BT Group, one of the leading providers of fixed and mobile internet services to consumers, has announced that it will be hiring over 2800 people from the UK (United Kingdom) and India to grow its digital arm. The company wants to take its digital talent resource pool from the current 3500 people to 6300 by April 2024. “Digital was founded to accelerate BT’s transformation, innovation and return to growth. To succeed, we need to bring in and upskill the top digital talent, and our efforts will boost the tech communities in the UK and India along the way,” comments Harmeen Mehta, Chief Digital and Innovation Officer at BT. Over 1000 people that BT will onboard from the UK will be around BT’s hub sites in Manchester, Birmingham, Belfast, Bristol, Ipswich, and London. In India, BT will look to hire over 1800 people who will be centred around its hubs in Bengaluru and Gurugram. To ensure that its existing talent pool is up to the mark, BT is also continuing with its ambitious programme of up-skilling and re-skilling the employees. In order to support the recruitment drive, BT is bolstering its Digital recruitment capacity under Director of HR, Digital, Mark Murphy. Murphy comments: “We’re hard at work transforming the way BT engages with talent as we add to the type of people we want in the heart of this new business unit. New arrivals will be immediately contributing to the progressive, collaborative, transformative ‘Digital Way’ at the heart of how it works.”
