The playbook just changed.

The hiring playbook just changed. You can either lead the shift or get caught by it.

• Wipro paused FY27 campus hiring.
• TCS launched My First AI Job — gated roles, not mass hiring.
• Infosys FY26 fresher intake: ~20,000. (Historic peak: 35K+.)
• Combined top-3 IT FY26 intake ~70K. Down from 150K+.

The comfortable drive-day playbook — 400 students through a one-day Infosys drive — is not coming back. The volume has moved to:

• Global Capability Centers (GCCs) — 28% YoY hiring growth (NASSCOM Q4 2025).
• Product startups and scale-ups — skill-filter native, college-tier blind.
• Remote-first global roles — English-fluent, portfolio-first, DPDP-compliant.
• AI-specific roles — prompt engineering, agentic workflows, ML ops.

Your dean will still judge you on the top-3 IT placement count in April. Your students will judge you on whether they got a job at all. ProveIQ's recruiter network is built for the second group first — because the first group is shrinking.

What this means on the ground: you'll see these recruiter types in our dashboard in month one. Most TPOs don't see them at all today.