Abhishek Shetty Email & Phone Number

United States

San Francisco Bay Area

Bengaluru Area, India

Responsible for Talent Acquisition initiatives for US locations as a key point of contact. • As a Sr. Manager Gets involved in opinion and suggestions with the senior management in order to maintain the work ethics, discipline and professionalism in the organization.• Successfully met the client metrics for all the clients to ensure we meet the SLA of our respective clients. • Responsible for end to end recruitment within the stipulated aggressive timelines and building the talent pipeline for the business to achieve the hiring targets within the standard timelines at optimal price point.• Develop effective Recruitment Teams to effectively recruit high performing candidates in a timely and cost effective manner. • Responsible for maintaining client relationships, serving as the point of contact for the organization with key clients.• Make effective use of internal and external networks to leverage best practices in recruitment and selection• Work Distribution & Synchronization –Ensure that the work is distributed among the work force in an orderly fashion. • Understanding various client requirements - job specifications for respective job openings and assigning to the Team• Set goals for the team and communicate goals on a regular basis.• Leading the Team: Requirement Allocation, setting the Team Goals.Operational Responsibilities: • Recruitment& Hiring• Planning, strategizing the recruitment process and executing recruitment.• Handled Interviews from entry level to midlevel executives.

Bangalore

Established in 1999, IT Trailblazers provides a variety of services related to Information Technology. Headquartered in New Brunswick, NJ, IT Trailblazers has Outsourcing Centers in Bangalore and Chennai, IndiaMajor Clients – TCS (Insurance Verticle, Major Accounts were – Prudential, AXA, Kaiser,Liberty Mutual, USAA, State Farms, Genre, Humana, Cigna, TIAA Cref, Hartford insurance etc ), Through Armada RPO model – Account Amazon/VMS -Zero Cheos, Account Linkedin,yahoo/VMS - Workforce logic, Accounts - Ebay,VMware/VMS - Fieldglass AND FINRAResponsibilities:• Primarily responsible for handling complete insurance vertical and accounts within it by interacting with the BRMs and Client Co-ordniators on a regular basis on the priority requirements, candidates submissions, interviews and hires.• Interacting with the RMG on a daily basis to understand the priorities and service the requirements at the earliest beating the competitors.• Accountable for servicing the clients on all aspects of delivery by interacting with them on a regular basis and taking part in all their conference calls and providing inputs or identifying their priorities.• Responsible for handling a bunch of recruiters (Team size – 10) by setting targets,providing them necessary mentoring and training in areas they need development. Sharing expertise with the recruiters to make them result oriented.• Having daily meetings with the team on priority requirements and submissions on the previous day, interviews and agenda for the day.• Reporting to the senior sales managers on the daily priorities, productivity, issues & causes, resource management and client interaction.•Being proactive by talking to Client (BRMs and Client co-ordinators) contacts on a daily basis to understand each and every account and their hiring process, kind of resources they need, penetrating each and every account account to know their future requirements and keeping the candidates pipeline to fulfill their future need

Mangalore Area, India

US Staffing – I was a single point of contact for working on Front end UI requirements of JPMC across all locations in US. I was also responsible to fulfill all the Business Analyst requirements pertaining to BCM vertical with Mphasis. Some of the major clients were JPMC, World Bank, Barclays, Western Union, M&T Bank, Key Bank, Ally Bank etc.During my first 5 months in US staffing I was able to close 15 UI positions which were open for more than 90 days along with 5 BA requirements which were very critical from the BCM vertical.Responsibilities (March 2011-July 2011)Sourcing resumes using major job sites - Monsterindia.com and Dice.com•Taking preliminary interview of candidates via telephone.•Leading a team of 2 recruiters, guiding the team, allocation the requirements and making sure the targets are met.Responsible for executing the full lifecycle recruiting processes from initial sourcing to hiring.Generating database through networking.BPO & ITO hiring – (Aug 2011 – May 2012) - Helping with managing the Mangalore Location entirely for the recruitment of the BPO & ITO front. Handled requirements in volume for ITO -SD, Journalism -Production Journalists, Media analysts, and Language specialist.Initiation of a sourcing plan for building teams like Strategy One (new assignment).Maintain, update and track status daily, generate & publish reports post events. The Weekly reports on the hiring status across levels.Responsible for closing all positions for the service at Senior levels the Manager -SD ,Assistant Managers -SD ,Unit Managers - S.D AND Analysts .Helped with the Campus Hires with offsite campus Hiring and managed outstation hiring and relocation process for all outstation candidates.Working on the H.R tools like Blue Shift, Business Process Suites and OMS and People Soft.Demonstrate strong track record in Volume Hiring, ITO hiring & Special Skills hiring through various sources, primarily through direct sources such as Portal, Referrals etc.

