in US who has appointed a leading Indian IT company to provide IT services such as development and maintenance of legacy IT applications, IT infrastructure maintenance, Quality Assurance services, Transformation Projects etc. All these engagements involve a high and consistent coordination between

However later the deputation visa norms of various countries started getting tighter (US leading the wave owing to the increasing complaints from the resident population about foreign nationals stealing the job opportunities for locals – this was later followed by multiple countries in the developed world).
• Now-a-days, the visa approvals have become very tough – and that too, issued only for a limited duration. This has resulted in significant drop in the number of associates getting opportunity of onsite deputation.
• However this is not the only reason for reduced onsite opportunities. The other important reason is that as the IT organizations are finding it difficult to maintain the profitability levels, due to higher level of onsite presence. As the market pressure keeps on increasing, the

Now let us inspect the above mentioned types opportunities, as available to the women in the Indian IT industry and specific to the city of

This resulted in sprouting of the engineering colleges in the B or C towns as well. This presented great education opportunities for the students all over the country. Specifically for the girl students, who traditionally found it difficult to migrate to different places for educations, could now grab this opportunity. This trend continued through the subsequent decade (2001-2010) as well. In this decade, a few new courses relevant to IT industry were introduced. This also resulted in the steadily increasing number of students, enrolling in engineering