Mar 2021 – Mar 2024 · 3 yrs · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Had the amazing opportunity to lead, mentor & more significantly learn from a fantastic & creative team of recruiting professionals. Focusing on designing and deploying Eagleview's Talent Acquisition Strategy to meet the engineering talent growth needs across India & AUS.
• Created and drove talent acquisition strategies for the Engineering setup, building process and policy documents from ground zero.
• Collaborated with executive leaders in developing talent solutions to gain competitive edge in era of The Great Resignation.
• More than 100% increase in engineering Headcount in 2021, powered by robust hiring engine.
• Built Early Career Program framework in India to attract the students from premium engineering campus.
• Planned and managed annual budgets for APAC Recruiting teams.
• Identified and created recruitment performance metrics and data to analyze trends, drive change, and assess progress.
• Optimized sourcing networks and used proactive methods to direct source candidates, helped in achieving 100% Direct+Referral mix in 2022.
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Sep 2017 – Mar 2021 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

• Build Recruitment process and teams from “level 0” to best in class process by enabling tools and technology. Provide leadership on TA strategies as well as day to day management of a large-scale recruiting operation supporting several Business Ramp-Ups.
• Succeeded at managing recruitment delivery for Blackstone vertical.
• Managed Business relations, build the forecast for yearly hiring, played a role finalizing TA budgets, Track Metrics.
• Playing an Solution Architect role, in building a core infrastructure that is scalable & Predictable with efficiencies.
• Reviewed & assessed best tools/technologies(Spire/ Zyam/ HireAlchemy/Hireview/ IPO) & Analytics, in building efficiencies in Talent Acquisition.

Sep 2015 – Sep 2017 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Developing people is a key factor that drives better results. I'm fortunate to be focused on building a high-performing Talent Acquisition team, driving and delivering results.
• Managed Accenture India Development center (IDC) Sourcing, Including internal sourcing, Social Media, Referral & Agency teams. Instrumental in getting down agency channel mix from 33% to 20%.
• In Social Media Recruiting(SMR), I'm building a specialized COE team supporting Exec level hiring for Accenture Operations.
• Leading the Spire implementation in IDC, and also driving other automation & BOTS to reduce cost of sourcing and build efficiency.
• Received Extra-Mile Q3-FY16 award for driving the operations and enabling 1000+ hires each month.

Nov 2010 – Sep 2015 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• As Talent Acquisition Lead for Digital Works Technology(DWT) practice of Cognizant, I have been an integral part of the journey of the firm from 90,000 to over 210,000 professionals.
• ● Leading the BFS, Engineering & Manufacturing Services, IOT, Social & Mobile hiring. Specialist in Engineering Services Recruitments, Domain Specialists and Executive Hiring.
• ● Strategizing with the Business Heads - in regards to the Man power planning.
• ● Drive the hiring process in a high-volume / time-sensitive environment, working directly with Line managers and managing candidates through the process to have them placed on assignments.
• ● Managed Mettl and hackerrank for automating the skills test.
• ● Received Spot Innovation Award for building the talent pool on linkedIn(Cognizant Careers).
• ● Driving the team to achieve the committed targets on a consistent basis.
• ● Supporting the Campus recruitment Drives.

Apr 2007 – Nov 2010 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Working at Deloitte is truly Awesome.
• Worked at Deloitte in Talent Acquisition - Recruitments, handling critical needs in AERS, Consulting and Shared Services.
• AIRS certified professional.(Advanced Internet Recruitment Strategies)
• ● Managed the recruitment function across multiple business units including Consulting, Audit, Financial advisory services.
• ● Sourcing, Screening and Recruiting top talent for the different Consulting and Technical Requirements using Job Boards (Monster, Naukri, etc.,),
• ● Consult with business and functional leaders to define competencies for specific roles.
• ● Used direct sourcing techniques such as job boards searching, Referral screening, Internet searching, database mining, networking, cold calling and identifying high-level candidates using research tools.
• ● Prescreen candidates with detailed phone screens, evaluating candidates compatibility with specific job requirements, ensuring a right fit prior to submission.
• ● Input candidate’s data into an in-house recruitment tracking system(RMS) and does all the follow-up required.
• ● Tracked applicant flow and recruiting statistics to determine future recruitment strategies.
• ● Ensured recruitment networks and sources are developed and maintained to deliver flow of quality candidates.