Shiney Purushothaman

HR Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

18 years of experience in talent acquisition.
Expertise in recruiting for embedded, telecom, and automotive domains.
Proven track record of scaling teams efficiently.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition expert in Automotive and IT Services sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionRecruitment

Other Skills

BPOBenefits NegotiationBusiness DevelopmentCollege RecruitingContract RecruitmentDevice DriversDomain NamesEmbedded SystemsEmployee EngagementEmployee RelationsExecutive SearchHR ConsultingHR PoliciesHRISHiring

About

As a Talent Acquisition professional with 18 years of experience, have developed a strong expertise in ramping teams across various technologies within the embedded, telecom, and automotive domains. My extensive background in talent acquisition has provided me with valuable insights and skills to effectively identify, attract, and onboard top-tier candidates. Throughout my career, I have demonstrated a deep understanding of the specific needs and requirements of these industries, enabling me to successfully recruit and build teams across domains. The ability to navigate the unique challenges and demands of these domains has allowed me to consistently deliver exceptional results with a proven track record of quickly scaling teams to meet project deadlines and organizational goals.

Experience

20 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

8 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Aptiv

2 roles

Senior Group Manager - Human Resources

Promoted

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · On-site

Senior Manager - Talent Acquisition

Mar 2018 – Apr 2025 · 7 yrs 1 mo · On-site

Aptiv, a technology company that’s moving mobility forward by designing, engineering and enabling solutions that will shape how the world will move tomorrow. Aptiv was forged out of a hundred years of automotive firsts that have helped save countless lives, connected cars to the world and made our planet greener. We are talking all those years of purpose and experience solving our customers’ toughest problems – and we’re carrying them forward as a new company, in a world of new mobility.
We are adapting by positioning Aptiv as a leader in end-to-end smart mobility solutions – solutions that meet growing needs for software and the software enablement of cars – for active safety, infotainment, and vehicle connectivity. At the same time, we are also providing the underlying architecture that enables all that software to optimize vehicle performance.
Aptiv is unique in that we have experience integrating whole systems through smart vehicle architectures – enabling the electrification, active safety, automation, and connectivity that is driving new mobility.

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Happiest minds technologies

Senior Manager - Talent Acquisition

Jun 2014 – Mar 2018 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore

Happiest Minds is focused on helping customers build Smart Secure Connected experience by leveraging disruptive technologies like mobility, analytics, security, cloud computing, social computing and unified communications.
Enterprises are embracing these technologies to implement Omni-channel strategies, manage structured & unstructured data and make real time decisions based on actionable insights, while ensuring security for data and infrastructure. Happiest Minds also offers high degree of skills, IPs and domain expertise across a set of focused areas that include IT Services, Product Engineering Services, Infrastructure Management, Security, Testing and Consulting.
Headquartered in Bangalore, India, Happiest Minds has operations in the US, UK, Singapore and Australia. It secured a $45 million Series-A funding led by Canaan Partners, Intel Capital and Ashok Soota.
Responsible for end to end hiring for IT Services BU, focussing on Analytics, Mobility, Cloud verticals.
Ensure the recruitment process is being efficiently and effectively managed, both from a cost as well as a qualitative perspective
Design, implement and manage sourcing encompass maximizing ROI from referral programs, use of social media for recruitment & candidate engagement,
Responsible to manage & attain targeted Source Mix, increase output of low costing hiring sources
Vendor Management - Selection, engagement & delivery management, Cost management
Responsible to develop & influence the key decision stakeholders on hiring decisions
Managing lean recruitment team & enhancing team productivity

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Symphony teleca

Manager- Talent Acquisition

May 2011 – Jun 2014 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

Symphony Teleca Coporation is a leading global specialist, providing software product engineering outsourcing services to Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), software enabled businesses and companies whose products contain embedded software
Responsible for end to end recruitment across verticals - embedded, telecom, enterprise, analytics.

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Global edge software limited

Sr. HR Executive

Jun 2007 – May 2011 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Responsible for end to end recruitment at any fresher level - off Campus and Campus
Lateral Recruitment
Handled recruitments for positions in Presales, Business Development, Admin, and for technical skill sets like NMS, SIP , C++, Linux , Networking, SIP, SNMP, Telecom Protocols, SS7, VoIP, SIP, SNMP, Embedded Domain(Device Drivers, STB etc), Java, j2EE, JSP, Widgets, etc.,; Responsible for end to end recruitment - sourcing to joining
Planning and execution of Hiring Drives in different locations
Responsible for fresher hiring and Visit campuses as and when required.
Preparation of various weekly and monthly reports with respect to hiring
Identifying, evaluating, negotiating offers and take offer to the closure
Liaison and Relationship building with new vendors.
Well versed with Job Portals and Networking Sites
Audit Activities for Recruitment