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MICROSOFT SPOC DETAILS
MICROSOFT RESUME DATABASE
MICROSOFT WORK EXPERIENCE
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Karthikeyan Kanagaraj

Karthikeyan Kanagaraj

Coimbatore

Summary

Around 11 years of International IT recruiting experience in IT Industry-for Americas and Canada. Forward-thinking Recruitment Manager successful at developing effective strategies to fill vacancies with well-qualified candidates. Collaborative and hardworking leader with excellent communication and planning abilities. Bringing several years record of success in the field.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Team Lead

IDC Technologies, MICROSOFT
08.2020 - Current
  • Obtain requirements from the Delivery Manager / Client
  • Involved in Sourcing profiles from various sources like job portals, references, and networking sites, headhunting
  • Job posting and mass mailing on portals depending on client's requirement
  • Involved in Full Cycle Technical Recruitment involving Sourcing, Identifying, Interviewing, Screening, Formatting and placing personnel in quick turnaround time
  • Responsible for full cycle recruiting activities from development of recruiting specifications to negotiations and signing of contracts
  • Searching for and identifying qualified IT individuals from entry to senior level
  • Conduct initial short listing of the candidate by evaluating him through telephonic interview
  • Coordinating with the clients in organizing the interview schedule and the follow up
  • Coordinating with the candidate till the final round of Interview
  • Following up with the candidate till he/she joins the company
  • Verified candidate's information to ensure applicants met qualification guidelines
  • Coordinate the interviews for the client selected candidates and ensure the interview process
  • Maintaining and updating the database of consultant and vendors on a daily basis
  • Creation & maintenance of database of the relevant profiles with regard to the requirements gathered from the clients.

Account Manager

ERP Mark INC
03.2020 - 08.2020
  • Manages the Client Relationship effectively
  • Effectively manages the requirements & provides status updates to clients
  • Lead teams of 3 individuals
  • Direct Interacting with Business team from CTS, Mindtree and Manages the Account's & reporting to them respectively
  • Forecasts and manages resource requirement optimally
  • Manages the team effectively
  • Plans and prioritizes activities for the team / Meets deadlines consistently
  • Understands the business directions and trends related to the client's industry or domain;
  • Provides value-added solutions/suggestions to the client
  • Demonstrates understanding of the customer domain of activity, and responds to customer's priority needs for service and support
  • Contact with user/customer & peers in the Organization and senior management at strategic level.

Client Service Manager/Account Manager

Cloudious LLC
12.2016 - 02.2020
  • Manages the Client Relationship effectively
  • Effectively manages the requirements & provides status updates to clients
  • Lead teams of 5 individuals
  • Direct Interacting with Business team from CTS, Mindtree, Infosys, Persistent Systems and Manages the Account's & reporting to them respectively
  • Working for the Direct Client requirement like SanMar, Adobe
  • Forecasts and manages resource requirement optimally
  • Manages the team effectively
  • Plans and prioritizes activities for the team / Meets deadlines consistently
  • Understands the business directions and trends related to the client's industry or domain;
  • Provides value-added solutions/suggestions to the client
  • Demonstrates understanding of the customer domain of activity, and responds to customer's priority needs for service and support
  • Contact with user/customer & peers in the Organization and senior management at strategic level.

Team Lead

Theme Soft Inc
10.2013 - 09.2016
  • Lead and Manage the Staff Augmentation request from direct customers of like Nike, GE, Deloitte, Fiserv, Infosys, Peak Hosting, Sun Edison, Mphasis, Wipro, State Street, CTS etc; also, from other direct customers
  • Manage end to end recruitment
  • Responsible for sourcing, interviewing and screening information technology professionals for assigned positions through various techniques including internet mining, cold calling and mining databases
  • Keeping the daily tracking of the team members through daily tracking sheet
  • Leadership skills in customer satisfaction, vendor relationships, strategic planning, staff development, quality assurance and process improvement
  • Had excellent track record of developing strong business/client relationships resulting in increased revenue and higher
  • Negotiate hourly rates / salaries with candidates / subcontractors
  • Conducting preliminary phones interviews and performs reference checks
  • To decide the fitment of the consultant according to the skill set, position, requirement, rates, relocation, Work/VISA
  • Strong ability to communicate effectively: oral and written to co-workers at all levels of organization
  • People Management: Planning and managing the career growth of Associates
  • Sourcing the resumes from Dice & Monster for the assigned requirements
  • Possess excellent knowledge of recruiting and hiring processes including sourcing, interviewing, reference checking, tracking, salary negotiations and closing
  • Developed and implemented creative approaches to finding and attracting candidates
  • Strong expertise in 1099, W2 recruiting and Corp-to-Corp resourcing
  • Expertise in searching and locating consultants from various job sites like Dice, Monster and groups and open forums etc
  • Expertise in searching and locating consultants from ATS (BullHorn and Zonaic)
  • Expertise in getting responses from Candidates through job postings on various job boards and sites.

