Rajesh Kumar Balakrishnan

Lead Recruiter

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India15 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 14 years of experience in talent acquisition
  • Expert in both niche and common talent sourcing
  • Proven track record in enhancing candidate experience
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Specialist with expertise in recruitment processes across multiple industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionRecruitment Management

Other Skills

Analytical AbilitiesBenefits NegotiationCandidate ScreeningClient PartnershipCreative SourcingEvent CoordinationHR ConsultingInternal Resource FulfillmentJob BoardsMSA ManagementOnboardingRPO ProcessRecruitmentRecruitment Process ManagementRecruitments

About

With over 14 years of experience, combining a serious approach to work with a cheerful and fun personality. I love keeping the workplace positive with humor and mimicry, but I always stay focused on delivering strong results. I believe in proactive hiring, and I’m skilled at finding both common (vanilla) and hard-to-find (niche) talent. I work closely with stakeholders and make sure every candidate has a great experience from start to finish.

Experience

Perficient

Lead Talent Acquisition Specialist

Jul 2025Present · 8 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

Mastek

Team Lead

Aug 2023May 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Hybrid

  • Closely partnered with clients to understand their recruitment needs, provided tailored hiring support, and ensured timely closures by working in alignment with their time zones and parallel working hours.
  • Led end-to-end recruitment for staff augmentation, maintaining high-quality standards while ensuring quick turnarounds for critical roles.
  • Managed and executed fresher walk-in drives and recruitment campaigns; prepared detailed recruitment activity reports to support business planning.
  • Handled the entire onboarding process using ATS tools—right from offer roll-out to seamless candidate onboarding and engagement.
  • Created Purchase Requisitions (PR) in SAP Ariba for subcontractors and supported vendors throughout the service sheet creation and invoice uploading process on the Ariba portal.
  • Drafted, reviewed, and managed Master Service Agreements (MSAs) and Statements of Work (SOWs), ensuring timely stakeholder approvals and execution.
  • Acted as a key liaison between vendors and finance teams to facilitate smooth communication and prompt resolution of operational and payment-related issues.
RecruitmentClient PartnershipStaff AugmentationOnboardingSAP AribaMSA Management+2

Bizanalytica

Lead Recruiter

Mar 2023Jul 2023 · 4 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Hybrid

Altimetrik

Associate Manager - Talent Acquisition

Jul 2022Mar 2023 · 8 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Perficient

2 roles

Lead Talent Acquisition Specialist

Promoted

Apr 2021Jul 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Jun 2016Jul 2022 · 6 yrs 1 mo

Intellect design arena ltd

TAG

Dec 2015Jun 2016 · 6 mos

  • 1. Worked closely with project directors from getting the requirement, arranging technical panels and sending them the weekly reports.
  • 2. Experience in hiring Junior, Mid & Senior level candidates.
  • 3. Experience in sourcing, scheduling and coordinating interviews for Vice presidents/presidents of the product team.
  • 4. Maintaining the prospective candidate database.
  • 5. Mentoring project interns and new joiners about the recruitment and in house practices.

Abco advisory services india private ltd

HR Executive

Dec 2011Nov 2015 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • 1. Worked along with the technical managers to understand the exact job description.
  • 3. Effective use of Job boards like Naukri, Monster etc.
  • 4. Worked on Niche and vanilla skills.
  • 5. Internal resource fulfillment by internal job posting and sharing the profiles to the respective project managers.
  • 6. Suggested the management for Drives in different locations to identify the best talent to the organization.
  • 7. Conducted drives in Chennai and other locations like Bangalore, Hyderabad, & Kolkata single handedly.
  • 8. Participated in recruitment knowledge sharing and best practices.
  • 9. Managed recruiting process to meet hiring goals through the use of effective resource management.
  • 10. Consistently met the performance metrics as defined by the Director of Recruiting.
  • 11. Provided reports and regular status updates to the Director of Recruiting and Hiring Manager as required.
  • Secondary Responsibilities
  • 1. Worked as a liaison between vendors and employees in getting US B1 visas
  • 2. Helping the employees in arranging the required documents for B1 visa Interview.
  • 3. Conducted Mock interviews for the B1 visa applicants.
  • 4. Coordinated with the US directors in getting the visa invite letters signed.
  • 5. Conducted all the events that happened in the company.
  • 6. Was SPOC for fitness session.
Job BoardsInternal Resource FulfillmentRecruitment Process ManagementEvent CoordinationTalent AcquisitionRecruitment Management

Covenant consultants

Executive-Talent acquisition

Aug 2010Dec 2011 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Sourcing resumes from job portals, screening of candidates against the requirement, discussion with the candidates about the job profile.
  • Experience in screening candidates in various technologies such as; Data warehousing, IT infrastructure, ERP Modules etc
  • Experience in RPO process.
Resume SourcingCandidate ScreeningRPO ProcessTalent Acquisition

Education

Rajalakshmi Engineering College

Human Resources Management and Services

Jan 2008Jan 2010

Vel's College of Science

B.Sc — Microbiology

Jan 2003Jan 2006

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