Chaitanya Arikati

Head of Talent

Hyderabad, Telangana, India21 yrs 4 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

19 years of experience in Talent Acquisition.
Successfully onboarded over 3000 technical resources.
Expert in data-driven hiring decisions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition expert with extensive experience in technical recruitment and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionLeadershipTechnical RecruitingTeam ManagementProduct ManagementTeam LeadershipRecruitment

Other Skills

AgileAgile MethodologiesApplicant Tracking SystemsClient ManagementClient Relationship ManagementCloud TechnologiesConsultingEmployee Referral CampaignsEmployer BrandingExecutive SearchHRISHiring StrategyHuman ResourcesInterviewsManagement

About

With over 19 years of experience in Talent Acquisition, built and executed effective hiring strategies for largest enterprise applications development teams that are highly technical in nature. Designed, developed, and implemented sustainable processes at all stages of Talent Acquisition. Able to strike the balance between processes and people. Expert in nurturing recruiters as recruiting strategic partners. My most important suggestion to recruiters is to understand the hiring need and own it. Believe and insist on data driven hiring decisions. Got chance to successfully lead the Talent Acquisition branding initiatives. I enjoy connecting great talent to right opportunities. -- chaitanya.arikati@abjayon.com

Experience

Abjayon inc.

Senior Recruitment Manager

Oct 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

As Head of Talent Acquisition for Abjayon, I'm responsible for hiring in India, USA, Philippines and UAE. I'm responsible for process improvements, relationship management, and recruiter effectiveness.

Talent AcquisitionProcess ImprovementsRelationship ManagementRecruiter EffectivenessLeadership

Oracle

Recruiter, Senior Recruiter, Principal Recruiter, Principal Talent Advisory, Senior Product Manager

May 2007 – Oct 2020 · 13 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Lead a team of 12 Recruiters, Sourcers and Schedulers.
On boarded 3000+ high performant technical resources in Oracle.
Built Twelve (12) teams from scratch to 100+ capacity in India.
Liaison with the Hiring Managers in building and executing the hiring strategy.
Goal setting and creating road map for the team.
Provide Statistical Analysis on hiring trends on Quarterly and Yearly basis.
Hands on in sourcing profiles from Naukri, LinkedIn, Facebook, Github, Google open search, Angel list etc.
Specialist in hiring technical architects, leadership roles and premium college qualified professionals.
Vast experience in hiring for Cloud Platform Development teams.
Conduct special employee referral campaigns and execute referral drives.
Conduct total rewards sessions for the identified candidates.
As Senior Product Manager:
Leveraged my Recruitment expertise in building cloud-based Recruitment Solutions.
Develop and prioritize product roadmap by balancing product vision and needs of customers.
Research on customer feedback, market insights and competitor analysis; Understand customer needs; Analyze business, customer and user value propositions; And Develop use cases.
Conduct competitive landscape of the product and analyze product positioning.
Author EPICs & user stories, conduct workshops and refine the stories.

RecruitmentStatistical AnalysisSourcingTeam LeadershipHiring StrategyEmployee Referral Campaigns+2

Anovatek software and consulting services

Team Lead - Recruitments

Jul 2005 – May 2007 · 1 yr 10 mos · Hyderabad

I’m the core member involved in building Anovatek team from 15 to 130 in a period of 5 months
Lead a team of 8 members
Formulate and implement the strategies for the team
Distribute the requirements to the Executives and monitoring them on hourly basis
Search for the profiles from different sources, short listing the suitable profiles and interacting with the candidates, sending the profiles to client & scheduling interview, getting final feedback from clients, following up with the consultant till he/she joins in the company.
Maintain good relationship with the clients
Handle the team grievances in terms of HR and Operations point of view.
Develop the team and responsible for growth initiatives: team motivation, Performance plan & measure, Training needs, Feedback, Counseling, and Handholding.
Few of the Clients: Microsoft, Keane, Sonata, Virtusa, GE – ITC, Mentor Graphics, CFC, CMC, DEShaw, Conseco, SIS, Genisys, Tanla, Minvesta, Metasolutions.....