Oracle bolsters sales team to tap growing cloud demand
February 1, 2016
Grazed from TheEdgeMarkets. Author: Jeffrey Tan.
Oracle Corp, the IT giant best known for its enterprise database solutions, this year concluded a special recruitment drive in Asia-Pacific (APAC). But unlike what one might expect, the new recruits were not engaged to fill the technical positions in the company. Instead, the Fortune 500 company had gone on a hiring spree to bolster its sales team.
Last March, the company embarked on an ambitious goal to hire 1,000 sales personnel within a three-month period. It managed to recruit talents from a “fairly even distribution” across countries in APAC during that time frame. Oracle declines to provide a breakdown of the numbers, but declares the recruitment drive was a success. Today, the recruits have fully integrated into their roles after completing several training initiatives by the company…
“If you follow the IT industry, in particular the talent side, hiring in that number [and] scaling up within a 90-day period is not easy. It was a pretty aggressive goal. We knew that,” Neeraj Shaabi, regional managing director and vice-president, Oracle Asean/SAGE (South Asian Growth Economies), tells Enterprise…
Read more from the source @ http://www.theedgemarkets.com/sg/article/oracle-bolsters-sales-team-tap-growing-cloud-demand