a technically challenging career because of the scale and size of the work environment and lastly the domain rim as a career allows a practitioner to grow not only vertically from the level of an individual contributor to a strategic leader but also gives him an opportunity to expand his skill set across various domains for example a unix expert can diversify his skills into windows or database tracks moreover it gives a graduate engineer or a technical diploma holder an opportunity to grow to the level of a manager or consultant in a short span of five years through focused growth programmes most service providers provide a fasttrack growth path wherein an employee can grow from being an individual contributor to a leader in hcl an individual contributor can be in a leadership position in 810 years against the typical industry practice of 1012 yearsplacement planmost service providers recruit graduates in ba bachelors in computer application bca bsc or even diploma holders in computers or a certification like niitaccording to dutta at present these constitute 30 of the employees and the rest are experienced professionals from the it industry in 2008 our strategy will be to go to colleges and train undergraduate students a year before they complete their graduation we are tying up with various colleges who are agreeing to run a course for us with credit transfer