Global Opportunities
SISO also houses the India office of Samsung's International Recruitment Office (IRO) with an objective of recruiting Indian engineers to be part of Samsung workforce across various geographies.
With a strong background in the past, India IRO has and is continuously striving to recruit the best of Indian engineering pool, to support its varied research and development initiatives in Korea, UK, China and elsewhere. In 2006, IRO has got inducted 47 Indian Engineers for various Samsung businesses starting from Samsung Telecommunications, Samsung Semiconductors, Samsung Digital Media, and Corporate Technology Operations. Samsung Techwin was also another global employer in 2006. Other Samsung entities that recruited Indian Engineers in the past include Samsung Digital Appliances and Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology.
One of the initiatives of India IRO includes offering to PhD Scholars for a 4 week internship program in Korea followed by induction into Samsung Electronics. Selection of candidates aspiring to pursue education in Korea is also handled by IRO, under various scholarship programs of Samsung Electronics in coalition with some of the best universities in Korea. In 2006, IRO recruited for:
- Seoul National University,
- Sung Kyun Kwan University,
- Underwood International College, Yonsei University,
- Korea University Business School
Campus Recruitment
India IRO also handles campus recruitments for SISO. In 2006, 157 engineers were offered from various IITs and other premier institutes to join SISO (10 campuses). In 2007 thus far, 214 have been offered across 23 campuses. It also liaisons between various campuses and SISO in terms of recruitments, training programs, joint projects, co-working in terms of research and leveraging on core-competencies of some the best educational institutions in India.
To summarize, SISO not only offers opportunities under its roof, but also gives an opportunity to the aspirants who want to realize their dreams of in various global locations under the banner of a Global giant.