Enabling digital talent at scale

The Foundation Program is a cornerstone of our workforce readiness strategy, designed to equip entry-level engineering and science graduates with the skills needed to thrive in a dynamic digital economy. Infosys recruits talent from a wide range of institutions through a structured assessment process, followed by in-person interviews. Selected candidates are onboarded into roles such as System Engineering Trainees (SET), Digital Specialist Engineers (DSE), Specialist Programmers (SP), among others. All campus hires undergo a 19-23 week in-house Foundation Program (FP) at the Global Education Center (GEC), Mysore.

The curriculum covers over 45 technology streams, with recent additions such as generative AI and prompt engineering.

The Foundation Program focuses on building strong IT fundamentals, followed by enablement on any one enterprise application development technology stack, product, platform, and infrastructure management. Alongside technical skills, the program emphasizes professional and soft skills such as business communication, teamwork, critical thinking, and design thinking.

In recent years, the Foundation Program has been reimagined to align with Infosys’ evolving business priorities, the rapidly changing technology landscape, and the Company’s AI-first strategy. The renewed approach emphasizes strong technical foundations, industry-relevant skills, and professional readiness, while ensuring scalability, consistency, and quality in delivery.

The residential program also allows the trainees to imbibe the Company’s culture, history, and context.

Impact

Fresher capability-building programs have enabled the organization to absorb future-ready skills early, improve workforce resilience, and support performance by progressively transitioning fresh talent into value-adding delivery roles. The inclusion of a calibrated set of freshers within capability-building programs has strengthened the long-term talent pipeline while also contributing to near-term performance.

This program inculcates a habit of lifelong learning in our employees,making them future-ready through personalized, self-paced learning journeys.

Infosys AI Academy is a focused group within our Education, Training, and Assessment (ETA) group that drives enterprise-wide AI upskilling aligned to business needs. It enables employees across roles to build AI awareness and applied skills relevant to client and internal use cases.

The group emphasizes responsible AI, hands-on learning, and AI-augmented ways of working. Through structured learning and continuous assessment, it drives scalable and impactful AI adoption across Infosys.

Pragati is a 12‑week women‑focused upskilling initiative by Infosys Springboard aimed at improving career readiness, confidence, and employability of women across age groups.

Job Marketplace helps skilled learners find employment opportunities. It offers intelligent, skill‑based job matches along with access to a wide network of employers across all industry sectors.

Infosys has launched the first phase of its skilling to livelihood initiative with the Infosys Springboard Job Marketplace, hosting 56 jobs across 14 partners. Phases two and three will include institutionalizing skills and course mapping along with integrating AI-based skill mapping, as well as personalized job recommendations, creating a seamless bridge from learning to employment.

Our Infosys Springboard Livelihood program trains and places youth from marginalized backgrounds, improving household incomes and contributing to poverty alleviation and community development.

Faculty Enablement Programs (FEP) at Infosys Springboard are structured initiatives aimed at upskilling educators, strengthening academia-industry alignment, and enabling future-ready teaching practices.

Infosys Springboard partners with universities across India to strengthen digital learning, bridge academia-industry skill gaps, and enhance the employability of students pursuing graduation.

Tablet-enabled learning strengthens continuity and inclusivity by digitizing classrooms in remote schools, improving digital literacy, and providing sustained access to curriculum-aligned content. As part of our digital learning enablement initiative, tablets were distributed across 14 locations, and over 1.2 lakh students benefited from our digital learning campaign.

Lab on Wheels is an initiative to transform learning by delivering fully equipped STEM laboratories directly to educational institutions, ensuring students experience hands-on learning beyond the traditional classroom environment.

The Makers Lab offers an immersive, hands-on learning ecosystem where students explore, build, and innovate using the Infosys Springboard platform. The lab delivers structured, facilitator-led sessions supported by cutting-edge equipment and expert trainers.