NEERAJ BABU S
Ernakulum,KL
Summary
Results-driven US IT Recruitment Team Lead with 11+ years of experience in headhunting, market mapping, international and domestic recruitment, and niche talent acquisition. Expertise in full-cycle recruitment, including sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer negotiation, and onboarding for Contract, Contract-to-Hire, Full-Time, and Federal requirements.
Experienced in recruiting across technologies such as VMware, Networking, Java, WebLogic, Hadoop, SQL, Testing, Project Management, Business Analysis, System Administration, and Network Support. Proficient in using recruitment platforms including Dice, Monster, CareerBuilder, TechFetch, and LinkedIn Recruiter.
Strong knowledge of US tax terms such as W2, C2C, and 1099, with excellent skills in vendor management, client coordination, team handling, and stakeholder communication. Adept at working across US time zones and delivering qualified candidates within SLA timelines.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Team Lead (US IT Recruitment & Bench Sales)
SERVSYS TECHNOLOGY/ INFOPARK
03.2013 - Current
- Bench Sales Responsibilities:
- Responsible for marketing of consultants to different clients
- Working directly with Client Sales Managers to know what requirements are in play and potential IT staffing status.
- Conducted reference checks, skills assessments and salary negotiations as well as telephone and face-to-face Interviews
- Responsible for marketing the existing consultants through bulk mailer campaign, Job postings & groups.
- Used to interact with the vendors to whom we have submitted our consultants and get the updates in a timely manner
- Constantly communicated and coordinated with the Business Development and Recruiting Teams to develop and keep updated about the process to the consultants.
- Maintain a group of candidates for recurring roles and unique positions.
- Responsible for Updating and maintaining computer database regarding candidate information.
- Communicated with hiring managers and Account Managers.
- Utilizing a variety of resume database subscriptions, job posting (Dice, Monster, Career Builder etc.) candidate referral and Internet email list memberships to obtain hard-to-find candidates and consistently researching and keeping abreast of the Internet.
- Worked on different profiles like Cloud Architects, Big Data, SAP, ERP’s, .NET, Oracle, Salesforce, PeopleSoft
- Formatted clear and concise resumes for client presentation
- Getting all the documents signed either from consultant or vendor to avoid bypassing and double submission.
- Responsible for sourcing, identifying, attracting, securing and closing the hard to find candidates.
- Doing salary, benefits negotiation and making contingency offer.
- Discussing requirements with consultants and repositioning resumes according to requirement and consultants comfort.
- Participate in weekly recruitment meetings with President and Account Managers, focused on troubleshooting difficult positions and managing consultant’s issues.
- Identified potential consultants on fast moving skills and prepared the pool of consultants for future requirements.
- Maintaining inventory of consultants on different skill sets, locations, experience levels.
- Follow up with the offered candidates and checking on their joining dates.
- US IT Recruiter Responsibilities
- Market the IT professionals according to client’s specification.
- Direct the sourcing, networking, referrals and expanded Internet sourcing to fill staffing need of the clients in USA.
- As a Recruiter responsible for the full hiring cycle, including sourcing.
- Developed third-party vendor network, as well as the implementation of new Sales processes. Develop expertise in W2, 1099, Corp to Corp (C2C) hiring..
- Review resumes and contact candidates through phone or email.
- Sourcing of relevant Jobs through search, networking and references & providing the company with relevant and quality candidates within stipulated timeframe.
- Extensively used Internet job boards (Dice, Monster, CB, etc.)
- Developing and maintaining database on the basis for immediate and future requirement.
- Keeping track with all vendors and identify the primary vendor for the client
- Corp-Corp (c2c):
- Gather the requirements with pay rate from Prime Vendors/Clients.
- Understand requirements, source resumes from Internal Database and Job Portals.
- Match technical Skills, Experience, Duration and Responsibility Level.
- Short list Candidates, meet shortlisted candidates and evaluate their soft skills.
- Negotiate and finalize the rate with Candidates or their Employers.
- Submit shortlisted profiles to Prime Vendors/Clients and follow-up on them.
- On a regular follow-up, schedule the client interview and close the deal.
- While negotiating the rate with the Clients and the Candidates, try to keep some good margin to generate revenue for the company.
- H1b Sourcing/Transferring:
- Expertise and active participation in the entire H1B sourcing and H1B transfer process
- Skill Set:
- Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to interface with candidates in the US (Technical IT Recruiting).
- Extensive experience on working with all major Job Portals with good skills in writing Boolean strings.
- Familiar in all kinds of placements in US recruitment along with knowledge in contracts.
- Shortlist and Interview candidates according to the Job requirement.
- Take care of Clients Requirements and place IT Professionals.
- Good knowledge of different work visas like F1 (OPT, CPT), H1B, GC, TN, Citizen etc.
- Good Knowledge on all demanding Technical Skills like Java/J2EE, ETL/Informatica, Oracle, .Net, Cognos BI, QA/BA, PeopleSoft etc.
- Good Knowledge on US Tax Terms (Corp-Corp, W2 and 10-99).
- Capability to Impart Training to Team members on whole Recruitment Lifecycle.
- C2C & Marketing On bench consultants Process Experience.
- Strong Tier1/Preferred Vendors contacts.
- Expertise in Yahoo groups & Google groups mechanism.
JRG SECURITIES
06.2011 - 01.2013
- JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Team Management of 10 peoples in Sales Department and guide them to solve the problems of the Client (JRG CLEINTS)
- Maintaining a good relationship with the Clients and helping them to increase their growth in Shares.
- Maintaining a Log sheet of daily activities done by the Team Members
- Daily reporting details of the Team Members (Including punctuality and checking login and logout time).
Education
SSLC -
Chinmaya Vidyalaya
PLUS 2 - undefined
SNDPHSS
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
SNGCE
Ernakulam03-2010
Skills
- Technical Screening & Evaluation
- Resume Screening
- Interview Coordination
- Candidate Sourcing
- W2, C2C, 1099 Hiring
- US Tax Terms Understanding
- Visa Knowledge (H1B, OPT, CPT, GC, USC)
- US Labor & Compliance Basics
- Vendor Management System (VMS)
- MSP Recruitment Process
- Team Handling & Mentoring
- ATS Management
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- MS Office
- RHCE Certified
- Good Knowledge in Programming
- Computer Hardware and Software
- Good in Windows and Linux
Languages
English
Malayalam
Timeline
Team Lead (US IT Recruitment & Bench Sales)
SERVSYS TECHNOLOGY/ INFOPARK
03.2013 - Current
JRG SECURITIES
06.2011 - 01.2013
PLUS 2 - undefined
SNDPHSS
SSLC -
Chinmaya Vidyalaya
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
SNGCE
DECLARATION
I hereby declare that the above-mentioned information is true to best of my knowledge and belief Place: Thiruvankulam (Neeraj Babu s) Date
Personal Strength
- Good leading Capacity.
- Self Motivating.
- Good Interpersonal and communication skills
- Quick leader and Problem solver
- Ability to transfer skills and knowledge
- Ability to work in high pressure environment
- Highly Adaptive
- Customer service skills