Five Skills

Shrikant Kulkarni Vice-President, Talent Search and Deployment KPIT Cummins

KPIT Cummins Infosystems Limited is an international software solutions provider and a CMM Level 5 company. The company is focussed on two verticals—manufacturing and BFSI. Its core competencies include enterprise applications, e-business applications, application integration, data warehousing, embedded systems, VLSI and SAP. For over a decade, the company has served the technology needs of over 100 custo-mers across industries and geographies. It’s 1800 plus consultants are engaged in delivering IT solutions and services across the manufacturing and BFSI industries.

At KPIT Cummins we look for the following five skills in a prospective candidate:

• Technical skills: We being a technology driven company, technical skills of the candidate is the most important criteria. Candidates with sound knowledge of software engineering, technology and/or respective business domain are always our first choice.
• Values: At KPIT Cummins we look for candidates who believe in our organisational values like customer satisfaction, high quality deliverables and community welfare.
• Team player: Teamwork is key to the success of high performing IT organisations. We therefore look for such attribute in the prospective candidate. A good team player will be always willing to share information, knowledge and experience with their colleagues, thus contributing team success.
• Communication skills: Superior communication skills are critical to any business. KPIT Cummins’ customers are spread across the globe, so it becomes paramount that a candidate should have the ability to communicate effectively while dealing with them and internally with the team. A candidate should not shy away from making a point and should be able to put it across in a positive and confident manner.
• Bandwidth: Higher bandwidth in terms of business/domain knowledge, understanding of international trends/happenings in the IT industry and respective technologies is a key strength of the candidate from KPIT Cummins’ perspective.