Collaborating with department heads to identify hiring needsDeveloping job descriptions and posting openings on various platformsManaging the full recruitment cycle (sourcing, screening, interviewing, hiring)Building relationships with candidates and ensuring a positive experienceUtilizing data-driven approaches to improve recruitment processesLeading employer branding initiatives to enhance the company's imageEnsuring compliance with labor laws and internal policiesCoordinating with HR teams for smooth onboarding of new hiresManaging and mentoring junior recruiters to meet hiring goals.

• Business Development: Developing and maintaining relationships with new and existing clients, identifying new business opportunities, and driving revenue growth.• Client Management: Building and managing strong relationships with clients, understanding their recruitment needs, and providing solutions that meet their requirements.• Sales and Marketing: Developing and executing sales and marketing strategies that target new business opportunities, promoting the company's services, and building its brand.• Market Analysis: Conducting research and analysis on the recruitment market, industry trends, and competition to identify new opportunities and assess the company's market position.• Proposal Preparation: Preparing and submitting proposals to clients that clearly outline the company's services, pricing, and value proposition.• Negotiations: Negotiating contracts and agreements with clients that ensure mutually beneficial outcomes and drive business growth.• Account Management: Managing client accounts, ensuring that their recruitment needs are met, and delivering high-quality customer service.• Team Management: Collaborating with internal teams, including recruiters and researchers, to ensure the effective delivery of projects and the achievement of business objectives.

• Managing internal stakeholders, monthly TA reviews, negotiate with candidates, prepare offers and prioritize ones time in an extremely fast-paced environment• Manage a team of experienced recruitment professionals to ensure that all hiring requirements are met in a timely• Coach, mentor, provide career opportunities, and support training so that team members that perform well are readied for new experiences• Provide regular written and verbal feedback and address performance issues as necessary• Brand Management-Ensure the Target brand is communicated in all recruiting activities.• Prepare and communicate analytical data about all facets of the hiring process, including, effectiveness of recruiting sources, interviews, hires, turn downs, and declined offers. Identify and measure key metrics that can quantify team performance

• Manage complete recruitment life-cycle for identifying the best talent for Infrastructure practice. • Planning human resource requirements in consultation with heads of verticals across executive & managerial levels. (Growth and attrition).• Responsible for permanent and temporary recruitment activity within all business areas in India. • The role will involve consulting with the business to ascertain and deliver an appropriate and timely recruitment service• Understanding the Business requirement and strategizing for the closures of the requirements (Monthly , Quarterly, Yearly) • Designing articulate approved recruitment plan for the current financial year.• Sourcing through Internal sourcing team, Vendors, Employee referral, Internal job posting, News Paper Advertisements, Professional Network (LinkedIn), On/Off Campus, Interns. • Planning and organizing recruitment events across Pan India.• Conducting Interviews and subsequent salary negotiation as per existing bands• Preparing Offer fitment and releasing offer.• Responsible to create offer pipeline and Responsible in making Resources On Board at right time with proper Follow-up with the candidates.• Extensive hands on expertise in end to end recruitment tool TALEO & Workday• Provide a comprehensive MIS on a regular basis to the Business.• Best utilization of different sourcing channel like social media hiring (LinkedIn. Facebook).• Lead for ITO hiring and publishing weekly reports to the business and staffing leaders.

• Manages end to end active requisitions and active applicant pools for Infrastructure • Serves as the main point of contact for Global Talent Acquisition to the Hiring Manager.• Connect with Sourcer prior to the Hiring Manager engagement meeting to brainstorm the TA strategy and agree on approach• Establishes roles and responsibilities for all stakeholders • Invites sourcer to engagement meetings for: – Ramps / hiring projects – Hard-to-fill positions – High demand / low supply needs• Communicate sourcing needs when an engagement meeting is not necessary for volume needs• Provides presented candidate feedback from Hiring Manager to the Sourcer within 2 business days

Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant combines a passion for client satisfaction, technology innovation, deep industry and business process expertise, and a global, collaborative workforce that embodies the future of work. With over 100 development and delivery centers worldwide and approximately 217,700 employees as of March 31, 2015, Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 2000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.

Project Profile:• Responsible for interfacing with senior leadership to develop and execute talent acquisition strategies. • Resume sourcing and candidate screening to manage requisition flow and generate pre-screened candidates for respective Client Accounts. • Experienced in searching the passive candidates from LinkedIn Recruiter, Google and other professional group sites. • Conducting the first level technical screening and initial reference checks if needed. • Responsible for negotiating compensation with candidates in consultation with Cognizant’s Executive Team • Facilitated weekly updates through reports and conference calls for CIS business units • Recruited all senior level Executives for North America IT-IS Practice. • Personally responsible for Senior Executive hiring, Associate Directors, Senior Managers. • Interact daily with Cognizant Senior Executives to ensure proper executive recruiting support to business units • Built strong internal relationships with Cognizant’s Executive Recruitment Team.Recent successful searches include:• IT IS - Enterprise Architect (Director Level)• IT IS - Associate Vertical Service Leader(Director Level)• IT IS - Pursuit Director - Global ITO (Director Level)• IT IS – Solution Architect (Director Level)• Infrastructure Consulting Manager(AD Level)• IT IS Service Delivery (AD Level)

Project Profile:• On-site and/or remote-site recruitment to manage or support of ongoing staffing operations. • Execution of multi-channel candidate sourcing & Recruitment strategies. • Resume sourcing and candidate screening to manage requisition flow and generate pre-screened candidates for respective Client Accounts. • Staffing strategy development and staffing process evaluation & monitoring. Roles & Responsibilities:• Reported directly to the Manager.• Co-ordinate with the teams in Offshore & US and support with my recruitment efforts.• Analyzing and Gathering requirement details to figure out the clients need and plan the strategies accordingly based on the day to day assignments. • Sourcing the candidates by using different methods like Job Boards, Head hunting, Networking, Employee referrals, Internet Sourcing, Existing database and Vendors.• Searching the passive candidates in websites like Google and other professional group sites.• Conducting the first level technical screening and initial reference checks if needed.• Negotiating the billing issues with the consultant and employers before the submission of resumes.• Submitting the resumes to manger (or) uploading to the client’s portal within the given TAT.• Keeping a follow up with all the levels on a day to day basis for all the submissions made.• Taking care of receiving required agreements or documents from Consultants and Employers etc..,• Good and through knowledge on all tax terms like W2, 1099, C2C. Etc…• Coordinating with the superiors to ensure good relationship between the clients and company.• Preparing reports to resource managers and higher ups for follow ups and performance monitoring.• Create Hot-Lists of Available Consultants and mail that on a regular basis to tier1 vendors/contacts and coordinate with them to get their clients’ requirements.• Expertise and active participation in the entire H1B sourcing and H1B transfer process