US IT Recruiter

DiwakaranNagarajan

Mobile: +91-737**-*****

Email: *******.******@*****.***

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/diwakarann

Preferred Location: Remote / Bangalore / Chennai

Professional Summary:

● Overall 10+ years of experience in successful Recruitment and handling the end to end recruitment cycle.

● Specialties in IT Professional Services, IT Staff Augmentation & Vendor Relations

● US Recruitment Professional over 7+ years of rich work experience in IT Recruitment like Sourcing, Screening, coordinating and scheduling Interviews till Joining Formalities (End to End Recruitment).

● Handling a 4 members team and help them to source, screen, validate and submit a profile through Beeline portal.

● Good interpersonal and communication skills, creativity, excellent attitude towards teamwork and common goals achievement.

● Sourcing and recruiting software professionals and non-IT professionals using Jobdiva, job boards, social media, and referrals to staff our client projects, our internal projects, and as a managed service.

● Worked on different Technologies used: JAVA, Oracle, .NET, PHP, Oracle, ERP, Ruby on Rails, Mainframe developer and admin, Microsoft technologies, IT Project and Program Manager, Business Analyst, Technical Support, Oracle Admin. And Developer, SQL DBA, Oracle DBA, IT Architect, Software Support, RPA, etc. requirements

● Used ATS extensively for Uploading the Work order, Offer letter.

● Strong experience of sourcing techniques such as Boolean-equation on job boards and company internal database like Job Diva and Personal Database.

● Rate Negotiation, Professional Services Agreement, right to Represent, and Pre-Interview Agreements.

● Helping candidates in preparing and updating their resumes.

● Coordinating interviews, preparing candidates for interviews, following up with account managers for feedback, and providing that feedback to candidates on an ongoing basis.

● Handling end to end recruitment starting from requisition, sourcing the candidates, short-listing, scheduling interviews, salary negotiation and final placement

● Recruited and placed professionals from various IT technologies for direct clients and Implementing Partners

● Strong Experience in Recruiting Candidates from Top 10 MNC’s Companies and Placing in Direct Clients.

● Negotiate salaries /rate in accordance with the company’s approved policies and procedures.

● Experience using internet search engines & Job portals such as: Job Diva, DICE, Monster, Ladders, LinkedIn Recruiter, X-ray Search and social network like Facebook, search engine like Google.

● Demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective relationships with Delivery manager and candidates.

● Experience with applicant tracking systems (ATS) and other recruitment tools.

● Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities. Work Experience:

Reveille Technologies Inc

Team Lead (Talent Acquisition) Feb’2023 – Mar’2024 Team Size: 4

Location: Salem

Roles and Responsibilities:

● Recruited and placed professionals from various IT technologies for Implementing Partners

● I was responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations of the team, distributing the workload evenly amongst recruiters and making sure motivation and performance levels are maintained.

● Allocating daily jobs and prioritizing the workloads for team members.

● Managing team performance and progress.

● Enforcing all company approved policies and procedures and constantly looking for ways to improve processes.

● Training new team members and monitoring the performance of junior recruiters

● Implementing new initiatives and making sure all team members understand them.

● Giving prompt and accurate information on individual team member performance

● Participated in supplier calls for understanding the Client requirements and to fetch absolute candidates with Client’s expectations.

● Stay in contact with the Vendor Management System (VMS) from open to close of requisition(s) in VMS-Beeline.

● Responsible for achieving daily targets and providing daily reports to the management.

● Coordinating interviews, preparing candidates for interviews, following up with account managers for feedback, and providing that feedback to candidates on an ongoing basis.

● Good interpersonal and communication skills, creativity, excellent attitude towards teamwork and common goals achievement.

● Handling a Primary Implementation account Cognizant and get the requirement through Beeline portal.

● Mainly focused on the requirements are Desktop Support, DevOps Engineer, Data Engineer, AWS Architect, Product Consultant, Payment Business analyst, Infrastructure, Network engineer, etc. Gios Technology (Remote)

Senior Technical Recruiter April’2021 – Jan’2023

Roles & Responsibilities:

● Sound experience in understanding and sourcing the candidate for any given job requirements.

● Understanding and analyzing client requirements and different skill sets.

● Well versed with sourcing candidates through extensive search in various job portals (i.e,) Job Serve, Job Diva, LinkedIn Recruiter, Linked Helper, X-Ray Search and referrals.

● Hands on experience in handling multiple requirements everyday with 2-3 submissions to end client.

● I have worked on IT and Non IT profile from junior level to managerial level requirements.

● Worked only with Citizen and ILR (Permanent Resident) Visa.

● Handling end to end recruitment starting from requisition, sourcing the candidates, short-listing, scheduling interviews, salary negotiation and final placement.

● Hands on experience in qualifying and interviewing the candidates by asking effective questions related to the job requirement.

● Achieving goals constantly, getting 1 to 2 placements every month.

