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Preethi Rajendran

Preethi Rajendran

Recruitment Manager
Chennai

Summary

  • Dynamic and result-oriented individual with about 12 Years of Recruiting experience, focused in the placement of IT and Non-IT Technologies.
  • Expertise in Staffing, Resource Planning, Talent Market Search, Analyze skill pricing trend & comfortable working with tight deadlines.
  • Hands on experience in both Domestic and International hiring
  • Responsible for the full life-cycle of Recruitment from understanding the requirement to placing the candidates for Contract, Contract-to-Hire and permanent roles
  • Experienced in recruiting and hiring processes including sourcing, initial screening, tracking, salary negotiations, offer release and retaining of the candidates.
  • Extensively used many job boards, professional networks, social networks, head hunting, cold calling and referrals.
  • Excellent communication, team handling, interpersonal skills, multi tasking and call handling skills with strong analytical ability and problem solving capability.
  • Filtering candidates based on their basic technical and communication skills. Work experience on Abacus (Fitment tool), Taleo and CSOD to design the salary structure.
  • Liaison between the team members, business and client.
  • Worked on various Technology hiring for multiple domains (Information Technology, Telecommunication, BPS, Building Technologies)

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
20
20
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

Manager – Recruitment

Servion Global Solutions
9 2021 - Current
  • As a Recruitment Manager for high volume of strategic IT accounts
  • Accountable for leading and strategizing the entire product engineering hiring efforts and managing relationships with more than 10+ clients and MSP’s
  • Head a Product Engineering Talent Acquisition team of 6+, consisting of Lead recruiters, Technical Recruiters and Junior Recruiters located in Bangalore and Chennai
  • Develop various hiring strategies to fulfil critical demands with stringent timelines
  • Responsible for maintaining client relationships, serving as the point of contact for the organization with key clients
  • Handling client escalations & resolving it within TAT
  • Reviewing reports and metrics to the Executive Leadership team
  • Lead recruiting efforts towards highly skilled professionals that vary in diversity of skill sets primarily focusing on mainly senior technical level, managerial across a variety of different skillsets
  • Training and mentoring of new recruiters with the full recruiting life cycle processes
  • Recruitment: Responsible for full life cycle recruiting, including sourcing, interviewing, qualifying and placement of full range of software engineering
  • Strategic Workforce Planning – Responsible for the strategic workforce planning and talent assessment
  • Initiate sourcing and recruitment activities to support talent gaps for future requirements and continued growth
  • Facilitate daily requisition meetings to set priorities and ensure collaboration between accounts
  • Act as an escalation point for all accounts to ensure quality account management and delivery
  • Lead by inspiring, motivating and engaging all recruiters to meet and exceed their goals
  • Conduct weekly 1:1 coaching with each recruiter as well as impromptu coaching on the floor
  • Committed to building meaningful and lasting relationships with clients, candidates, and internal team
  • Responsible for maintaining Scorecard Reviews and improvement
  • Managed the team in Technical Sourcing for all clients
  • Improvements to the recruitment proposition, based on feedback after agreement with business stakeholders
  • Gave task to the team to ensure the work has been handled smoothly and in efficient/productive manner
  • Conducted pre and post interview evaluations of all candidates as per the client needs.

Manager - Recruitment

CSS Corp
11.2018 - 09.2021
  • Handling End to End recruitment process and Stakeholder expectations across PAN India Locations
  • Managing a highly motivated team of recruiters, perform front-ending and back-ending work until complete recruitment, distribution of job responsibilities and ensuring high level of motivation within the team and achieve results
  • Hands-on experience with Screening and sourcing candidates through personal, telephonic and Skype Interviews and short-listing them Based on the requirement, understanding requirements from organizations by attending meetings, discussions, conference calls, etc
  • And maintaining rapport and working closely with hiring managers and Clients
  • Handle the team for sourcing the candidates by using different methods like Job Boards, Head hunting, Networking, Employee referrals, Internet Sourcing, Existing database and Vendors
  • Monitor and report the quality and quantity of resumes on a daily/weekly basis
  • Responsible for hiring recruiters, training, grievance handling, mentoring and handling queries/issues of team members on daily basis
  • Negotiating, finalizing salaries and PO cost with clients and candidates.

