SUMMARY:

• Result oriented, hard - working professional who is available 24*7 for employer, focused in finding the right people with right skill set for the right positions at the right time. Capable of hiring all levels of technical candidates ranging from Associate to Senior Manager and Director for permanent, contract and contract to hire positions.
• A full life cycle Human Resource/Recruitment Management professional with almost 7 years of substantial experience in the Vertical of Telecom, Connectivity, Mobile, Wireless, Semi-conductor, Embedded, ERP, Application Development, IT Infrastructure, BFSI, IT, FMCG, Healthcare. Comprehensive experience gained in the field of Account Management, Staffing & Recruitment/Talent Acquisition, Vendor Management, Human Resource/People Management (Team Management), Campus Recruitment, Employee Orientation.
• I’m an experienced Senior Technical recruiter/ Recruitment Consultant who is always looking for top notch talent to fill a variety of senior level technical, managerial and executive positions. My objective is to find, close and retain top talent and building a world class company through quality staffing.
• I pride myself on the relationship built over in last 6+ years and go above and beyond to represent the professionals I work with. I enjoy meeting people, and my philosophy involves developing relationships with smart, ambitious & successful individuals who share interests and passions - well in advance of requirement. I love this job because I can help people finding the right job they are happy with, the job that makes them feel good about themselves. Also at the same time, able to provide clients with the best potential candidate for the position they are looking for. Contribute in building world class employees for organization.
• I have been recruiting seasoned professionals across various levels of SDLC like Development, Testing support, Project management, Account Management, Sales Management, Quality, Networking and leadership hirings.
• Expert in locating, identifying and closing top talent, with a special emphasis on hard to fill niche positions. Build and maintain candidate relationship to ensure a consistent talent pipeline, Proven ability to self-manage multiple positions by strategic sourcing, screening, qualifying, coordinating interviews, negotiating and closing candidates with proven domain expertise.
• Internet sourcing, social media presence, employer banding and traditional recruitment strategies, engaging Social Media & traditional recruitment strategies to support the talent demands into IT & Corporate functions.
• Possess excellent knowledge of full life cycle IT staffing, manage multiple positions at a time, recruiting and hiring processes including developing and driving comprehensive search/recruitment strategies, sourcing, screening, shortlisting, scheduling, interviewing, reference checking, tracking, salary negotiations, and closing top notch talent to fill a variety of senior level technical, managerial and executive positions.
• Possess strong technical/business acumen and understanding of technical requirements, technologies, technical roles and technical skills; deep sourcing, screening skills, excellent candidate assessment skills, qualifying resumes in the best quality and quantity of resumes. Great knowledge of Staffing and Recruitment Industry.
• Good Knowledge in Tax Terms (W2, 1099, Corp-Corp), Handled US Citizens, Green cards, EAD, H1B, L2, OPT, CPT consultants. Involved in recruiting part of the staffing business and is responsible for filling the positions.
• An effective leader with proven abilities in leading teams, training & guiding team members, manage recruiting for all positions within assigned groups. Measure performance and productivity, take action to improve results as needed, and provide recognition and support to staff.
• Handled multiple large IT accounts as key Account Manager, delivery manager and utilize a collaborative consultative approach and demonstrate a commitment to exceeding client expectations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Packages: - MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Outlook), Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox

Operating Systems: - Windows 2000/XP/VISTA/W7

ATS:: - Smart Recruiter, Linkedin Recruiter Account, Job Diva, Bull horn Reach, ATS (Ngage), Zip Recruiter

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Executive Recruitment - Talent Acquisition

