Noida-based software company HCL Technologies will hire 5,000 people for its software operations during the current fiscal apart from recruiting 1,200 people for its call centre operations.

"We will hire 5,000 people for our software services operations, while for the business process outsourcing activities we will take another 1,200 people," Shiv Nadar, chairman, president and CEO, HCL Technologies, told newspersons after announcing the company's first quarter results in New Delhi on Friday.

The net employee addition during the quarter (July-September) was 1,962. The current headcount of the HCL Technologies is 12,030.