Recruitment

Professional Experience Summary

An MBA (HR) with 13 + years of Corporate IT end-to-end Recruitment experience with a proven track record of recruitment delivery excellence and client management in Product, service and consulting organizations globally (India, US and UK)

Extensively worked across BFSI, Healthcare, Automotive domains and catered to Leadership, Lateral, Bulk /Project specific and Campus/Off Campus Hiring – majority of which has been into mid and senior level candidates hiring.

A seasoned hands on IT recruiter who has worked in different capacities ranging from recruiter to recruitment manager.

Handled all major IT Technologies like JAVA, Microsoft technologies, Big Data, DWBI, MSBI,Software Testing, Front-end/ back-end /full stack developers, SDET, Network engineers, Oracle /SQL DBA, Oracle/SQL developers, Build and release engineers and many more and for various levels/roles like Software/ Sr. Software Engineers, Software Testing Professionals, Database Administrators, Project Managers, Program Managers, Technical Architects, Business Analysts, Technical /Team/Module Leads etc.

A highly- motivated and results orientated person with excellent communication skills, mentoring skills and ability to multi-task & adopt to change in business environments. `

Hands-on recruiter experience:

Experience in full cycle Recruitment involving sourcing, identifying, and interviewing, screening and placing candidates with quick turnaround time in contract, contract to hire and full-time positions for clients across USA (Tier 1/Tier 2 vendors), India and UK.

Understanding requirements from the end client/Tier1 client/internal hiring managers

Experience in client and vendor relationship building and management

Designing and implementing hiring plans and sourcing strategies for proactive and reactive hiring.

Sourcing candidates via various channels like Internet job boards (monster, CareerBuilder, Dice, indeed, naukri), employee referrals, internal database, networking, LinkedIn, Facebook, free job boards, recruitment agencies .

Good experience in conducting detail initial screening of the candidates to understand their fitment for the said position, getting interviews conducted quickly and smoothly, conducting final HR interviews, salary negotiations, offer/contract creation, offer roll-outs, reference checks, background verification, and onboarding the resources

Have exposure of dealing with candidates residing in USA irrelevant of the visa status i.e. US citizens, GC holders, EAD, TN Permit holders and HI B candidates with different work authorizations like HIB, GC, CITIZEN, EAD and working on W2 and 1099 .

Have extensively utlized ATS – iCIMS and have been a part of the user testing team as well for iCIMS in Allscripts.

Have expertise in creation of various recruitment related complex reports /presentations, Market intelligence reports and MIS reports by utilizing MS Office –Excel and PowerPoint.

Recruitment Manager/Lead experience

Expertise in designing and driving Hiring Plans and Strategies by partnering with hiring managers for proactive as well as reactive hiring and ensuring that the critical factors like Quality of hire, hiring cycle time and cost per hire are taken care of.

Successfully defined and implemented the entire recruitment delivery process along with defining individual resources roles.

Have experience in building and nurturing teams, complete delivery management and stakeholder management

Have been successful in closing positions within the time frame by introducing and implementing innovative hiring ways

Spearheaded various recruitment related organizational level initiatives for improving recruitment effectiveness like skill assessments, employee referral programs etc.

Experience Summary

Company Name

Designation/Role

Duration

Monjin (Product company)

Senior Manager –Recruitment Content (Global head for India, US and UK delivery operations)

Jan 17 to Jan 18

ZS Associates

Recruitment Specialist (Manager)

March 16 to Sept 16

Allscripts

Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant (Lead)

Sept 12 to Feb 16

Synechron Technologies

Sr Associate (Lead)

Mar 10 to Jul 12

KPIT Cummins Info Systems

Executive –Recruitments (Lead)