• Close to 7 years of work experience in external and internal staffing. As a member of the Talent Acquisition team I am responsible to efficiently & quickly fill open position of customers with highly qualified culturally aligned workforce for US Site .
• My role as a Talent Acquisition Executive is to provide total end to end recruitment support for different business units in Communications Inc. Supported and hired talent demands for Telecom/Embedded/Semicon/Mobile/Wireless/IT Services/Engineering and Corporate functions . Involved in filling all requirements for Top tier-1 Telecommunication & IT services clients of across USA. Experience in handling lateral & niche skill hiring.
• Handling & working on recruitment needs for multiple business units PES (Product Engineering Services), EAS (Enterprise Application Services), IMTS (Infrastructure Management and Tech Support, ADS (Application and Data Services), Communications and Smart Devices, ERND (Engineering R&D Practice), IT Services, Network Engineering Services, ICDS (VLSI), Multimedia, Connectivity, Telecom, Wireless, Quality and Testing Practice)
• Works with all the stake holders in aligning the business / staffing / Resourcing plans, reports and mitigates risks. Strong follow up with all the stake holders (precisely the Delivery, Resourcing, Finance and Global Mobility team) with a focus on proactively recruiting top talent.
• Leveraging partner networks, job boards, social / business networks, contacts and relationships for acquisition of Talent and matching to the demand and supply of staffing requirements for our clients in the US. Build, maintain and expand the partner relationships & supply channels leading to a substantial increase in on-boarding of talent at these client locations leading to improved revenues and profits.
• Expertise on Active and Passive methods of Sourcing candidates (Not restricted to job boards), Identify viable candidates using a variety of creative approaches, including alumni listings, professional association websites, cold calling, Head hunting, internal database, Internet job boards like (Dice, Monster, Hot jobs, Career builder, Corp to Corp, Indeed, Simply Hired, Tech Fetch, Net Temps, Bench Folks, Yahoo, Job Bridge, The Ladders, Monster India and Naukri, job inventory, trovit, US jobs, jobrapido, aboutjobs.com, careers2.0, juju, bigdata.jobs, heapsort, Craiglist, ITprojob, Diversityjobs, jobboard, flexjobs, datajobs etc.), Networking, advertising and posting jobs, job fairs and career centers, College/University sites, Internet Recruitment (Google searching using Boolean search strings in Linked In and Google/Yahoo groups’ searches), Employee and Candidate Referrals, Internal and Personal references (Gmail/Gtalk/References)
• Sourcing profiles majorly through Social networking sites like (Used LinkedIn Recruiter, Normal LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, hootsuite), and also many Job forums and free recruitment sites.
• Job forums, job aggregators and free ATS: - Smart Recruiter, Linkedin Recruiter Account, Job Diva, Bull Horn Reach, Glassdoor, ATS (Ngage), Zip Recruiter
• Develops a staffing / resourcing plan and staffing / recruitment strategy based on the forecast / demand envisaged by the Hiring Manager/Program Manager.
• Prepare action plans for effective search of potential candidates / sources meeting the staffing / recruitment needs of our clients with Program Manager. Turns concepts and ideas into actionable tasks.
• Successfully managed a concurrent workload of MULTIPLE job openings. Post resumes and job ads in Job portals. Ability to recruit hard to find positions with a high submittal-to-hire ratio.
• Pre-screen job candidates, review resumes, work history, skills, communication, training, qualifications and salary fitment to determine suitability of candidates. Conducted in depth interviews with candidates on telephone to determine skills, knowledge, interest, market value, and availability.
• Negotiate contract terms with candidates including pay rates, hourly rates, negotiating yearly compensation packages based on Corp to Corp, 1099, W2, relocation costs, insurance costs, Paid leaves, contract lengths, availability. Inform candidates fully about the job, skills required, requirement and company, brief and debrief candidates before and after interviews. Defining salary break-up, and all aspects of the offer including salary, stock options, benefits, bonuses, relocating etc to the candidates.
• Schedule and coordinate interviews (Technical & HR) cooperatively with hiring managers, End-to-End coordination of interviews from client and consultant side. Manage candidate process and act as a candidate advocate.
• Manage all communication with candidates, provide regular updates and feedback to managers.
• Contributes to the overall staffing / resourcing strategy, governance & the planning process. Manages implementation of staffing / resourcing plans in line with strategy.
• Meets assigned expectations of profitability across the portfolio by getting the best rates without compromising on the quality of talent.
