Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Jul 2020 – Oct 2024 · 4 yrs 3 mos · India

May 2018 – Jul 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Nov 2015 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos · New Delhi

May 2009 – Nov 2015 · 6 yrs 6 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• Interacting with various IT/Telecom MNCs & Indian business houses to identify potential/new clients.
• Independently handling/handled Fortune 500 companies like UnitedHealth Group, AON-Hewitt, Kronos Inc, Sunlife Financials, Mahindra Comviva, Teleperformance, HCL Tech, Dell Services, NTT Data (Keane Inc.).
• Understanding the client’s requirement with respect to the Industry, Company and Position and identifying the key skills and aptitude required to fill the position.
• Initial screening and sourcing best candidates from Job Sites, Social Media, Linkedin/Facebook, Market Mapping/Headhunting & Internal Database search.
• Sourcing, technical screening, coordinating the preliminary and final round of interviews of the applicants (Handled more than 150 IT/Telecom skills till date !)
• Briefing the suitable candidate about the open Position/Role/organization & structure
• Sending short listed profiles with a candidate assessment report to the client.
• Follow up on feedback and interview co-ordination for the short listed one.
• Regular follow up with the offered candidate by ensuring his/her joining as scheduled.
• Actively doing HeadHunting/Mapping for CXO/Leadership positions for all clients.
• Ensuring quality of profiles to meet certain standards before being sent to different clients.
• Maintaining an effective MIS system pertaining to candidates selected/offered.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2008 · 6 yrs · Greater Delhi Area

• Handling a team of 5 – 8 IT recruiters & motivating them to achieve time bound targets.
• Interacting with various IT MNCs & Indian business houses to identify potential/new clients.
• Independently handled/handling Fortune 500 companies like United Health Group, Deloitte, IBM, LG CNS Global, Sungard Offshore Services & other names like i-Flex Solutions, HCL Tech, Perot Systems TSI, Keane Inc, WNS Global, NIIT Tech, Parsec Technologies, Navisite Inc etc.
• Assisting the clients in facilitating recruitments at middle & senior level.
• Handling complete recruitment lifecycle from database search, job portals (monster/jobsahead/naukri.com), headhunting, co-ordinating interviews, reference checks for Sr./Middle level requirements.
• Maintaining co-ordial relationship with existing clients & getting repeat business from them.

Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 · 1 yr

• Maintained excellent relationship with clients like Microsoft, Deloitte, United Health Group, IBM, Orange, i-Flex Solutions, HCL Tech, COLT, Interglobe, Nucleus S/W etc.
• Managed a team of 10 – 15 people comprising of Team Leads, Sr. Career Consultants, Career Consultants etc.
• Involved in generating new clients, relationship building with existing clients, regular interaction with new/current clients for new requirements.
• Mentoring team leaders in distributing the requirements to team members & delivery of resumes to various clients within set deadlines.
• Assisted the clients in facilitating recruitments at senior level.
• Actively doing HeadHunting/Mapping for CXO/Leadership positions for all clients.

Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 · 1 yr · New Delhi

•  Involved in whole manpower planning process of the company.
•  Involved in identifying target companies & respective skill sets available.
•  Resourcing of IT professionals of varied skill sets mainly in E-Com/EAI, CST, ERP, QA/Testing, OOPS for domestic as well as overseas manpower requirements.
•  Extensive web surfing for getting right candidates & major emphasis on headhunting for the right resources.
•  Interacting with the placement consultants.
•  Doing initial screening of the candidates.
•  Scheduling written tests for cases less than 3 years work experience.
•  Scheduling the interviews in consultation with interview panel members.
•  Making available the resumes of the consultant along with interview assessment form to the panel members. Following up with panel members & obtaining assessment feedback.

Jun 2000 – Feb 2001 · 8 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• Involved in business development & servicing of new clients in IT/Telecom sector.
• Assisted the clients in facilitating niche/middle & Sr. level requirements.
• According to the consulting assignments, I was required to do database search, headhunt candidates, co-ordinate interviews, conduct compensation & reference checks, follow-up on the payments & also career counseling with the candidates.
• Identifying, recruiting & selecting talents of varied skill sets (mainly in Java, MF/AS/400, Sap, Oracle Applications, PeopleSoft, C/C++, ASIC, Telecom etc).
• Maintained an active computerized databank of more than 3,000 well qualified IT professionals & constantly updating them.
• Kept track of all software companies on their ongoing projects & availability of expertise & skill sets.
• Used a systematic selection process to select a person closet to the requirement.
• Co-ordinated with the management in setting up of system & processes for meeting the most challenging targets by following stringent selection process,
• Targets were monitored & reviewed on continuous monthly basis.

Jan 1998 – Jan 2000 · 2 yrs · New Delhi

• Jr. Staff Consultant – From May 98’ to May 99’
• Staff Consultant - From May 99’ to May 00’
• Sr. Staff Consultant – From May 00’ to June 00’
• During my tenure at Planman, I had developed a very good understanding of IT/Telecom/Semiconductor market in India. Main activities included business development of clients like Motorola, Koshika Telecom, HCL Tech, Nucleus S/W, Modicare, PWC etc.
• Headhunted more than 200 ASIC/VLSI professionals from the industry for my client Motorola (rare/niche skill).