Sajjad Sofi
Talent Acquisition Professional
Srinagar
Summary
A bright and a seasoned Talent Acquisition professional with 11+ years of experience in Recruitment and Staffing verticals. Excellent written and verbal communication skills coupled with zeal to excel in a high paced environment. Dedicated professional with history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.
A decade full of experience in end-to-end recruitment life cycle from brainstorming with project managers/hiring managers, gathering requirements and compiling the job descriptions to onboarding the candidates. Technology enthusiast who loves to keep himself updated with the latest technology trends and corporate happenings. Experienced in Bulk Hiring for Walk-In drives, Virtual Drives, University and College Hiring. Experience in sourcing from all the popular job boards like LinkedIn, Naukri, Monster, Dice, Hiretual, and Instahyre Proven track record of working as an individual contributor as well as leading the teams.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Recruitment Analyst
CBREX Technologies
Bangalore
04.2021 - Current
- Sourcing candidates for niche skills using LinkedIn and other jobs boards
- Maintaining an active pipeline of candidates and continue building pipeline for niche roles
- Acting as a liaison between the clients and sourcing vendors and ensuring proper sourcing techniques are used and talent is sourced based on the given sourcing guidelines
- Attending the meetings with hiring managers to understand their hiring needs and translating that to the sourcing partners for quick TAT in closing the positions
- Scheduling and maintaining data about the interviews and offers and ensuring the offered candidates join the project
- Developing a pool of sourcing partners across India to help in filling the multiple positions
- Highest revenue grosser for the FY-2021 closing 40 positions in a single month
Talent Acquisition Lead
Serve Staffing Solutions Inc
Srinagar
01.2019 - 03.2021
- Sourcing candidates across different platforms and probing them about their experience and skills as required for the open positions
- Making sure that all the positions from the clients in India as well USA are served properly
- Involved in bulk hiring for different locations across India for various clients including virtual drives, walk-in drives and special hiring festivals
- Negotiating salaries and benefits and submitting qualified candidates to the project managers/hiring managers
- Using different social media platforms to reach out to potential candidates like Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn
- Hired IT and NON-IT consultants on positions like Software Developers, Testers, QA Engineers, Project Managers, Network Engineers, Front End, Back End, Database developers etc
- Hired for Leadership roles like Account Directors, Directors, Sales Heads, and Marketing Heads etc
- Talking with hiring managers and other stakeholders to discuss their business needs in terms of the human resources
- Brainstorming sessions with team to find innovative ways of finding probable candidates, improve the negotiation skills and keeping them motivated
- Liaison with the candidates, setting up and coordinating the interviews, tracking the candidate submissions and ensuring proper follow ups with the candidates and clients to ensure that not a single update is missed
- On-boarding the selected candidates, guiding them in submitting their application forms, submitting their documents, acting as a bridge between candidates and consulting companies and making the hiring process smooth.
Lead Analyst - Hiring & Sales
BQE Software Inc
Srinagar
03.2016 - 12.2018
- Sourcing and Recruiting qualified and interested candidates for India and US office facilities for different positions within the organization (in-house hiring)
- Hiring people from interns to entry level, mid-level, senior level and for leadership roles for the organization
- Mostly hired for the roles like Software Developers, .Net Developers, Java Developers, Quality Associates, Database Engineers, Reports Developers, API Developers etc
- Organized bulk hiring drives in Office, Colleges and Universities to hire people at entry level roles.
Talent Acquisition Lead
Cynet Systems Inc
03.2014 - 02.2016
- Sourcing for Engineering and IT positions for HCL, L&T, Virtusa and CenturyLink
- Using Job Boards like Monster, Dice, CareerBuilder and TechFetch
- Experience of working with collaborative Job Board Brodbean which brings all the job boards and social media platforms like Dice, Monster, CareerBuilder, Indeed, GitHub, Aboutme etc
- Well versed with Social Media for hiring consultants by making use of LinkedIn, Talent Now Connect, Bullhorn and Ladders
- Setting up the interviews and coordinating with on-site Account Managers
- Engineering roles included; Oil & Gas positions, Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Document Control, Embedded Engineers, Instrumentation, Automotive Engineers, Signal Processing, etc
- IT roles included; Java, .Net, Pega, Tableau, ROR, IT Support, Help Desk, UI, Quality Assurance, Testers etc.
Lead Recruiter
iQuasar LLC
01.2012 - 12.2013
- Sourcing candidates for USA based clients using job boards like Dice, Monster and Career Builder
- Sourcing people for internal requirements and for the client requirements for UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain and USA
- Making extensive use of JobDiva (Application Tracking System) for the overall recruitment process which includes adding comments against the candidates, scheduling interviews, submitting candidates to the end client and also checking the performance reports
- Hands on recruiting including Interviewing, screening negotiating rates/salary and reference-check of the candidates
- Conducting telephonic interviews to check the quality of the candidates by asking Technical Objective questions
- Scheduling face to face interviews with the client.
Technical Recruiter
iQuasar LLC
12.2011 - 12.2012
- Extensively working on recruitments for US Clients on 1099, W2, and Corp to Corp basis
- Working with US Citizens, Green Card holders, H1Bs, OPTs and TN Permit holders and negotiating hourly rates or salary for the projects
- Recruitment process (Internal/External) including both permanent and contract, recruiting from database and from the internet job portals like Dice, Monster, Resume Bucket, Bullhorn etc
- Interviewing, screening negotiating rates/salary and reference-checking candidates.
Technical Support Advisor-II
Teleperformance, Adobe Systems
Gurgaon
12.2010 - 11.2011
- Providing timely and accurate Technical Support through phone, email or chat to Adobe Systems customers based in UK, US, Australia, and Canada
- Deliver First Call Resolution by handling customer requests and resolving customer’s technical and non- technical issues as often as possible during the first contact for assigned products
- Accurately document all customer interactions in a case tracking database
- Discerning between developer and end user customers and provide support which corresponds to the appropriate level of technical aptitude
- Assessing customer sentiment at all stages during the communication, to take the lead in escalating an issue on behalf of the customer.
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA - HR, Management
IGNOU
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) - undefined
IUST Awantipora
A Level / Higher Secondary School Certificate (10+2) - undefined
Jehlum Public School
Timeline
Sr. Recruitment Analyst
CBREX Technologies
04.2021 - Current
Talent Acquisition Lead
Serve Staffing Solutions Inc
01.2019 - 03.2021
Lead Analyst - Hiring & Sales
BQE Software Inc
03.2016 - 12.2018
Talent Acquisition Lead
Cynet Systems Inc
03.2014 - 02.2016
Lead Recruiter
iQuasar LLC
01.2012 - 12.2013
Technical Recruiter
iQuasar LLC
12.2011 - 12.2012
Technical Support Advisor-II
Teleperformance, Adobe Systems
12.2010 - 11.2011
Master of Business Administration (MBA - HR, Management
IGNOU
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) - undefined
IUST Awantipora
A Level / Higher Secondary School Certificate (10+2) - undefined
Jehlum Public School
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