Customer Service Sales
Resume:
MEERA SANT
North Brunswick NJ 08902
***********@*****.***
SUMMARY
Senior Recruiter/Resource Manager with more than 15 years experience in the
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S oftware consulting industry. Worked for small to large size corporations.
Managed full life cycle recruiting including posting of job ads, searching job boards,
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sourcing, checking references, negotiating salaries and finalizing offers to prospective
employees .
Actively involved with hiring managers to define needs and presented qualified
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candidates
Hired and trained technical recruiters
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Strong negotiation, customer service skills with the ability to close the candidate
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Excellent planning, organizational and problem solving skills
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Hiring included software engineers, test developers and test managers, leads,
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directors, software development managers, product, program and business
development managers;
• Act as liaison between the candidate and the hiring managers for on boarding.
• Organize and attend job fairs.
• Serve as liaison with external candidates in the recruitment process.
Managed internal and external candidates, experience from sourcing to final decision
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and start date.
HR Functions (EEO, ADA, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION)
• Equal Opportunity Law and Lawful Employment Programs
• Realities of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
• EEO Compliance:
• Handling EEO Complaints Within the Organization
• Harassment in the Workplace
• Lawful and Effective Performance Management and Appraisal
• EEO Data Analysis
• Affirmative Action Plan
• Managing Diversity in the Workplace
EXPERIENCE
A pril 2006 – Present
TechnicalContractRecruiter
Work as contract recruiteron
• various projects supplementing
staffrecruiters in
for clients’in the financial service, publishing,
consulting firms
with hiring bubbles
sports and entertainment fields.
Matched candidate qualifications to client requirements for assignments ranging from
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short-term temporary work backlogs to long-term, enterprise level projects;
Conducted applicant reference checks, drug tests, personal and technical interviews
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prior to submission
• Gathered information for open requirements (Bill rate, description, travel, relocation, H-
1, salary or hourly rate, benefits information etc) Sourced, Recruited, screened,
interviewed, and reference checked candidates for employment (contract, contract/hire
and perm).
• Candidates were generated through references, referrals, Internet searches, job
boards, user groups, and networking.
• Negotiated contracts with Consultants in regards to salary, hourly rate, benefits,
relocation, H-1 transfer, vacation, sick days, etc. Established Recruiting policies and
procedures.
February 2002 – November 2004
SeniorTechnicalRecruiter, innacle Systems, NJ
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Recruitment for Financial Services clients like Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill
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Lynch, American Stock Exchange etc. Technologies addressed are mostly Java, C++,
Corba, Tibco, MQ etc in the financial domain. Some of the domain areas addressed
was Fixed Income, Equities, derivatives etc.
• Use networking and internet resources to source passive candidates as well as
candidates that are currently on the market.
• Create and implement employee referral programs to help bring in top talent
Worked with top Wall Street clients as a Sr. Technical Recruiter for sourcing and
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recruiting candidates for various business applications for all levels, within Fixed
Income Derivatives, Equity Derivatives . Pinnacle is primarily focused in providing
consulting services to the Capital Markets industry in the form of project-based
solutions in technology and related business processes.
• Pinnacle's expertise in capital markets covers major functional areas within the front,
middle and back office including: Sales & Trading, Research, Risk Management,
Compliance and Operations. Pinnacle's expertise also extends across multiple products
and business units including: Fixed Income, Equities, Foreign Exchange & Money
Markets, Mortgage Backed Securities, Credit, and Derivatives.
September 1999 – February 2002
SeniorRecruiter Vista Technologies, Inc,
I was managing complete recruiting and resource management cycle – bringing H1s
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from India and also hiring local talent.
I hired US citizens, GC and Canadian citizens. I took care of all HR activities, payroll
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and Accounts supervision too. I was also marketing candidates to prime vendors.
October 1997- July 1999
SeniorRecruiter/Operations Intelligroup, NJ,
• Responsible for all recruitment in the Peoplesoft, Oracle and Baan areas. Started as
the only Recruiter for the Peoplesoft Practice and soon moved to managing the
recruitment for Baan and Oracle Apps practices as well.
• Hired several recruiters and trained them in general recruiting and for ERP market in
particular. Maintained my own candidate pipeline since I was playing the role of a
recruiter while managing other recruiters.
• Turned recruiter rivalry into a fruitful competition where there was an abundance of
candidates in each person’s pipeline.
• Recruiters were often measured not only by hits, but by their responsiveness of coming
up with a suitable candidate within a short period of time.
September 1996 – September 1997
TechnicalRecruiter Comsys Technical Services, NJ,
• Worked in a team of eight Technical Recruiters and seven Account Managers.
• Mainly sourcing for Telecommunications area, especially high-tech areas like wireless
applications, including embedded programming.
• Also dealt with commercial accounts periodically.
• Resigned forpositionwith
more responsibil ty
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February 93 - August
96
TechnicalRecruiter Silverline Industries Inc., NJ,
• Completely in charge of all recruiting of consultants. Responsibilities include advertising
in local and national newspapers, securing resumes through net-working, screening
resumes, interviewing candidates and setting up technical interviews.
• Also involved in marketing activities like accompanying sales and marketing executives
while meeting their clients.
E DUCATION
M.A. English Literature, University of Madras, India
B. A. English Literature, University of Madras, India
Certificate course in Computer Science, N.I.I.T, India
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