Nov 2021 – Aug 2025 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Delhi, India/ Chennai · On-site

• Responsible for Managing different Geo and countries (India, UAE, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Australia, UK, USA and Canada)
• Develop and execute comprehensive recruitment strategies to attract top-tier talent for all the functions.
• Oversee a team of 15 recruiters, providing mentorship, training, and performance feedback to ensure high standards and continuous development.
• Drive innovative sourcing strategies, utilizing both traditional and cutting-edge tools to engage diverse candidate pools.
• Collaborate closely with senior leadership and hiring managers to define hiring requirements, assess talent needs, and align on job specifications.
• Spearhead employer branding initiatives, enhancing the company’s reputation as a top employer in the tech space.
• Optimize recruitment processes and workflows to reduce time-to-hire, improve candidate experience, and ensure compliance with local hiring laws across all geographies.
• Analyze recruitment data and KPIs to identify trends, track progress, and continuously improve hiring strategies.
• Achievements & Awards:
• Managing the recruitment across all the geo and verticals and hired approx. 3000+ Folks in last 3.5 years.
• Reduced Time-to-Hire by 25% across multiple regions.
• Glassdoor and Ambition Box Initiative: --TBD.
• Increased Offer Acceptance Rate to 78% from the 47% in 2021 by enhancing candidate experience and developing a competitive compensation and benefits framework.
• Built and Led a Global Recruitment Team of 15 recruiters and talent specialists across India and APAC (Hiring for locations in India, APAC, MEA, UK and North America).
• Achieved 100% Fill Rate for Critical Roles in emerging markets through targeted sourcing strategies.
• Substantial increase in Referral from 5.5% to 33.5% currently
• Drove DEI Initiatives, resulting in the annual increase from 11% to 35% over three years.
• Sharp decrease in Vendor hiring percentage from 47% to 11%.
• Sharp decrease in cost per hire. —TBD

Dec 2017 – Nov 2021 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

• Managing the Talent Acquisition vertical and responsible for the lateral recruitment for Projects in India, USA, Canada, Europe, MEA, JAPAC (Japan/ Singapore/ Vietnam/ Malaysia/ Indonesia/ Thailand & Philippines).
• Looking after the hiring of Niche and Leadership roles within in the country and for onsite.
• Responsible for the Major project ramp-up from scratch for the different Verticals/BU.
• Hiring for different skills across domains in E-Commerce, Banking, Fintech, Insurance and Retail.
• Managing the operations, vendor management & Campus hiring for North India.
• Developing and maintaining strong working relationships with internal clients, vendors, and other team members to create a partnership that yields success, predictable results and credibility
• Responsible for maintaining the reducing the offer decline ratio by various new initiatives and engaging with the new offered candidates and involve them in multiple warm up process to reduce the drop outs during their notice in some way or the other.
• Turnaround the most difficult projects of GeM (Govt E-Marketplace), GTB (Global Transaction Banking), iSeec (Insurance, Magic Aadhaar), GCB (Global Consumer Banking) and iCom (Intellect Commerce) along with USA, UK, JAPAC and Africa hiring.
• Initiated the implementation of new recruitment and Offer follow up / On-boarding tool for the very first time in the organization and completed it successfully.
• Reduce the vendor hiring percentage drastically in APAC from 90% to Less than 5%.
• Reduce the vendor hiring percentage drastically in Americas and UK from approx. 90% to less than 30%
• Improve the overall Employee referral from less than 10% to approx. 18%.
• Started the new initiative of extending innovative gifts to all the offered candidates with the focus on company branding.

Apr 2015 – Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Noida

• PAN India hiring Lead for HCL Infotech(SI) & Services
• Managing a team of 10 resources and manage the overall recruitment life cycle for the Project having the combined size of 3000+ Persons
• Hiring Span of 1000+ candidates annually from Entry to Senior Level
• Alternate recruitment initiatives such as Linked-In, Facebook, SMS Campaigns, Job Fairs, Campus /Off Campus Recruitment.
• Liaison & leading robust interactions with Business Leaders across 10 plus verticals.
• Maintain and reducing Cost Per Hire and the Hiring Fill Rate
• Handling and Heading the Most prestigious Projects named—UIDAI (Aadhaar-World Largest Biometric Project), DCN(Defense Communication Network), SI-Power & Utility and some of the largest projects in MiddleEast
• Involves into the workforce planning for GDC(India) & Middle East operations,determine short and long term staffing requirements, create strategies & action plans to hire the right talent from the market through selection process, ensuring overall process integrity and providing relevant and timely reporting on staffing activities
• Developing and maintaining strong working relationships with internal clients, vendors, and other team members to create a partnership that yields success, predictable results and credibility.
• Ability to recruit in a volume / high pressure environment where lot of hiring is just in time hiring.
• Also have the ability to be creative in terms of the hiring sources and device strategies to generate candidate leads from both traditional / nontraditional sources.
• Responsible for designing & executing candidate warm up process to reduce offer declines / drop outs by means of involving them during their notice in some way or the other.
• Actively involved in defining and managing the recruitment budgets and sharing current trends and best practices followed across to reconcile the budget.
• Partner with different leaders to retain, develop and motivate people to achieve their fullest potential.