• Advocates and maintains excellence in the work & across all deliverables.
• Upholds the Company’s Vision and Values, Service Promise, Code of Conduct and expected behaviors and motivates others to uphold these.
• Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others in accordance to the Principles of Responsibility, supports compliance initiatives, maintains confidences, admits mistakes.
• Contributes to continuous improvement of Recruitment / Staffing processes, systems, policies and services.
• Plan/carry out/support building talent pipelines / warm channels / passive candidate databases to support the business & technology practice teams enabling us to respond faster on getting a business need for staffing / recruitment. Maintain a pipeline for backfill requirements.
• Respond to and follow up on staffing / resourcing needs of our clients using appropriate methods.
• Communicate, liaise, and negotiate internally and externally using appropriate methods to facilitate the development of profitable staffing / resourcing business and sustainable relationships.
• Maintaining database and excel sheet tracker for sourcing profiles, status of the candidates and other activities. Providing updates and making reports on our accepted targets with the stake holders.
• Daily review on Demand & Supply, Interviews & Offers with respective Stakeholders.
• Post offer engagements with prospective candidates to address their queries well in time and ensure their joining happens seamlessly meeting the business requirements.
• Telecom, Wireless and Networking Domain - L2/L3 Protocol Testing and Development, IOT-Modem, Protocol Stack, Connectivity (BT, Wifi, NFC, WLAN, GPS) Mobile application, IOS developer, LTE (Development, Testing, Support), Wifi Development (802.11), Wifi Testing, Networking Testing and development, (LTE/Volte/IMS, GPRS, GSM CDMA, UMTS)Support etc.
• Application Protocols and engines - Android, Windows, Linux, Unix, Configuration management and Integration, Build Systems, Filed, Lab, Device, Conformance Testing
• Application Development - Android Application and Framework Developer, Telephony, Android Middleware, windows RIL, RAT, RAN.
• BFSI & Retail (FMCG) Domain - Sr. BI professional, Business Analyst
• Embedded: - Device Drivers (development and testing), BSP, Boot loader, Kernel programming, Multimedia drivers, DSP, STB DTV, Embedded C, C++, RTOS, Embedded Linux, Unix, Driver and Firmware (Android, Linux Kernel, Windows), Triaging
• IT Services Skills: - Web/UI development, Java (Core/J2EE), SOA Workflow, JAVA with Weblogic (Architect, Lead and Developers), Android, Linux, UNIX, Shell programming and scripting, Perl Qlikview, PHP, Sr. Analyst Business Intelligence, Python Developer, Project Manager
• Testing: - Automation Testing / Performance Testing (QTP,Win Runner, Load Runner) Black Box, White Box Testing.
• Infrastructure: - Server Installation and Provisioning Engineer
• Corporate: - Sales Manager, Director of Sales
• Vendor Identification and empanelment on basis of cost reduction, quality for NA & LATAM Geography
• Reviewing the proposals of prospective vendors arranging quotation from them.
• Analyzing the pricing by making comparison from other sources, Negotiating price, and price benchmarking as advised by Program Manager.
• Assessment of performance of vendors based on various criteria’s such as % for rejections, quality improvement rates, timely delivery etc. Established and maintained a good relationship with vendors.
• Possess interpersonal, analytical, negotiation skills with proven record of utilizing a process oriented approach towards vendor supplies. Vendors concerns and resolution management.
• Working with vendors for new Agreements / Contracts sign up’s, agreeing policies, MSA closures, handling queries and payments to the agencies.
• Negotiated contracts with new and existing customers, third party and independent vendors and potential new employees
• Raising Agreement request for NDA, MSA in internal portal of . Responsible for sharing WO & PO before onboarding candidates shared by vendor.
• Flashing the requisitions to vendor by mapping the priority list to achieve hiring targets satisfying the company norms.
• Responsible for qualifying the candidates, Follow-up with the interview schedules.
• Regular interaction with the vendors to track status on shared requests, resolving queries related to hiring right from sourcing to closing the open positions. Do regular follow up with vendors to get CV
• Extensive experience in coordinating the Induction Program by interacting with the new joiners and educating them about the organization and its business process.
• Explaining new joiners about health insurance (medical, vision, dental, disability and life, Accidental Death and Disability Insurance), Joining process, I9 & W4 (tax) forms and global mobility policy (relocation, travel, deputation, leave and holiday benefits) . On call orientation to employees and to go over the forms and guide in filling the same.
• Review all the filled forms sent by employees, check of errors or gaps and share with HR manager the completed set of filled documents insurance enrollment.

