India’s top car makers, Tata Motors and Maruti Suzuki, along with Hyundai Motors are hunting for talent in the US Motown – Detroit. There are hundreds of engineers laid off by Chrysler, Ford and General Motors. Both the car companies are hunting for talent in the US by advertising in leading auto magazines. So far Maruti has bagged 10 engineers of which two are expats.
“With big automakers like GM, Ford and Chrysler downsizing people, we found that there was a capable population in the US, which can be effectively used to meet our own requirement,” says SY Siddiqui, Maruti Suzuki’s managing executive officer for HR & IT. “We are so happy with our talent acquisition that we are looking at hiring more from Motown next year,” he stated further.
Maruti is coming up with its world class research and development facility at Gurgaon, New Delhi. It currently intends to increases its strength of engineers by hiring at least 500 engineers and 200 technicians in the current financial year. It also plans to hire 500 personnel in managerial capacity.
According to various manpower consultants, there is a vast shortage of talented and skilled manpower in India. They are also expecting a dramatic turnaround in manpower recruitment by auto companies in India. Hyundai has already recruited some 1200 shopfloor workers this year.
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