kolkata it and consultancy giant tcs feels automation may lead to a slump in hiring in the coming years but in the long run it will create more job opportunities in fields of data science artificial intelligence robotics and analytics stung by the visa restrictions and paucity of local graduates in stem science technology engineering and mathematics streams the software major is now running two ambitious student reachout programmes in the us and other developed countries to lure youth to take it as a career optionthe it services major also plans to go for ondemand manpower addition in the next few years as it wishes to maintain a balance between the graphs of revenue growth and hiring in a profitable wayit is more costeffective to train and reskill our existing manpower rather than hiring afresh owing to increased automation in the software delivery process we can see a dip in hiring now analytics iot internet of things and automation are changing the entire delivery process we cant hire much in advance everyone is working on ways to optimise people that you have hired and train them moreover we have hired a handful in the previous fiscals global hr head and evp of tcs ajoyendra mukherjee said on wednesday while introducing the companys business 40 frameworktcs has given offers to 44000 35000 20000 and 20000 students respectively during oncampus recruitments in the last four fiscals in india its offcampus hiring stood at 4000 in the last fiscal the net addition in the workforce was at 7775 the it major which has a total headcount of 395 lakh globally across 50 countries has trained over 240000 employees in digital technology as a part of their reskilling programme its digital revenue is at 238 in the fourth quartermukherjee however ruled out any chances of layoffs going forwardon its effort to attract local students mukherjee said tcs is one of the top three job creators in the it sector in the us there is a shortage of students taking up stem subjects and we are addressing this gap with these two csr activities goit and ignitemyfurture in the us the uk and europe we have developed fresco play a learning platform to enable employees to learn digital courses on the go the company which has been adopting different set of procedures for hiring in different countries is offering a shortened test for the us graduatesaccording to mukherjee the ground level paucity of stemsubject students is also being felt at all developed geographies and the company is taking it as a challengein the last quarter of fy18 tcs dollar terms growth had been 117 and margins stood at 254 which were lower than expectations due to currency fluctuations he saidgoit is getting midlevel school students of class ix to xii hooked to simple robotics analytics and reasoning via various problemsolving and challengebased aptitudebuilding methodsignitemyfuture on the other hand is meant to reach out to at least one million students