Somasekhar M

Talent Acquisition Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 4 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • 14 years of experience in Talent Acquisition.
  • Expert in implementing HRMS and ATS systems.
  • Achieved diversity hiring targets in recruitment.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Specialist with expertise in Automotive Engineering and IT recruitment.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent ManagementTechnical RecruitingRecruitingFull Life Cycle Recruiting

Other Skills

InterviewsHiringInternsSocial NetworkingSenior Stakeholder ManagementMass RecruitmentContract ManagementHR ManagementClient/Hiring Manager RelationshipsLeadershipApplicant Tracking SystemsSalaryGETInterviewingInternal Recruitment

About

Strategic T.A. professional with 14 years of experience in Recruitment, People Management, Stake holder, Vendor Management, across multiple domains including Automotive Engineering R&D /IT. Have integrated & implemented KEKA - HRMS and hands on ATS (Taleo, Success Factor, Beehive).

Experience

13 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 8 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs
Current Experience

Sun mobility

Talent Acquisition Manager

Jun 2024Present · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Playing role in designing, executing, and refining recruitment strategies & HR operations for technology groups across business units. Managed hiring requirements, budgets which include but are not limited to Recruitment but also building collaborative relationships and partnering closely with different business verticals & cost centers.
  • ➢ Process improvement, Vendor management, HR interviews, Salary negotiation, Leadership hiring.
  • ➢ Hiring for leadership skills, Engineers, Team lead and diverse candidates to balance the team with appropriate skills.
  • ➢ Implemented campus hiring process for various technical skills. Achieved 20% target in hiring female candidates across each department.
  • ➢ Involved in Talent Management (Resource retention, Talent mapping, PIP, IJT). Handled onboarding & induction program for new joiners.
  • Positions handled: Hardware Verification & Validation, Electrical Design & Development, Robotics & Simulation, Battery Testing, Embedded Application Development, NPD- Direct & Indirect Purchase, Manufacturing Operations, Head Of Engineering
InterviewsTechnical RecruitingHiringInternsSocial NetworkingSenior Stakeholder Management+14

Career break

Health and well-being

Apr 2023May 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Personal time off. Had to take care my parents.

Onward technologies limited

Talent Acquisition Manager

Oct 2022Mar 2023 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

ScreeningPeople ManagementEnterprise Resource Planning (ERP)InterviewsTechnical RecruitingHiring+19

Nexteer automotive

Sr. T.A. Specialist, Account Management

Apr 2019Jun 2022 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore, INDIA

  •  Handling end-to-end recruitment for Nexteer India Software Center, Bangalore. which includes Design, Development, Testing, Implementation & Quality departments for India and America.
  •  Managing 4-member team of recruiters / sourcers; on-boarding & induction team members.
  •  Hands on experience in Success Factor (ATS / recruitment tool).
  •  Responsible in providing the team/stakeholder with the required resources for various departments.
  •  Attending weekly meetings with stakeholders to discuss issues, concerns and other enquiries that have occurred and sharing opinions, ideas to resolve these in the future and to improve production
  •  Handling HR interviews, salary discussions & offer roll outs.
ScreeningInterviewsTechnical RecruitingHiringTeamworkWork Life Balance+15

Mercedes-benz research and development india

Technical Recruiter, Account Management

Feb 2016Mar 2019 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  •  Account Management: Complete Trucks segment (Design & Development). Cars segment (powertrain design & development).
  •  Hands on experience in Taleo (recruitment tool).
  •  Effective stakeholder Management: working for various verticals based on the business needs.
  •  Responsible for end-to-end recruitment which includes levels from junior level to leadership hiring.
  •  Providing the best candidate experience throughout hiring process. Mapping the bench resource
  • Across current existing Project and working on Demand and supply relationship (DSR).
  •  Involved in End to End recruitment process having a mix of In-House& Campus recruitment experience starting from understanding the requirement, validating profiles, preliminary interviews, HR
  • Interview, salary negotiation, fitment, releasing offers & Joining Formalities, documentation.
  •  Involved in job posting over LinkedIn, job boards, employee referrals and also being a SPOC for vendors.
  •  Involved in roll out of offers and initiate for background verification.
  •  Organizing campus recruitment, walk-in drive, hiring events, diversity drive.
  •  Employee Referral: Identifying right talent through employee referral, posting the requirements through
  • Intranet.
ScreeningInterviewsTechnical RecruitingHiringTeamworkWork Life Balance+14

