Teradata conducted their recruitment drive for its Graduate Trainee & Internship Programme at LUMS. Ms. Zainab Ali, Communication Consultant started the session by giving a brief introduction of herself and then showed a video about empowering organisations by managing their data and analytics effectively. Ms. Zainab gave an overview of Teradata and told its history goes back to more than 35 years. With 1,400 customers in 77 countries, it has 10,000 capable consultants worldwide. It comes in top 10 US software companies.
Mr. Muddassir Zaidi, Practice Manager Advanced Analytics then took the stage and informed students that it is very difficult to manage huge Data. To curtail this issue Teradata provides business solutions to organisations. He also informed about GDC (Global Delivery Centre) which manages the global projects of Teradata. GDC provides different solutions like Business Analytics Solutions, Ecosystem Architecture Consulting, Hybrid Cloud Solutions to customers. GDC encourages dynamic and diverse career development in different disciplines like ETL consultant, data scientist etc. He also told about their chapter in Pakistan, GDC Pakistan has done different private and public projects within country.
GDC Pakistan has different rewards and recognition plans for their employees. He further told that to become a data scientist, one needs to have a varied skill set and most importantly, analytical thinking. Teradata observes corporate social responsibility through their department TD Cares. It has initiated different education and healthcare programmes.
The event ended with an interactive Q&A session.
