OBJECTIVE:

• Seeking a senior level position in talent acquisition management in the human resource department for companies dedicated to providing their employees a great place to work and thrive.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• A highly motivated and results - driven senior Recruitment professional with14 plus yearsof progressive experience in technical recruitment, specializing in the placement of Software professionals across skillsets and levels, primarily for IT industry (ITO and big 4 companies). Proficiency in Talent
• Management/Recruiting, Contract Negotiations, Staff Management & Development MSP/SOW/RPO/VMS, Operational Management, Resourcing project planning and handling until completion, Client Partnership Management, Metric Analysis. Flexible and proactive with the ability to work effectively with all levels in organization and excel as a team player and as an individual contributor.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, California

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading, productivity, and deliverables for a team of IT Recruiters
• Involved in managing the end-to-end recruitment cycle for MNT Clients Viz. Apple; Microsoft; HP; CISCO et al
• Provide and lead Off-Shore support for MNT offered by the organization
• Leading full cycle recruitment from hands-on sourcing till on boarding.
• Managing hiring initiatives for various service lines Front End User Experience developers; Architects; Designers;
• Actively involved in developing non-traditional recruiting methods, localization strategies and process improvements for the Talent Acquisition Division.

Confidential, San Ramon, California

Talent Acquisition Specialist (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of recruiters, guiding them through challenges. Ensuring volume, per need. Develop and implement full life-cycle recruiting strategies to source the best talent.
• Provide recruiting solutions to complex staffing issues. Partnering with client for project specific resourcing solutions
• Presenting candidates to our management team applying high quality standards.
• Contacting candidates, following-up with candidates, and managing candidate pipeline.
• Review and assess resumes and interview applications.
• Vendor Management. Managing excellent result driven working relationship with vendors. Negotiations and contract management
• Working closely with Immigration team and handling complex immigration issues from recruitment perspective bringing cases to desirable closures.
• Organizing recruitment events for recruitment drives
• Experience using staffing systems and tools including relational database applicant tracking systems (Taleo), the internet, job boards. Strong background in using Boolean searches
• Develop and Manage strong consultative relationships with hiring managers and candidates.
• Working closely with hiring managers on sketching recruitment plans
• Strong verbal communication skills, including interviewing, selling, influencing, negotiating and collaborating
• Implement best practices in hiring and recruiting issues and procedures.

Confidential, Newark, California

Talent Acquisition Specialist (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Led the Talent Acquisition initiative in North America for internal business units that contributed major revenue towards consulting services. Hands on recruiting experience for different openings for the business units working for.
• Manage teams both Onshore and Offshore
• Oversee the recruitment process and staff SW Consultants multiple
• Build and manage an effective and high volume, full-life cycle recruitment process to meet staffing goals
• Confer with senior management leadership to forecast and supply talent needs
• Collaborate with management team to balance of priorities of staffing needs
• Develop and maintain an effective business relationship with vendors and off-shore team to assure a quality profiles
• Develop and drive the recruiting strategy and practices to fit open requirements and company culture
• Working knowledge with recruitment tools (job board, external sourcing techniques, and professional organizations) to provide qualified and diverse candidate pool
• Led the development of proactive sourcing program with our business partners to find and pre screen talent based on projections, industry trends and historical information, and meet or exceed business demands on or before time.
• Partnered with Corporate Legal and Labor Relation teams to address and stay ahead of any compliance or issues related to labor laws.
• Hands on with sophisticated applicant tracking systems, CRM systems, and document management systems.

Confidential, Newark, California

Sr. Talent Acquisition Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Partnering with the client company hiring managers to gain a good understanding of their mission critical, hard to fill positions from both a technical and soft skill requirements view and then provide a few highly screened, selected candidates for the managers to review and present it to the End client.
• Cold Calling, Screening, salary negotiating and marketing.
• Undertaking entire Recruiting Cycle including sourcing, short listing, prescreening, scheduling interviews, follow-ups, agreements, vendor management.

Confidential, Santa Clara,California

Resource Manager (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Handling end to end recruitment both active and passive for current and pipeline positions.
• Resource Management, handling Contractual positions and Vendor Management
• Coordinating with stake holders for project requirements, creating a panel of pipeline resources
• On boarding and Orientation

Confidential, Fremont,California

Sr. IT Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full life cycle recruitment process from sourcing, screening, creating and implementing behavioral based interviewing for better client/candidate alignment, recommending hires, and offer negotiations for clients
• Responsible for identifying potential qualified candidates based on job requisitions using various sourcing channels/tools.
• On boarding till Off boarding
• Resource Management and handling Contractual positions
• Handling Employment Verification and background checks (Occuscreen, Kroll)

Confidential

Assistant Manager

Responsibilities:

• Handling end to end Recruitment functions for all external hiring needs for the Kolkata location
• Handling all Internal fulfillment functions for the allocated Business Unit
• Initiating transfer of resources to different projects and Business Units
• Maintaining Bench Report
• Sending MIS Reports reflecting Utilization, Billability and Attrition figures for the allocated Business Unit
• Handling the Sub Contractor Hiring/de hiring process for the allocated Business Units

Confidential

Team Lead - Skill Track Coordinator (Recruitment)

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of recruiters for managing the recruitment process for Capgemini Offshore Services, North America.
• Maintaining relationship with the North America Offshore Services recruitment partners.
• Worked on creating competitor intelligence dashboards for NA Recruiting teams
• Monitoring and fulfilling the skill gap based on business demands.
• Creating both active as well as passive pipeline of prospective candidates.
• Manage client communications and client relationships
• Provide inputs as required for process improvements within the engagement
• Plan and track project activities and provide timely and accurate reports on project status to the North America counterparts
• Responsible for service delivery and managing work stream KPI-s as per the Service Levels outlined in the SLA. Manage and monitor for overall Quality of all individual and team deliverables
• Act as the first point of escalation/resolution for all operational issues

Confidential

HR Executive

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated and shaped the future of the IT department at Organization by identifying, attracting and hiring the very best technical candidates available
• Owned full-cycle recruiting: interviewed, offered, negotiated and closed candidates for assigned requisitions.
• Headhunted the best IT talents and negotiated them to be a part of the Organizational talent flow
• Developed, drove and executed comprehensive search strategies to recruit senior and niche candidates in limited candidate spaces.
• Maintained up-to-date knowledge of top business/technical and policy initiatives and competitors for the Organization.