Malini Thyagarajan

Recruiter

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India15 yrs 2 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

12 years of full life cycle IT recruitment experience.
Expert in strategic sourcing and vendor management.
Strong interpersonal skills in candidate engagement.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Specialist with extensive experience in IT recruitment and strategic sourcing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionRecruiting

Other Skills

Talent ManagementInternal RecruitmentTalent SourcingTechnical RecruitingIT RecruitmentSourcingResource ManagementVendor ManagementManagement

About

- Talent Acquisition Professional with excellent interpersonal, recruiting & networking skills with overall 12 years of full life cycle of IT Recruitment experience - Overall exposure to business/hiring manager interface management, process management, strategic sourcing, vendor management. - Accountable for taking HR interviews making compensation fitments and effectively selling offer to candidates. Hand-holds potential employee until joining day

Experience

Optum

Senior Manager Talent Acquisition

Oct 2025 – Present · 6 mos · India · Hybrid

Talent ManagementInternal RecruitmentTalent SourcingTalent AcquisitionRecruiting

Hsbc

Manager - Talent Acquisition

Mar 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos · Chennai Area, India

Ey

Assistant Manager - Talent Acquisition

Apr 2014 – Mar 2020 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Chennai Area, India

Responsible for full life-cycle recruiting services, including but not restricted to : defining position requirements, source qualified candidate, reference checking, post offer followups
Responsible for IT Hiring, CA & Engineering Campus Hiring, Vendor Management
Working closely with the cross functional HR Teams across locations in hiring for the teams

Dell international services

TAG -HR

May 2013 – Apr 2014 · 11 mos · Chennai

Handling End to End Recruitments, SPOC for ITes - Non Voice Hirings.
Manages the IT Support & E Biz Requirements.
Was involved in both L1 and Mid level Hirings.

Brillio

Sr. Executive - Talent Acquisition

Apr 2010 – Apr 2013 · 3 yrs · Bangalore

Accountable for Telecommunication BU recruitment by consulting with business & functional leaders to define competencies for specific roles.
Industry research, People research, Competancy Mapping, Candidate Engagement, Evaluations & Assessments.
Developing and implementing proactive recruitment and selection strategy with Hiring Managers on issues like compensation, talent availability and interview benchmarking etc.

Virtusa

Associate Executive

Jun 2008 – Mar 2010 · 1 yr 9 mos · Chennai

Involved in the Full Life Cycle Recruitment process, specialized in lateral hiring
Engaged with the Hiring team in identifying, qualifying and recruiting top talent from the industry.
Work closely with the BU Heads / hiring team to understand their business needs; present them qualified candidates to match the right fitment

People first consultants

HR Consultant (Recruitment)

Mar 2007 – Jun 2008 · 1 yr 3 mos · Chennai Area, India

Involved in the Full Life Cycle Recruitment process, specialized in lateral hiring
Engaged with the Hiring team in identifying, qualifying and recruiting top talent from the industry.
Work closely with the BU Heads / hiring team to understand their business needs; present them qualified candidates to match the right fitment