Sr. Talent Acquisition Specialist - R&D

Specialist & Consultant

Over 10 years of building strong technology teams across Networking, Storage, digital, cloud & compute,
infrastructure, and operations domain. Self-motivated and detail-oriented talent acquisition professional
with deliberate understanding of varied technologies, championed employee referral program, internal
branding, diversity, recruitment drives and candidate engagement. Also handled vendor management,
process setting and project management.

Strength:

-   Global Stakeholder Management/Partnership (India, US, UK, Japan).
-   Good experience working for Technology and Non-Technology (Sales, Operation) positions.
-   Deeper understanding of niche & combination technical skills.
-   Experience in sourcing talents using new and innovative ways from Hacker Rank, Stackoverflow,
LinkedIn, Upwork, GitHub, Indeed, IIMjobs, Google Searches etc.
-   Identify market potential and leverage the data for hiring decisions
-   Emphasis on quality of resumes Vs quantity while pipelining candidates
-   Drive for Results/ Problem Solving
-   Is resilient and adaptable to changes

Stakeholder Engagement: Work with the business/delivery heads In India and Japan to understand
and prioritize open requirements.
- Sourcing & Candidate Management: Independently responsible for Managing end to Recruitment
process for R&D engineering, Customer Success positions across India and APAC Location.
- Conducted Hackathon event for internal employee and external candidates through hackerRank
and Codepair test.
- Campus Hiring: Responsible for hiring intern by coordinating, attending and hosting college career
days, building effective internship programs and evaluating junior candidate.
- Referral Program: key contributor & collaborator in driving the employee referral function across
India and US team
- Vendor Management: Coordinate with external recruitment partners and drive their performance.
- Employer Branding: Highlight Social Activities & Company Culture and sharing a photo on social
media platform.

End-to-end technology recruitment. Single point of contact for the staffing needs for setting up ODC
at Indecomm Bangalore Office.
- Partner with the hiring managers to understand requirement and present suitable candidates,
maintain a healthy pipeline of candidates, continuously fine-tuning the sourcing based on the feedback gathered - Strategize the recruitment process to "hire the best" and "raise the bar"
constantly to hiring great talent
- Post the requirements in Internal/External job boards, and engaging potential candidates
-   Partner with HRBP and business heads to structure compensation for exception offers
-   Talent Advisor and single point of contact for technology business groups like Cloud & Compute,
Infrastructure Portfolio & Services, Database Store, Backup & Storage Network, Service Delivery.
-   Consultant with business leaders (India & Global) to define hiring competencies
-   Collaborate with stakeholders to relook at grouping of skills (Must have/Good to have)
-   Leverage market insights data and working session for most niche and combination skills -
Elevated candidate engagement strategy resulting in good offer conversion

Highlights:
-   Received appreciation from the stakeholder for the great partnership and sense of urgency -
90% offer conversion
-   34% diversity hires against the goal of 30%

Lead Recruiter

- This role was involves hiring for Hi-tech storage and networking Client (SanDisk, Cisco, NetApp, Brocade, ServiceNow) for US and India Location.
- Recruited VP, Director, Project Manager, Graphic Designer, and IoT Product Manager Etc.
- Partner with the hiring managers to understand requirement and present suitable candidates,
maintain a healthy pipeline of candidates, continuously fine-tuning the sourcing based on the feedback gathered - Strategize the recruitment process to "hire the best" and "raise the bar"
constantly to hiring great talent
- Post the requirements in Internal/External job boards, Vendor Management and engaging potential
candidates
- Partner with HRBP and business heads to structure compensation for exception offers

Roles hired:

IoT, SaaS/cloud, UX Designer, Business Strategy, Alliance Marketing, Sales Enablement, Executive
Communications, Demand Generation, Product Marketing, Program Management, Digital Marketing,
Marketing Operations, Strategy Development, Installed Base Marketing, Event Management, and Analyst
Relations

Employee Referral Program Management:
-   Program managed the Employee Referral India Program
-   Core member of Employee Referral Program and managed various recruitment programs.
Increased employee referral contribution to 23% across India
-   Pilot Lead Generation Programs that resulted in increase in the referral contribution
-   Streamline the bonus pay out mechanisms by adding multiple check points in the system thereby
reducing the error percentage
-   Encourage social media as an innovative sourcing mechanism
-   Understand best practices from Headquarters and implement them in India

Technical Recruiter

- SPOC for the key clients.
- Drive the recruiting process from sourcing to acceptance.
- Worked through different VMS and MSP (Pinnacle, Beeline, WAND, Fieldglass, IQ Navigator, eTemp, JobDiva).
- Managed and worked with different candidates (UK & US Citizens, Green Card Holders, H1B, EAD employment authorization document)
-   Worked with candidates Directly on W2, Corporation to Corporation, Contract to Hire.
-   Good exposure working on different domain (Automotive, Finance(Capital One, Fannie Mae, Wells Fargo), , Networking, Embedded, Pharmaceuticals, Technology)
-   Ensure the recruitment takes place within the SLA
-   Co-ordinate for the pre-joining formalities with client & candidates
-   Post offer follow up with the candidates
-   MIS & Reports - Master Tracker, Daily reports, Weekly client MIS, Billing Funnel, Meeting Tracker.

Team Lead - Recruitment (US and UK Region)

- Sourced resume for IT and Non-IT position for various Client for India and Dubai location.
- Supported Training team in hiring Freelance and corporate trainer for training Group.
- Coordinated and supported Walk-in for volume hiring.

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