•Collaborate with leadership to assess the current and future talent needs of the internal recruitment team.•Develop and implement hiring plans focused on building a strong team of internal recruiters, ensuring alignment with the company’s overall recruitment goals.•Define the competencies and skills required for internal recruiters, such as sourcing expertise, candidate management, stakeholder collaboration, negotiation skills, and understanding of different recruitment tools.•Evaluate candidates for both soft skills (communication, adaptability, and teamwork) and hard skills (ATS proficiency, Boolean search, market intelligence, and technical recruiting).•Proactively source candidates for internal recruiter roles through multiple channels, including LinkedIn, industry events, networking, and employee referrals.•Leverage advanced sourcing techniques to find specialized recruiter profiles, such as technical recruiters, executive search consultants, or those with experience in niche markets.•Conduct interviews to assess experience, cultural fit, and alignment with the company’s recruitment methodologies.•Use structured assessment methods, such as role-specific scenarios, to evaluate candidates’ recruitment skills, including their ability to manage requisitions, engage with hiring managers, and handle high-volume recruitment.

• Client Management and stakeholder Management handled all Communications with the Clients regarding Hiring/Open job roles/upcoming roles, status of existing Candidates Submitted etc.• Handled Clients like Yahoo, Fujitsu, Infosys, Tech Mahindra and Schlumberger• Hands on experience in scheduling and coordinating the interviews.• Responsibilities included sourcing Candidates from various job sites like Monster, Dice, Naukri, Indeed, Ladder, LinkedIn, Shine etc.• Strategic Recruitment using Internet-based sourcing techniques: job boards, web crawlers, search engines, social networking tools, university alumni sites, blogs, local organizations websites, discussion groups, and public and proprietary resume databases.• Worked with clients to implement and continually improve end-to-end recruiting processes and best practices. • Market research on latest trends and roles in the market and share any new tools or strategy that would help get better Candidates and keep a pipeline of Candidates ready to be submitted.• Thorough knowledge of recruiting process from sourcing to recruiting for different employment types including W2, Corp-to-Corp, 1099 for U.S. Citizens, GC, H1-B, TN-1, EAD holders along with Indian Candidates, EU hiring for Countries like Ireland, Germany, Austria and Romania and Sweden and UK• was involved in creating prescreen checks for Candidates sourced before moving forward with the next steps.• I also have experience in initiating Background checks and used Hire right to the checks for the Candidates offered.• Within the background checks I had a chance to do basic as well as customized checks that involved drug test, criminal checks, Alcohol abuse etc.• Good Experience working with EU Nationals and STAMP Visa holders.• Hands-on experience with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) including Bullhorn, JobDiva and other similar platforms.

Client Onsite Projects:-Infosys-New Jersey/New York, USA (Handled a team of 12)-Infosys-Bangalore, India (handled a team of 15)• Full lifecycle recruiting experience - understanding the job order, sourcing, and qualifying the right candidates, handling negotiations, and closing deals.• Hands-on experience with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) including Bullhorn, JobDiva and other similar platforms.• Hands-on experience with Vendor Management Systems (VMS portals) such as Fieldglass, IQ Navigator, WAND, Peoplefluent, and eTemp.• Maintained daily and weekly reports of progress that included number of Candidates sourced, No. of Candidates submitted, no of Candidates interviewed/offered, no of offer drops etc.

• Focus on the recruitment of IT, Non IT and telecommunication roles for US and UK market• Work with local and national technical consultants to identify contract, contract-to-permanent and permanent positions in the areas of IT, Business Applications, Telecommunications and Engineering.• Maintained a candidate pipeline of talent pool of diverse backgrounds• Network with local User Groups, Technical Schools and Technology Evangelists to grow and enhance the technical personnel community.• Source potential candidates by utilizing Apex’s proprietary database, referrals, User Groups, job boards and advertising.• Served as a point of contact for candidates right from sourcing their profile to guiding them to every step of their interview process to onboarding and ensuring the process is smooth and answering any queries they might have throughout.• Worked closely with the HR to get necessary documents and background checks initiated once offer accepted by Candidate.• Maintained daily and weekly and monthly trackers to be shared with the Management

• Associated with Engineering and IT Vertical where in I exclusively work on the mandates from core Engineering,Automotive, Heavy Machinery,Oil & Gas,Manufacturing,Project Management industry.• Working on mandates like R & D, Design, Sales & Marketing, Production, Quality, Application, Purchase, Finance, Safety from middle to senior level, and proven ability in sourcing very critical & niche positions.Responsibilities:• Understanding the Requirement and Client.• Mapping of target companies and headhunting• Accountable for coordination of overall operations involved in sourcing, arranging interviews and coordinating related functions in recruitment.• Searching right profiles through Job Portals,( Naukri, LinkedIn) References, Job Posting and Mass mailing, database etc.• Interacting with candidates, doing initial screening. Understand their competencies and skill sets, making them understand job role.• Providing complete, accurate, and inspiring information to candidate about company and position. Getting Client's approval & short-listing on the Candidate Profiles sent.• Coordinating with candidates for interview & conducting telephonic interview before short listing candidates.• Fix appointments with the clients and scheduling the interviews for the candidates. Inform candidates on various requirements, vacancies and brief about the company in advance.• Getting Feedback from Client & Candidate both.• Performing detailed reference checking and/or reference analysis on selected candidates.• Maintain and update the database of resumes of prospective employees to keep abreast with changing requirements and target industries.• Coordinate with candidates after selection process and follow up till candidate actually joins the firm to ensure that the position has been closed.