May 2012 – Apr 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Noida Area, India

• Managed Project Ramp up for Niche skill area in India, EU Countries and APAC.
• The role involves 85% lateral hiring (Recruitment) and 15% into Campus hiring and other areas.
• Providing market information and pool availability analysis for any new business and major ramp ups to business development teams.
• Manage and Ramp up of some new and critical projects.
• Liaison with business delivery leaders and stake holders keeping them updated on hiring related requisitions.
• Turn Key Hiring for multiple projects in NCR Region, Pune, Chennai, Europe, US, Japan & Singapore.
• Alternate recruitment initiatives such as Linked-In, Facebook, SMS Campaigns, Job Fairs, Campus /Off Campus Recruitment.
• Understanding the attrition and growth of the projects.
• Planning back up of key resources in coordination with the Business Head/Unit Head.
• Involved in the Hiring for US (H1 & B1)
• Responsible for Vendor management & managed Walk-Ins and Referral programs.
• Mentoring new team members & Associated with Buddy Program.
• Establish effective strategies: Collect and analyze data; identify trends and support key analytics and initiatives.
• Build the company: Identify and recruit the best-fit personnel to help drive the team and company to higher levels.
• Involved with Different Colleges of North India for supplementing the need of good resources for the company.
• Working as a SPOC for various development projects

Apr 2010 – Apr 2012 · 2 yrs · Noida Area, India

Nov 2009 – Apr 2010 · 5 mos · Noida Area, India

May 2009 – Aug 2009 · 3 mos · Gurgaon, India · On-site

• My role involves 100% Campus Hiring.
• Acted as a Team Leader in Pre-Placement Talk. Interacted with Placement officers to finalize the date slots for campus recruitment.
• Analyzing the institute background, checking previous placement record, making tie-up with new campuses.
• Preparing campus visit schedule, arranging a panel of technical interviewers, logistics arrangements like travel, accommodation Etc. Pre-placements talk and addressing HR related queries.
• Screening the credibility of the students before the test, Handling Registration, Overall Supervision of Test, finalizing the list of eligible candidates for GD’s and technical interviews, technical interview coordination, taking GD & HR interviews, and finalizing of offers.
• Declaration of on the spot offers.. Giving feedback to the visited campus.
• Responsible for preparing and sending final report for off-campus recruitment to the concerned stakholders.
• Achievements & Awards in Synergy:-
• Got VP Star Award Appreciation Certificate in Jul 2009 for successfully handling the Campus Hiring.

Aug 2007 – Apr 2009 · 1 yr 8 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Responsibilities Handled:-
• My Role involves 100% into Lateral Hiring (Recruitment).
• Experience in Handling Drives (Off-Campus for Different Companies)
• Rich experience in Both Permanent & Temp Staffing.
• Provide high volume recruitment consulting with responsibility for open positions with multiple departments (IBU) and hiring managers
• Handling recruitment of different levels starting from junior engineer, seniors, project managers, consultants, Business analyst, Delivery Manager, Architect, and Principal Engineer.
• Achievements & Awards in ALP:-
• Awarded performer of the Quarter Award for Oct-Dec 2007.
• Awarded Performer of the month award two times in a Row.
• Recruitment Area’s/ Technologies Worked:--
• Java (J2EE, JSP, Swing, Servlets, Plug-In, Agile)
• Microsoft Technologies (VC++, .NET, C#, ASP)
• Databases -(Oracle-PL/SQL, MS Access & SQL Server)
• Mainframes(COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, Synon), C, C++
• AIX Admin, Developer, Brew
• SAP (ABAP, Basis, MM, SD, XI, FICO,HR, ISU, CRM), Oracle, Peoplesoft (Enterprise), JD Edwards