Yohachandran Rajaratnam

Talent Acquisition Manager

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India14 yrs 4 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • 15+ years of global recruiting experience.
  • Proven success in scaling niche and leadership hiring.
  • Recognized for building high-performing talent acquisition teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Specialist with extensive experience in global recruiting across various industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionTechnical Recruiting

Other Skills

RecruitingCandidate ExperienceDiversity RecruitmentMarket IntelligenceStakeholder ManagementInterviewingRecruitment StrategyCandidate EngagementRecruitmentHead HuntingStatisticsSourcingContract RecruitmentScreeningSalary Negotiation

About

Driven by ethics, passion and a results-oriented Talent Acquisition Specialist with 15+ years of Global Recruiting experience across India, UK&I, EU, Kenya and USA. (15 years of Global recruiting experience in the UK- Google, Avast, Korn Ferry, TCS, and in India -Virtusa, Prodapt and other leading organisations) Proven success partnering with Stake Holders, scaling niche and leadership hiring, building high-performing TA teams, and delivering measurable cost and quality outcomes.

Experience

14 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Prodapt

Talent Acquisition Manager- Global Campus & Lateral Hiring

Nov 2022Present · 3 yrs 7 mos · India

Tata consultancy services

Global Talent Partner- Salesforce Practice

Dec 2021May 2022 · 5 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

  • Salesforce Global Talent Acquisition Partner for EMEA, UK & I, USA.

Google

Talent Acquisition, Google Inc. (KornFerry)

Apr 2021Dec 2021 · 8 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

  • EXPERIENCE
  • Employer: Korn Ferry, UK (04/2021 - 12/2021, 9 month contract)
  • RPO : GOOGLE Inc.
  • Job Title: Recruiter (Full Recruitment Life Cycle- End-to-End)
  • Working as a TVC with Google, and recruiting for EMEA, USA locations,
  • Provide outstanding Candidate Experience, Candidate Preparation, and Candidate Engagement by building a trust and covenant
  • Build Relationship and work closely with the hiring managers globally to define Inclusive JDs, Build a Recruitment Strategy, identify recruitment channels, create Diverse Pipeline
  • Source, Pre-screen, interview and assess candidates, RC coordination and creating Offers to the selected candidates (Screening 30-45 minutes, Interview Prep 30 Minutes, Offer Call 30 Minutes)
  • Manage the interview process with Stakeholders including post interview evaluations with hiring managers and business HR as appropriate and provide interview feedback to unsuccessful candidates as requested.
  • Develop a pipeline of talent across the business to support future growth to bring a more strategic focus to recruitment using recruiting tools gHire, WorkDay, LinkedIn Recruiter, and explored open Source Communities- StackOverflow, GitHub, Google Xray, Internal Referral and Transfer program.
  • Collaborate closely with multiple Global HRBPs, POPs, Recruitment Directors , Recruiters and ensure the process is followed
  • Includes DE&I, code of conduct, ethics, GDPR compliance
  • Present Market Intelligence, MIS Reports, DE&I to the Hiring Managers
  • Deliver 5 star level Candidate Experience, Candidate Experience, Candidate Engagement and provide genuine feedback
  • Focus on Time-to-Hire, Time-to-Fill metrics
  • Major Achievement:
  • Hired Vice President from Facebook/Microsoft for Cyber Security SIEM for USA location.
  • Recruited candidates from TikTok, Pinterest, Twitter, Salesforce, Amazon, FB, Microsoft.
RecruitingCandidate ExperienceDiversity RecruitmentMarket IntelligenceStakeholder ManagementInterviewing+3

Voxelmaps inc.

Recruitment Qualifier for Artificial Intelligence, R&D Project

Oct 2020Jan 2021 · 3 mos · Nottingham City, England, United Kingdom

  • (10/2020 - 02/2021, , In-House Recruiter, Contract)
  • Job Title: Recruitment Qualifier for Artificial Intelligence, R&D Project
  • ➢ Recruited for USA, Australia and UK Locations
  • ➢ Sourcing and engaging Technical and Non-Technical/Support Function Talents
  • via multiple channels
  • ➢ Managed multi national Diverse Talent pool

Smartzi

Recruitment Operations Specialist

Dec 2018Dec 2019 · 1 yr · London, England, United Kingdom

  • Recruitment and HR Administration
  • Recruited Sales, IT, Administrators etc

Virtusa

Job Title: Senior Talent Acquisition specialist – IT/Software

Apr 2015Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Recruited Diverse Software Engineers for CITI Bank for 3 years
  • Organized, Prepared and Recruited Brain-Bench certified Software Engineers as per CITI Technology process and guidelines
  • Head Hunted K3A Kalignite, Cyber candidates to CITI Technologies and built the whole project from the scratch, rewarded by Hiring Manager
  • End to End Recruitment and managed multiple Hiring Managers
  • Recruited Software Eng. for Media, Gaming, BSFI, Healthcare, multiple IT Accounts of Virtusa
  • Handled around 40 roles on an average
  • Being a brand ambassador– promoting our values both internally and externally and attracted best Talents
  • Major Achievement:
  • Appreciated by CEO of Virtusa for leading the ad-hoc 2month project (as a Project Manager) to hire 100 candidates in 2months time frame
  • Head-hunted “Super Niche” skilled candidates K3A Cyber security and built the largest $billion project from scratch, single handedly

Covenant consultants

Senior Talent Acquisition specialist – IT/Software

Sep 2012Apr 2015 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Sept 2012 to April 2015
  • Job Title: Senior Talent Acquisition specialist – Tech
  • Demonstrated exceptional client relationship management and business development prowess; liaising with partners and clients, forging strong relationships and ensuring fruitful outcomes.
  • Effectively worked within designated KPI’s and departmental goals; strived to secure best practices initiatives to secure successful outcomes.
  • Recruited Talents for Top Tech clients and delivered best recruitment strategy
  • Major Achievement:
  • Appreciated by CEO and the client for Leading a Ad-hoc 2month project (as a Project Manager) to hire 50 software engineers in 2months time

Aequor information technologies pvt. ltd.

Recruitment Lead

Jun 2009Jul 2012 · 3 yrs 1 mo · India

  • Demonstrated exceptional client relationship management and business development prowess; liaising with partners
  • and clients, forging strong relationships and ensuring fruitful outcomes.
  • ➢ Effectively worked within designated KPI’s and departmental goals; strived to secure best practices initiatives to be
  • secure successful outcomes.
  • Major Achievement:
  • 2 times, received best performer award from CEO

Sixsigma softsolutions pvt ltd

Information Technology Recruiter

Feb 2007Jan 2009 · 1 yr 11 mos · India

  • Senior Recruitment consultant (IT/Technology)
  • ➢ Recruited tech talents, leadership, confidential and complex Job Requisitions
  • ➢ Recruited for leading global Tech clients
  • Major Achievement:
  • Best Recruitment Agency Award from the client Tata Consultancy (TCS)

Education

Loyola College

B.Sc — Statistics

Jan 1999Jan 2003

University of Madras

Master of Business Administration - MBA — [DoMS]

Jan 2004Jan 2006

st.johns higher secondary matriculation school

school — G1

Jan 1996Jan 1998

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