BENGALURU: Ride-hailing app Ola is hiring more than a third of its employees from college campuses this year. The firm plans to hire about 150 students across campuses — a two-fold jump over last year — and has begun engaging with colleges to set up workshops, leadership talks and internship programmes, a top executive told ET.
“Ola is now gearing up to be an inclusive organisation... and this is also one of the biggest HR challenges that we have today, where we have experienced folks and young people working together to build a high-performance organisation,” said Rohit Munjal, chief human resource officer at Ola.
The class of 2019 is likely to be awash with job offers from startups including Ola, Amazon, Flipkart, Meesho, and Bounce, with companies looking to rope in students adept at dealing with a fast-paced, agile environment, ET reported last week.
To train fresh graduates, Ola has launched a year-long induction programme where a new joiner goes through a curriculum to smoothen the transition from academics to the workforce. Ola’s businesses include ride-hailing, EVs and financial services. “Young hires bring us disruptive, no baggage thoughts on problem-solving… one of our most popular products, Ola Auto, for example, was suggested and launched by an intern,” Munjal said. “Of 400-500 people we plan to hire by March, 150 will be from campus.”
Interestingly, the average age of employees at Ola is 24-27 years, he said.
“Ola is now gearing up to be an inclusive organisation... and this is also one of the biggest HR challenges that we have today, where we have experienced folks and young people working together to build a high-performance organisation,” said Rohit Munjal, chief human resource officer at Ola.
The class of 2019 is likely to be awash with job offers from startups including Ola, Amazon, Flipkart, Meesho, and Bounce, with companies looking to rope in students adept at dealing with a fast-paced, agile environment, ET reported last week.
To train fresh graduates, Ola has launched a year-long induction programme where a new joiner goes through a curriculum to smoothen the transition from academics to the workforce. Ola’s businesses include ride-hailing, EVs and financial services. “Young hires bring us disruptive, no baggage thoughts on problem-solving… one of our most popular products, Ola Auto, for example, was suggested and launched by an intern,” Munjal said. “Of 400-500 people we plan to hire by March, 150 will be from campus.”
Interestingly, the average age of employees at Ola is 24-27 years, he said.
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