Gunaseelan Thomas

Recruiter

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India17 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in niche skill and volume hiring.
Proven track record in client satisfaction.
Strong expertise in MIS and negotiation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Specialist with a focus on IT recruitment and strategic hiring.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionRecruitment

Other Skills

Talent ManagementTalent SourcingIT RecruitmentEnd to end recruitmentSourcing niche skill hiringManaging sourcing channelsCost-per-hire reductionReportingClient representationProcess improvementsSatisfaction score improvementMeeting hiring demandsDiversity hiringEmployee RelationsNegotiation

About

A passionate recruiter, who has a zeal to learn more new hiring strategies & techniques in Recruitment. Have good hands on experience in Software & Infrastructure hiring. Enriched in Niche Skill & Volume Hiring. A result-oriented person who is more focused on client satisfaction. Expertise in MIS & Negotiation.

Experience

17 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Hcltech

2 roles

Senior Manager Talent Acquisition

Promoted

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Talent ManagementTalent SourcingIT RecruitmentTalent AcquisitionRecruitment

Manager - Talent Acquisition

Jan 2021 – Mar 2025 · 4 yrs 2 mos

Ibm

2 roles

Assistant Manager - Talent Acquisition, Chennai

Promoted

May 2016 – Oct 2020 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Chennai

Responsible for end to end recruitment for GTS (Global Technology Services) for Chennai location.
Support other PAN India location on fulfillment.
Specialist in sourcing niche skill hiring.
Manage sourcing channels which include Employee Referrals, LinkedIn and vendor relations.
To ensure that the cost-per-hire is reduced by promoting sourcing through channels like that of job boards & employee referrals.
Presenting monthly/quarterly & Daily reports.
Representing Recruitment in client calls.
Contributed to rapid organic growth through Just-In-Time and Proactive sourcing(this brought down Vendor dependency).
Tracking cost, time to market, Sourcing mix, rejection ratio, recruiter performance.
Identify & Implement areas for Process Improvements.
Improve satisfaction score on Recruitment function.

End to end recruitmentSourcing niche skill hiringManaging sourcing channelsCost-per-hire reductionReportingClient representation+4

Human Resource - Recruitment

Nov 2009 – Dec 2013 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Chennai

Ensuring to fulfill the demand given by the business.
Responsible for end to end recruitment for the given demands.
Meeting the Weekly, Monthly & Quarterly Targets.
Offer process should be followed within TAT.
Ensuring to meet the source mix & diversity (Women Hiring) percentage.
Hiring Skills:
Middleware (WAS, MQ, Weblogic, IIS, Apache, Tomcat, Cognos, Datastage)
DBA (Oracle DBA, SQL DBA, DB2 UDB, MF DB2 DBA, Sybase, Oracle Apps DBA)
Workspace (Lotus Domino, MS Exchange, Black Berry, Active Directory. Sharepoint)
SAP Basis
Have worked upon the following skills in Software Hiring.
Pega
Clarify CRM
Siebel
Oracle BRM
Oracle AIA
Oracle Fusion
JD Edwards

End to end recruitmentMeeting hiring demandsDiversity hiringTalent Acquisition

Scope international

Talent Acquisition Specialist - GTO

Dec 2013 – Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Greater Chennai Area

I was handling Infra Recruitment across Scope International – India & Malaysia.
Was responsible for end to end recruitment for Infra BU.
Worked in Malaysia for 2 months.
Additionally, worked in Banking domain skills like Sanctions, Payments.

Manpower consultants

HR - Coordinator

Dec 2008 – Oct 2009 · 10 mos · Chennai

Worked as HR Coordinator in IBM through Manpower consultants.

Fymc

IT-Recruiter

May 2008 – Dec 2008 · 7 mos · Chennai

Worked as IT Recruiter.
Roles & Responsibility:
Understand the given requirement clearly and Source profiles from portal, internal resources, references and head hunting.
Do initial screening and arrange interviews with the clients.
Offer follows up with the candidates & clients.
Prepare Daily, Weekly & Monthly reports.