Responsibilities:• Responsible for building and training the team from the scratch since the company got incorporated.• Manage teams of recruiters and strategize sourcing along with the entire recruitment cycle.• Training & Development• Work allocation and distribution within the team• Assigning requirements as per priority• Second level screening, quality checks, corrective action• Preparing various MIS reports: such as number of placements/month, hit ratio etc• Ensuring closure of positions within target hire date through rigorous follow-ups and coordination with the client• Encouraging and motivating the team continuously, while working under pressure, to meet deliverables.• Screening and short-listing resumes, Organize technical tests.• Schedule technical interviews• Conducting HR Interviews• Organize outstation recruitment to meet the recruitment numbers within specified lead-time. • Responsible for placing candidate in permanent positions• Post selection activities include Salary negotiations• Conducting regular walk-in interview drives• Building pipeline for upcoming projects.• OTHER HR ACTIVITIES:Ensuring Resource needs for the companyDoing internal recruitment for the companyTaking interviews for the internal resourcesMaking offersCreating and implementing a new and effective format for tracking and monitoring performance• Web Browser: Outlook Express• Training and Development for Recruitment TeamTraining Requirement Planning – Compiling the requirement projections, analyzing the faculty skills, prepare the plan based on the need of staff to be trained skill wise.Scheduling & Organizing Training Programmes – Evaluate the request, schedule the programmes and organize it.

Marlabs is an Information Technology Company that provides a wide range of services - from IT Strategy Consulting, through Software Development and Implementation, to Maintenance as well as Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). Marlabs Inc. is a global software solutions and consulting company with 4 offices and 2 development centers in the US and a state-of-art offshore development center in Bangalore, India.Responsibilities:• Sourcing resumes using major job sites - Monsterindia.com and Dice.com• Taking preliminary interview of candidates via telephone.• Responsible for executing the full lifecycle recruiting processes from initial sourcing to hiring.• Utilize standard and creative recruiting techniques including cold calling, Internet search engines, e-mail archives, discussion, homepages, competitor directories, and databases.• Generating database through networking.

Recruiting AssociateTask Assigned•To Recruit IT Professionals (For US Based projects).•Develop and Maintain In-house database. ResponsibilitiesMy job included coordinating with the clients for requirements/placements, distribution of the requirements among the team, sourcing the profiles and conducting Technical Interviews and coordinating with the clients/candidates till the final stages of placement.•Sourcing resumes using major job sites - Monsterindia.com and Dice.comTaking preliminary interview of candidates via telephone, making them •Understanding job role also taking confirmation from them to forward their resume to client.•Coordinating the recruitment/selection drive.•Co-ordinating interviews and follows up till the candidate joins.•Responsible for executing the full lifecycle recruiting processes from initial sourcing to hiring.•Utilize standard and creative recruiting techniques including cold calling, Internet search engines, e-mail archives, discussion, homepages, competitor directories, and databases.•Keeping a track of the software professionals. Building leads from the existing data bank.•Follow-up with clients for resolving Issues. •Generating database through networking.•Candidate profiles ranged from Project Managers, Mid to Senior level Developers, DBAs, Programmer/Analyst, Software Engineers, Oracle Developers, Web developers, Network Engineers, Administrators and Business Analyst.Coordinating with the Branch Manager, Regional Manager and with the teammates.As a Recruitment Associate, my primary responsibility was to collect and shortlist candidate resumes as per the standard processes/specifications of the client IT company, perform the initial interview (mostly through the telephone) and pass their contact to the client company HR if the candidate meets the current requirements. In addition, my responsibility includes building up business relations with prospective clients of the company.