Infosys to hire 10,000 by March 2012, work on Kolkata centre to begin

Infosys, India's leading IT company, will look to hire 10,000 professionals in the coming months, a senior company executive said on Friday.

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"While 35,000 professionals have been hired so far this financial year, another 10,000 would be hired by the end of March 2012," Infosys Executive Co-Chairman S Gopalakrishnan said at a CII event.

The current headcount of the company is 1.40 lakh.

Gopalakrishnan also said that the IT major will start construction work on its first software development centre in West Bengal, at Rajarhat near Kolkata, in three to six months.

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"We have paid the money and got possession of the land. We hope to start construction work in three to six months," Gopalakrishnan said.

In the first phase, 5,000 jobs would be created and the approximate investment would be Rs 100 crore, he added.

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When asked whether Infosys would shift its focus outside the US and Europe due to the slowdown in these economies, Gopalakrishnan said: "Any shift will take time. We are looking at the markets of China, South Africa, Malaysia and Indonesia."

Despite the global turmoil, the IT sector has shown resilience and there have been no lay-offs, he added.

"There would, however, be consolidation in IT sector and those who have the niche capability will survive."