Confidential, Greenville, SC

Sr. IT Recruiter Consultant ( Qualitative & Quantitative Recruitment)

• Owned full life cycle recruiting, analyzing and understanding the client manpower requirements to proactively source and place active and passive IT candidates with clients for contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire positions within industries such as Information Technology, Telecom, Manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare, Finance and Insurance.
• Confer with account manager to identify recruiting needs, Review and clarify Job Description, Job specification, competencies and skills required to ensure quality sourcing and recruiting.
• Develop and implemented effective recruiting plans and strategies like internet sourcing and research, job portals, Internal Portals and databases, ad placement, head hunting, cold calling, employee referrals, job fairs, walk-ins, Boolean searches, Groups, Networking, maintain effective relationships with social and professional networks to find, attract, screen, select and close desired active and passive candidates.
• Work on 10-12 requisitions at a time and responsible for timely Sourcing and recruiting US Citizens, Green Card holders, EADs, TN, OPT and H1B holders for numerous positions on C2C, 1099, W2 basis for Contract, Contract-to-Hire, and Full time positions.
• Successfully managed a concurrent workload of MULTIPLE job openings. Post resumes and job ads in Job portals. Ability to recruit hard to find positions with a high submittal-to-hire ratio.
• Verify references, conduct background checks, facilitate pre-employment testing.
• Managed offer process, including reference checks, salary recommendations, offer letter presentation and offer acceptance/declines.
• Maintain candidate files and data integrity in applicant tracking system, maintain accurate and current applicant data base. Formatting the resumes of the candidates in professional way before submitting to client.
• Extend offers of employment within company procedures; Maintain recruiting metrics (cost per hire etc), keep current with sourcing strategies and industry trends.
• Draft rejection letters, On-boarding and Induction for all new joiners, brief orientation about the organization and the assignment and completed necessary paperwork after hire facilitate the placement of candidates.
• Ensure regulatory aspects of the full cycle recruitment process are compliant with federal and state legislation. Understanding US Staffing statutory requirements, HR and contracting process, employee pay rates, client bill rate etc to ensure branch gross profit goals are achieved.
• Develops and maintains a high volume of referrals, utilized online social and professional networking sites like Linkedin, facebook and Twitter to connect with potential passive candidates to ensure a strong pipeline of candidates. Efficient hiring by keeping a constant tab on the Cost per hire

SFJ Technologies

Sr. IT Recruiter / Team lead / Client Account Manager

• End to End Responsible for full recruitment Life Cycle: - Right from Consulting with hiring managers, with all levels of management and interacting with leadership to define, understand technical requirements and potential sourcing strategies and follows processes to achieve SLAs/metrics.
• Proactively and reactively sourcing the passive and active candidates, pre-screening and short listing the resumes, liaising with consultants, Organizing, scheduling and co-coordinating technical interviews with the team, follow up, qualifying, on boarding, joining formalities, reference checking, salary negotiations and closing junior, midlevel and senior technical and other talent for the position for both Permanent & Contractual positions, and placing the candidates in their respective projects.
• Build and mentor a team of recruiters all facets of Recruitment Life cycle, take care of their training, work assignments, activity, targets and growth and working towards the team targets in synchronization with the Organizational goals and targets, with Passion and Aggression. Led the strategic talent sourcing and recruiting programs, ensuring top talents are matched to the right position for each and every requirement. Motivated co-workers, subordinates and offshore team to give maximum output and ensure cooperation within all areas and divisions of the company. Supported the team with business development leads for targeted accounts.
• Assigning a requirement to each recruiter on a daily basis based on their recruiting capabilities.
• Articulated that clear message with my recruiters; led and coached them on how to get to the right type of a candidate pool on job boards and LinkedIn (position breakdown, search strings, client culture, etc.).
• Addressed any challenges with the clients that the recruiters might be going through during their search process (rate, location, skill set, etc.) and sought further clarification with a solution-oriented approach.
• Following up with the assigned recruiter on a regular basis to make sure the requirement is covered within 24 hours cycle.
• Reviewing and approving resumes based on the job requirement for final submission either in client portal or emailing resumes directly to the hiring manager.
• Attending weekly as well daily client calls and updating them on the status of every placed candidate until they have started on their project and also following up on the resumes submitted.
• Responsible for mentoring and providing on-going training and support for new recruiters working offshore, onsite coach & mentor them. Define team KRA’s and measure them to attain excellence in execution
• Professionally representing SFJ Technologies in the market with clients and candidates by providing excellent Service Delivery, Client Relationship.
• Handled multiple large IT accounts as key Account Manager and utilize a collaborative consultative approach and demonstrate a commitment to exceeding client expectations.
• Meet, Interact or partnered with the Clients (Technical department/HR department) & Hiring Managers to obtain understand & analyze the technicalities of the requirements, needs and objectives, understand their processes, expectations to deliver the right candidates at the right time, within the time frame.
• I consult with my client to understand their projects, strategic goals, and company culture to identify the required skills and know-how needed to meet their staffing and talent acquisition needs. This collaborative partnership allows me to maximize my ability to deliver top talent to valued customers, while allowing clients to spend more time focused on what they do best - This enables me to develop cutting edge solutions in today's competitive world.
• Meeting the client manager’s onsite and working closely with them to assure business is growing and is meeting the client expectation to maintain a strong relationship with the client in the coming years. As I always say to my client manager’s “Your Success is our Mission”.
• Responsible for timely and quality outflow of resumes to the client. Submit qualified candidates to open job requirements.
• Owned End to end responsibility, starting from getting the Permanent, contract and contract to hire IT staffing requirements, serving the requirement with the minimum possible response time with quick turnaround time and client budgeted revenue model and closing the position.
• Connected with the hiring managers or program managers immediately via phone and/or emails upon the release of a new position to get a true understanding of the needs that were attached to that role.
• Revitalized broken relationships with the clients that were lost prior to my starting and Initiated customer service initiatives to grow business at current accounts. Established and maintained a good relationship with the employees, vendors and the clients. Develop business proposals for the company's clients.

