CAREER OVERVIEW
** ***** *********** ***** ******** professional with extensive work in recruitment and talent acquisition.
Core competence in business partnering, end to end recruitment, talent acquisition, employee engagement, performance management, organisation development, compensation and benefits.
Expertise in lateral and campus recruitment, core HR operations, talent mapping, social media hiring, sourcing strategies, market intelligence, employee referral programs, training and development.
Proficiency in vendor management and negotiating agreements
Managed employer branding and social media engagement for the organization.
Global hiring experience (Europe, Asia pacific, North America)
EXPERIENCE
Senior Recruiter (Asia Pacific), Oracle India Pvt. Ltd. Feb 15 – Sept 15
Managed hiring for Oracle APAC covering ASEAN/INDIA/ANZ. End-to-end recruitment for technology/sales/pre-sales/consulting also senior level management positions.
Stakeholder engagement – worked closely with the business/delivery heads to understand and prioritize open requirements. Held weekly reviews with senior management and share hiring updates/status and strategy.
Sourcing & candidate management – Independently created talent pipeline of pre-screened candidates of all mid/senior level (director and above) & leadership hiring positions of delivery, sales & pre-sales, technology.
Responsible for the compensation negotiations, constructing proposed salary plans for the offered candidates. Managed compensation surveys and provided input for Salary Revisions.
Managed New Hires with joining formalities, on-boarding process, induction
Employee engagement and training coordination with multiple L.O.B heads
Organized and managed off-campus hiring events for sales engineering.
Success:
Key member of the accelerated hiring plan for senior technology sales hiring across India
Successful in cloud hiring from tier1 competitors like Amazon and Microsoft.
Appreciated by business unit heads for quality hiring in closed timelines and with effective comp negotiation.
Manager- Talent Acquisition, Adept e Solutions Oct 12–Jan 15
Managed a recruitment profit center for product based clientele for international market.
Setup entire sales and technology team for a product based client in US and Canada.
Delivered for overseas hiring with local candidates for IT and sales divisions of various clients across verticals.
Screened and coached candidates based on specific work permit requirements.
Implemented social media/branding for campus and lateral hiring.
Success:
Set up sourcing tower / sourcing practice from ground zero.
Taken care of transition of RPO and implementation.
Implementing growth hacking & sourcing ninja concepts into social media hiring for firms.
Partnered with GoBharti Agricultural Company under corporate social responsibility to promote go-green campaign and organic food.
Recruitment specialist, eBay/Paypal Mar 12–Aug 12
Managed volume hiring of Paypal global technology and global product divisions for Java, C/C++
Liaison directly with business units and worked closely to lay out the hiring plans
Managed the employee welfare programs on quarterly basis along with the group managers for each business.
Facilitated various technical and behavioral training programs after analysis from the business heads on the training requirements.
Effective resource utilization and vendor partner/ channel engagement
HR presentations and job description and career path showcased at engineering/B schools.
Success:
Instrumental in setting up the pilot teams for Paypal development center for bangalore/India
Worked with a non-profit board in Bangalore, working for underprivileged children and specially enabled.
Strategic Sourcer (Asia Pacific/Japan), Cisco Systems Aug 09 – Feb 12
Managed strategic initiative team to support various B.U.s with active/passive talent pipeline for external/internal hiring for cisco development organization and advanced services
Part of a global team including China, Singapore, ANZ, Japan and India. global reporting structure
Managed training initiative for sourcing strategies/social media recruiting/advanced internet search techniques
Involved in product/sales hiring for Cisco across locations including Asia, Singapore, Japan and ANZ
Involved in campus hiring from IIT Roorkee, IISC bangalore and off -campus events in cisco
Managed HR presentations explaining about the job roles, compensation and career path at campus events.
Requirement gathering from hiring managers, status updates, working sessions, review meetings.
Business presentations with the market intelligence data on critical requirements.
Success:
Outstanding leadership award for two consecutive years for achieving maximum hires for critical technology and sales roles.
Appreciated globally for a project for competitor study on employee referral program which led to impactful changes in the existing program.
Asst. Manager - UK Recruitment, Steria (Xansa Ltd.) Mar 08 – Sept 08
Account manager for reputed clients like Walt disney, John lewis, BAE Systems, TMC marine, Scottish and southern energy, Norwich union, EDF energy etc.
Consult and coordinate with hiring Managers in UK to understand resource request with regard to existing clients
Recruited through external portals, web channel, networking, headhunting, social networking
Involved in full recruitment lifecycle following UK’s eligibility hiring process
Success:
Closed key positions with Walt Disney and BAE Systems within designated time frame.
Manager Human Resource, Primus Software Corporation Apr 04 – Jan 08
Managed the recruitment team for Primus Software’s profit center to support clients with their hiring plans
Assisted Resource manager in preparing business plans and recruitment metrics
Involved in providing inputs for team appraisals
Initiated/Sourced for offshore staffing/US based clients(Alltel, McKesson)
Managed US recruitment for external clients of Primus
Experience in recruiting for bilingual projects for HCL Japan
Arranged a project pipeline in coordination with BD manager to staff resources on bench
Identifying suitable candidates via different sources and recruitment channels within Industry
Responsible for developing, managing and constant recycling of database of eligible candidates
Identifying the competitors / target companies to headhunt and approach the right candidate using the appropriate method of headhunting and direct Market search strategies
Success:
Key resource to setup the offshore development center for Primus Software
Appreciation from the Managing Director to manage the profit center successfully
Instrumental in setting up the recruitment team from scratch and building a qualified recruitment team
Achieved three promotions in tenure with Primus
HR Consultant, Microland Ltd Feb 02 – Feb 03
Involved in handling resource requests from three site partners of Microland
Candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling, conducting academic & technical tests, offer negotiations
TECHNOLOGY EXPOSURE
Microsoft technologies: C/C++, C#, .Net, API, SharePoint, BizTalk
Database: Oracle PL/SQL, Data Warehousing
Middleware: Java/J2EE, Service oriented Architecture, WebLogic, WebSphere, Web methods, BPM/ECM)
Telecom/Networking: Router & Switching, Layer2/Layer3, MPLS, Intelligent Network, SS7, GSM, CDMA, Firewall, Cloud Computing, RISC Server
EDUCATION
Master of Computer Sc., Kurukshetra University, India Jul 02 – Sep 04
Bachelors in Commerce, Delhi University, India Jun 98 – Jul 01
GNIIT from NIIT, India Jul 99– Feb 02