The practice of recruiting graduates from the UK to work in offshore call centres in India is currently coming under scrutiny.
The increasingly prevalent custom was under consideration this week at the Offshore Management Conference in New Delhi.
Companies from the UK recruit British graduates to work in call centres in India at local salaries of between 11,000 rupees (£132) and 40,000 rupees (£480) a month.
In local Indian terms, these salaries are equivalent to those earned by teachers and young professionals in the UK.
Contracts typically last 12 months, combining ten months of work with two paid months off to travel. Accommodation and flights are also included.
Two or three recruitment agencies are starting to target this market. Launch Offshore, one such agency, has just signed a deal for six young British graduates to work for HSBC in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Colombo in Sri Lanka.
The candidates targeted are typically aged between 21 and 25 and are graduates with some experience of travelling.
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