Vinay Gujrati

Recruiter

Pune, Maharashtra, India11 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 9+ years of IT recruiting experience
  • Expertise in sourcing hard-to-find candidates
  • Led high volume recruitment projects across geographies
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Specialist with expertise in IT recruitment across diverse industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionSourcingSoftware EngineeringRecruitment

Other Skills

Applicant Tracking SystemsBenefits NegotiationCompensation BenchmarkingContract RecruitmentData AnalysisEmployer BrandingGlobal Talent AcquisitionHuman ResourcesIT RecruitmentInternet RecruitingInterviewingMarket MappingNegotiationOutsourcingRecruitment Advertising

About

“I don't usually stalk Profiles, but when I do I probably have a career opportunity for you.” “Want to connect!?” Key Responsibility Areas: Help discover and nurture the Healthcare, Banking, Financial, Hi Tech, Diversified, Retail and IT industry’s newest talent. Constantly exploring and implementing sourcing methodologies as appropriate. Work within predefined recruitment processes, ensuring best practice at all times. Work to achieve and aim to exceed agreed personal and team targets, objectives and Service Level Agreements. • Enthusiastic and result-oriented HR professional with 9+ years of proven End to End IT recruiting experience hiring professionals from the hi-tech IT, Product and Service Industry industry. Adept in the entire recruitment life cycle which included but not limited to diverse sourcing strategies, interview coordination, offer negotiation, post offer engagement and stakeholder management. • Led high volume and lateral recruitment projects catering to geographies viz. US and APAC. Expertise in social media talent mapping, market intelligence, research projects and participating in networking events to uncover high quality underutilized talent pools. • Responsible for full life cycle of recruitment for both fulltime and contract in very fast pace environment. • Extensive experience in sourcing, identifying, attracting, securing and closing the hard-to-find candidate. • Experienced in submitting candidates to the client hiring managers and the vendor management portals. • Following up with respective account managers to know the feedback on the consultants. • Recruited IT specialists - Software developers (Java, J2EE, Cloud, BigData, .Net, C#, MS SQL, Oracle, OEBS, DWH, Cognos, Tibco, Informatica, Teradata), Quality Assurance specialists, Support Engineers, Software Architects, Project/Program Managers. • Partner with stakeholders to discern workforce screen, interview and select best-talents for skilled/technical trades, management positions & support staff openings. • Participated in direct calls and lead in presentations to Clients, MSP, Customers and Vendors. Maintained personal contact with candidates to ensure appropriate level of employee satisfaction is achieved. • Acted as SPOC and build influential candidate relationship during the selection process. Involvement in compensation, negotiation and other communication with the candidates and Vendors. • Performed entire staffing function from candidate generation to offer negotiation for numerous technical requisitions.

Experience

Rapid7

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

May 2025Present · 10 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

  • ● Led a team supporting technology hiring across Engineering, Cloud, Cybersecurity & Infrastructure roles across India.
  • ● Partnered with Talent Acquisition Leads and Hiring Managers to shape sourcing strategies aligned with critical
  • hiring needs and DEI objectives.
  • ● Built and maintained a robust pipeline of passive talent, resulting in a 40% decrease in time-to-fill for niche tech roles.
  • ● Conducted market mapping and compensation benchmarking, helping drive data-led hiring decisions and workforce planning.
  • ● Implemented a proactive engagement strategy, increasing candidate response rates by 30% through personalized messaging and employer branding.
  • ● Trained team on advanced sourcing techniques and platforms including LinkedIn Recruiter etc.
  • ● Partner with business leaders and global HR teams to understand hiring needs aligned to GCC buildout or expansion.
  • ● Develop recruitment strategies tailored for global roles being transitioned or newly created within the GCC.
Talent AcquisitionSourcing StrategiesMarket MappingCompensation BenchmarkingEmployer BrandingSourcing

Ey

Project Consultant | Talent Acquisition

May 2025Present · 10 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

Google

Talent Advisor (via Randstad)

Feb 2022May 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos · India · Hybrid

  • Hiring Software Engineers / Developers for multiple product verticals in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune & Gurugram.
  • Hiring for various software engineering roles at the L3 (SWE II), L4 (SWE III), and L5 (Senior SWE) levels in both the Consumer & Compute (2C) and Cloud verticals. Hiring for individuals with expertise in various technologies such as GenSwe, ML, Mobile, iOS, Android, Front-end, Full Stack, Infrastructure, Database, Networking, and Data Analytics.
  • Managing many requisitions at a time and routinely deliver hires with ease.
  • Deliver quality work in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment consistently by managing time and efforts across hiring projects.
  • Source and attract talent and manage projects, such as creating innovative strategies to locate local talent;
  • assess applications as needed.
  • Solve problems and produce solutions by collecting and analyzing data with quantitative or qualitative approaches, identifying alternatives when circumstances change, and seek out responsibilities beyond the job.
  • Keep others apprised of and involved in work by communicating information and status to project leads and team members, coordinating work cross-functionally, and influencing peers, project leaders, and/or managers.
  • Develop talent by leveraging recruiting processes and tools, and gathering role requirements and recommendations.
  • Advocate for the candidate and create an excellent experience, supporting candidate assessment, evaluating candidate skills and client needs, and driving the interview and offer process.
  • Influence hiring managers on their hiring strategy and provide status updates on open roles.
  • Manage recruiting initiatives to meet established goals. Improve the candidate, new hire, hiring manager, and recruiter experience.
  • Partner with key business, staffing, and hiring stakeholders to build solutions for diversity, equity, and inclusion objectives.
  • Identify team alignment based on an understanding of the organization/function and role profiles.
RecruitmentTalent AcquisitionSoftware EngineeringData Analysis

Disys

Talent Acquisition Lead

May 2019Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · Hybrid

  • Achieve quota targets – both outcome and activity.
  • Train and mentor team members on best practices and recruiting knowledge.
  • Handling a small team of recruiters and assigning requirements to them on daily basis.
  • Managing full-life cycle of recruitment (full-time/permanent, contract) and hiring processes, sourcing (direct, indirect), pre-screening, interviewing, reference checking and offer negotiations.
  • Providing qualified candidates to open requisitions based on SLA objectives.
  • Performing all salary negotiations and lock down all candidates.
  • Providing skill based, market feedback on open requirements to DISYS Sales Teams.
  • Participating in position specific training as assigned/requested.
  • Following DISYS processes and use provided tools effectively.
  • Producing high quality work by ensuring attention to detail.
  • Communicating effectively and positively.
  • Accelerating productivity by suggesting new methods that improve team/DISYS effectiveness.
  • Successfully sourced; identified and hired professionals like Account Managers, System Admin, Recruiters etc. for Noida Location.
  • As a (Corporate) Recruiter responsible for creating and publishing job ads, interviewing candidates and seeking out new candidate sources.
  • Strong stake holder management (multi–client) experience.
  • Experience managing vendor relationships.
RecruitmentTeam ManagementStakeholder ManagementNegotiationTalent Acquisition

Collabera

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Apr 2014Apr 2019 · 5 yrs · India · On-site

Education

Takshshila Institue of Engineering & Technology

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

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