Venkataraghavan Ramadass Email & Phone Number

India

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, In

**** Perficient Inc. Excellence Award 2024**** Delivery Excellence Award 2024 (Q1)• Determining current staffing needs and producing hiring forecasts on monthly basis• Developing talent acquisition strategies and hiring plans• Involved in salary negotiation & final closing call with candidates who are technically good to be hired• Managing 10 member team and responsible in getting minimum 4 hires per month from each• Working with Practice Area Head/CAM’s to get information on requisites and involving in resolving crisis related to hiring • Involved in vendor management, negotiating the final rates (fixed/hourly) for contract candidates• Running the daily stand-up meeting to understand the hiring challenges and providing solutions to resolve them• Joining the onshore meetings (account based) and communicating the hiring progress on weekly basis• Maintaining the TA team performance tracker and use metrics to create reports and identify areas of improvement• Working with HCM team and coordinating with contractors/sub-vendors on SoW extension • Involved in getting the compensation approval from VP/GM to initiate offer roll out process• Leading employment branding initiatives (Social Media- LinkedIn etc)• Involved in full-cycle recruiting for niche skills and needs that requires immediate attention• Supervise recruiting personnel, pushing the team to perform better year after year• Responsible for 325 corporate hires (Mid-level/Senior/Lead) in the span of 7 years

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, In

- Leading a team of 8 members- Involved in onsite coordination/account management- Individually contributing to the corporate hiring- Responsible for Vendor management - Completed Scrum Master Certification

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, In

- Involved in the internal recruitment for Perficient's IT requirements (Chennai/Bangalore)- Communicating with on-shore managers/directors regarding the requirement- Analyzing the hiring manager's need & reviewing profiles- Involved in end-to-end recruitment- Sourcing/Scheduling/Coordinating interviews for candidates for Chennai office- Recruiting for multiple tech like Informatica, SFDC, Java, PL/SQL, .Net, IIB & Edifecs- Expertise in sourcing and analyzing profiles from job portals (naukri/monster) and LinkedIn- Conducting frequent walk-in interviews and coordinating with the interviewing panel- Gathering required documents, verifying form 16 & resignation email/relieving order- Initiating the on-boarding process- Being punctual and enthusiastic at work

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

• Managed a team of 6-10 recruiters• Assigned requirements to recruiters on daily basis and managing the bandwidth of the team• Handled various client requirements which includes Comcast, Anthem Health and BNY Mellon• Participated on Client Manager-Vendor calls to discuss the requirement in detail & take notes of the required skills• Sourced suitable resumes from job portals, linkedin and various other networking sources• Coordinate with onsite account managers• Drove the team to get over 10 hires per month• Motivate the team and provided encouragement towards work aspects• Responsible in having the team to get over 200 resume submittals per month• Maintained reports of the team submissions/interviews/placements• Review the team performance on a weekly basis• Involved in the performance appraisal process for team members• Involved in hiring and firing process within the team• Provided training to the newly employed staff• Used Maxhire for applicant tracking system• Awarded "Employee of the Month" for August 2013

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Was a part of the amazing Kindle Fire Team and reporting to the managers• Experienced working on full recruitment life cycle in a corporate environment• Recruited full time candidates for Amazon Kindle team• Competed against the top notch companies in the industry like Microsoft, Motorola, Yahoo, Ebay/Paypal etc• Experienced in closing various positions for Software Developers, Technical Project Manager, Program Manager, Engineering Manager, Director and QA Managers• Connected over 1000 contacts through LinkedIn and other social networking sites to reach out to passive candidates• Sourcing profiles from various job portals • Conducting initial screening and submitting profile to the hiring managers. Used Icims and mrt as applicant tracking system• Experienced working from home & maintaining punctuality at work

East Brunswick, New Jersey, Us

• Worked as a Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for various clients including Roger Corp, Thomson Reuters, State of NJ, Sirus XM Radio and AT&T. Led a team of US IT recruiters, monitoring the quality of the work of the team members• Worked extensively on AT&T requirements for their Information Technology (IT), Research (RS), E-Commerce (EC) and Information Security (IS) categories• Prepared daily activity reports of the team and coordinating with the management• Experienced working on contract positions and sourcing resumes of US Citizens, G.C Holders and EAD who can work on our W2• Sourced suitable resumes from job portals like dice, corp-corp, monster, linkedin and various other networking sources• Discussing the requirement with candidates and negotiating their salary/ hourly rates• Expert in collecting the complete SSN details from the candidates which is mandatory as per AT&T norms.• Worked on collection of NDA/MSA agreement from the candidates for all requirements• Finalising the salary on W2 basis and uploading the resume into client VMS.• Frequently checking the status of the resume submitted to the client Co-ordinating with candidates on the status of resume submission, interview request and client feedback. • Maintained Punctuality and Consistency in work• Awarded "BEST EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH - JUNE 2011"

Masters In Business Administration, Human Resources Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Applications

Higher Secondary, Commerce