Mar 2016 – Present · 10 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Jul 2015 – Feb 2016 · 7 mos · Bangalore

• Leading and setting up the talent acquisition team for the “C-Suite” division in Bangalore
• Working for the clients who are world top leading companies in Airline / Telecom / Banking / Insurance domain
• Helping the team to strategically meeting the set target with less TAT
• Closely working with account managers and following up for all the submissions / closer done by the team
• Working as a team player as well as Individual contributor and setting up bench marking in the team
• Reviewing weekly and biweekly meeting with team members and clients respectively
• Training TA team for hiring via social media and helping them to grow as Social media Ninja recruiters

Aug 2014 – Dec 2014 · 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Heading the Leadership hiring, University relationship, Process alignment and Recruitment internal audit
• Strong interlocking with Hiring managers and senior business leaders to understand open demand and define best recruitment strategy for hiring right talent within defined SLA’s.
• Leading a team of 8 Recruiters pan India (Bangalore, Pune, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi)
• Educating and giving training to internal team on social media, forums, GoogleXray, Stackoverflow etc. searches and next generation hiring tools and making sure the CPH is maintained to achieved 90% hiring via in-house recruitment team
• Enhancing internal dependence (employee referrals, job posting and direct hiring) and thus reducing external dependence
• Monitoring, reviewing and assessing the development of the recruitment team members.
• Heading Campus initiative for IIMs (A / B / L), XLRI & IITs (B / D / M / G)
• Negotiated for day 0 / 1 slot while campus initiative and am leading the collaborative project with professors / HODs of respective department to hire interns and PhD for long term consulting projects
• Awareness of employer branding strategies to aid talent acquisition in attracting candidates and building talent pools
• Increased the LinkedIn visibility from X to 3X level and reviewing the quarterly report
• Responsible to provide Recruitment dashboards, resource supply view, hiring plan, updates on a periodic basis to various BU leaders and other relevant stakeholders
• Created the best team across the branches and corporate offices within internal parities by following the industry best practices
• Engagement with HackerEarth and HackerRank to reach world class developers / hackers

Jul 2008 – Jul 2014 · 6 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Hired PhD, technical researchers, HCI, designers and interns from top global companies, research universities and managed campus relations with deans, program directors, department chairs, professors, career centers, student groups as well as leaders of diversity programs
• Understood future requirements of the project (Internal and External Hiring) and applied resource management for the entire research project in the team with the project leads
• Organized workshops, events, competitions, brand building activities, student forums and ambassador programs at university level
• Led Mobile Research Forum group, Student Nokia Developer forum and Intellectual Property Right (IPR) Program
• Set up the research lab, doing legal & project based MOU, plan and budget annual donation for the top universities
• Worked closely with university collaboration team, Finland and generated MIS reports for manager
• Published quarterly university newsletter and maintained university wiki reports for internal stake holders

Aug 2007 – Jun 2008 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Developed and implemented effective recruiting strategies in order to attract, screen and select high quality candidates via referral generation, ad placement, job postings, direct sourcing, consultants and networking so that CPH can be maintained
• Partnering with the hiring managers to strategize the multiple hiring projects keeping stringent timelines and done account management while handling the entire recruitment cycle
• Data analysis to determine future compensation, hiring trends, process improvements, and timeliness
• Ownership of campus hiring and schedule interviews across India
• Instrumental in determining the compensation to be offered to new employees ,selling the non-monetary benefits and negotiation of salary to match the expectation in line with organization salary structure as well as their aspiration levels
• Making offers and negotiations on joining date and follow-up till candidate join as well as give an update to project manager

Jul 2008 – Present · 17 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• • Core team member for Mobility Research Forum (NGO)

Dec 2005 – Aug 2007 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Job profile includes Team Handling, Headhunting and Sourcing profiles via Job portals (Monster, Naukri, Times Jobs and Jobstreet), Direct phone sourcing, Networking Channels and Recruitment Blogs (LinkedIn, Yahoo & Technical Groups) and referrals as per requirements and maintained a database of candidates for future reference
• Daily insert, update and maintain trackers for the entire recruitment cycle and give presentation on Daily, Weekly and Monthly Team Reports
• Conduct drives for all skill sets across all experience levels at various locations across the country and performed a reference check on Candidates
• Identified tasks and deliverables, inserted, updated and maintained trackers on daily basis for the entire recruitment cycle for respective team members and track the progress against the plan