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Mint: Executive Vice President of Cognizant’s SMAC Business Says SMAC Requires Specific Talent Search Models

“Given the emerging nature of technology across SMAC, the talent pool availability is niche and requires specific search models,” says Mahesh Venkateswaran about hiring for the company’s SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) business. “ Cognizant, for whom SMAC contributed $500 million or 5.7% of its total revenues in 2013, has an eclectic mix of professionals—data scientists, linguists, sociologists, technologists, managers, business analysts, legal experts, finance professionals, domain experts, strategists, marketing and sales professionals—who work cohesively to solve business problems of customers. We tap into the talent pool of the start-up ecosystem, with a special focus on creating intellectual property that can be used for addressing the business needs of the customers,” he says.

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