SUMMARY:

• HR professional with close to 10 years of experience in Talent Acquisition.
• Visited to Canada for Business Trip.
• Key contributor in high volume recruitments, niche skill hiring.
• Expert in Recruitment Planning, Salary Negotiation, Vendor and Team management.
• Fully conversant in formulation of recruitment life cycle and processes.
• Involvement in Talent Branding.
• Well versed with fulltime and contract hiring and job contract terms.
• Fast in developing/acquiring various domain knowledge/ profile expertise/ understanding to hire the best suited talent.
• Excellent Communication and Inter personal skills.
• Ability to perform consistently under deadlines and pressure.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Assistant Manager - HR

Responsibilities:

• Recruitment: - Manage full recruitment life cycle: --Initial contact with candidate until reporting onboard. Establish and maintain good working relationships with hiring managers; partner with them to determine skills and qualifications required of sought after candidates. Source and screen candidates from various recruiting sources, self-created databank, job portals, LinkedIn and network of personal contacts. Close candidates ---negotiate remuneration, joining date, designation and related details. Campus hiring SPOC. Participated in numerous Campus, pool & campus hiring.
• Induction & Orientation: - Ensuring smooth functioning of Joining Formalities, Induction & Orientation. Ensure smooth on-boarding/joining of candidates.
• Reference check: - Conduct Reference check for all new recruits.
• Employee Relations: - Employee grievance handling solutions to concerns and issues. Formulating and implementing HR policies and modifying existing ones in conjunction with the Industry best practices.
• Other HR Responsibilities - preparing HR Newsletter on quarterly basis.
• Preparing New Joiner data for Employee Code generation and HRMs
• Issuing HR letters related to address proof/salary revision, Appointment letter, and confirmation letter relieving Letter.
• Creating policy documents based on the need of the organization. Modifying the policies as the process changes.
• Maintaining master database of all the employees
• Managing employee engagement activities every Month, fun activities, birthday bash.
• Appreciated for being an asset to the team.

Confidential

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Own full-cycle recruiting for APAC Region (Pune-India and Shanghai & Guangzhou in China): sourcing, interviewing, offering, negotiating and closing candidates for assigned requisition.
• Responsible for developing and implementing recruitment strategies and programs to meet the established goals and objectives.
• Involved in ISO Work: Worked on HR Process Flow; HR Dashboard; Worked closely with Departments heads to get their updated Org. Charts and uploaded over confluence. Worked on some of the Homework’s assigned by Chandnee. Closely reviewed ISO page, HR page and HR Process Flow over confluence to ensure they all are in sync.
• Analyzing requirements and interacting with key hiring managers (on-shore and off - shore) on regular basis to understand and plan the hiring strategy.
• Involved in Talent Branding by featuring videos of internal employees and educated them for providing testimonials that would be published on company website.
• Conducting sessions on LinkedIn usage for internal employees to expand their network and creating awareness about open positions on regular basis.
• Extensive focus on Employee Referral policy.
• Maintaining database of top engineering colleges from Pune for Campus hiring.
• Coordinated and negotiated with Job board vendors for getting the best subscription deal.
• Continuous monitoring of the Market on the talent supply side, recent trends adopted by competition, salary benchmarking for attracting and hiring top talents to the Organization.
• Possess effective strategic thinking, negotiation, sourcing and problem solving skills.
• Hiring talents for various skill sets (Dotnet, Manual and Automation Testing, UI /UX, Content Creation (3DSMax, Autocad), Devops, Business Analyst, 3D/CAD/PLM Experts, Sales Experts) across all levels using various Source Mix.
• Conducting weekday drives for Content and Cloud in Content vertical.
• Hands on experience in fulfilling most of the requisitions via LinkedIn Recruiter.
• Collaborate with business for smooth hiring process like scheduling, interview panel matrix & briefing and feedback mechanism (of candidates).
• Conducting in-person interviews along with technical panels to evaluate candidates on company’s core values.
• Conducting on-line behavioral assessment test using Predictive Index tool for shortlisted candidates and sharing their reports with the concerned hiring manager.
• Conducting Reference Check for the final selects.
• Salary fitment and offer roll out management.
• Periodical warm-up calls to the offered candidates for higher offer-joining ratio.
• Coach and Mentor subordinate to create an effective succession plan.
• Monitoring delivery and TAT (Turn Around Time).
• Lowering the Cost of Hire by no hires from vendors.
• Maintaining the Master Tracker, ATS-CATS and preparing the Weekly & Month-end Reports.
• Publish defined periodical MIS to the stakeholders on weekly basis.
• Filled one of the hard to fill/much awaited position within a month’s time of joining the organization.
• Received appreciation from Delivery for ramping up one of the major accounts - Content in Cloud Vertical within the set timeframe.
• Appreciated for initiating and proposing name to the Employee Referral policy. Did 40% of hiring via ER in last 6 months.
• Initiated and owned the hiring from CDAC Campus. Managed to hire 2 talents for one of the critical projects.
• Filled Senior Sales position for China office despite language barrier.

