Mar 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos · Pune District, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

• Managed full-cycle recruiting process: Intakes, Sourcing, Coordination Interviews, Feedback loops, Negotiations, Verbal and Written Offers, Background Checks, HRIS.
• Regularly called upon to troubleshoot challenging roles like Director of Engineering, Technical Architect, Engineering Manager, Tech Leads, Software Developer (Backend and Frontend), Technical Program Manager, DeVops Engineer, Cloud Architect/Engineer.
• Own and manage end to end recruitment process for business units in India and specific business units in EMEA, APAC and United States.
• Develop and deploy multiple sourcing strategies including usage of social media resulting in reduced cycle time and enhanced staffing quality experience.
• In my role as a Sr. Talent Acquisition Specialist, I recruit and attract R&D (Product and Engineering) and Business profiles across various domains within our Consumer & Platform team. I am partnering with various stakeholders across the business.
• Continuous tracking of market trends and competitor analysis.
• Identifying, developing and managing relationships with multiple recruitment partners.

Feb 2022 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · India

• Hiring both Core & Pivotal roles across Engineering workloads ranging from Cloud, Data & AI, Modern Workplace & Business Applications.
• India Development Center: Engineering Managers, Group EM’s, Principal IC’s, SWE, Program Managers.
• India Go-to-Market: Cloud Architects, Staff Technical Members, Full Stack Developers,
• Partnering with recruiters and Hiring Managers to understand and set the strategy for talent outreach, screening focus and closure timelines. This involves focusing on representation from Compete, Diverse, Early in Career in each shortlist.
• Leveraging LinkedIn Recruiter, Jobs Boards and Employee Hackathons to identify talent.
• Leveraging LinkedIn Talent Insights to drive visibility on market reality for niche roles with business leaders.
• Skills Focus range: Apps & Infra, Data & AI, Azure Cloud, Security, Enterprise Cloud and Niche skills.
• Trained hiring managers on Greenhouse, implemented successfully with my BU’s.

Jul 2021 – Feb 2022 · 7 mos · Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

• Hire for Product Development , Application Development & Cloud and IT Infrastructure teams.
• Program manage Hire-Train-Deploy plan and ramp-up hiring for Storage & Backup teams, strategize and responsible for ramp up.
• Leading Social Media Recruitment Campaigns and recruitment efforts & Employer Branding.
• Trained hiring managers on Taleo, implemented successfully with my BU’s.
• Maximum leadership and niche skill hires through LinkedIn and Direct networking.
• Strategy Planning -Lateral Hiring across experience range and diverse Technologies, domains.
• Majority hiring through Talent brew and LinkedIn network.
• Leadership Hiring Expertise.
• Real-time experience of setting up Talent Acquisition Internal Audit processes.
• The focus has always been on maintaining the global quality standards of in terms of Talent Attraction.

May 2019 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Pune Area, India

• End-to-end recruiting for Software Development (Backend, Frontend, Mobile, DevOps)
• Responsible for Middle Level and Senior Level Technical hiring which includes SDE, Backend developer, Frontend developer, Full Stack developer. Engineering Manager, Principal Engineer, Architect, Principal Architect positions.
• Partner with Hiring Managers to understand requirements of positions within the business line and provide innovative solutions for sourcing candidates.
• Experience in maintaining a talent database for future use and building a pipeline of quality candidates.
• Defined great interview experience & processes to make interviews more interesting.
• Involved in offer negotiations & candidate on-boarding process.
• Involved in employment engagement & & employee referral activities.
• Improve business ownership for our team in solving key hiring problems.
• Utilizing available recruiting systems to create actionable data insights .

Nov 2018 – May 2019 · 6 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Sourcing & Screening resumes through different job sites like Naukri, candidate references, LinkedIn to identify, evaluate, and hire top talent through various channels.
• Head hunting the profiles. Communicating with suitable candidates, conducting preliminary interviews.
• Fixing the interview schedules, send the prospective candidates for interviews. Ensuring the completion of Joining Formalities.
• JD analysis, recruiting candidates through Job Portals, Headhunting, Networking, internal database.
• Understanding the Job description and validating candidates based on the desired parameters, describing the job profile to the candidates.
• Arranging further rounds of interviews with clients.
• Periodic follow-ups are made to ensure the candidates take the interview call.
• Follow up with the candidates until the offer letter is issued, and the candidate joins.
• Maintain database of profiles to achieve a healthy recruitment turnaround time.
• Hiring from all the domains of tech, i.e., Backend, Frontend, DevOps, Data, SDET/QA, Mobile - iOS/Android/React Native/Python, Product Management etc.

Jan 2017 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• As an International Recruiter, I conduct in-depth non-technical and technical interviews for positions from startups to Fortune 500 corporations nationwide.
• Communicate with candidates throughout the hiring process.
• Maintain daily and weekly client reports.
• Responsible for recruiting professionals within a Manufacturing/EPC environment, even in IT industry. JAVA, C++, .NET, ORACLE, CRM, SQL, PL/SQL, PeopleSoft, Cisco, SharePoint, Data Warehouse Architecture, Solutions Engineering, Lotus Notes Development, Network Engineering, Software Engineering, etc.
• Extensive experience in performing the day to day duties such as prescreening, submittals, prepping candidates, reference checking, briefing and debriefing both candidates and clients.
• Used proactive sourcing to find the best talent for engineering & IT openings
• Worked both contract and permanent placement sides of the business
• Good knowledge of the staffing industry and familiar with terminology of the engineering industry
• Source candidates from Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com and Dice.com and utilize internet and networking tools such as Google and LinkedIn to find qualified candidates not available on job boards
• Pre-screen resumes sourced, call and qualify candidates for relevant positions, submit qualified candidates and follow up regularly with clients to ensure placements.
• Network with and pipe-line candidates who can be considered for future job orders or generate referrals
• Work with account managers and human resources to extend offers and guide the hiring process to closure
• Ensure quality of submittals, job order fulfillment and client satisfaction
• Prepare and send out daily and weekly reports to internal and external management

Mar 2016 – Jun 2016 · 3 mos · Accra Ghana

• 1. Study of Equity Market and Market Capitalization.
• 2. Micro Economics study.
• 3. Project Finance Study
• 4. Ratio Analysis.
• 5. Study of Stock market.