Oct 2022 – Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Key Result Areas:
• Oversee the entire talent acquisition process, including candidate sourcing, screening, and selection, with meticulous attention to detail. This includes managing requisitions, issuing offers, coordinating background verifications (BGV), stakeholder management, and overseeing campus hiring initiatives.
• Lead offer negotiations and ensure a smooth onboarding experience for new team members, focusing on creating a positive and welcoming introduction to the organization.
• Foster and maintain strong vendor partnerships, ensuring compliance with regulations and optimizing operational efficiency to meet organizational goals.
• Implemented a referral campaign and organized hiring drives to efficiently fill web technology roles that had been open for more than 100 days, successfully closing aging vacancies.
• Data-Driven Hiring Strategy:
• Develop and implement Talent Acquisition (TA) dashboards to analyze hiring metrics, enabling informed decision-making based on data insights.
• Utilize these dashboards to evaluate hiring strategies, optimize time-to-fill metrics, and provide actionable insights for continuous improvement in talent acquisition processes.
• HR Operations:
• Conduct comprehensive HR interviews to assess candidate suitability and cultural alignment.
• Lead new employee onboarding, delivering HR induction sessions to foster a positive and informed introduction to the organization.
• Maintain accurate and confidential employee records, including the creation reports and dashboards.
• Establish and manage a centralized manpower database to streamline workforce information and enhance HR operational efficiency and taking care of exit formality documentation.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives within talent acquisition and HR operations, identifying opportunities for process optimization and efficiency gains.

Apr 2022 – Oct 2022 · 6 mos

Mar 2019 – Sep 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos

May 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos · Pune Area, India

• Spearheading end-to-end recruitment lifecycle and ensuring adherence to the process with involvement in vendor management, rate negotiation & finalization, overseas recruitment –EMEA
• Administering recruitment, training and selection of entry to managerial level candidates (technical/niche profiles) for sourcing the best talent from Networking, headhunting, job portals, social media, campus hiring & so on
• Documenting & maintaining MIS reports pertaining to recruitment activities and submitting the same to the Management / Stakeholders to facilitate decision-making
• Liasioning and coordinating with the Stakeholders and Delivery Teams on regular-basis to analyse and study the technology, recruitment status & other potential requirements for the future
• Identifying recruiting requirements by studying organization plans and objectives; interfaced with the managers to discuss needs
• Managing screening and short-listing of profiles as per the requirement; negotiating on salaries/offer terms and finalizing as per the offer
• Ensuring on-time completion of joining formalities, offer roll-outs, on-boarding, induction and registration process of the new joinees
• Assuring sourcing of quality and high-level profiles with adherence to the defined TAT/SLAs of the client contracts
• Designing and floating Internal Job Postings (IJP) for filling up positions internally as well as with an aim to give employees an opportunity to move to other departments

Jun 2016 – Apr 2017 · 10 mos · Bangalore

• Involved in complete recruitment lifecycle for lateral and campus hiring which includes sourcing & screening Resumes of applicants, setting up interviews and processing new hires for employment.
• Responsible for Social Media recruitment like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Techgeeks.com and Stackoverflow for passive hiring
• Work breakdown structure for time management and realistic outcome.
• Making sure the quality of resume is maintained to achieve least resumes: offer ratio – 4:1
• Regular Interaction with the Hiring Managers and Delivery Heads for continuous assessment of the progress on open positions.
• Understand Business Unit strategies & assisted the Manager in developing recruitment solutions which will meet present and future needs.
• Gather market intelligence and develop best understanding of the local market place in which the recruitment is being conducted.
• Responsible for Onboarding and Background Verfification
• Actively participate in compensation negotiations and post offer engagement activities to ensure that the positions are filled with the right resources in timely manner.
• Assisted the Manager in preparation & presenting of monthly/weekly reports to the management.

May 2004 – May 2016 · 12 yrs · Bangalore

• Client Management and Account Management
• Mentored a team of three people with functions varying from sourcing to scheduling and co-ordinating for interviews
• Sourcing through Job Portals, Linkedin, References, Headhunting, scheduling interview co-ordination, salary negotiation and joining facilitation of the selected candidates
• Was responsible for hiring for the following positions:
• Developers Mid level and Senior – ranging in experience of 1 to 10 years
• Volume hiring – Java, ASP.Net
• Niche Hiring – C, Kernel Developers, Bigdata, Storage
• Mid Level Hiring: experience of 7 to 14 years for Storage Startup
• Niche hiring - Storage Architects, Solution Architects, Principal Software Engineer
• Senior Hiring: experience of over 15 years for Product Companies, Startup’s
• Sales & Marketing Head across domains for Startup’s
• Product Support Head
• Director Engineering
• Sr Product Manager – storage domain
• Business Unit Head for specific vertical – electronic security, electrical, building materials
• Finance Head for India – Product Company
• Domains
• Data Backup recovery - Backup storage & Storage Servers & Storage hardware
• Telecom - Mobile App development for iPhone, Mac, Android, Billing, EPABX Engineers, Support Engineers
• IT Infrastructure - Microsoft technologies- SQL DBA, Windows, Oracle , Linux Admin, Cloud Operations - Amazon EC2
• Software - C, C++, Java, MVC, ASP.net, Healthcare - HL7,Ecommerce
• Electronic Security,Building Materials & Construction,Lighting, Electrical, Manufacturing
• Finance Head – CA, Audit, Taxation, GAPS,EXIM