Dinesh Varma Uppalapati

• Partnering with HR Team and Hiring Managers & maintaining communication across all levels. End-to-end recruitment, delivering a great experience to both candidates and the organization including sourcing, screening, and assessing candidates.
• Managing ATS to track recruitment activity report progress to the team and other stakeholders. Finding qualified candidates, selecting the best, and exploring if there’s a match between the candidate, the company (culture), and the manager
• Expertise in hiring leaders and tech leaders
• Played a Keyrole in building Data governance practice in Technovert including hiring of Director for Data governance
• Handled Team of 3 people and headed Data and Analytics practice in Technovert

Providing Career Guidance to Tech Enthusiasts and helping them in choosing the right areas to get skilled upon, backed by strong research in the progress of individuals career growth in the IT Industry.

*Responsibilities include evangelizing coding and Bootcamp way of learning through one

to-one counseling and webinars.

*Worked with the marketing team in the lead generation

*worked on building revenue for the company

• Full recruitment life cycle of IT positions. Working as a Talent Acquisition Recruiter leading a team of 2 sourcers performing end-to-end full-cycle technical recruitment in a cross-functional, ad hoc, and Agile environment. Partnering with 20+ hiring managers, working 5-8 requirements at a time. Involved in detailed job analysis, cold calling, sourcing, initial employment screenings covering education, creating job descriptions, work experience & technical skills, contract negotiations and salary offers for W2 employees, contract, direct placement to the clients, and 1099 employees. Hands on experience in placing candidates with various visa status [H1b, OPT, CPT, H4 EAD], Green card and US citizens. Scheduled Intake calls with the hiring managers to better understand their position requirements. Summarize candidate’s whole profile including relocation plans, reason for change, strengths, weaknesses and needs while submitting the profile to the hiring manager and delivered rejection to the candidates professionally.
• Vendor Management expertise: Expertise in managing vendors for corp to corp(C2C) hiring and negotiated on the rate to maximize the company’s profit. Working with numerous vendors to fill the positions resulting in reducing the Time to Fill. Worked on the MSA to reach to a mutual agreement.
• Coordinated interviews and Nurtured candidates: Involved in conducting interviews to hire candidates for different clients. Coordinated with the client side on-site coordinators and the candidates to steamline the whole hiring process. Nurtured candidates throughout the process by prepping them up for interviews.
• Sourcing expertise: Reverse searched candidates by adopting different ways like Boolean search, X-ray etc. to create pipeline of candidates. Utilized internal databases, employee referrals and external job boards like LinkedIn, Indeed, Dice, Monster, and Career Builder. Sourced and worked with different levels of Cleared resources (Public Trust, Secret Top Secret, and SCI Poly) from various jobs boards like clearnacejobs.
• Candidate profile Pipelines. Expertise in creating and maintaining pipelines of active and passive candidates in different roles for current and future requirements.
• Prescreen Candidates: Responsible for conducting initial interviews and Online assessment tests through InterviewMocha to evaluate the candidate’s eligibility for the position, which is then used to narrow the number of potential candidates who will be interviewed by the hiring manager. Screened candidates not only on the basis of technical skillsets but also deliverability. Set up interview appointments between the chosen candidates and the hiring managers.
• Background Checks and Drug test: After interviews have taken place and the hiring manager expresses an interest to hire the candidate, coordinated for the reference and dual background checks and Drug Test. Also responsible for conducting reference checks by verifying employment information and contacting the professional and personal contacts provided by the candidate