Astonjon DAlmeida

• Expertise in the areas of Staffing, Recruiting, Sourcing, Training and Development, Reporting, and onboarding
• Working on FTE, PO and Contract hiring
• Managed Campus hiring for Engineering and Digital marketing
• Oversee the comprehensive onboarding process for new hires, ensuring the accurate completion of all pre-employment procedures and documentation.
• Maintain monthly reports pertaining to onboarding, induction, and BGV activities.
• Administer end-to-end Background Verification (BGV) processes for incoming team members
• Generating candidate database using a multitude of source-mix that includes – recruitment (job portals), employee referrals, networking- social networks, and resource partners (vendors)
• Monitoring RPO team on their delivery and working on the action plan
• Collaborating Leadership and planning head counts.
• Validating resumes, interviewing candidates, and short-listing potential candidates, basis of the authenticity of experience, skill set combination and credentials
• Negotiating with candidates on the finalization of salary for different grades
• Maintaining and sharing monthly payroll inputs, KPI sheets and recruitment master tracker
• Creating training Matrix and identify training need analysis
• Maintaining Training calendar and tracking of training budgets
• Develops training and development programs and objectives.
• Work with various stakeholders to coordinate and organize training sessions

Skills hired – Firmware Engineer/ Mechanical Engineer/.Net/ Hardware Engineer/ C++/ Bluetooth/ Embedded developer/ Fullstack developer/ Digitalization/ Sales/ Marketing / Service engineers/ Local division manager/ Quality engineer or Manager/ Electrical Designer / Drives Designing/ Sales Manager / Production engineers/ Manufacturing engineers(MES)/ Procurement/ Company secretary/ Order handling / HRBP/ Robotics engineer/project management/

• Involved in the Full Life Cycle of IT Recruitment and Leading a team of 6 members
• Supervised day-to-day operations to meet performance, quality and service expectations.
• Recruiting for internal & client requirements
• Mentored junior staff members in their professional development by offering guidance/support in their assigned roles.
• Designing and implementing the overall recruiting strategy with a team
• Coordinating panel availabilities and scheduling for the interview process
• Sharing day-to-day reports for the shortlisted candidates (designation/ salary / date / negotiation, etc.)
• Verifying documents and releasing the Offer letter
• Arranging interviews through Hirepro, Microsoft Teams and in-Person
• Strong client relationship management and vendor management
• Forecasting recruitment budgets and negotiating for the same
• Recording data about the interview schedules, offered candidates, pending joiners, current open positions, and status of the candidates
• Responsible for planning, creating, implementing and reviewing hiring plans/programs with recruiters
• Collaborating with key business leaders and HR partners to understand and help determine short- and long-term talent acquisition needs to meet business objectives

• Handling up to 26 vendors for recruitment fulfilment
• Skills hired for: Core JAVA, J2EE, Springs, Struts, Hibernate, Multithreading’s, Algorithms, Android Developer, UI Developer, Fullstack Developer, Python Developer,C+, VB Script, Java Script, PHP,Vb.net, .Net, Node JS, Ember JS, React JS etc

• Handling Sourcing for Infrastructure, Development and Finance Related Requirements
• Primary involvement in getting the right set of resources for required positions related to administration, development, and management requirements for specific business units
• Involved in Sourcing, Salary fitment and negotiation, Scheduling, Submission of Documents, Approval, HR Discussion
• Managing End-to-End Campus Recruitment from Sourcing to On-boarding
• Understanding Business requirements to identify Campus hiring needs for Full-time and Internship positions
• Negotiating with Campus for an early slot to hire the best talent from the pool
• Visiting campuses on the day of hiring and coordinating the Assessment, Presentation and Interview process
• On-boarding support tools for their on-boarding formalities

• Extensively involved in end-to-end recruitment process i.e
• Pre and post-interview activities which include understanding the requirements, sourcing, screening, scheduling, interviewing, selection, document collection, offer negotiation, fitment closures and post-offer follow-ups until the candidate is onboarded
• Well-versed in various skills from junior to higher (managerial) level and have handled multiple requirements simultaneously to provide the best resource as per project/client's requirement
• Understanding the job description and making certain key points work like skill set, domain, target companies, and other key factors to make the hiring process more effective
• For new requirements, preparing a requirement intake form by discussing designation, CTC bracket, notice period, delivery time, target companies, work location and other mandates required for streamlining the recruitment process
• Using various sourcing channels like job portals, internal databases, networking, referencing, and professional sites
• Managing various stakeholders for effective recruitment
• Conducting first-level interviews (telephonic) to check communication skills, technical skills, interest level, availability, and salary
• Providing necessary information about the client and the role to the candidates before the interview
• Explaining the criticality of the role and the expectations of the client from the given opportunity
• Facilitating in-person, telephonic and Skype interviews with potential candidates before making recommendations for final interviews with the hiring manager(s)
• Conducting HR discussions, negotiating on the offer for the selected candidates, preparing an offer proposal and sharing the salary fitment details for approval

Skill Hired: Windows/Citrix/Tibco/Linux/Administrator, AD(Active Directory) Virtualization (Hyper V, VMware), EMC VMAX, Netapp, HP-3PAR, DevOps, puppet, Azure, AWS, HPOO, Openshift Admin E