Sr Technical Recruiter

Majestic Systems INC
09.2012 - 10.2013
  • Full life cycle recruiting (sourcing, screening, qualifying and interviewing, counseling, negotiating rate/salary, set-up technical screening, conducting reference checks, resume submittals, scheduling client interviews, extending offers and post placement follow through) of Information Technology professionals
  • Coordinated the entire recruitment process starting from the solicitation of requirements, screening the resumes and conducting telephonic interviews
  • The interviews involve the assessment of technical strengths, weaknesses, interpersonal and communication skills to match the client's requirements
  • Expert in handling SAP or ERP Related Requirements, Application packaging, .Net professionals, oracle, Siebel, program analyst, java developer and architect and looking after the entire gamut of recruitment from sourcing to till joining
  • Mostly worked with the consultant's like US Citizen, Green Card and EAD
  • Achieved success in providing resources for Contract, Contract 2 Hire and Full-Time Permanent based roles
  • Understand the requirements from hiring managers and put together a resource plan
  • Source candidates by various methods such as Internet recruiting, Job boards, Groups, networking, candidate referrals and networking sites
  • Experience in wage-rate negotiations with US candidates on W2, per Diem, 1099, and corp.-to-corp
  • Match candidates with a variety of IT skills to client requirements and ultimately make placements
  • Perform reference and background checks of potential candidates
  • Manage the recruitment process of candidate placement from the initial contact to preparing them for their first day on the assignment according to guidelines.

Education

MCA -

Sree Amman Arts and Science, Bharathiar University
2009

BCA -

Pioneer College of Arts And Science (CBE) Bharathiar University
2006

Skills

  • Technical Recruitment, Applicant Tracking System (Job Diva, Bull horn, CEIPAL, Zoniac), Team Management, Skill Training, Resource Management, Vendor Management and Account Management
  • Extensive experience in Client Account Management, Vendor Management, and Resource Management
  • Responsible for the full life cycle recruitment including sourcing, Screening, data mining, networking, identifying the resource, hiring, managing, etc
  • Hands on experience with Job boards such as Dice, Monster, Tech-Fetch (Corp-2-Corp), Indeedcom, Career Builder, and Social Sites like LinkedIn, Google Search, Facebook and X-ray Search
  • Internet Recruiting
  • Technical Recruiting
  • Client Relationship Management
  • Database Maintenance
  • Candidate Interviewing
  • Candidate Sourcing
  • Talent Assessment
  • Offer Negotiations
  • Pre-Screening and Qualifying
  • Onboarding and Placement

Languages

English
Advanced (C1)
Tamil
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

MICROSOFT SPOC DETAILS

Spoc Name 1 : Aparna Yerramilli

Email ID:  v-apyer@microsoft.com 

Spoc Name 2 : Atanu Das

Email ID: v-dasatanu@microsoft.com

Spoc Name 3: Kamini Anbalagan

Email ID: v-kanbalagan@microsoft.com

Spoc Name 4: Nayana Jagtap

Email ID: v-najag@microsoft.com

Spoc Name 5: Sneha Natekar

Email ID: v-snatekar@microsoft.com

MICROSOFT RESUME DATABASE

  

Well maintained Resume Database over 3000 profiles for the Client MICROSOFT on various domains only at US geographic Locations.

MICROSOFT WORK EXPERIENCE

  

Tremendous work experience in MICROSOFT for the past 3 years and onboarded more than 40 candidates.

Timeline

Team Lead

IDC Technologies, MICROSOFT
08.2020 - Current

Account Manager

ERP Mark INC
03.2020 - 08.2020

Client Service Manager/Account Manager

Cloudious LLC
12.2016 - 02.2020

Team Lead

Theme Soft Inc
10.2013 - 09.2016

Sr Technical Recruiter

Majestic Systems INC
09.2012 - 10.2013

MCA -

Sree Amman Arts and Science, Bharathiar University

BCA -

Pioneer College of Arts And Science (CBE) Bharathiar University

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