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Pankaj Shinde

Pankaj Shinde

Pune

Summary

Seasoned Recruiter with robust experience in Talent acquisition and workforce planning. Demonstrated strengths include Strategic sourcing and collaborating effectively with Business.Proven ability to make significant impacts; past achievements include building high performing product & engineering teams, reducing hiring time frames and achieving Quality hires.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Principal Recruiter

Veritas
Pune
05.2022 - 06.2024
  • Leading the hiring for Veritas' transformation office.
  • Strategic planning for fulfilling the roles in Engineering and IT teams.
  • Driving and executing monthly and quarterly plans for hiring. Preparing product, competitor mapping, MI.
  • Preparing weekly and monthly dashboards, representing TA in business reviews.
  • Initiated referral walks for attracting talent for engineering roles.
  • Mentoring junior team members for fulfilment and guiding on their IDP’s
  • Recruitment Projects during - Quality of Hire, Learn-Teach-Learn

Roles/Skills hired: SDE-C++, .Net, SQA engineers, Threat hunters, Malware analysts, Pentesters, Chatbots, CPQ, AEM, OSC, Data engineers, cloud ops engineers upto Manager level.

Specialist Recruiter

NICE Interactive Solutions
Pune
03.2021 - 05.2022
  • Leading the hiring for R&D- Compliance Business Unit.
  • Collaborating with BU Leaders for strategic planning for onboarding teams.
  • Experience in acquisition hiring and rebadging.
  • Driving and executing monthly and quarterly plans for hiring.
  • Preparing weekly and monthly decks, representing TA in business reviews.
  • Initiated referral drives for attracting talent for full-stack roles.
  • Managed 100+ hires for 2021.

Roles/Skills hired: Fullstack Developers,SQA's, Technical Managers, Program Managers, Associate Director, Software Architect, Cloud Architect, Financial Analysts, Tax Consultants.

Executive-Recruitment

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Pune
11.2015 - 03.2021
  • Recruitment Lead for BFS product hiring in India region, responsible for the entire gamut of Talent Acquisition related activities for product hiring in Core banking, Capital markets, Cards & payments Functions
  • Preparing & executing monthly, quarterly plans for Hiring along with Business Heads
  • Driving recruiting initiatives to achieve targets
  • Involved in Product mapping & providing market intelligence (MI) to BU’s for targeted hiring
  • Proposing and selling best fits to the Hiring manager for Senior & Leadership roles
  • Experience in managing large volume drives for vanilla skills
  • Mentoring and managing team members of 2 junior executives
  • Managed 850+ hires in 5 years for vanilla & Product skills hiring

Roles/Skills Hired - Fullstack developers - Java, .Net, T24, Base-24, Intellimatch, Eagle, LoanIQ, Triple-A, Calypso, TI+, Technical skills up to Architect level.

Talent Management- Business Associate

Tech Mahindra Ltd.
Pune
04.2014 - 11.2015
  • Internal fulfillment and closing contractual positions for Telecom domain
  • Conducting preliminary round of interview, followed by Technical/Functional Interview co-ordinations
  • For internal associates & Contractors-Managing the bench and re-skilling of the associates for project placement & ensuring maximum resource utilization
  • Monthly Review with Business Unit Head's for ramp-up/ramp-down in different Accounts
  • Preparation of monthly decks for reviews

Senior Executive-Talent Search

Seed Infotech
Pune
08.2011 - 04.2014
  • End to end Recruitment for Clients and In-house requirements
  • Extensive use of job portals and SM sites- LinkedIn, Skill-pages
  • Involved in active & passive search for Client requirements
  • Conducting preliminary round of HR interview, followed by Technical/Functional Interview co-ordinations
  • Managing staffing vendors -empanelment, negotiating rates, requirements sharing
  • Background verification for new hires, Offer roll out and on-boarding
  • Monthly Reviews with Business Heads and client meetings
  • Preparing base data for payroll
  • Coordinating training's & CEO interaction for employees
  • Team reporting- 2 associates

Roles/Skills Hired: Java, Dot Net developers, Manual testing, Automation testing, C, C++, C#.Net, Python.

Education

MBA - Human Resources

AISSMS-IOM
Pune, Maharashtra
01.2010

Bachelor of Commerce -

Modern College
Pune, Maharashtra
01.2006

Skills

  • Product Hiring-Security & BFS
  • Stakeholder & Escalation Management
  • Fulfillment planning
  • Strategic Sourcing-Xray, Linkedin
  • Assessment tools-HE, Imocha, Codility
  • Data Reporting & Analysis
  • ATS-Taleo, Workday, SSF
  • Referral Programs-Rave, BAY

Certification

  • Linkedin Recruiter assessment, 2024
  • Mini Diploma in Sourcing by Recruiting Monk-2024
  • Hirist.com Tech Recruiter Certification-2020

Accomplishments

  • WOW award for fulfilling critical SQA and security roles for Redlab Security team and Workday tech team
  • Business Enabler award for Temenos product ramp up
  • GEM awards for 4 consecutive years
  • Spot Award for leading the hiring of 60+ key R&D roles
  • Bravo award for closing 60+ positions through internal fulfilment

Timeline

Principal Recruiter

Veritas
05.2022 - 06.2024

Specialist Recruiter

NICE Interactive Solutions
03.2021 - 05.2022

Executive-Recruitment

Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2015 - 03.2021

Talent Management- Business Associate

Tech Mahindra Ltd.
04.2014 - 11.2015

Senior Executive-Talent Search

Seed Infotech
08.2011 - 04.2014

MBA - Human Resources

AISSMS-IOM

Bachelor of Commerce -

Modern College
Pankaj Shinde