Apr 2016 – Apr 2018 · 2 yrs · Greater Chennai Area

• Headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices worldwide, Advisory Board, the health care business of The Advisory Board Company, is a best practices firm that uses a combination of research, technology and consulting to improve the performance of more than 4,400 health care organizations.
• For more than three decades, The Advisory Board Company has combined research, technology and consulting to improve the performance of health care organizations. The Advisory Board Company has achieved remarkable success serving more than 4,000 members by driving their growth, advancing care quality, reducing care variation and optimizing their overall performance.
• The Advisory Board Company’s health care business will join Optum. By bringing together distinctive information and technology solutions with comprehensive data-driven research and advisory capabilities, the combined organization will be better positioned to help its members and clients respond to changing market dynamics and improve the health system for everyone.

Oct 2010 – Apr 2016 · 5 yrs 6 mos · Greater Chennai Area

• Responsible for technology, sales and leadership hiring for Saksoft's units across locations
• Recruiting lead for leadership hiring across geo's - UK, US and Singapore.
• Collaborating and liaising with the respective Business Heads of India, UK, US and Singapore on business needs and strategies.
• Managing and working with a team of recruiters to handle India delivery requirements
• Instrumental in planning and performing recruitments for technical skills with varying severity - vanilla, legacy and niche skills, regular/volume hiring based on business demands.
• Responsible for hiring managing and maintaining hiring budgets to bring efficiency in source and channel mix.
• Publishing and review weekly hiring targets with the Business heads and strategizing/prioritizing recruitment based on business forecast/needs.
• Drive Talent analytics and metrics across BU's
• Vendor Management & Channel partner management for both Overseas and India hiring
• Negotiating with shortlisted candidates at all levels across locations.

Jan 2009 – Oct 2010 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Plan, manage and direct the overall recruitment process.
• Reporting to the Director – Operations & Country Head.
• Leading a team of recruiters and ensuring that the resources are delivered as per the defined SLA’s.
• Formulating strategic and systematic recruitment & selection plan for the recruiters to achieve their targets.
• Setting goals/targets for the team and help them achieve targets .
• Developed a Metric system to analyze the functioning of the recruiting department.
• Developed a Interview rating system for improving the interviewing process.
• Conduct Resource Forecast meetings on a weekly basis with all the department heads & Project Managers to gather requirements, provide status updates and projections.
• Forecasting the requirements and help the team build a pipeline of prospective candidates.
• Reduced the average hiring time by introducing proactive recruitment strategy.
• Updating the stake holders on the hiring/interviewing status.
• Providing recommendations for the Delivery/Project Managers regarding the resource cost, general availability for the desired skills.
• Work with Delivery Manager/Project Manager’s and ensure that the right skill sets are available to cater to the business needs.
• Negotiations for compensations, benefits and contract terms wherever applicable.
• Making sure that the offered candidate is an overall fit for the company.
• Post offer follow ups to ensure the candidate joins within the stipulated time.
• Meet with Vendors and indulge in contracts and vendor agreements.
• Co-ordinate with campus placement officers regarding fresher hiring.
• Conduct company wide trainings.
• Conduct Walk-ins, Off-campus recruitments and participated in Job fairs.
• Conducting orientation and induction program’s for all the new joiners.
• Maintain employee skill matrix and regularly updating the skill databases.
• Prepared the Recruitment handbook for the organization.

