Feb 2015 – Jun 2020 · 5 yrs 4 mos

• Built a strong team to ramp up Bangalore center by 700+ hires to date and, still raising the bar.
• Responsibilities include - planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance and guiding professional development; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing employee relations issues and resolving problems.
• Provided input to the functional Talent Acquisition budget and manage expenses within budget allocations.
• As a Talent Acquisition manager always managed regular evaluations of the applicant pool and assess, track and report on time to hire, cost to hire and, diversity of hires, to identify trends and cost-effectiveness. Implemented AI tool into the hiring process to help in taking cohesive decisions
• Maintained data needed to improve policies and practices; recommend and implement enhancements to support a diverse workforce; always ensuring that recruiters comply with local and regional hiring guidelines and procedures, particularly for applicant tracking, HRIS, onboarding, compensations. Resetting of the hiring models and optimizing creative sources to keep costs under control. Placed a successful University Hiring Model for Epicor India. Participated in Various HR and TA projects globally. Regularly launched employee referral campaigns
• Hands-on in leadership and niche technical hiring.
• With regular meetings with stakeholders, hiring managers, providing guidance, coaching, and counseling to effectively support business line/region strategic Talent Acquisition goals and business forecast.
• Conceptualized data analysis metrics in identifying industry trends towards talent, compensation and skill mapping.
• Nurturing six members' high-performance team. The data-driven approach in establishing clear goals and objectives.

Feb 2015 – Sep 2015 · 7 mos

• Who We Are
• A company that sees software differently
• Epicor Software Corporation drives business growth. We provide flexible, industry-specific software designed to fit the precise needs of our manufacturing, distribution, retail, and service industry customers. More than 45 years of experience with our customers’ unique business processes and operational requirements are built into every solution―in the cloud or on premises. With this deep understanding of individual industries, Epicor solutions dramatically improve performance and profitability while easing complexity so you can focus on growth.

Apr 2012 – Feb 2015 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Senior Talent Acquisition • AMD
• Successfully hired in the semiconductor industry, recruited from the middle to executive levels in all niche technologies. Following the procedural legacy of organization& strategist. Coordinating with the Global TA team for various business implementations. Made sure all the hiring managers are content and pleased with the hires and backups. Accomplished, streamlining and enhancing the capabilities of the recruitment team. Always make sure that both the hiring manager and the candidate feel that they have had a real exchange of information and that both are comfortable with the decision
• Build strong relationships with the business leader and internal stakeholders
• Ensures adequate pipelines to meet headcount growth targets
• Great candidate experience (Internal or External)
• Actively participates in various initiatives in TA AMD.
• Documented and implemented the entire TA process for India.
• University Hiring (NIITK and RVCE)

Apr 2010 – Apr 2012 · 2 yrs · Bangalore Area, India

• Senior Staffing Specialist • Brocade
• Liaison between hiring manager, sourcing teams, and internal and external candidates for open positions.
• Involved in niche hiring of Networking, Data communications, layer 2/layer 3 development, and QA, Embedded/platform LINUX, Kernel, Virtualization, It/ IT-APPS sales:- Type of roles hired includes Sales, Pre-sales, Sales Operations, OEM Sales Manager, SAM, ESR, SE’s for India.
• Working for multiple Engineering Business Units at different Geo, handling entire talent need for niche skills for respective BU’s. Setting-up the recruitment strategy to achieve the business objectives
• Explored alternative sources of recruitment, headhunting through personal reference and forming a chain of contacts through current hires. Strategizing and planning the recruitment model to meet hiring targets optimally & cost-effectively.
• Achievements: Contract was extended for 2 ½ years based on performance. Successfully filled 100 + positions out of 150 offers in 23 months of time span

Aug 2009 – Apr 2010 · 8 mos

• Senior Recruitment Consultant. Phoenix
• Involved in niche hiring of BIOS, LINUX, Kernel, Virtualization, Windows Internals, Unix Internals, and development. SAAS, Cloud Computing Technology at various levels from developers to Senior Manager/Director levels. Involved in integrating process and systems with the US team for Joining and Exit formalities. Worked on Taleo for Offer Processing and other recruitment activities.
• Use of complex Boolean search strings and creative sourcing strategies like blogs, user groups, mailing lists, social networking sites, discussion forums to spot passive talent. Maintained a high-quality pipeline of candidates for multiple requisitions. Gathering of job specifications from technical managers with detailed job descriptions and skill requirements. Discussing the profile and requirement process with technical and Product line managers/Directors/ GM
• Proactively conducted research and investigated new sourcing strategies. Interviewing of potential candidates in order to assess the candidate's suitability, Attitude, Academic & professional qualifications, experience, communication skills, etc, coordinate with tech panels for technical evaluation.

Apr 2008 – Dec 2008 · 8 mos

• Senior Recruitment. Sling Media
• Responsible for Recruitment & Selection. Extensively worked on Mobile/ Embedded and telecommunication technologies Overall responsibility of fulfilling demands as per the project requirements for different Business Units. • Recruitment Evaluation, negotiation on various aspects like Salary, joining date rolling out the offer, reference checks, completing the post-offer formalities till joining of the candidate in the organization. Engaged with projects to understand the skill set and role of the resources required on the project. Responsible for manpower planning, talent acquisition, resourcing for all business verticals and resourcing strategies.

Sep 2007 – Feb 2008 · 5 mos

• Worked on US Staffing with different VMS(Vendor Management System) clients; AT&T, HP, South West Airlines, American Airlines, US BANK, Carlson, Target, Thomson, Panasonic, GMAC etc.
• Excellent team management, successfully handled team of 15 members.
• Recruited in various industries in the following requirements: Client Server, Database, ERP, Networking, Mainframe, Web Technologies,

Aug 2006 – Jul 2007 · 11 mos

• Hands on experience in recruiting the consultants on CONTRACT W2, CORP TO CORP, FULL TIME, 1099, CONTRACT TO HIRE, CONTRACT TO PERMANENT and also H1 Fulltime , negotiating the rates.
• Responsible for recruiting and for the following ERP areas:
• SAP: Portal, Basis, SD, MM, PP, FI, CO, CA, AM, PS, OS, QM, PM, HR, SEM.
• Peoplesoft: Financial, HCM, CRM, SCM, EPM
• JD Edwards one world: JD Edwards
• Siebel
• Oracle Applications: CRM, BI, Self Service, Financial, Manufacturing and Distribution, Human Resource, all facets of IT.

Sep 2004 – Apr 2005 · 7 mos

• Worked as in- house Corporate Technical recruiter for ODC-Dendrite