Apr 2021 – Nov 2021 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Tavant is a digital products and platforms company that provides impactful results to its customers across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Founded in 2000, the company employs over 2,500 people and is a recognized top employer.
• It prides itself on its traditions of engineering and process excellence coupled with high employee and customer satisfaction levels. Its unique best-shore delivery model provides close onsite interaction with customers and a strong process-oriented offshore team. At all levels, its employees continually interact to provide a superior outsourcing experience to customers.
• Tavant’s suite of products and services are routinely rated high by the industry & media and deployed by leading business names, like Experian, TiVo, MLB AM, New York Times, Ingersoll Rand, Land O'Lakes and many more. Tavant is an ISO 27001 & and SAS 70 Type II compliant, and SEI CMM Level 4 compliant organization.

Aug 2019 – Jul 2020 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Qualitest is the world's largest independent, pure-play quality assurance company.
• Roles & Responsibilities:
• Handled recruitments for various geographic locations like India, US, UK, Israel & Singapore.
• Engage with delivery teams & leadership in addressing key recruitment challenges, developing the strategic approach for and leading initiatives in sourcing, assessment, and other areas to achieve recruiting goals of the organization
• Coached on best practices, networking, mapping & providing direction to the team Device, plan and organize recruitment strategy with the senior leadership to ensure achievement of planned revenue
• Helping team members in sourcing for niche skills, managing performance review meetings, providing qualified resumes to the coordination team, and making sure of requirement fulfillment with defined SLA, as quickly as possible.
• Managing background checks & related processes for new recruits and supervising end-to-end background check processes.
• Ensuring process deliverables are met in terms of service level agreements for all the processes.
• Managing the compliance, audit readiness, and process enhancement of the process.
• Coordinating with vendors, monitoring their key performance indicators, and establishing relationship management.
• Interacting with various corporate & client audits; managing ISO audits across the various business units.
• First level escalation point for all the processes managed.
• Managed the complete Offer management along with onboarding to ensure a healthy joining ratio and enhancing the candidate experience.
• Build & develop vendor management strategy, manage and review relationships with the RPO Vendor (vendor agreements, SLAs, etc.)

Nov 2010 – Jun 2013 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

• Design and establish hiring plans that determine cost, productivity and timeliness of deliverables accounting for risk, manpower and market changes for hiring Ensuring control and compliance mechanism on all recruitment related activities. Working closing with Strategic Recruitment Partners in fulfilling the business needs through external hiring Handled practices and verticals like Enterprise Application Integration, Enterprise Solutions & Consulting Group (ESCG) Central Architecture Group (CAG), Testing practice, BFS, Capital Markets, Manufacturing, Retail and Travel & transport. Taking care of Requirement Flow across the team for all the new open SR’s and responsible for requirement allocation and load balancing amongst the team members.Performed exceptionally well in terms of requirement gathering from business/practices, requirement allocation to the team members, helping team members in sourcing for niche skills, managing performance review meetings, providing qualified resumes to the coordination team and making sure of requirement fulfillment as quickly as possible.Identified as the expert sourcing specialist for niche and super niche skills, helped in closing large number of difficult skilled positions. Attending weekly review meetings with practice members, updating them on the progress of Service Requests, working towards closing all positions and keeping track till candidates joining.Collecting the required documents from candidates, verifying gaps in employment and education, submitting papers to offer team, interacting with offer team and helping in offer releasing process .Complete utilization of Resume Database, Job Boards, Business Partners and References in order to provide quality resources.Received appreciation from different Business Practices for showing the professional characteristics in handling the whole process.Constant touch with Practice Members, Candidates and Business Partners and helping each other’s in all phases of hiring process.

Jan 2010 – Sep 2010 · 8 mos

•  To interact with delivery, hiring and technical teams to understand their business requirements
•  Setting expectations with individual groups such as Practices, Delivery leadership, Accounts, Recruitment and staffing leadership and convincing them on hiring plans, timeline to staff these position
•  Strategize the use of Recruiting Channels viz. Internal Job Postings (IJPs), Employee Referrals, Job Portals, Networking, Vendors, etc. for hiring as per set timelines & budgets.
•  Actively involved in the screening process, especially for the Middle & Top Level Management.
•  Resolve all escalation issues with the Recruitment Head / Manager.
•  Hundred percent target Achiever for the Month of May and June

Jun 2008 – Sep 2009 · 1 yr 3 mos

•  Responsible for the End to End Recruitment process for the multiple accounts across India and Client development.
•  Formulating recruitment strategy and methodology.
•  Handling employee engagement.
•  Analyzing the staffing need by periodical meeting with different business group.
•  Driving process improvements across the recruitment function to improve overall efficiency and customer satisfaction.
•  Building Relations with the clients, vendors, Interview Schedulers.
•  Drive recruitment through Scheduled Interviews / headhunting / Referrals etc
•  Identify, headhunt, shortlist & screen candidates, negotiate salaries, vendor’s agreements, work on issues in the hiring process within stipulated deadlines.
•  Performed HR rounds of Interviews to screen communication and personal skills (HR screening and first level technical screening)
•  Preparing JD for all the requirements as per the BD requirement.
•  Performing final HR Discussion and releasing Offers.
•  Provide guidance on HR processes, policies, rules and regulations to all employees, have pulse of the HR issues, assist or if required direct them to most appropriate person for the resolution, coach and counsel in case of problems / disputes.
•  Responsible for salary negotiations & notice period ‘buying’ for recruiting critical / senior level positions
•  Worked with Delivery Heads and Project Managers for resource planning.

May 2006 – Apr 2008 · 1 yr 11 mos · bangalore

•  Client handling.
•  Hiring procedures, screening of candidates, coordinating interviews.
•  Responsible for all phases of the exempt professional level recruitment and selection process for a specific division/department, including sourcing, interviewing, and coordinating job offers.
•  Vendor management
•  Creating Company Policies.
•  Develop and maintain professional relationships with the Staffing agencies.
•  Delivering the work as per the client requirement on time.
•  Handled recruitments for both US and UK process.
•  Client appreciation for giving quality people.
•  Ensure that all necessary pre-hire testing for all candidates has been performed. Total In charge of hiring process with each candidate from first point of contact to acceptance of offer.
•  Handling employee relations.
•  Preparations of all documentation necessary for the start of employment and handling induction.