Confidential

Sourcing Specialist (IT)

• Drove the hiring process in a high-volume / time-sensitive environment, working directly with hiring managers for all of Confidential clients and managing candidates through the process to have them placed on assignments. Established and maintained solid working relationships with hiring managers.
• Placed high-end technical professional in the area of Information Technology Industry in contract and full-time positions. Specialized in Software Engineers/Architects, Database Architects/Developers /Administrators, Network/System/Security Engineers, Web Developers, Quality Assurance/Test Engineers, Technical Program/Product/Project Managers and Business Analysts with heavy focus on various technologies.
• Single point of contact (SPOC) for the account major responsibilities where to monitor and screen profiles, speaking with all consultants submitted by the team before submitting to the client manager to insure quality, tracking submittals, resume formatting, coordinating with the client managers for updates, updated the CRM on all client activities. I used to provide superior customer service to both clients as well as the candidates.

Confidential

HR Trainee

• Managed in-house recruitment for all departments in software development and operations.
• Utilized direct sourcing, industry networking, and employee referrals to recruit in-depth applicants.
• Manage multiple positions by sourcing, screening, short listing, qualifying, coordinating interviews, negotiating and closing top notch talent to fill a variety of senior level technical, managerial and executive
• Joining formalities like issuing offer letters/appointment letters etc. Assigning the job responsibilities.
• Maintenance of attendance, leave records and provide a summary report for salary processing.

Confidential

Practice lead - IT and Non IT Recruitment

• Ascertain recruitment requirements by evaluating organizational development plans, confer with management to identify recruiting needs, develop effective recruiting plans and strategies.
• Assess assigned positions to develop job descriptions and job candidate profiles, review and clarify job specifications, competencies and skills required, align job candidate profiles with staffing objectives
• Identified, qualified, and closed for contract, contract-to-hire and permanent placements for all IT positions for multiple client companies through the use of the Internet sites, senior technical resume database, and referrals.
• Use sourcing tools and techniques to identify technical candidates such as online social networking, traditional networking, Boolean searches, and referrals. Managed the job offer, negotiated salaries and hourly rates. Apart from my core function into recruitment, I have sound knowledge of Marketing, Sales and Business Development
• Responsible for extensive marketing of US based IT staffing company services and marketing and managing Work Permits, Permanent Residents and bench consultants. Have worked with GC/ US Citizens/ TN/ EAD/H1B/OPT /CPT candidates & with 3rd party requirements. Responsible for converting consultant into our payrolls / H1 Transfers.
• Extensively used Web Technology for Posting Resumes in Corp- Corp, monster, Dice, Hot jobs, yahoo and Google groups on behalf of sales person as well as consultants on different websites to help counterpart in USA.
• Experience in selling IT staffing and solutions. Working with Prime vendors, direct clients matching Technology professionals with organizations.
• Regular touch with the consultants being marketed to find their comfort level with the requirement and location, and also regarding regular updating of their resumes and building lasting relationships built on honesty and integrity.
• Co-ordination of interviews, follow -up with the Clients and Vendors regarding the status of the consultants. Broadcasting HOTLIST through mass mailer to all the known and unknown Vendors.