Leading IT exporter, Infosys Technology has announced to recruit around 27,000 professionals by March this year. The company seems encouraged from 33 per cent rise in profit in the third quarter of 2008-09.

Infosys also added new clients recently and has issued positive future guidance. Thus, more professionals are required to deliver efficient services to new and existing clients.

Infosys HR head, TV Mohandas Pai said, "We will be honoring every offer that we have made, in fact for the incoming fresher, we have sent letters telling them what period they would be joining." He added that the company has recruited around 20,000 fresh engineering graduates for the next year.

Meanwhile, company's attrition rate declined to 11.8% at the end of Q3. Number of employees working in the BPO segment declined to 16,941 as compared to 17,327 by the end of second quarter.

The shares of company reported increase of 6.36% and closed at Rs 1,230.20 in the recent trading of Bombay Stock Exchange.