Summary
I’m a recruitment professional with over 4 years of experience in IT and Non-IT industries. I have placed several talents across product and service companies throughout India, Australia, NZ & USA.
Year of Birth: 1988
Languages: English-Proficient, Tamil-Proficient
Education
- MBA, Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi (Autonomous), Affiliated to Anna University, 2015;
- B.E.Mechanical, Sri Subramanya College of Engg & Tech, Palani, Anna University, 2011
Experience
- E-Helium Advisory Services
6th Jan 2020 to Present.
Mylapore, Chennai, India
Talent ScoutRoles and Responsibilities:
– I am involved in the complete recruitment process for the various clients who are predominantly product companies & there are some services based companies too for which I’ve rendered my services across India.
– Have sourced, screened & successfully onboared candidates from various IT domains with varying seniority.
– On a daily basis, I will be interacting with the clients & candidates in order to obtain new candidates for day to day requirements, in order to maintain rapport with prospective candidates, scheduling interviews for the short-listed candidates, Coordinating and making sure that the candidates appear for the scheduled interviews, following up with the client for feedbacks after the interviews and also in the successful onboarding of a candidate.
– In the 2nd month after joining (February), I received the ‘Rockstar Recruiter’ Certification & cash price from the management. - Power IT Services/Innovate IT
3rd Oct 2017 to 31st Oct 2019.
Nungambakkam, Chennai, India
Senior IT Recruiter/Recruitment ConsultantRoles and Responsibilities:
– I was involved in the recruitment process for our various clients who were predominantly into Banking, Telecom, mining and product based domains.
– On a daily basis, I had to interact with the clients & candidates in order to procure new candidates for day to day requirements, in order to maintain rapport with prospective candidates, scheduling interviews for the short-listed candidates, Coordinating and making sure that the candidates appear for the scheduled interviews, following up with the client for feedbacks after the interviews, and in ensuring the successful on boarding of the candidates.
– I’ve hands on experience in using the Job portals such as ‘Seek’, ‘Careerone’, Monster(India & APAC), Naukri(For India) and other free job posting sites such as Jora, Indeed, Backpack, ruemployed.
– I have worked on domestic requirements on daily basis.
– I have worked on requirements for all the geographies of Australia and NZ.
– I have the experience of working for APAC requirements.
– Have experience of working in Non-IT recruitment as well.
– Effectively recruited candidates through Internet research, job portals, internal database, referrals, and other strategies.
– Handled all the IT Technologies involving combination of complex skill sets and niche technologies.
– Acquired candidates for my clients within the stipulated budget.
– Mentored 4 fresh graduates who were inducted into my team. - Efocus Informatix Pvt.Ltd/KRG Technologies (Valencia, CA)
2016 March – 30th September 2017.
Nungambakkam, Chennai, India
US IT Recruiter/Resourcing specialistRoles and Responsibilities:
– Having experience in performing needs analysis, requirements definition, consulting on sourcing strategies, recruiting, screening, scheduling interviews, reference checking, negotiating the pay rate/salary, following up with the client manager.
– Making offers, creating contracts and closing candidates that can help actualize corporate missions etc.
– Effectively recruited candidates through Internet research, internal database, referrals, and other strategies.
– Understanding the client requirements, coordinating for short listing and screening including preliminary interview of the candidates
– Handled all the IT Technologies involving combination of complex skill sets and rare technologies.
– Extensive experience of Internet Recruiting for candidates and industry leads, pre-screening to quality potential candidates.
– Dealing with consultants on Green Cards, US citizens frequently and other Visa’s such as H1B’s, TN Visa, H4-EAD, OPT EAD, E3 & E4, etc. Negotiating the rates on Contract, Contract to hire or Full-time basis.
– Taking at least two references from their previous project employers. And getting Exclusivity Signed by the employer and the consultant to get on hold the consultant.
– Coordinating, Scheduling & Conducting Interviews.
– Expertise in using job portals such as Dice, Monster, TechFetch, CareerBuilder, Bighotlist, the ladders, Techejobs, Job spider, Smart recruiters.
– Rate negotiation before short listing the candidates.
– Involved closely with INFRA technologies such as Networking, Security, Mainframe, Data Center, Voice Engineer, Business Analyst, Project Managers, Desktop/Helpdesk/Service desks, Exchange, Active Directory, Office365, and Skype for Business. - Sutherland Global Services, Chennai
June 2011 to December 2012.
On-call Software Technician– Worked as a Software Technician for Dell DOC process at Sutherland Global services.
– On-Call support for US & Canadian Customers.
– Supported Premium Dell customers in troubleshooting Software related issues such as Virus issues, BSOD, Slow performance, detecting Hardware issues, Printers, User Softwares, Networking issues by taking remote access of their computer through Dell Connect Tool or by oral guidance for quick fixes.
– Pitch for Annual Dell contract or for one time support prior to fixing the customers’ issues.
– Also pitch for other Dell products after fixing the customers’ issues.
– Documenting the on call proceedings in Siebel tool.
– Arrange for dispatching of CD’s/DVD’s & other Dell computer tools as per necessity.
– On-call resolution.
– Arrange for resolution follow-up & ensure C-SAT.
Rates
- From € 6 per hour
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