BANGALORE: Though the Indian IT services industry has been cautious in its forecast for growth, two of the country’s top three software exporters are not taking the foot off the pedal when it comes to hiring fresh engineering graduates for 2009-10.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the country’s largest software company, has made 24,789 technical campus offers for 2009-10, a 13% increase over its intake of 22,000 for the current fiscal. Its closest rival, Infosys Technologies, will be making around 20,000 offers, an 18% increase. However, No.3 Wipro is lowering the number of campus hires to 8,000 from 14,000.

Typically, IT firms offer jobs to engineering students a year in advance, when they have completed the third year of their course.