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Do Your Cloud Apps Need a CNAPP?

Cybersecurity is already infamous for its obsession with acronyms. One list compiled by DoD Cyber Exchange counts 309 different security-related acronyms. Another list published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) counts — well, I lost count, because it’s more than 25 pages long.

“The key benefit of CNAPP is bringing a holistic, integrated and seamless view across the elements that influence the security of an application,” said Yugal Joshi, analyst at the tech research firm Everest Group. “This allows an enterprise to continue their cloud adoption journey by building native workloads and not getting bogged down by security implications.”

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Associate/Senior Associate, Talent Acquisition | Human Resources

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Job Title: Associate/Senior Associate, Talent Acquisition
Location City: Gurgaon
Industry: Research and Advisory Services
Company: Everest Group

About Everest Group

Everest Group is a research firm focused exclusively on IT, business process, and engineering services – this specialization results in a depth of expertise that our clients find invaluable when making critical, strategic decisions related to their use and delivery of sourcing services. The Global 1000 – the largest and most complex companies of the world – use our services to guide their journeys to achieve heightened operational and financial performance, accelerated value delivery, and high-impact business outcomes. Founded in 1991, we serve clients around the world. For more information, visit www.everestgrp.com.
Everest Group is with you on the journey. We are committed to empowering team members to develop their potential, share their authentic selves, and inclusively engage. This means we continually celebrate the diverse journeys different individuals cultivate. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it is the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and enthusiasm for solving challenges, you will find a home at Everest Group.

Job Overview

We are seeking a talented individual with experience in finding, screening, and attracting applicants across levels. The incumbent will be responsible for managing the end-to-end recruitment process for different functions within the organization. This will include advertising the job openings, reviewing resumes, interviewing candidates, and working with hiring managers to find the right fit.

Key Responsibilities

  • Managing full recruiting lifecycle across a variety of open roles helping stakeholders find, attract and, hire quality talent
  • Sourcing candidates by using job boards, professional networks, and other platforms to keep a healthy pipeline
  • Acting as a brand ambassador by promoting the company’s reputation and attractiveness as a good employment opportunity
  • Conducting the first level interviews to understand their skill sets/areas of interest and briefing candidates regarding the job description, company profile, and the role
  • Facilitating the offer process by negotiating employment terms and providing fair recommendations to internal stakeholders
  • Staying abreast of recruiting trends and best practices

Education and Experience

We are seeking a high calibre individual to maintain our exceptional standards. This person should have:

  • 3–5 years’ work experience in lateral hiring, preferably in a professional services set-up
  • Strong stakeholder management and problem-solving skills to manage multiple positions simultaneously
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills including attention to detail
  • Good excel/PPT preparation and presentation skills
  • Experience in campus hiring/managing campus engagements would be a plus
  • Master’s degree in HR is preferred

 

Everest Group is an equal opportunity employer. We have a culture of inclusion, and we provide equal opportunities for all applicants and employees, including those with disabilities. We are committed to providing an environment that is free of all discrimination and harassment and to treating all individuals with respect.

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Analyst Relations Newsletter Q2 2022: Key Highlights from Custom Research

Client Success Story #1: A leading global systems integrator engaged Everest Group to conduct a deep-dive study and workshop on the current competitive landscape for sustainability technology enablement services in the European market.

This custom study investigated:

  • Who the market leaders and niche players were across ESG programs
  • How these players were evolving their own internal ESG initiatives and what offerings they brought to the market
  • What was the strength of these offerings and alignment with market needs
  • What were the market engagement strategies

The study gave the client a clear understanding of the maturity of the sustainability technology enablement services market landscape, a sense of their own positioning in that landscape, and guidance on growth opportunities and how best to capitalize on them.

Client Success Story #2: Amy Fong and Rita Soni spoke at SIG’s 2022 Procurement Technology Summit on April 5, 2022, in the session titled, “ESG in Services: What Sourcing Teams Must Know to Do More.”