● I have worked on JAVA, Oracle, .NET, PHP, Oracle, ERP, Ruby on Rails, Mainframe developer and admin, Microsoft technologies, IT Project and Program Manager, Business Analyst, Technical Support, Oracle Admin. And Developer, SQL DBA, Oracle DBA, IT Architect, Software Support, RPA, etc. requirements.

● I have worked on contractual (Public Sector roles) with clearance level basic DBS, BPSS and SC, DV and CTC.

● Working for UK requirements for major IT & Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Government, Banking, and other domains requirement

Photon Infotech Inc (Onsite/Remote) Oct'2019 – Apr’2021 Senior Executive Human Resources (Talent Acquisition -Technical Recruiter) Location: Chennai

Roles & Responsibilities:

● A strong background in IT recruitment with an understanding of IT skills and technologies which has given a bottom-line oriented business orientation to the HR functions.

● Strong work ethics along with honesty and integrity are some of the core human values.

● Familiar and expert using Linkedin& Dice for candidate sourcing and posting the jobs.

● Expert in maintaining the Excel sheet and track records for all the candidates sourced by me and my team.

● Handled onboard process like creating work order, Offer letter.

● Involved in the Vendor management system (In Pro).

● Maintaining a good track record of closing some niche positions (SFCC & SFMC) for the client at Senior level.

● Maintenance of HR Information system (HRIS) like, Clients requirements, Interview Schedules, Selected / Rejected candidates

● Provide HR advice to employees and managers

● Support and be a critical resource for different HR projects (Talent Management, Employee Engagement, employee and leadership development)

● Facilitates staff performance, promotion, and development discussions with management

● Provides tactical HR support on aspects such as job description development or review, compensation changes, data management

● Managing Internal Job Mobility across site and lateral hiring through Taleo Cortex Consulting Pvt Ltd (IT Trailblazers)

Sr.Technical US IT Recruiter

Location: Chennai Sep ‘2018 –Sep'2019

Roles & Responsibilities:

● Evaluating and understanding client requirements.

● Sourcing and recruiting software professionals and non-IT professionals using Jobdiva, job boards, social media, and referrals to staff our client projects, our internal projects, and as a managed service.

● Rate Negotiation, Professional Services Agreement, Right to Represent, and Pre-Interview Agreements.

● Helping candidates in preparing and updating their resumes.

● Coordinating interviews, preparing candidates for interviews, following up with account managers for feedback, and providing that feedback to candidates on an ongoing basis.

● Coordinating with HR for background verification including referral checks and social media checks.

● Following up with candidates until and after candidates starts on projects.

● End to end recruitment life cycle.

● Extensive work Experience in working with all implementation partners like CTS,TCS, ProTech,Virtusa,Capgemini VySystems Pvt Ltd

Technical US IT Recruiter

Location: Chennai Apr ‘2016 – Aug ‘2018

Roles & Responsibilities:

● Extensive experience in recruiting for (Contract/Full Time) positions

● Sourcing suitable candidates for contract and full time positions.

● Good interpersonal and communication skills, creativity, excellent attitude towards teamwork and common goals achievement.

● Understanding Job Description & Job Specification of assigned Positions.

● Sourced and recruited IT professionals within a wide range of skills, technologies and disciplines to include but not limited to: Devops,Linux Admin, Servicenow, Cloud, AWS,Azure,Windows/Vmware& Java/UI, etc.

● Experience in Recruiting Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD, TN Permit,E3 and H1B consultants as per the client requirement for various projects on W2, or Corp-to-Corp basis

● Handling end to end recruitment starting from requisition, sourcing the candidates, short-listing, scheduling interviews, salary negotiation and final placement

● Recruited and placed professionals from various IT technologies for direct clients and Implementing Partners

● Negotiate salaries /rate in accordance with the company’s approved policies and procedures.

● Experience using internet search engines & Job portals such as: DICE, Monster, Ladders and social network like LinkedIn, Facebook, search engine like Google.

● Extensive work Experience in working with all implementation partners like CTS, Altimetrik. Tecfactory

Sr.Desktop Support Engineer

Location: Bangalore Sep‘2013 – Mar '2016

Roles & Responsibilities:

o Troubleshoot and clear the Internet problems.

o Expertise in Various OS installations.

o Disk Management & partitions.

o Antivirus updating & virus protection.

o Printer & scanner managing & troubleshooting.

o Hardware upgrading & troubleshooting.

o OS updates (services & security).

o Creating users and groups & password resetting.

o Win 7, Win 8, Ubuntu, Windows server 2003 & 2008. Education Details:

B.E - Electronics and Communication Engineering

(JKK Munirajah College of Technology, affiliated to Anna University, Chennai) Year Passed: 2012

Certification:

Tech Recruitment Certified Professional (DevSkiller) Talent Sourcing – LinkedIn Learning.

Contact this candidate