Sep 2015 – Apr 2020 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Jul 2013 – Jun 2014 · 11 mos · Greater Chennai Area

• Mentoring and coaching employees for better performance.
• Ensuring that timely and effective coaching is being provided by Team Leaders to their associates on a regular basis thereby helping them improves their performance.
• Communicating any policy/procedure or organizational updates to all the concerned people in the process/ business.
• Recruiting for positions in the following skill set domain:- Java /J2ee/J2me/C++ .Net developers & architects, Business Objects, BI analyst, Oracle DBA/developers, SQL DBA, Networking TCP/IP Engineers, VoIP, SNMP/MIBs , VOIP engineer, build & release engineers , System Engineer, C# dot net, ETL Informatica , QA and Test engineers, Business Analyst, Project Managers(IT/non IT), data modeler and data warehousing analysts, Data analyst/Desktop/IT/Network/Sales/Admin support, Instructional designer, architects etc
• Involved in planning & organizing the organization’s activities to achieve targets.
• Reviewing, refining and developing the strategy and direction of the company.
• Designing and implementing various employee retention strategies.
• Employee Development - Identify and assist in focusing on special group: high potential and low performers, overworked groups. Assist in building Performance Improvement and Development plans.

May 2010 – Jun 2013 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Greater Chennai Area

• Partner with the Business Heads and line Managers to deliver business specific solutions for people issues pertaining to the Unit in assigned businesses.
• Responsible for meeting the targets/Goals set by the management at optimal price, within stipulated time and build recruitment pipeline to ensure shorter turn-around-time.
• Working with Project Managers, Delivery Managers and Sales Team to understand the requirements and sharing it with Recruitment Team
• Provide Staffing solutions and implement staffing models based on business strategy
• Plan for Resource rotation, up-skilling & cross skilling to fit the future business needs
• Coach mentor and manage a team to ensure regular and effective interfacing with employees. Develop and maintain communication channels on the floor to have pulse of employee morale.
• Handling negotiations on rates/salary with prospective candidates and vendors
• Successfully involved in hiring Infrastructure Engineers, Application Support Engineer, Senior Network Engineers, Oracle DBA, Project and Program Managers, Project Director, Technical Delivery Managers, OSS/BSS Engineering Manager, Helpdesk Engineer, Java Developers, Solution Designers, Head of Technical Delivery, Head of Networking and Infrastructure Delivery,. Net Developers, Security Engineers, Juniper, VMware, Cisco, Solaris, SAP and PeopleSoft.
• Activities of Resource and Bench Management, forecast management on supply, interaction with Business Units and countries for forecasting demand, building strategies around staffing projects
• Sourcing the profiles/resources from different sources like job boards/portals. Internal database, Employee referrals and Job advertisements.
• Getting the feedback from the technical team for all the candidatures and provide feedback to the candidate.

May 2005 – Apr 2010 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Drove the hiring process in a high-volume / time-sensitive environment, working directly with hiring managers for all of Sound-area clients and managing candidates through the process to have them placed on assignments.
• Exclusively worked on W2 contract positions for the direct clients.
• Responsible for mentoring and providing on-going training and support for new recruiters and serve as a resource for learning and navigating senior technical policies and procedures.
• Fulfilling hiring requirements of the organization for all Levels, Functions, Domains and Practices (Enterprise Resource Planning, Managed Services Practice, Web Application Development, ESP, SAP, and Infrastructure Services) with a proactive approach converging Hiring & Operation
• Worked for positions of AT&T, Accenture, Bank of America, Excelon, International Trucks and Engine Corporation, Nike, GE, Washington Mutual Bank and all State and federal government requirements.
• Manage the full life cycle of the recruiting process (qualification, interview, reference checks, etc.)
• Placed candidates as per the requirement (W2, Corp to Corp and 1099)
• Worked with candidates on H1-B, F1 (OPT/CPT), TN Visa, EAD, Green card and US citizens.
• Develop and maintain various sources; build networks and candidate pipelines appropriate to business unit assignments.
• Talking to the consultants regarding the requirement and getting his view of the requirement and the technical skills that he/she possesses.
• Maintain accurate, timely documentation and tracking information.
• Keep a concentrated focus on achieving maximum utilization of internal resources.