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Chennai Area, India

• Account Manager and POC for Larson & Toubro Infotech (LTI)• End - End Recruitment, Business Development, Client Management, Process Management and Strategy Management.• Managed a team of 7 recruiters• Dealt and placed almost all types authorized consultants such as US Citizens, GCH, TN Permit, H1-B, EAD, OPT’s, CPT’s and also Placing and Transferring H1-B’S on our payrolls.• Understanding the strength and weakness of recruiters and allocated requirements as per their proficiency with full time hiring/ W2 and C2C requirements.• Trained recruiters on various job Boards Career Builder, Monster, Dice, Indeed, LinkedIn, Facebook, Job Diva, Google advanced for hidden resume search.• Expertise comes in the areas of interacting with the Hiring Manager, confirming interviews, placements generation and for various other purposes.• Handled initial screening, interview due diligence calls, offer due diligence calls, on-boarding of consultants and delivery.• Helped team members on handling multiple requirement on daily basis.• Trained the team members on candidate closure, submittals, helping them reaching their daily, weekly and monthly targets.• Publishing Day to day recruitment Statistics & weekly report based on employee quires to the management

Bengaluru Area, India

• Cultivated relationships with hiring managers and contractors, creating strong relationships and commitment, creating a pool of niche resources available and pre-qualified for upcoming positions.• Full lifecycle recruiting: sourcing, qualifying, interviewing, extending offers, documentation and on boarding.• US Recruiting for State federal clients clients like State of Minnesota, NIH, NCI, NCBI and others.• Sourced Full time/ Contract / Contract to Hire Technical Professionals for Internal Customers, which includes Global Consumer Platform and Fulfillment teams.• Partner with the hiring managers to better understand the requirements.• Source potential candidates from web tools and available services.• Manage end to end relationship, between candidates and hiring managers, which include setting up interviews gathering feedback and engaging candidates. • Working 1:1 with hiring managers. Qualifying orders to best meet the client’s needs.• Training fellow recruiters and co-workers, assisting in accomplishments of commitments/goals.• Maximize gross margins by managing pay rates, bill rates, and markups.• Develop working relationships with all members of the company, developing confidence and strength in mentoring and directing Junior Recruiters.• Team player with strong analytical, problem solving & organizational abilities.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked closely with Recruiting Managers/ Account Managers/ Team Leaders to develop position profile and to understand overall needs and requirements (Description, salary, timing, expectations, etc).• Responsible for the full life-cycle search and recruitment of high-level candidates within the IT/ Telecom industries including contract, contract-hire, permanent/ Full-Time and special project consultants• Performed cold calling to job seekers/ consultants by LinkedIn updates and candidate references.• US Recruiting for different implementation clients like Mphasis, Aricent, Syntel, TCS, Tech Mahindra, Wipro and others.• Expertise with different job boards like; Monster, Dice, Tech-Fetch, Career Builder, Indeed, The Ladders, Sixth Sense and Corp2Corp along with internet search and LinkedIn.• Strong understanding and knowledge on different US employment Visas such as Green Card, H1B, L1/L2, H4, EAD, TN and many more.• Team player with strong analytical, problem solving & organizational abilities.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Responsible for complete end-end recruiting life cycle which includes gathering requirements from the client and allocating to the recruiting team, prequalifying the resource, negotiating the pay rates/annual pay, submitting the qualified resume to the client, gathering the feed backs/interview schedules/paper work/delivery issues.• Work closely with Team Manager/ Team Leaders to develop position profile and to understand overall needs and requirements (Description, salary, timing, expectations, etc).• Perform cold calling to job seekers/ consultants by LinkedIn updates and candidate references.• My major responsibility is to communicate with the client manager for requirements and allocating them to the teams and recruiters respectively.• Individual contributor as well as mentoring three recruiters to reach their daily targets.• Hands on Exp with ATS (Application Tracking Systems) – JOB DIVA/ CPX (Internal Portal).• Hands on Exp with Job portals DICE, MONSTER, TECH FETCH and CAREEER BUILDER.• Had mentored and guided a team of three recruiters towards their individual success and targets.• Expertise comes in the areas of interacting with the Hiring Manager, confirming interviews, placements generation and for various other purposes.• Worked with different Direct Clients – Liberty Mutual Insurance, Sprint Telecommunications, Verizon Wireless, Aetna Healthcare, Qualcomm, Ally Financial Inc, Horizon and BCBS • Expertise comes in the areas of interacting with the Hiring Manager, confirming interviews, placements generation and for various other purposes.• Client-billing rates Posting the requirements in Job Portals and fetching resumes from portals.• Dealing with consultants on H1B, GC, Citizen, OTP, TN Visa etc., negotiating the rates on contracts, contract to hire basis.• Posting the job requirements on job portals (Dice, Bull-Horn, and LinkedIn Etc). • Sourcing, screening and short-listing of resumes for the clients requirements

Bengaluru Area, India

• As a Team Lead, managed a team of 10+ engineers.• Managed and reviewed 20+ direct client reports.• Started initiatives with Sony R&D which led to product improvements.• Created Goals & Objectives for engineers and monitored engineer performance.• Lead, Coached & motivated engineers to perform to the best of their abilities.• Created and implemented organizational processes for improvement.• Created, implemented & documented the processes in the customer support organization.• Worked with sales on escalated issues to maintain high customer success rate.• Drive product quality initiatives with marketing.• Managed projects which have a direct impact on organizational efficiency & productivity• Created Quarterly reports on team performance.• Created & deliver quarterly operational presentations to organization.• Created monthly reports on product quality.• Collaborate on project to implement online knowledge base system

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Human Resources Management And Services

B.Tech, Information Technology, A

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