Harsh Parekh Email & Phone Number

Illinois, United States

• Responsible for full life cycle of recruiting, including sourcing, interviewing, qualifying and placement of full range of software engineering, IT and management candidates for contract, contract to perm and direct hire positions.• Gathered requirements from our various clients on day to day basis and submitted the quality profiles for the requirements.• Closely worked with our Account Managers and reported them on day to day basis.• Participated in daily conference calls and weekly and monthly review meetings.• Closely worked with our clients and getting the requirements and closing the fulfilled the positions.• Worked with all kinds of software consultants, programmers, designers, developers, architects, project managers, testers, administrators and project directors.• Responsible for sourcing, identifying, attracting, securing and closing the hard to find candidates.• Worked with our known and new vendors and negotiated the rates and managed the vendors in a proper way.• Spoke with the Software consultants and screened them and interviewed them and negotiated the rate with them and submitted their profiles.• Worked in all types especially W2, C2C, 1099, C2H and Full-Time jobs.• Worked with all types of visa holders like H1B, Green Card, and Citizens.• Posted our job requirement at various job portals like Dice, Tech-Fetch, Monster and Ladders, etc.• Formatted the resumes in our client’s formats.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Recruitment & Sourcing • Responsible for full-cycle recruiting to hire Corp-to-Corp/contract-to-hire/full-time staff for direct/indirect clients in a fast-paced competitive environment. That includes Writing/formalization of job descriptions, strategize sourcing, job postings, sourcing qualified candidates- database mining and internet searching, screening/assessing candidates, negotiating salary/pay rate/contract terms with candidates/agencies, background checking, scheduling/coordinating interviews, follow-up with candidates, making offers, and processing paperwork etc.• Identified and effectively recruited right candidates through; Internet research (using advanced Boolean searches on various search engines and paid/unpaid job portals), internal database, referrals, networking (user groups/blogs) and other strategies.• Recruited candidates with H1-B, TN, F1, E.A.D, G.C, U.S-Citizenship on W2/1099/Corp. to Corp. Basis• Perform vendor management, dealing with several vendors across the US• Proactively participated in team building initiatives, on boarding, training of new recruiters.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• As an IT Recruiter involved in sourcing, qualifying, scheduling interviews, rate negotiations, and closing.• Involved direct interaction with the Vendors and Clients for the requirements.• Searching the right match from portals, groups and with vendor contacts. Sharing the requirements with the consultants by his/her comfort ability used to submit the resume to the agency.• Speaking with the team management regarding the rate and getting the best rate as suggested by management. • Interacting with Tier one Vendors and making new vendors to the company• Getting requirements from various sources like Prime Vendors, job portals and other Networking sites.• Keeping track of the start and end dates of the consultants• Maintain daily & weekly status lists of all activities through MS Excel.• Set up interviews and closed candidates for various positions.• Process candidates from initial contact through entire interview/placement process which includes interview scheduling and follow up.• Maintaining a Vendor's list and the groups• Responsibilities include calling on prime vendors, developing corporate account relationships, presenting consultants, negotiating and finalizing contracts.• Role was to help understand the client's needs and streamline the complete lifecycle of Recruitment workflow in an organization.• Ensuring smooth exchange of paper work, such as NCA, pre-interview agreement, contracts etc• Negotiating rate with vendors & managing the long term relations with them.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India