Praveen Kumar Email & Phone Number

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Managing full life cycle of recruitment i.e. Hiring Plan, Requirement Gathering, Sourcing potential & quality Candidates and manage healthy candidate pipeline, Screening, Selection, HR Interview, Fitment, Salary Negotiation, Offer, Candidate Management, Onboarding and Post Joining support.• Worked on weekend drive opportunities• Coordinating region/skill/Project wise niche hiring of talents• Requirement Prioritization and ensure resource delivery on time.• Responsible for deliver full time, Contract position.• Strong ability to analyze, define and refine requirements.• Salary negotiation with resources or Corporations.• Coordinating Client Interview (Face to Face / Telephonic / WebEx/ MS Teams)• Developing new channels of recruitment to ensure adequate Manpower availability like head hunting and effective networking by social media & other channels like Naukri, LinkedIn, indeed, Monster etc.• Report Management (Weekly reports, Monthly, Quarterly). Maintain regular and accurate metrics to assess recruitment process and performance. For e.g. – Recruitment Analysis, Candidate Tracker, Requirement Status, Report, Offers Vs Joining.• Responsible for making resources completely aware of company Policies/Comp & Benefits/Organization overview with ZERO deviation.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Working as a Lead recruiter and handling small size team approximately 4 resources. • Built an excellent team of technical IT recruiters and resources by identifying the learning potential of the candidate and hired the mix experienced recruiter as well as fresher’s• Groomed the team with my expertise and knowledge in a proficient way, so that they can perform on highly stressed fast placed environment• Responsible for mentoring and providing on-going training and support for new recruiters and serve as a resource for learning and navigating technical recruiters through policies and procedures• Determine the needs of the hiring manager and prioritizing the requirements and allocating it to the recruitment team. • Drove the hiring process in a high volume/time sensitive environment, working directly with hiring managers for all the clients and managing candidates through the process to have them placed on assignments.• Developed and implemented effective recruiting strategies to attract, screen, recruit, and select high quality candidates.• Articulated and negotiate job offers with candidates and established and maintained professional relationships with the candidates.• Participated in weekly review meetings focusing on troubleshooting difficult positions and manage customer issues• Worked closely with Markuci Technical Interview Panel for scheduling first level of technical Skype interview with our clients• Created interview Feedback form with the help of my team and deliver it to our customers• Maintained weekly and monthly calendar availability with our technical panel and deliver reports to the customer • Develop and upload the reports on customer portals and conduct weekly review calls with the customers and fulfill their needs.

Milpitas, Ca

• Joined as a Senior recruiter and involved in complete recruitment cycle from staffing process for hiring consultants in different terms like Fulltime and Contract basis• Got an opportunity to work with four (4) Account managers for various clients.• Established and maintained solid working relationships with account managers and determined the needs of the hiring managers.• Collecting the feedback forms from technical panels, collecting the required documents from candidates for offer processing, regular follow up with the candidates to resolve their queries to bring them onboard ASAP.• Involved in continuous interaction with the technical panel to understand the exact requirement to submit the candidates• Strong hands-on experience into sourcing through various channels via- Job Portals like Monster, Naukri, CareerBuilder, The Ladders, LinkedIn referrals, and internal databases.• Involved in Job postings according to various requirements.• Managing relationship with candidates to ensure smooth on-boarding.• Involved weekly reporting mechanisms on status of requirements, submissions, & interviews to Account Manager• Excellent negotiating skills & work in a quick turnaround time (TAT) to full-fill requirements.• Extensive hands-on experience in Corporate and Agency environments.• Built good inter-personal relations & effective high performing network with vendors, candidates, and clients• Proficient in MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS PowerPoint, Internet Explorer.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Professional in core HR and full-cycle recruitment source, screen, evaluate and select candidates through a structured recruitment process designed to obtain the best candidates.• Inform applicants of job duties and responsibilities, compensation and benefits, work schedules and working conditions, company policies, promotional opportunities, and other related information.• Worked for Fulltime or Permanent, Contract to hire and contract position • Involved in client calls and VMS system • Worked extensively with direct client requirements & vendor requirements also.• Used Monster, Naukri, CareerBuilder, LinkedIn, type job sites with respect to candidate searches & job postings. • Excellent interpersonal, convincing, rate negotiation, analytical & problem-solving skills.• Strong ability to source, negotiate, shortlist, and to close the offers on time defines Job requirements, establish job descriptions, coordinate Strategic Interview teams, and posts open positions from time to time.• Participation in Monthly business review meetings with the Lead & the respective Account manager and maintaining proper records of offer generation, offer declined & joiner’s data.• Experience with MS Office (MS word, MS excel and MS power point, outlook),• Ability to make sound business decisions with excellent written & verbal communication Skills.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Responsible for IT recruitment (Fulltime/Contract/Contract to hire) analysis and process of recruitment. • Recruited candidates with expertise in Information Technology, Computer Science & Engineering.• Expertise in recruiting all major IT Technologies • Worked on IT technologies and job boards like Monster, Career builder, Naukri, Hot jobs, and internal Database etc.• Good communication skills, people networking abilities, a good deal of aggression and customer orientation skills were key for my success in the job.• Sourced potential candidate through job portals, networking, staffing companies, employee referrals in target software companies.• Exceptional networking skills and abilities to keep their candidates hot and ready for a submittal.• I was involved in salary/contract negotiations directly with the candidates • Demonstrated ability in achieving recruitment targets and daily submittals. • Helped candidates to prepare for in-person and telephonic interviews and kept them in loop with latest updates from the client.• Responsible for arranging interview with the team lead and account manager • Experience with MS Office (MS word, MS excel and MS power point, outlook), web browsing - internet explorer, fire fox etc, windows XP & 7