The largest private sector lender of the country, ICICI Bank is on a hiring spree this fiscal. The lending major has aimed to recruit as many as 6000 professionals in this financial year keeping in mind its growth prospects for the fiscal.

"Our business is growing between 18 and 20 per cent and we are also adding branches...its expected that we would hire between five to six thousand people in our workforce," the Managing Director and Chief Executive, Ms Chanda Kochhar said.

Ms Kochhar added that the major chunk of recruits would be at the ground level being hired from colleges or from training institutes where the bank has tie ups.