As a prequel to the event, Rita did a podcast with SIG CEO Dawn Tiura where they discussed:

  • An in-depth view of Everest Group’s “purpose framework” and Rita’s focus area – impact sourcing
  • Avoiding “greenwashing” by focusing on the business case for sustainability
  • ESG’s role in the business services industry and what companies can do to incorporate and live by these goals

Rita and Amy built upon the message by presenting:

  • Current trends in the global services industry across all three aspects of E, S, and G
  • Guidance to conference participants on ways to better use their services spend to reach organization diversity and sustainability goals
  • A deep dive into the potential of impact sourcing

Also, during the Summit, Eric Simonson launched a new robust procurement and service provider tool developed to address sustainability –  RFP Questionnaire: ESG Attributes.

Product Story of Indian IT Firms Remains a Mixed Bag | In the News

Indian IT services companies’ bet on products and platforms (P&P) remains a mixed bag so far. While some companies are dealing with the seasonality of the P&P business, others are focused on providing productized service offerings to clients for bagging large deals. And competition remains intense from pure play SaaS (software-as-a-service) firms.

“There is no doubt that software and platforms present a large and attractive market. However, they require a different operating model, funding mind set and governance model than professional services. Hence most of the services companies’ ventures into this market have proven disappointing,” Peter Bendor-Samuel, CEO of Everest Group, told DH in an email reply.

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Seasonal Impact: Indian IT to Post 2-4% Sequential Revenue Growth in Jan-March | In the News

Despite robust demand for technology transformation across sectors, Tier 1 Indian IT players are likely to post moderate sequential growth for the January-March 2022 quarter, owing to seasonality and inflationary pressures in the US and Europe.

Talent constraints will continue to impact Indian service providers with some stability in attrition rates. However, the exposure to Russia-Ukraine impacted delivery geographies will have an impact on forward-looking point of views on delivery,” Prashant Shukla, Vice President at Everest Group, said.

Analyst Relations Newsletter Q1 2022: Key Highlights from Custom Research

Client Success Story #1: Top 10 service provider effectively targets and engages Global Business Services acquisition prospects armed with research insights and account intelligence

  • A leading global IT/BPO service provider engaged Everest Group to assess the Global Business Service (GBS) market in offshore and nearshore locations (APAC, Central and Eastern Europe) and identify opportunities for business growth through GBS carve-outs, acquisitions, and high value engagements such as digital transformation
  • Everest Group took a structured approach to support the client over a six-month period through various types of support:
    • Stakeholder education workshops for client teams to provide insights and trends specific to GBS industry and help understand broad areas of interest
    • Identify top-10 high-potential GBS targets through a multi-stage filtration and shortlisting assessment process. This entailed prioritization based on dimensions such as challenges related to GBS growth, health and performance, and pressures on the enterprise that may lead to a potential decision to divest / carve-out
    • Create detailed account intelligence for target GBS with details of scope of work delivered, evolution, sourcing strategy, footprint, key personnel, challenges, priority areas, vendor relationships, future priorities etc. This information was used to create customized pitch for the client
  • The client was successful in initiating multiple conversations with target accounts based on the insights provided through the study. So far, the client has been able to win large deals with two of the identified GBS targets, in the form of carve-out along with add-on scope e.g., assisting enterprise with cloud and automation initiatives. Everest Group’s research armed the client’s sales team with detailed fact packs and right conversation tracks by identifying the exact nature of opportunity and framing customized pitch

Client Success Story #2: Global IT-BPO service provider confidently creates a robust European service delivery locations strategy as a result of workshops and deep-dive assessments, and research-informed recommendations

