55.000 professionals work at GBS around the world for companies localted in more than 170 countries. The acquisition of PricewaterhouseCoopers – 2002, doubled the number of consultants in GBS.

The main idea of GBS is to provide solutions to its customers using high technology to promote, boost and achieve business objectives.

GBS provides a wide range of services which can be split into vertical services and horizontal services.

• Vertical services are those for business development and sales.
• Horizontal services include IT services, human capital consulting.

The difference resides mainly in that vertical services are provided as specific services and horizontal services are process services.

GBS recruitment

IBM as many multinational firms has a solid system of recruitment, since it invests millions a year for its workforce. Because of the magnitude of the business it employs a variety of professionals, which are distrubuted around the globe. In that sense, IBM employees are able to acquire various skills through different jobs in the same company. Furthermore, you have the opportunity of travelling across borders so, IBMers must be flexible either in schedules or adaptation. An employee in IBM could be working one day at one sector and be changed the following year to another totally different area. In fact, many employees work at client’s place.

IBM has general values that employees generally agree with