Apr 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · Hybrid

• "Nothing beats giving a candidate good news."--Unknown

Oct 2018 – Apr 2019 · 6 mos

Dec 2016 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore

Dec 2015 – Jul 2016 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

•  Delivering as an Individual Contributor/ Hands on Recruiter – Responsible for product lines like Lending (LoanIQ), Core Banking (FusionBanking) and Professional Service (MSDC)
•  Product Hiring – Setting up a new product group from scratch
•  Planning and Program Managing Outstation Recruitment Drives and Weekend Walk-In interviews to fulfil volume hiring with in close timelines
•  Conceptualizing and designing sourcing strategy through various channels for achieving targeted footfall of candidates within the overall defined budgets
•  Responsible for the entire life cycle of recruitment including effective sourcing and mapping of key talent from the industry
•  Utilize market intelligence while negotiating with hiring managers
•  Selling the opportunities and influence final decisions of candidates – during HR interviews and post-offer-roll-out
•  Act as an interface between the business and candidates, also engaging the hiring managers in Post offer Engagement activities with offered candidates
•  Active Involvement in Employer Branding Activities and enhancing Candidate Experience during interview process
•  Promoting and Gamification of Employee Referral program

Feb 2015 – Oct 2015 · 8 mos · Bangalore

•  Responsible for focused project hiring, managing end to end Off-shore hiring for BFSI, Risk, Compliance, Trade Finance, Treasury, Analytics, Core Banking domain customers across India, South Africa, Middle East and South East Asia.
•  Responsible to manage the recruiting function by partnering with multiple businesses and various stakeholders in developing and executing the recruitment strategy.
•  Managing and leading offshore recruitment. Responsible to drive initiatives to institutionalize the best in class recruitment practices and metrics.
•  Responsible for fulfilling both in-house and various clients requirements through lateral hiring / contract hiring / social networking / external vendors / market mapping / employee referral.
•  Responsible for workforce planning & complete recruitment life cycle for the assigned business positions.
•  Designing and developing recruitment trackers for business operations & periodic reviews, maintaining key hiring metrics for measuring efficiency of hiring at regular time intervals, analysing hiring gaps and designing hiring guidelines to get desired quality.
•  Negotiating and finalizing contracts and SLAs with vendors.

Aug 2013 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore

•  Heading the staffing and operations team for Bangalore branch.
•  Responsible for business development for empaneling and co-ordinating with reputed clients like Infosys, IBM, Wipro, Datamatics, AWPL, Fintellix etc.
•  Sourcing candidates for niche technologies and Leadership positions from job portals (Naukri, Monster) and social networking sites like LinkedIn, FaceBook.
•  Managing a team of 10 sourcing associates working for different clients and on multiple domains.
•  Working for different clients on various domains like Insurance, Telecom, Banking, BFSI, BI, e-commerce etc across India, Middle East and US.
•  Creating a proactive pipeline of skilled resources based on business forecast and market trends.
•  Enabling unconventional mode of sourcing for passive talent pipeline.
•  Making delivery plans – sourcing strategies, vendor governance and business development.
•  Negotiating and finalizing contracts and SLAs with vendors.
•  Assists accountant in planning and preparing annual headcount report and updating the organization chart.
•  Responsible for the end to end recruitment life-cycle from selecting the right candidates, negotiating, offer roll out, follow up, Induction and joining formalities.

Apr 2012 – Jan 2013 · 9 mos · Bangalore

•  Responsible for focused project hiring, managing end to end Off-shore hiring for BFSI, Risk, Compliance, Trade Finance, Treasury, Analytics, Core Banking domain customers across India, South Africa, Middle East and South East Asia.
•  Responsible to manage the recruiting function by partnering with multiple businesses and various stakeholders in developing and executing the recruitment strategy.
•  Managing and leading offshore recruitment. Responsible to drive initiatives to institutionalize the best in class recruitment practices and metrics.
•  Responsible for fulfilling both in-house and various clients requirements through lateral hiring / contract hiring / social networking / external vendors / market mapping / employee referral.
•  Responsible for workforce planning & complete recruitment life cycle for the assigned business positions.
•  Designing and developing recruitment trackers for business operations & periodic reviews, maintaining key hiring metrics for measuring efficiency of hiring at regular time intervals, analysing hiring gaps and designing hiring guidelines to get desired quality.
•  Negotiating and finalizing contracts and SLAs with vendors.
•  Enabling unconventional mode of sourcing for passive talent pipeline. Making delivery plans – sourcing strategies, vendor governance, referral drives scheduled events.
•  Exploiting social media hiring tools – LinkedIn, Twitter, FB, Google CSE, Cite HR, Indeed, Glassdoor etc. to generate maximum leads and build healthy talent pipeline and reduce dependency on regular job portals database.
•  Also was responsible in implementing new modes of recruitment – Hacker Earth and ePoise
•  Creating a pipeline of skilled resources based on business forecast and market trends.

Apr 2010 – Jun 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

•  Searching suitable candidates through various sources such as job portals (monster.com, naukri.com, LinkedIn), social networking sites, references and databank based upon the required skill sets.
•  Receiving requirements and taking strategies related to the most economic viable channel of fulfilment.
•  Design and implementation of sourcing strategy.
•  Involved into end to end recruitment.
•  Sharing the requirement to various vendors and interacting with them.
•  Coordinating with the line managers, program managers, business heads, region head, VP’s and business units for short- listing & interview scheduling.
•  Coordinating for telephonic interview, personal interview schedules and walk in interviews.
•  Managing a team of 4 sourcing associates.

Jul 2009 – May 2012 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

•  Searching suitable candidates through various sources such as job portals (monster.com, naukri.com, LinkedIn), social networking sites, references and databank based upon the required skill sets.
•  Receiving requirements and taking strategies related to the most economic viable channel of fulfilment.
•  Design and implementation of sourcing strategy.
•  Involved into end to end recruitment.
•  Sharing the requirement to various vendors and interacting with them.
•  Coordinating with the line managers, program managers, business heads, region head, VP’s and business units for short- listing & interview scheduling.
•  Coordinating for telephonic interview, personal interview schedules and walk in interviews.
•  Managing a team of 4 sourcing associates working.

Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 · 2 yrs · Banglaore

•  Handling end to end recruitment life cycle - sourcing, screening, evaluating, salary negotiations and reference checks.
•  Receiving the requirement of client, understanding the job profile, interacting with client for requirement clarification, if any & fulfilling their hiring needs efficiently.
•  Keeping continuous follow-up with ‘Offer Accepted’ candidates, helping them for DOJ extension & thereby ensuring their joining.
•  Maintaining good relationship with the candidate, client and also building a reference data base from them. Developing strong database, database management.
•  Sending the scrutinized profiles to the clients & coordinating with them for short- listing & interview scheduling.
•  Worked for major clients like SonicWall Inc, WiChrous Inc, Citrix, Symbian Software Limited, Qwest, I Trust Technologies.