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M. Saravana Chandra Kumar

M. Saravana Chandra Kumar

Summary

A Talent acquisition practitioner with 11+ years of track record in the field of talent acquisition and a certified professional from XLRI with core expertise in handling in strategic hiring, stake holder management, vendor management, contract hiring, & campus hiring. Proven expert in people & performance management. Successful track record in closing technical & leadership hires within tight timelines.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Technology Recruiter

UST
04.2023 - Current
  • Contributing for AI/ML, Cloud and Digital recruiting for Comcast, Walmart, IBC
  • Full cycle recruiter for AI, Cloud & Digital practice
  • Collaborating with entire AI recruiting function
  • Day-Day check in Beeline for contingent hiring
  • Hiring individual contributors to Senior Director Level candidates
  • Advisor to hiring managers to provide guidance, expertise, collaboration, and teamwork to hire the best talent
  • Partnered with compensation and HR to create a job code and comp ranges specific for Devops, Data engineers, Analytics, AI/ML
  • Consulted and partnered with hiring managers to develop an interview process for Data Engineers, Java based AI/Machine Learning candidates
  • Present recruiting updates to VP of Digital and AI and key stakeholders of organization weekly
  • Participate in recruiting events focused on DEI and AI
  • Passionate about connecting with people and building relationships
  • Source, attract, close and retain top talent
  • New business initiative : Avixchange (New Initiative in fulfilling the vital positions for bidding accounts)
  • Technology : Cloud engineers, Frontend & Backend developers, Architect (Java&.Net), Devops engineers Security Engineers, Fullstack Developers.

Senior Recruiter

Cognizant technology solution
05.2014 - 12.2022
  • Sole recruiter with full-cycle responsibilities and advisor to technical leaders throughout the hiring process
  • Hired all technical roles for 2020 including a Security Engineer, Info Security head, Head of Product, Front End Engineers, Backend Engineers and AI Engineers for Alphabet (Google),Walgreens, CVS health, McAfee
  • Built relationships with key stakeholders and learned the value proposition to effectively pitch opportunities at Cognizant
  • Partnered with the engineering team to deeply understand hiring needs
  • Employee Referrals, Networking, Job Portals(Linkedin,Naukri,Xray Searches,Git Hub and many more of the latest techniques) and Passive sourcing with generating leads
  • Managed ATS (Chire) including reviewing and screening inbound applicants daily
  • Managed all job boards keeping listings updated
  • Interviewed and qualified candidates assessing skills and culture fit maintaining a high talent bar
  • Presented diverse qualified candidates and created and implemented a seamless hiring process
  • Continuously touched based with candidates in play to keep them warm (all correspondence)
  • Ensured a positive candidate experience throughout the hiring process
  • Performed background checks
  • Advised on compensation based on market knowledge and research
  • Leadership Hiring : Part of leadership team hired senior positions like Health care Client Partners, Associate Director, Senior Directors, AVP, Sales Leaders, for US Banking, Financial & Insurance and Healthcare & Life Sciences customer
  • Supported Leadership Hiring in Digital Systems, Corporate roles, Application development, Devops leaders, IOT head, Quality Manager, Cloud Infra structure Services (CIS) Head & Insurance Vertical, responsible in closing Mid-level position for Recruiting like and Solution Architects, Technical Program Manager
  • Keeping the diversity & inclusion number by 50% for all the business units
  • Build a robust talent pool of qualified candidates based on recruiting pattern
  • Campus engagement: HR panelist for cognizant on/off campus team, as part of HR team been to top ranking colleges throughout India.

Technical Recruiter

Bhawan Cybertek
06.2012 - 05.2014
  • Handled multiple ramp-ups for the account and hired many consultants to projects in a span of 6 moths, worked with niece/vanilla technologies, by partnering with technical managers, business stake holders to understand business needs
  • Hired fulltime and contingent workers to customers based on the requirements
  • Created healthy candidate pipeline segmenting based on the continuous customer need by utilizing atc and other channels
  • Hands on experience in us tax terms
  • Client vertical: Federal Client, banking & financials, retail & consumer goods, consulting
  • Customers: Raytheon, Oracle, HID, BOA.

Education

L.L.B -

Bangalore law college
03.2024

M.H.R.M -

bharathidasan university
01.2018

B.C.A -

Madras Christian College (MCC)
01.2005

Skills

  • Technical Sourcer
  • Recruiting strategy
  • LinkedIn Recruiter
  • Monster
  • Github
  • Xray Sourcing
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Sourcing
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Networking
  • Team Management
  • Branding
  • Stake holder management
  • Business acumen
  • Time management
  • Process improvement
  • CSR activity
  • Sourcing & recruitment
  • Talent assessment & acquisition
  • Campus hiring
  • Volume staffing
  • Diversity & inclusion
  • Beeline
  • Hays
  • Talent pipeline
  • Placement &on-boarding
  • HRIS-technology & systems
  • Offer negotiations
  • Succession planning
  • Training & development

Certification

  • Executive development program in talent management, XLRI-Jamshedpur, 06/2022
  • Skilldeck on linkedin recruitment & it recruitment, sd 2630/aug/wk-1130

Timeline

Lead Technology Recruiter

UST
04.2023 - Current

Senior Recruiter

Cognizant technology solution
05.2014 - 12.2022

Technical Recruiter

Bhawan Cybertek
06.2012 - 05.2014

L.L.B -

Bangalore law college

M.H.R.M -

bharathidasan university

B.C.A -

Madras Christian College (MCC)

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