  • Everest Group advised a leading IT-BPO service provider on its European location strategy revamp. The focus service delivery groups were digital (software engineering, analytics etc.) and operations (European language requirements). The client already has 10+ centers in nearshore Europe and was facing challenges related to increasing costs and difficulty in hiring rapidly. The objective of the engagement was to identify 2-3 new delivery locations which can provide access to high-quality talent at advantageous costs.
  • The engagement was executed over a period of three months and included the following key steps:
    • Demand mapping workshops with the client to understand the demand profile across the functions/technologies and key European languages
    • Accelerated filtering of 40+ locations in Europe to arrive at a prioritized list of 10 locations for a detailed deep-dive assessment based on client requirements such as availability of skills, scalability potential, cost profile, and synergies with their existing delivery portfolio
    • Detailed deep-dive assessment for the prioritized 10 locations to understand the supply side dynamics and a demand-supply mapping exercise to develop multiple demand-supply mapping scenarios including business case estimates. This included understanding the number of new sites, roles of sites in the portfolio, target ramp-up requirements for the next 3-year period, etc.
    • Recommendations on best-fit locations and desired role for new locations
  • The engagement helped the client create a robust service delivery location strategy for its European digital and operations support teams. The client is in process to set-up two new centers in locations identified by Everest Group.

Confidential Computing: The Cutting-edge of Cyber Security Is a Prime Long-value Play | In the News

According to analysis by Everest Group for the CCC, “The Total Addressable Market (TAM) for confidential computing in 2021 is US$ 1.9–2.0 billion. The CC market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 90–95% in the best-case scenario and 40–45% in the worst-case scenario through 2026.” Put differently, even in a worst-case scenario the field is forecasted to grow at an astounding CAGR of >40%, with growth expectations more or less ensured through 2026 and beyond. Bottom line: there is immense unrealized potential in this field that will be witnessing exponential growth through mid-decade.

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Surprising Truths about the Great Resignation and Retaining Talent | Blog

Many articles now plaster the business media with news about the Great Resignation where employees see a hot labor market today and decide to go after a better situation for themselves. At Everest Group, we gathered empirical evidence from employees in many companies and compared that data with our findings from discussions with C-suite executives in leading organizations. Our study yielded both surprising and unsurprising findings. The biggest surprise is the significant gap between the reasons why employees move to other companies and what employers now do to try to retain them.

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Analyst Relations Newsletter Q4 2021: Key Highlights from Custom Research

Custom Engagement 1: Trust and Safety (T&S) market assessment – focus on the gaming industry for leading IT/BPO player

Our client, a well-known IT/BPO service provider with significant presence in the trust and safety services space, engaged us to study the T&S services market for the gaming industry. The assignment involved in-depth account and competitive intelligence research and the development of a view of the T&S pricing landscape and pricing intelligence and benchmarking.

We took the following approach to the project:

  • We completed a comprehensive market study and determined the T&S BPS gaming market size, its growth drivers, and vendor landscape
  • We conducted an in-depth study of the different content types and created a picture of the technology landscape in the T&S gaming space, helping the client make crucial talent and technological offering decisions
  • In the next phase, we helped the client to segment gaming enterprise customers and conducted an extensive study of the buyer adoption trends, after which we mapped out of the T&S gaming BPS service provider landscape and developed a view on talent strategy in the space
  • We also provided crucial account and competitive intelligence insights

The client is using the analysis to develop its strategy to enter the T&S gaming space, and it has leveraged our analysis to increase the probability of pitch success.

Custom Engagement 2: Content moderation market overview and key competitor analysis for leading IT/BPO player

Our client, a leading IT/BPO provider with well-established T&S BPO offerings, engaged us to assess the T&S BPO market and provide competitive intelligence on two leading T&S service providers.

We took a structured approach to deliver deep insights and analysis:

  • Conducted extensive client requirement analysis and jointly determined the competitors the client should be tracking
  • Evaluated the T&S market and estimated the growth and growth drivers for the coming years
  • Segmented the service providers in the T&S space and determined characteristics of each segment
  • Determined the key areas of investments for the T&S service providers
  • Conducting in-depth competitive study of the two selected providers, including the competitors’ overall T&S strategies, capabilities, and relative advantages/disadvantages versus our client

Given our deep understanding of the T&S market and its players, we successfully provided high-value insights to the client, which became core to its T&S services strategy.

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