Infosys will hire 1000 spats this year..

Infosys Technologies plans to give the pride of place to foreign faces in its sales and consultation teams in a radical hiring shift that the company believes will help land lucrative deals and boost its image as a global IT powerhouse.Infosys will hire nearly 1,000 foreigners this year to push its sales and consultation practice as the company turns its gaze on high-margin consulting and transformational deals, said chief financial officer V Balakrishnan.Overseas markets contribute nearly 98% of the country’s second-largest software services exporter’s business, but the so-called front-end workforce has just 5-6% foreign members.