Sept 06 to Feb 10

Suma Soft Pvt Ltd

Executive –Recruitments

Jun-05 to Sept 06

Work Profile/ Job Responsibilities in Monjin

Headed the recruitment content delivery team of 25 + recruitment resources (a mix of 3 Assistant Managers and 22 Sr /Jr recruiters) and managed multiple IT client accounts like Tieto, Accenture, KPIT, Mindtree, Hexaware, Diebold, Wipro, Sears for India, UK and US

Played a role of hands on recruiter as well and responsible for end-to end process

US recruitment: Work closely with Mindtree and Wipro USA for their US positions and did play a role of recruiter along with my team to source, screen and conduct interviews for these candidates for multiple technical permanent, contractual and contract to hire positions. Have dealt with candidates of different work authorizations and working on W2 and 1099.

Multi-account management: Understanding the recruitment needs from the hiring / delivery teams at the client end and provide them quick tailor made hiring solutions via Mooning platform leading to significant reduction of the hiring cycle time, cost and efforts.

Client management: Complete account management, ensuring committed timelines is met and deciding on mitigation strategies to avoid client escalations. Also build rapport to ensure repetitive and constant business from the clients.

Delivery management: Defining the delivery strategy and, execution plan by setting realistic expectations, work allocation, keep a tap on client deadlines, monitor transactional progress and guide wherever required.

Team management: Ramped up the team from 7 to 25 members, conducted orientation program, IT skills & sourcing techniques trainings, developed KRA’s, conducted appraisal meetings, resolved people & transactional issues and publishing team’s performance reports to the management

On Job Achievements (Monjin)

Successful in defining the entire recruitment delivery process and individual roles for the entire delivery function and implementation of the same.

Successfully managed to increase the total video interviews from 536 to 809 within 6 months of time and ramped up the recruitment team from 7 to 25 within 2 months by conducting 200+ interviews within a month’s time

Established and implemented process of doing market research leading to multiple skills interviews availability in the database

Successful in getting Tiete on board for a 15 interviews pilot and by exceptional delivery efforts managed to get a contract of 450+ interviews from them for Mooning.

Oriented Wipro India, UK and US TA teams along with their 10 vendors about Mooning platform and delivered simultaneously interviews for all three of them for their critical positions.

Work Profile/ Job Responsibilities in ZS Associates

Core Recruitment Role: Leading three major BU’s lateral resources hiring across Pune and Gurgaon and also worked as a recruiter myself to close certain critical positions right from sourcing to onboarding resources.

Stakeholder Management: Responsible for timely closure of all open positions, presenting MI reports to indicate market trends and insights and recommend innovative ways for hiring, presenting weekly/monthly progress reports in management meetings, seek visibility of future positions and define hiring plans for proactive hiring.

Team Management: managing 6 seasoned FTE recruiters across Pune and Gurgaon, set their KRA’s, close on their appraisals, mentoring, guiding and supporting them and manage all escalations.

Recruitment Related Projects: Designed and implemented - Pre-placement campus engagement program, org level behavioral interviewing coaching framework for interviewers, potential candidate’s engagement plan and competency based interview questions for all levels.

On Job Achievements (ZS Associates)

Have been appreciated by BU Head for closing 30 critical lateral positions within 3 weeks time and creating an automated BU hiring progress dashboard

Work Profile/ Job Responsibilities in All scripts

Core Recruitment Role: Leading lateral hiring of 3 Major Business Units spread across Pune, Baroda and Bangalore and also worked as a recruiter myself to close certain critical positions right from sourcing to onboarding resources.

Stakeholder Management: Partner with offshore /onsite hiring managers to design hiring plans & strategies and compensation decisions, provide monthly/weekly hiring updates, highlight challenges, provide MI reports and feasible solutions to the hiring managers.

Team Management: Leading a team of 12 seasoned recruiters, mentoring, guiding and supporting them and handling escalations.