Bosch engineering and business solutions

Sr. Recruiter

Feb 2015Nov 2015 · 9 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • RECRUITER (Automotive – Power Train, ECU, BMS domain)
  •  Handling the Recruitment & executive search for Middle and Senior Level Management in the Information Technology and corporate arena for internal/ in-house requirements.
  •  Involved in End-End Recruitment cycle involving sourcing, identifying, screening and placing personnel in quick turnaround time for various positions.
  •  Sourcing profiles from various sources like Job portals Naukri.com, Monster.com, Career Builder.com, Employee referrals, posting jobs in various portals and database.
  •  Done Job posting on company website through SAP for various requirements and locations
  •  Taking the initial round of interview over phone and collecting the required information for selection process etc and short listing the candidates for further process.
  •  Scheduling and coordinating the interviews for all the short listed candidates.
  •  Responsible for helping the team to deliver the Predetermined Targets of Closures.
  •  Follow up with the clients and the candidates with regards to the schedule.
  •  Attended bi-weekly staff conferences to discuss issues, concerns and other inquires that have occurred and sharing opinions, ideas to resolve these in the future and to improve production
  •  Experience in handling Senior levels requirements i.e. middle level to top management level.
  • Skills Hired for:
  • Automotive Power Train (Embedded C, AUTOSAR, Analog Design, Digital Design, VHDL, ASIC, Product Data Management, Safety Engineer ISO26262), .Net Developer, Java Eclipse plug-in development, Communication Protocols-CAN, LIN,I2C,SPI,RTRT,RTOS,H/W design, Railways
ScreeningTechnical RecruitingTeamworkSocial NetworkingSourcingRecruiting+1

Analytics global technologies pvt. ltd

Sr. HR Recruiter

May 2014Feb 2015 · 9 mos · Bangalore

  • SR. RECRUITER
  •  Handling the Recruitment & executive search for Middle and Senior Level Management in the Information Technology arena for internal & also supporting US team in recruitment process
  •  Responsibilities included but not limited to sourcing qualified entry level to high end professional candidates using various online job boards and websites including; (CareerBuilder, Monster, Dice and Naukri) and various social network sites including; (Facebook, LinkedIn, Recruiting Blogs)
  •  Handling End-to-end recruitment in large numbers in competitive environment
  •  Understanding requirements, analyzing the positions, selection process and identifying profiles of potential candidates.
  •  Experienced and highly skilled in interviewing, presentations, offer extension, salary negotiations, references checks.
  •  Ability to understand internal needs in the various phases of product/service life cycle.
  • Interacting with the candidates and doing regular follow-up regarding interview schedules, and joining
  • Provided assistance to the manager in regards to applying employees including face to face interviews and sharing improvement ideas
  • Attended bi-weekly staff conferences to discuss issues, concerns and other inquires that have occurred and sharing opinions, ideas to resolve these in the future and to improve production
  • Experience in handling Senior levels requirements i.e. middle level to top management level.
  • Conducting HR Round, Rolling out offer letters, negotiating on salary, explaining the HR Policies and joining formalities, also following up with the candidates till the joining. Meeting hiring requisition on time & maintaining cost per hire within budget.
  • Skills Hired for:
  • Statistics ( SAS, SPSS), OLM(Oracle Lease Management), OBIEE, OBIA, Java/J2EE, Swings, Struts, springs, Hibernate, C, C++, Unix, Linux, Windows, VC++, Asp.Net, VB.Net, C#, WCF, Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA, SAP (Modules BI/BO, HR, SD, FICO, P2P, WM, MM), Embedded programming, RF Engineer, Cognos
InterviewsTechnical RecruitingTeamworkSourcingLeadershipRecruiting+3

Neotecra inc.

HR Recruiter

Mar 2012Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • Having around 2 year and 2 months of experience in U.S. Recruitment.
  • Deal and placed with almost all types of authorized consultants in USA: Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD and H1B.
  • Responsible for sourcing, screening, scheduling and salary negotiation.
  • Strong working experience in W2 Contract, Full time, C2C, C2H and 1099.
  • Have good experience with the job Boards like Monster.com, Career Builder.com apart from using social networks like LinkedIn to approach and get connected with consultants.
  • Clients : Raytheon, Northrop Grumman (Aero Space & Defence), National Grid (power & utility), NYPA, Siemens, Panasonic
  • Responsibilities
  • Responsible for full end-end cycle involving sourcing, identifying, screening and placing personnel in quick turnaround time in contract, C2H and permanent positions
  • Responsibilities included driving a team of recruiters setting up strategic recruiting plans, handling consultant and end client requirements.
  •  Supervised recruitment activities, allocated new requirements within the team and closely followed the progress.
  • Technical resource and skill set identification using a wide variety of resources including but not limited to internet recruitment methods like internal/external networking, posting jobs, employee referrals and cold calling.
  • Responsible for new hire and fresher training on sourcing process and recruiting techniques.
  • Participate in weekly team review meetings, focused on analyzing performance and focusing on progress of new processes, identify problems, and fixing gaps in the process.
  • Recruited and interviewed candidates for permanent and contract positions with corporate clients throughout the U.S. Mainly with W2 tax terms for G.C., U.S. Citizens and EAD’s.
  • Source and recruit candidates using extensive Internet sources and networking.
  • Environment/Tools:
  • US Monster, Career Builder, Dice, Vendor Management System (Pro Wand, Ray VMS, Field glass), Linked in
Technical RecruitingTeamworkSourcingClient/Hiring Manager RelationshipsRecruiting

Education

M.B.A(H.R & Marketing)

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) — Human Resources Management and Services

Jan 2009Jan 2011

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