Abhijeet Agarwal Email and Phone Number

In the current role I am spearheading hiring for a complex portfolio in multiple domains of Auto-components, Industrial, Defense, Aerospace & Electric Mobility.

Successfully streamlined and headed Talent Acquisition for 4 business units in India and established a HR Shared Services Team to cater to the operational HR activities.

Spearheaded large scale hiring (1200 laterals) for 3 business units and managed university hiring of approx. 700 / annum across businesses in India. Additionally, streamlined and spearheaded the onboarding practices for Honeywell, India.

• Interact with the Hiring manager to understand the account needs.• Source candidate from both internal and external channels.• Use job boards (naukri and monster) for finding right resources.• Responsible for the entire recruitment life cycle viz. sourcing, screening, testing, interviewing, negotiating and on-boarding the candidates.• Help the business team to prepare business plans in terms of recruitments. Provide a detailed structured hierarchy for the resources to be hired and strategize recruitment.• Be a part of scheduled recruitment meetings with business heads, program and project managers to understand current and future need of the resources and plan out recruitment activities.• Maintain the MIS reports (Recruitment Reports).

Geometric was incorporated as a subsidiary of Godrej and is Mumbai based MNC. Geometric pioneers in PLM and deals in IT and engineering services.Responsibilities:-• Interact with the Hiring manager to understand the account needs. Make the job description based on the expectations of the positions.• Responsible for leading a team of competent recruiters and ensure timely on-boarding of prospective candidates.• Be responsible for teams’ performance.• Responsible for sourcing, screening, testing, and interviewing candidates from internal and external sources. • Use job boards namely naukri and monster, etc. along with alternative sourcing techniques like internet search tools, internal database, cold calling, referrals, networking, and other strategies to source candidates.• Deal with potential vendors to get quality candidates.• Be a part of scheduled meetings with Business operation heads, program and project managers to understand future need of the resources and plan out recruitment activities.• Maintain the MIS reports (Recruitment Reports).• Helped to improve the recruitment process by implementing new and efficient recruitment strategies.• Give training to new team members in terms of recruitment and over all processes.

Zensar is a multinational company which has software development centers in India. The company offers end-to-end solutions across diverse technology platforms and industry domains. Responsibilities:-• Owned full-cycle recruitment: sourced, interviewed, negotiated and offered candidates for assigned requisitions.• Utilized a source mix of internal and external source channels. (Domain – IT, telecom, managerial and customer service)• Used job boards viz. monster, dice, careerbuilder, hotjobs, jobserve / computerjobs, etc. along with alternative sourcing techniques like internet search, internal database, cold calling, referrals, networking, and other strategies to source candidates.• Dealt with potential vendors to get quality candidates at competitive rates.• Carried out documentation for the candidates hired through vendors.• Assisted in the background check for the candidate before the candidate is hired.• Maintained the MIS reports (Recruitment Reports).• Helped to improve the recruitment process by implementing new and efficient recruitment strategies. • Trained and mentored new recruiters.

iPlace U.S.A is a U.S based recruitment firm, providing manpower assistance to a number of U.S based companies. The company has its clients mainly in I.T industry.Responsibilities:-• Owned full-cycle recruitment: sourced, interviewed, negotiated and offered candidates for assigned requisitions. • Was responsible for client handling.• Effectively recruited candidates through job boards (dice, monster, careerbuilder, computerjobs, yahoo hotjobs, etc.), Internet search, internal database, cold calling, referrals, networking, job fairs, and other strategies.• Checked references, negotiated terms and rates for each project, coordinated the interview process, extended offers, and on-boarded candidates.• Trained and mentored new recruiters.• Worked as a Portal administrator – I ensured that the job boards are utilized properly and efficiently by the team as well as are made available to the every recruiter in a timely fashion.