KYIV, Dec 23 – The IT company GlobalLogic plans to expand its staff in Ukraine in the near future, recruiting an additional 3,000-5,000 IT specialists.

"To work with Hitachi, we need to grow our staff. In Ukraine, we want to recruit 3,000-5,000 people. These will be both attracted specialists and students, whom we additionally train. And this is quite realistic. We are now cooperating with 24 educational institutions in Ukraine," Vice President for Strategy and Technology at GlobalLogic Ukraine Andriy Yavorsky said at a meeting with journalists in Kyiv on Wednesday.

He said that in 2021 the company hired about 2,000 people, increasing the staff from 5,700 to 7,000 IT specialists.

"On average, we hired 700 students a year. This year we decided to increase this number and have hired about 1,000 students," Yavorsky said.