Palak Patel

West Orange, NJ ***** 240-***-**** adz7pf@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Dedicated and integrity-driven professional with 7 years of experience in human resources and executive and technical recruitment managing all phases of full cycle high volume recruiting from initial sourcing and screening through offer negotiations, placements, and onboarding. Over 2 years of professional experience with Development, Coding, Debugging, Testing, Implementation, Maintenance of application in client server environment, web based technologies.

BACHELORS OF ARTS (B.A.) - BUSINESS ANALYTICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY (NEW BRUNSICK,NJ)

APPLICANT TRACKING SYSTEM: ATS (TALEO, BAMBOOHR, GREENHOUSE, MONSTER TMS, MAXHIRE) HIRERIGHT HRIS, SHAREPOINT, SAP, WORKDAY, CERIDIAN, PAYCOR AND ADP(PAYROLL HRIS)

SOURCING STRATEGY:(LINKENDIN, DICE, MONSTER, INDEED, CAREERBUILDER YARDIS VOYAGER, YARDI 7, LRO RAINMAKER, ENTRATA CLOUD: SALESFORCE, NETSUITE, SERVICENOW, ORACLEFUSION MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGIES: OFFICE, .NET(ASP, C#VB,), AZURE, SQL SERVER, SHAREPOINT, POWERSHELL SCRIPTING, VISUAL STUDIO

INFRASTRUCTURE:NETWORK-ADMINS,SYSTEM-ADMIN,DBAS,IMS) MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES: ANDROID, IPHONE, SYMBIAN, iOS OTHER: NETWORKING HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, MATLAB, PROCESSORS, MICROCONTROLLER, FPGA, PROCESS UNITY, OPENTEXT (LIVELINK)VERSION 16-20

AUGUST 2020- PRESENT

PROCUREPORT – INDIANAPOLIS, IN

IT ANALYST/ HELPDESK SUPPORT

•Served as initial point of contact for resolution of desktop/ workgroup related problems and IT related issues.

•Responsible for Open Text folder configuration, Open Text category configuration, management deployment, and testing.

•Responsible for creating new users and unlocking locked accounts within active directories.

•Responsible for troubleshooting, research, diagnostics, and related documentation and resolved technical issues, surrounding Windows Microsoft Office, email, intranet, and internet, web portal connections and hardware/peripheras through remote assistance.

•Configure remedy service center in creating macros for weekly reports on desktop support.

•Responsible for LiveLink systems administration, which includes following duties: Livelink and AD Server Integration, Livelink category configuration, and management of documents/records, configurations, deployment and testing.

•Retrieved specific information by implementing/creating a file structure to index document content.

•Prepared computer software (hardware and software), operation system, and application installations.

•Network Drop Configuration and VPN account management.

•Worked in designing, configuring, and deploying server- based file applications known as Track-11 Application Administrator.

NOVEMBER 2018- JULY 2020

PURSUIT SOFTWARE – SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ

TALENT ACQUISITION SPECIALIST

•Provided a full and pro-active recruitment support to all areas of the business, including selection of candidates for interviews, conducting interviews, providing assurance and compliance to the clients policies and legislative requirements as well as coordinate with stakeholders to ensure expected results.

•Supported recruitment and selection activities including pre-employment enquiries, security clearances, issuing of employment documentation to manage relationships with third parties, including recruitment parties and media advisors within agreement.

•Lead weekly strategy meetings on progress and status related to recruiting efforts to date, determining essential infrastructure to achieve goals within deadline periods.

•Assisted staff with developing upgraded existing training programs to include relevant best practices for gaining recruiting and sales success held-training sessional virtually or in person for groups of 4 to 30 participants.

•Developed partnerships with hiring managers to define core competencies for each function and develop targeted key evaluators for the interview process.

•Managed employee relation issues for all level of personnel proactively providing management with regulatory briefings, status updates, identifying problem areas and potential solutions.

•Worked effectively with external staff to generate successful recruitment results, including conducting agency briefings, negotiating terms and rates, and providing feedback on candidates.

•Assisted with updating recruitment training programs to include following advanced strategies (Tech Training Sourcing, Competitive Advantage Focus, Social Media Strategy, Sourcing and Prospective Best Practices).

•Assisted with internal recruiting processes and staff as well as external vendor relationships supporting internal/external recruiting and hiring process(accounts for LinkedIn, Careerbuilder, Dice, DiscoverORG, Innermatrix/SPQ Sales Testing.

• Responsible for Open Text folder configuration, Open Text category configuration, management deployment, and testing.

JULY 2016- OCTOBER 2018

CLEARLITE INC – SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ

TECHNICAL AND HEALTHCARE RECRUITER

•Developed a talent pipeline by sourcing candidate through Taleo, Greenhouse, BambooHR, Maxhire Applicant Tracking Systems, Facebook, LinkedIn, Monster, Indeed, Dice, BullhornReach, Boolean searches, cold calling.

•Responsible for full cycle recruiting. Including sourcing, interviewing, qualifying, and placement of a full range of IT and non-IT candidates for contract, contract to perm and direct hire positions on W2 hourly/salaried or C2C work type.

•Defined job descriptions and short-listing candidates based on the requirements, technology, skillset experience, and education.

•Leveraged multiple sourcing strategies and channels including external networks, job boards, and internal referral to provide high quality candidates for open positions.

•Worked extensively in ATS Job Diva, ICIMS to source and harvest profiles, update records, and submit deserving candidates to their clients.

•Responsible for the first round telephonic screenings of the profiles and communicating with all candidates on a regular basis, conducting interviews.

•Consulted and collaborated with field and senior managers on a variety of HR concerns such as job analysis, salary negotiation, and benefit programs.

•Partnered closely with Honeywell management team and Horizon Healthcare Staffing as well as HR business partners to execute strategies for highly technical engineering and healthcare roles.

•Responsible for Open Text folder configuration, Open Text category configuration, management deployment, and testing.

AUGUST 2014- MAY 2016

(TCS AMERICA) – EDISON, NJ

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD

•Performed general HR related administrative and onboarding duties, supporting human resources dept. by screening, testing, background verifications, and interviewing applicants using HIRERIGHT HRIS as well as generating offer letters

•Updated Affirmation Action Logs and Reports for future references.

•Assisted with EEO-1 and VET-100 annual filings.

•Prepared payroll by calculating pay, distributing checks, and maintained payroll records within Paycor and ADP.

•Provided orientation for new employees by distributing new hire welcome packets and performed other related duties.

•Explained corporate policies and procedures for new hires, payroll information, benefit program, and assisting with required documents, verifying submission of I-9s. Documented and tracked completed forms, reports, logs, and records.

•Maintained human resources records for employees by recording hiring, transfers, terminations, change in job classifications, and merit increase dates, tracked vacations, sick and personnel time using WORKDAY HRIS and ADP.

•Set up scheduled meetings for interviewees, hiring managers, employees, and dept. heads.

•Prepared onboarding duties such as creating badges, issuing and creating employee handbooks.

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