Confidential

Senior Associate

Responsibilities:

• Handling end to end Recruitment activities for Lateral Hiring in Pune Location.
• Hiring candidates for Hitech and Microsoft Vertical (Java, Dotnet, SFDC, Hadoop, Testing, UI /UX Informatica, Tableau) across all levels using various Source Mix.
• Independently handling multiple project requirements that involves coordination with Resource management team and Delivery Team to develop the recruitment p n for current and near future projects needs.
• Supervise a team of 2 members.
• Involve in mass recruitment and conduct independently weekend Drives.
• Involve in Vendor Management for Permanent & Contract hiring on need basis.
• Coordinating with background check verification team and on-boarding team to ensure smooth hiring of the candidate.
• MIS Reporting using advanced Excel techniques (Pivot, v-Lookup).
• Handling Weekly review calls with Delivery Team and Resource Management teams.
• Handling escalations.
• Handling queries of the candidates.
• Well-versed with functionalities of ATS- mPower, HIRECRAFT, Successfactor.
• Publish Dashboards to the respective Delivery heads on a weekly basis on the progress of TA, number of hire on the major accounts in Pune.
• TA Assimilation and conduct ER sessions for New Joiners in Confidential Pune.
• Received appreciation from Delivery for ramping up one of the major accounts of Confidential .
• Received appreciation from management for standalone performance.
• Over achieved recruitment targets for consecutive two quarters.

Confidential

Sr. Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Managing end to end process of IT recruitment.
• Getting a detailed and clear description of resources required from Project Managers/Hiring Managers.
• Understanding requirement in terms of technology and skills.
• Working out with strategy to fill the positions.
• Taking care to minimize ageing and keep minimum TAT (Turn Around Time).
• Allocating and distributing work within the team, including self. Assigning requirements as per priority. Target setting, quality checks, corrective actions, mentoring, issue handling and closing cases.
• Identifying sources for tapping prospective candidates through internal databank (Talent pool), referrals, job portals like Naukri, Monster, internet sourcing and social networking.
• Carrying out Initial HR & Technical Screening of the sourced profiles.
• Coordinating with the Technical Interviewers and Candidates for their interview availability.
• Seeking feedback on the interviewed candidates and getting reasons for rejection, if any.
• Conducting F2F HR Interview of shortlisted candidates and handling salary negotiation.
• Rolling out offer letters to selected candidates.
• Extending other Letters i.e. Joining Bonus, Confirmation and Appraisal letters as and when required.
• Handling employee on-boarding and induction for new joiners.
• Responsible for ensuring background verification and reference check of new hires.
• Handling employee referral process.
• Handling Exit Interviews.
• Managing database of screened candidates in recruitment software-Talent Pool.
• Reporting performance to the manager on weekly basis.

Confidential

IT Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Handling complete recruitment process for IT requirements (Sourcing candidates, HR-Screening/Interview, Interview arrangements, Salary negotiations and Post-offer follow ups).
• Handling Junior, Middle and Senior level positions.
• Understanding & Evaluating client’s requirements to provide them the best fit.
• Preparing reports and capturing the status of requirements.
• Sourcing candidates through internal databases, job portals (naukri, monster and Timesjobs), referrals, networking (mainly LinkedIn).
• Handling initial HR round to judge candidate's suitability vis-à-vis requirement shared by Clients.
• Coordinating multiple rounds of interview for candidates.
• Following up with candidates till on-boarding.
• Maintaining a systematic and comprehensive database of all candidates in MS Excel.
• Preparing weekly and monthly tracker of recruitments.