Harish Singh Rawat

• Successfully led the lateral hiring process for various departments, ensuring the acquisition of high-caliber talent that meets organizational needs.
• Developed and implemented sourcing strategies to identify and attract top industry talent, reducing time-to-hire.
• Managed multiple hiring projects simultaneously, coordinating with internal teams and external vendors to ensure timely and successful completion
• Performed comprehensive market analysis to stay abreast of industry trends, salary benchmarks, and competitive hiring practices
• Utilized data-driven insights to enhance recruitment strategies, leading to improved hiring outcomes.
• Cultivated and managed relationships with internal stakeholders, including hiring managers and executives, to align recruitment efforts with business goals for better results
• Acted as a trusted advisor on recruitment best practices and talent strategy.
• Optimized ATS functionality by regularly updating candidate profiles with notes from interviews or assessments.

• Managing end to end recruitment for BNFS clients
• Stakeholder management, recruitment drive, tracking progress on open demands, managing status in ATS
• Planning, organizing, executing hiring events across the organization for multiple business verticals
• Drive fulfillment calls for allocated clients
• Enhanced candidate pool by proactively sourcing qualified applicants through various channels, such as social media, job boards etc.
• Reduced time-to-hire with a focus on targeted candidate outreach and timely follow-ups with both candidates and hiring managers.
• Negotiated offer terms effectively, resulting in high acceptance rates among selected candidates.
• Responsible for contract conversion cases, collaborated with vendor, WFM, HM for successful conversion
• Provided exceptional candidate experience throughout the recruitment process, maintaining consistent communication and transparency.
• Collaborate with multiple HR function like HRSS and HR BP, Resourcing Services for timely and candidate friendly onboarding.

• Driving and leading the recruitment efforts right from getting the requirement from the Hiring Manager, requirement qualification, sourcing profile via job posting, IJP, Referral, job boards like (Naukri, Shine, Hirist), LinkedIn and open platform, screening profiles, shortlisting, coordinating interviews, offer negotiation, onboarding process, post offer follow ups
• Building active and passive pipeline for skill-based roles for current and future needs
• Developing and implementing hands-on sourcing/ search strategies for critical and hard-to-find skills
• Developed and implemented various hiring strategies, plans and hiring model to fulfill the need in time
• Managed various weekend drive both onsite and virtual for skills Java, Informatica, Mainframe and other BU specific roles
• Improved overall interview to hire ratio of organization
• Developing market intelligence for niche roles
• Stakeholder interaction and management through regular sync-ups, kick off, sharing of hiring progress reports
• Collaborated with hiring manager to prepare job description and provided them relevant data for available resource pool in market for required skill
• To conduct regular follow-up with managers to determine the effectiveness of recruiting plans and implementation
• To do research and recommend new sources for active and passive candidate recruiting by networking, identifying target organization and generating referral from candidate in market
• Key Point of contact for all hiring activities for bulk or skill-based hiring
• Maintain constant touch with candidates post offer to ensure lesser percentage of dropouts.

Managed the full- lifecycle IT recruitment process for contract consulting roles for multiple clients. Source, screen, interview and hire technically skilled candidates to match job requirements to provide excellent consulting services. Build and maintain relationships with IT professional candidates and consultants. Uncover potential business opportunities.

● Collected and examined very carefully detailed information about Job duties to prepare Job Descriptions which to reflect exactly the duties, training and skills each job requires.

● Search, screen, and qualify candidates using multiple job boards and referral techniques to build a trusted, high quality candidate bench.

● Accurately document all interactions with candidates, maintaining resumes and notes in applicant tracking system.

● Collaborate & drive job requirements creation and content.

● Prepare and negotiate job offers based on internal approvals.

● Demonstrates understanding and adheres to staffing solutions methodology

• Lead the full-cycle recruitment process for consultants specializing in various technical classifications: sourcing, screening, interviewing, checking references, extending offers, and negotiation of compensation packages
• Utilize various sales and recruiting resources such as cold calls, email campaigns, candidate/employee referrals, internet searches and postings, LinkedIn and technical user groups
• Effectively recruited IT Professionals in a time-sensitive environment
• Located potential candidates through Internet research, internal database, cold calling, referrals, networking, and other strategies
• Qualified candidates for appropriate positions through a process of sourcing, screening, and interviewing
• Utilized different job portals like Monster, Dice, CareerBuilder, LinkedIn, Ziprecruiter etc
• Performed reference checks, negotiated terms and rates for each project, coordinated the interview process, extended offers, and closed candidates
• Mentored junior resources
• Followed client compliances with all due diligences
• Consulting with internal managers to identify client needs
• Negotiating contractual agreements with third party vendors/Independent contractors prior to client submission
• Managing Client Interviews, negotiating bill rates and salary expectations with clients and candidates
• Managing candidates throughout interview and on-boarding process supporting and partnering with both domestic and international offices to fill client needs developing and maintaining relationships to build a professional network