Capgemini wants to grow and has 600 open positions. “Portugal is tiny”, but “there is business” – Observer
In the year in which it reaches the 25th anniversary in the Portuguese market, the information technology company Capgemini wants to close the year with a round number of workers – 4 thousand people. For that, I need to continue to hire, having currently 600 vacancies open.
“We have 3,600 people at the moment”, explains Cristina Rodrigues. “We are currently aiming for a forecast like 4 thousand people this year – and this means that there is business”, he guarantees. “Portugal is small, we have a lot of people leaving, we already know that, but we have to deal with it.” Given the hiring challenges facing the tech market, Capgemini is already recruiting other workers, such as “Brazil, Mexico, Argentina”. The effort implies having “more than 100 recruiters in the area of information technologies working”, Cristina Rodrigues.
The company’s strategy for the near future, which promises to be somewhat uncertain, was detailed by Cristina Rodrigues, managing director of Capgemini Portugal. It was the first time that the subsequent structure of the technology group detailed the company’s strategy after the Altran acquisition, the operation after the Altran acquisition, the operation after the Altran acquisition, the operation completed in 2019 and completed in the year.
Cristina Rodrigues is the managing director of Capgemini Portugal and is also part of the company’s board. The executive integrates this body together with Eric de Quatrebarbes, responsible for the ‘cluster’ of Europe, to whom Portugal reports, and Anne Lebel, director of the Capgemini group.
With the integration of Altran in the business of the French group, Maria da Luz Penedos, who was called at Altran, assumes the title of “administrative director” of the new sub-brand, Capgemini Engineering. This is where the company is developing areas such as engineering for the automotive sector or 5G. The center installed by Altran in Fundão, for example, also passed into the hands of Capgemini Portugal.
In addition to the six offices and two hubs, one of which is dedicated to the development of low-code OutSystems software, a way to accelerate application development, a company also has laboratories dedicated to technologies such as 5G or mobility. And, as Maria da Luz Penedos explained, soon the Capgemini laboratories in the country will have one more feature – the quantum creation. The media, mobility and 5G labs will soon join the Quantum Lab, which is the result of a partnership with the North American giant IBM. This laboratory in Portugal is especially focused on the area of cybersecurity in quantum technology, detailing the person responsible for the engineering area.
Capgemini Portugal also managed to gain traction in sectors where it previously had a “residual” weight for the company – the public sector, for example, which now represents around 15% of the business, said Cristina Rodrigues . And the bet on the public sector is to continue, as it should grow in the next four years, due to the “public funds” that lie ahead.
In conversation with a company that she believes to be more conservative, Cristina is taking conflict to conflict to have a “company considered the most conservative to growth in Europe”.
Still, the estimate of 16% growth this year in revenue was approved. The executive importance of ensuring that the company’s growth in Portugal is done in a “sustainable way”, to “avoid what companies are doing, which some people will release”.
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