Ritesh Kalvellu
Pune
Summary
Dynamic Talent Partner with over five years of expertise in recruiting top-tier technical and non-technical professionals across diverse sectors, including Start-ups, Banking, and SaaS Product Companies in regions such as India, Singapore, the US, the UK, the Middle East, and Europe. Demonstrated success in fulfilling lateral and leadership roles for positions such as Engineering Managers, Alliance Managers, Software Developers, AI/ML Engineers, Cloud Engineers, DevOps/CloudOps Engineers, Solution Architects, DBAs. Skilled in managing the complete recruitment lifecycle to optimize both stakeholder satisfaction and candidate experience. Committed to leveraging proven recruiting strategies and building new to support organizational growth. Possess deep understanding of candidate sourcing, recruitment marketing, candidate experience, and applicant tracking systems.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Energy Exemplar
Senior Executive Talent Acquisition
11.2024 - Current
- Product hiring across multiple levels
- Driving end to end recruitment for assigned roles
- Driving change management and process improvements
Recruiter
Credit Suisse
05.2022 - 11.2024
- Collaborating with hiring managers to understand requirements, priorities, and managing requisitions (full cycle recruitment)
- Providing regular updates to stakeholders on candidate stages and handle any escalations or issues
- Successfully closed more than 50+ positions across various functions through referrals, internal mobility, external hires, and contractors across India
- Ensuring incoming talent is placed within peer parity and internal benchmarking parameters
- Compiling interview feedback for offer approval, updating candidate records in Taleo and PeopleSoft
- Identifying pre-hire risk and compliance checks such as Nepotism, Anti-Bribery, Corruption, Rehire, and Right to work
- Auditing requisitions and interview scheduling cases to ensure there is no operational risk or compliance breach
- Ensuring a positive candidate experience by providing timely communication, addressing inquiries and concerns, and resolving conflicts professionally and courteously thus enhancing candidate experience
- Continuously review and optimize processes to ensure efficiency and effectiveness
- Identify bottlenecks, implement improvements, and leverage technology solutions to streamline reporting
- Developing job descriptions, evaluating cost to hire and time to hire matrix
Global Talent Acquisition Specialist
mLogica
12.2020 - 05.2022
- Successfully closed four Executive level (Country Directors) positions in 45 days across Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Serbia with a yield ratio of 50, 25, 10, and 50 percent respectively
- Collaborating with Engineering Heads and Product Managers for requirement gathering
- Responsible for independently recruiting talent across India, The US, UK, Europe, and the Middle East
Recruitment Consultant
Total Leverages
04.2019 - 11.2020
- Partnered with companies and worked as an individual contributor for hiring talent across IT, Digital Marketing, and Banking/NBFC industries
Talent Acquisition
Merkle Sokrati
08.2018 - 03.2019
- Assisted the growth of employee strength from 250 to 600+ with a total number of 80 hires in various business verticals such as Media, Branding, Hyperlocal, IT, and CRM for Indian markets
- Monitored end-to-end recruitment, sourcing, screening, shortlisting candidates through portals, coordinating interviews (Intern to VP level hiring)
- Conducting campus recruitment drives with management and engineering colleges such as IITs, SIBM, SIMC, BITS, Manipal, COEP, UPES
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Human Resources
Pravara Centre for Management Research & Development
12.2021
Skills
- Employer Branding
- Recruitment Marketing
- Data-driven Decision Making
- Candidate Coaching
- Candidate Experience
- Hiring Events
- GenAI
- Naukri
- Taleo
- Greenhouse
- Criteria Corp
- Boolean
- DocuSign
- UiPath
- BambooHR
- PeopleSoft (HRIS)
- Zoho Recruit
- MyNextHire
- G-Suite
- MSOffice 365
- Recruiter Box
- X-Ray
- iimjobs
- Monster
- Indeed
- Jombay
- Github
Hobbies and Interests
- Web 3 - Blockchain, Cryptography, Smart Contracts
- Swimming
- Computer Gaming
- Badminton
- Trekking
Timeline
Energy Exemplar
Senior Executive Talent Acquisition
11.2024 - Current
Recruiter
Credit Suisse
05.2022 - 11.2024
Global Talent Acquisition Specialist
mLogica
12.2020 - 05.2022
Recruitment Consultant
Total Leverages
04.2019 - 11.2020
Talent Acquisition
Merkle Sokrati
08.2018 - 03.2019
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Human Resources
Pravara Centre for Management Research & Development
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