Infosys offers 18,000 jobs to fresh engineers

he Infosys Technologies Ltd is on a hiring spree. For the ensuing fiscal year (FY 2008-09), it has made a whopping 18,000 job offers in about 1,000 colleges the country to take its total headcount to over 100,000, a top company official said here Thursday.

'We have offered jobs to about 18,000 graduating engineers in campus interviews conducted in 1,000 engineering colleges across India during the first two quarters of this fiscal. The offer is by far the largest ever by an IT firm in the sub-continent,' Infosys board member T V Mohandas Pai told reporters here.

'To meet our growing demand for quality human capital, we plan to hire about 9,000 freshers in the third quarter (Oct-Dec) and 4,500 in the fourth quarter (Jan-March) of this fiscal (FY 2008),' he added.