Oct 2007 – Dec 2008 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Hiring candidates for CEI India’s offshore requirements by using a variety of sourcing techniques
• Screen, identify and select candidates using Head Hunting, Network of consultants, job sites, advertisements and references.
• Setting up the offshore team for a new client of CEI within a short span of time.
• Worked closely with the Client manager to understand the requirement and was able to set up a team of well qualified professionals for executing their complex project.
• Responsible for applicant tracking, sourcing, screening, telephonic interviews, interview scheduling, feedback co-ordination, database input, references and the offer.
• Generate and Maintain Resume Database of Software Professionals through, Head Hunting, and References and Advertisements etc.
• Handled activities with regard to Campus recruitment (Both On Campus and Off Campus)
• Interview all levels of IT candidates – Developers, Senior Developers, Technical Leads, Technical Architects, Project Leads, Project Managers, Quality Engineers and System Administrators.
• Assessing candidates both functional and technical side to enable better quality.
• Successful in conducting walk-in interviews.
• Work with the hiring manager to finalize candidate selection, negotiating and extending offers to candidates.
• Ensure project deliverables are completed on time and on budget
• Performing reference Check of the candidate before releasing the offer letter
• Sending offer letters and rejection letters to the candidates.
• Follow up with the candidates to ensure that they join without any delay
• Maintaining records & matrix as per the Industry standards.
• Single point contact for the resume repository and employee referral tool.
• Monitoring the External vendors success and providing periodic feedback to improve their effectiveness.

Jul 2007 – Oct 2007 · 3 mos

• During this period I was sent on a B1 Visa to the CEI US office (Pittsburgh, PA) as part of a team to learn and understand the business function of US recruiting.
• Responsibilities:
• Liaised with US Sales team to understand the manpower requirements of CEI’s clients.
• Understanding the terminologies in relation to US recruitment.
• Understanding the different screening and qualifying process as per client specs and transitioning them to the Sales reps
• Understand the different process w.r.t reference checks, background checks and technical assessments.
• Technical screening of consultants and setting up of interview with Vendor/Clients.
• Used SalesLogix – a CRM tool to coordinate the whole recruiting efforts.

Dec 2005 – Jun 2007 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Hiring candidates for CEI India’s offshore requirements by using a variety of sourcing techniques
• Screen, identify and select candidates using Head Hunting, Network of consultants, job sites, advertisements and references.
• Setting up the offshore team for a new client of CEI within a short span of time.
• Worked closely with the Client manager to understand the requirement and was able to set up a team of well qualified professionals for executing their complex project.
• Responsible for applicant tracking, sourcing, screening, telephonic interviews, interview scheduling, feedback co-ordination, database input, references and the offer.
• Generate and Maintain Resume Database of Software Professionals through, Head Hunting, and References and Advertisements etc.
• Handled activities with regard to Campus recruitment (Both On Campus and Off Campus)
• Interview all levels of IT candidates – Developers, Senior Developers, Technical Leads, Technical Architects, Project Leads, Project Managers, Quality Engineers and System Administrators.
• Assessing candidates both functional and technical side to enable better quality.
• Successful in conducting walk-in interviews.
• Work with the hiring manager to finalize candidate selection, negotiating and extending offers to candidates.
• Ensure project deliverables are completed on time and on budget
• Performing reference Check of the candidate before releasing the offer letter
• Sending offer letters and rejection letters to the candidates.
• Follow up with the candidates to ensure that they join without any delay
• Maintaining records & matrix as per the Industry standards.
• Single point contact for the resume repository and employee referral tool.
• Monitoring the External vendors success and providing periodic feedback to improve their effectiveness.

Aug 2003 – Dec 2005 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Lead a 10-member team, which basically helps sourcing end-clients for CEI’s US Bench consultants.
• Sourcing end clients through different channels.
• Scrutinizing companies based on different criteria’s and qualifying them as end clients. Fetching all the information about the company and updating the same into a Database.
• As a team lead, responsible for the team target as well as individual targets.
• Monitoring the performance of the team.
• Conduct weekly meetings to track the performance of the team and documenting the Minutes of the meeting.
• Assigning individual tasks to the team members.
• Prepare weekly reports based on the team performance.
• Conducting periodical meeting on weekly and monthly basis with the team and the Management.
• Maintaining/Updating database of clients.
• Responsible for all correspondence to US.
• Maintaining/Updating the Resume database.
• Cross checking of the Hot list with Resume database for any Activation/De-activation.