Assistant Manager - Recruitment

Honeywell Technology Solutions (Payrolls of PeopleStrong)
06.2016 - 11.2018
  • Leading a multidisciplinary team
  • Talent Acquisition support for all hiring activities for HTS India
  • With limited guidance, provide expertise, support and advice on the Talent Acquisition process to assigned management teams as required
  • Experienced in end to end Recruitment
  • Exposure working on different verticals
  • Cross functional influence, Change Management
  • Manage and Lead recruitment team of 4 members
  • Technical mentoring team on sourcing on different platforms, negotiating, market mapping
  • Generating reports on a day to day and monthly basis.

Sr Technical Recruiter

Reveille Technologies
01.2016 - 06.2016
  • Reason for change - Process closed
  • Handling End to End recruitment professional with strong hands on experience in complete recruitment life cycle, Hiring across verticals, domains, and locations
  • As a Individual contributor, Responsible for strategizing recruitment strategies for different business using all traditional and non-traditional sources available
  • Responsible for business interactions with the clients in fetching requisitions and finding the right candidate
  • Forecasting upcoming recruitment needs as per data available, Maintaining strong pipeline using sourcing, with hands on strong sourcing
  • Involved in negotiation, documentation, striking win-win situation at offer, and continuously achieving joining targets
  • Apart from Traditional recruitment Naukri, Monster UK, JOB SITE, IT Job board, CW jobs, Job Serve, Indeed (Job Portals), also have strong experience in Non- traditional social media recruitment
  • Strong digital (eSourcing/eRecruitment/Social Media Recruitment) recruitment exposure with expertise in following: Good at Advanced Boolean string creation
  • Expertise in Xray, Flipsearch, PeerSearch, BigData Mining
  • Social media recruitment from LinkedIN, Facebook, Google, Xing, Viadeo, Yatedo, Facebook, Twitter
  • Specialize in latest Global Sourcing practices and techniques
  • Responsible for sourcing and Super Niche skill sets from the internet (Digital) sourcing
  • Recruited across verticals from entry to top management; utilizing best global practices trained in.

Sr. Technical Recruiter

Anantha Cyber Tech & iCrown Technologies (ACT & ICT)
05.2014 - 01.2016
  • Reason for change - Company dissolved
  • Responsible for domestic and international recruitment
  • Understanding the requirements from managers and formulating the Job Description
  • Responsible for sourcing and screening information technology professionals for assigned positions, through various techniques including internet mining, cold calling and mining databases
  • Short listing the candidates as per the requirements of various parameters like education, experience, technical skills, communication skills, compensation, assignments to be handled etc
  • Evaluating the Candidates on different aspects
  • Formatting of resumes in specific format prescribed by the company
  • Providing and resolving the queries of the applicants on various aspects
  • Coordinating with the Account manager and candidates to Fix-Up Interview Timings
  • Follow up with the Offered Candidates & Checking on their Joining date
  • Updating and maintaining the database for future requirements
  • Responsible for the full-life cycle search and recruitment of candidates within the Information
  • Submission of daily and weekly reports to management.

Senior Executive - Recruitment

Hexaware Technologies
05.2012 - 05.2014
  • Reason for change - Career Growth
  • Joined as a Executive and promoted to Senior Executive within 3 months of joining
  • Responsible for end to end recruitment for domestic and international requirements.

Education

MBA -

Velammal Engineering College
01.2010 - 04.2012

B.Sc Electronics and Communication Science - undefined

Kumara Rani Meena Muthiah College of Arts and Science
01.2007 - 04.2010

HSC - undefined

St.Ursula's Anglo Indian HSS, Church Park
01.2005 - 04.2007

SSLC - undefined

St. Williams Anglo Indian High School
01.1993 - 04.2005

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Manager - Recruitment

CSS Corp
11.2018 - 09.2021

Assistant Manager - Recruitment

Honeywell Technology Solutions (Payrolls of PeopleStrong)
06.2016 - 11.2018

Sr Technical Recruiter

Reveille Technologies
01.2016 - 06.2016

Sr. Technical Recruiter

Anantha Cyber Tech & iCrown Technologies (ACT & ICT)
05.2014 - 01.2016

Senior Executive - Recruitment

Hexaware Technologies
05.2012 - 05.2014

MBA -

Velammal Engineering College
01.2010 - 04.2012

B.Sc Electronics and Communication Science - undefined

Kumara Rani Meena Muthiah College of Arts and Science
01.2007 - 04.2010

HSC - undefined

St.Ursula's Anglo Indian HSS, Church Park
01.2005 - 04.2007

SSLC - undefined

St. Williams Anglo Indian High School
01.1993 - 04.2005

Manager – Recruitment

Servion Global Solutions
9 2021 - Current
Preethi RajendranRecruitment Manager