saikiran varakavi

Recruiter

Hyderabad, Telangana, India5 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

7 years of experience in talent acquisition
Data-driven approach to recruitment
Awarded Best Collaborator & Strategic Partner

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist in the SaaS and Consulting industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Niche Talent AcquisitionStrategic Recruitment PlanningRecruitingVendor Management

Other Skills

Data AnalysisGlobal SourcingCandidate ManagementTechnical RecruitingStakeholder ManagementHuman Resources (HR)Global Talent AcquisitionAccount ManagementContract ManagementMarket IntelligenceBoolean SearchingContract NegotiationContract-to-hireContract HireContract Recruitment

About

I’m a Senior Talent Advisor with 7 years of experience building high-performing teams that drive business success. I’m known for my data-driven approach & people first leadership style. Recognized with the Best Collaborator & Strategic Partner awards. I’m passionate about creating workplaces where people & performance thrive together. Outside of work, I’m a Gym & Fitness enthusiast who believes that discipline & consistency - whether in fitness or leadership - are the foundation of long-term success.

Experience

5 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 1 mo

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Seismic

Senior Talent Advisor - GCC-Product & Engineering

Jun 2025 – Dec 2025 · 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Building the AI Engineering & Data Science teams for Seismic India.
As a Senior Talent Advisor at Seismic, I lead end-to-end hiring for the Global Capability Center (GCC), driving talent strategies across Services, Digital, Cloud, Engineering & Data Science and AI practices. I partner closely with senior business leaders to ensure we build strong, future-ready talent pipelines aligned with organizational growth.
Key Contributions & Focus Areas:
Lead complex and strategic hiring for Engineers, Consultants, Technical Architects, Program/Project Managers, and emerging AI roles.
Drive high-volume + niche hiring while maintaining high quality of hire and a superior candidate experience.
Own workforce planning and pipeline strategy for GCC, aligning hiring forecasts with business needs.
Improve hiring efficiency through data-driven insights, metrics-based decision-making, and operational rigor.
Partner closely with stakeholders across leadership to influence hiring priorities, ensure alignment, and deliver business impact.
Champion diversity hiring, building balanced and inclusive talent pools.
Strengthen employer branding and candidate engagement to achieve industry-leading offer acceptance rates.
Enable consistency in evaluation through structured interview processes and enterprise skills alignment.

Niche Talent AcquisitionData AnalysisGlobal SourcingCandidate ManagementStrategic Recruitment PlanningTechnical Recruiting+2

Deloitte

Senior Talent Advisor - Technology Consulting

Mar 2021 – Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Responsible for End to End Recruitment for the Consulting Practice.
Successfully hired 96 professionals in FY22 for skills like Salesforce, Guidewire, EPIC ,Hybris, Azure, AWS, Workday, Instructional designer, Front end developer, Adobe CQ, & Creative roles (UX and Visual designers) with hit ratio of 25% along with managing lead responsibilities
50% of hires are from Job boards & internal database, 20% of Hires are from LinkedIn, 18% through Referrals and 12% from Direct applicants & IJPs.
Diversity maintained by 33% while delivering results on time
Owning and executing weekday and weekend hiring events
Conducting Weekly/Monthly Business Reviews with the directors and business
Responsible for over-all candidate experience
Working alongside supporting partners like on-boarding team, ELE team and ITS for candidate on-boarding
Use of Taleo, Avature, SharePoint tools for hiring
Create and implement effective candidate pipeline generation strategies to market our opportunities, attract talent, and build communities that produce a high volume of targeted candidates
Commitment to strategic business partnerships with focus on team development
Hands on hiring through Social media tools- LinkedIn, Internet mining, etc.
Hands on experience in creating Competitive intelligence, tracking industry trends and Market intelligence
Advisor to business leaders in Talent mapping, Market Intel reports, Sourcing and fulfilling the talent requirements.