Tata Group to expand programme for women professionals

Updated on: Sunday, August 14, 2011

Tata Group will expand its Second Innings Career Program (SICP), which aims at providing an opportunity to aspiring women professionals looking for a second stint after taking a break in their career, in more areas, a top official said.

The number of women at managerial positions is very less in Indian corporates, including Tata Group, India's largest business conglomerate, said Radhakrishnan Nair, Vice-President (Talent Acquisition Group HR), Tata Services Ltd.

"The program, which we have launched in some of the cities, encourages women professionals who have left work to start family, to come back. It is working well. Now we might go a little larger in that. We have to see how it works," Nair told reporters on the sidelines a CII event.

The third edition of the programme was launched on March 8, the International Women's Day. The programme is open for women who have a professional qualification in management/ accountancy/law/IT/design or engineering with a minimum of four years of work experience and who have taken a 1-8 year break in their career for personal commitments.

To a query on the attrition levels in the Group, Nair said it varies from company to company. "It (attrition rate) is as low as 5 per cent in Tata Steel and around 12 per cent in TCS."

Of the 3.5 lakh employees of the Group, he said, one third is working outside India, and as of now there was no impact of recent financial turmoil in the US on the Group in terms of hiring plans.

Tata Group to expand programme for women professionals

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