Recruitment Operations: Was the India SPOC for Recruitment operations and responsible for below areas -

Conducted TA presentations for new Joiners induction and recruitment related trainings for the recruiters

Recruitment related polices revision, alignment with Global polices and org level policy roll-outs

Complete Vendor Management

Introduction and implementation of skill assessment for hiring across BU’s

Complete management of Background verification process for all scripts-India employees

Meet and Greet sessions for post-offer engagement

Employee referral initiatives

RPO Vendor identification,

Empanelment and their integration

User testing for global implementation of iCIMS ATS

Talent branding Initiative –Great Indian Developer Summit

On Job Achievements (Allscripts)

Awarded by Business THRICE for recruiting the RIGHT resources at RIGHT time for their BU’s - lateral hiring -niche skill as well as bulk.

Have ramp-up multiple teams and instrumental in creating teams from scratch by hiring for new engagements (recruited 50 people) from trainee to Sr Manager

Have successfully launched &implemented Skill Assessment and contract-to –hire concepts in All scripts and been successfully in building and integrating RPO teams from the scratch and integrating them to Allscripts

Work Profile/ Job Responsibilities in Synechron Technologies -Pune

Core recruitment role: To make the hiring plans with the Hiring manager and decide on the hiring strategy for all the open positions, responsible for end to end bulk as well as niche lateral hiring for specific BU projects as well as Bench, managed the internal recruitment tool –Talent Pool, published various hiring and MI reports, guided and mentored 3 recruiters and conducting recruitment related induction for new joiners.

On Job Achievements (Synechron Technologies)

Was been awarded a quarterly bonus twice for exceptional performance in hiring - offered 360 candidates in 180 days.

Have been consistently one of the top recruiter for bulk hiring as well as client specific hiring and maintaining a high offer to joiner ratio

Awarded a Spot Award for building up a entire team of 50+ resources for MSBI

Work Profile/ Job Responsibilities in KPIT Cummins-Pune

Core Recruitment: Responsible for end-to-end recruitment for 2 Major BUs –Automotive and BFSI, define and execute hiring plans and strategies with hiring managers for lateral, leadership and campus hiring, lead and mentored 4 recruiters, creating various MI and MIS reports to Top management/BU heads and conduct recruitment session in the org-level induction program

Resourcing: Responsible for Internal allocation of resources for the vertical on basis of release forecast and presenting the entire vertical’s recruitment status (which includes the revenue leakage status of billable positions) to the top management

On Job Achievements (KPIT Cummins)

Awarded 2 highest individual quarterly awards - one for ramping up on critical project within one month’s time in KPIT and second

one for development and implementation of org level resource planning program.

Was recognized for record breaking recruitment cost (the lowest for the year) achieved by having only 2% usage of vendor assistance source

Maintained high offer to joining ratio (90-95%) through out my tenure with KPIT.

Recruited and build few ODC’s and teams in the automotive LOB – out of which one entire ODC of 100 resources was build in 60 days.

Previous Work Experience (SumaSoft Pvt Ltd -Pune)

Core Responsibilities: Was involved in the end-to-end IT, BPO and KPO recruitments

Additional Responsibilities: Conducting Induction training, organizing various training programs, grievance handling, and motivational activities, Report Generation and assisting in Performance Appraisals.

On Job Achievements (SumaSoft)

Awarded for recruiting maximum candidates in a month’s time i.e. 450 candidates in 35 days time. Also always maintained a 98% offer to joining ratio in my entire tenure.

Trainings attended

Naukri.com, Negotiation Skills, Interviewing Skills, Been Assertive, Linked in Recruiter training

Educational Qualification

2003 –05: MBA from Institute of Management and Research (IMR), Pune. Affiliated to Pune University with First Class (69.10%) Specialization: Human Resource Management.

2001-03: B.Com from S.P College, Pune University with Distinction

2000: H.S.C from S.P College, Maharashtra Board with First Class

1998: S.S.C from E.M.S.S, Maharashtra Board with First Class

General Achievements

Stood first in College, for MBA (Human Resource)

Award for presentation on “Time Management” &“personality development”, in S.P College.

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