SANDEEP KATANGUR
Recruitment Manager / Account Manager
Hyderabad
Summary
With over 14 years of IT experience, I specialize in recruitment operations, client relationship management, and team leadership. My skills encompass diverse sourcing methods, training delivery, and ensuring legal compliance. Proficient in ATS like Ceipal and Oorwin, I also utilize platforms such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Dice, and Monster. In addition, I am adept with remote communication tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Slack. With a proven track record, I effectively engage all management levels and consistently deliver results within strict deadlines. My expertise lies in driving efficient recruitment processes and fostering strong client partnerships.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Recruitment Manager
Lucid Technologies Inc
10.2024 - Current
- Leading a team of 6+ recruiters, providing mentorship, setting KPIs, and aligning strategies to ensure successful candidate placement and high client satisfaction.
- Also functioning as an individual contributor for critical or high-priority roles, directly sourcing and closing key positions for strategic clients.
- Handling clients like Ally Financial and various state clients including Georgia (GA), Indiana (IN), Iowa (IA), Texas (TX), and Virginia (VA).
- Utilizing ATS systems like Ceipal, and sourcing tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Dice, and internal databases.
- Managing client onboarding processes, including MSA and SOW finalizations, and driving recruitment SLAs in collaboration with sales teams.
- Conducting talent acquisition interviews and coaching recruiters to improve sourcing quality and reduce time-to-fill.
- Reporting weekly/monthly hiring metrics and forecasts to leadership and making strategic decisions based on analytics.
Recruitment Manager
Niktor IT INC
08.2023 - 08.2024
- Supervised a team of over 10 recruiters and handling clients like Walgreens, CVS, UST, TCS, DXC and State clients (GA, IN, IA).
- Offered / mentoring recruiting team members to source qualified candidates and ensure all company goals / targets were met and delivered individual weekly / monthly progress reports.
- Conduct Regular interviews for US IT Recruiters / Talent acquisition candidates and shortlisting, coordinate with HR on releasing offers and joining's.
- Work individually on exclusive direct client requirements when needed and successfully placed candidates for clients in USA & India.
- Exceptional Sourcing abilities through various methods including data mining within database, ATS internal DB (Ceipal) / Oorwin, Boolean operators, X-ray search on Google / Github / LinkedIn, cold calling, user and/or professional networking groups. Source and Screen candidates, Check references, Visa docs and present qualified candidates to clients.
- Managing the process expectations of stake holders and maintaining strong relationship with all stake holders. Lead cross-functional collaboration efforts with internal teams, including recruiters, sales, and marketing, orchestrating seamless service delivery and alignment of strategies to maximize client satisfaction and business outcomes.
- Handling all scheduling activities between candidates and clients.
- Coordinates and assists candidate interview preparation and debriefing and also individually meet the delivery targets assigned from time to time as per the delivery plans.
- Strengthen and Develop client relationships to match our recruitment services offerings to their requirements. Driving recruitment teams to achieve service delivery as per the agreed SLA.
- Oversaw the daily operations of recruitment efforts and maintaining Daily/weekly/monthly reports of the requirements, submissions and profile status, Interviews, and placements.
- Evaluates data on each month's performance and provides reports to the CEO.
Recruitment Manager & Bench Sales
Neumeric Technologies Corp
02.2013 - 08.2023
- Manage the Recruitment & Bench sales team and developing Sales Strategies to generate leads.
- Expertise in Sourcing, Client Interaction, Candidate Interaction and Technically Assessing the Candidate.
- Conduct Regular interviews for US IT Recruiters / Bench Sales candidates and shortlisting, coordinate with HR on releasing offers and joining's.
- Involved in Marketing our own H1b, GC, Citizens, OPT, TN, L2EAD Consultants and working individually on the client requirements when needed.
- Well versed with Direct Client requirements End to End Recruitment Process.
- Good exposure working on direct clients VMS (VectorVMS for State of OH and Freshworks for TTS (Toyota Tsusho Systems) and uploading Candidate profiles in VMS.
- Prepare candidates for telephonic interviews and skype webcam calls based on prior client interview and their cultural interest. Extensively used ATS- Ceipal for sourcing the candidates from different job boards like Dice, Monster, and CareerBuilder and for generating day to day / Weekly / Monthly reports of the team through Ceipal.
- Executed and processed Vendor Contracts, PO, COI and W-9 with associate vendors.
- Negotiate contract clauses with vendors regarding payment terms and other legal issues and completed for all candidates throughout the sourcing process.
- Own, managed and coordinated all communication with candidates throughout the Recruitment, Selection and Hiring Cycle. Coordinate pre-employment requirements are completed to include, drug test and background checks, completion of any client required forms, verification of eligibility to work.
- Handled consultant payments issues. Expertise in Contract, contract to hire, W2 & Permanent Hiring.
- Implementing new sales strategies and initiatives in generating more placements from the team. Leads, motivates and counsels the teams, while maintaining a positive attitude and setting an aggressive pace.
- Generate and submit weekly report to Director & CEO and engage in regular team meetings and weekly meetings with the Director & CEO and Talent acquisition Managers (OPT Recruiters team).
- Evaluates data on each month's performance and provides reports to the Sales Director / CEO. Achieve monthly, Quarterly and annual Placement targets from the team set by the Director & CEO.
IT Recruiter
Tekskills Inc
02.2012 - 02.2013
- Involving in recruiting cycle such as sourcing, screening, contacting, confirming, interviewing and placing qualified talent and also sourcing good consultants.
- Have staffed on ERP, .Net, SAP, Oracle, ETL and Networking Etc. Expert in the use of Job boards like Dice, Monster, Craigslist, Hot Jobs, Career Builder, Corp-Corp, SC Guild, Bench folks etc. Working on Direct Client requirements like EMC, Apple, Cisco, DirecTV, GAP, At hoc Etc.
- Responsible for building a candidate database and recruiter network. Strong ability to screen the candidates before Submitting to End client.
- Ability to work in-groups as well as independently.
- Maintaining the relationship with the consultants and vendors. Sourcing and creating pipelines for multiple Contract requirements across US. Successfully Negotiated Salaries and Pay rate to drag the margin levels in Company's favor and familiar will all the Tax terms (Corp to Corp, 1099 & W2 Hourly/yearly).
- Formatting resumes tailored to the client's corporate branding or specification. Helping junior recruiters in sourcing the consultants using job portals (Hot jobs, Dice, Monster).
- Prepared candidates for client interviews by providing information about the organization and position to ensure quality results. Build and maintain a database of IT professionals and vendors to quickly and efficiently service customer requirements.
- Tracking new contacts from forms like LinkedIn and Google groups.
Recruiter
Staffline Recruitment Group
08.2010 - 11.2011
- Extensive efforts and concentration towards the work, led to my promotion to the position of Sr. Recruiter.
- As an internal and external consultant my responsibilities included. Meeting General Manager to develop recruitment strategies and write job descriptions Writing advertisements Candidate Identification and screening Writing Offers Promote the internal referral scheme Management Reports Weekly Activity meetings with GM.
- After clearing the initial stage of Trainee Recruitment Consultant, I worked as a Recruitment consultant, I worked on projects like Avana bakeries and RF Brookes Food Group in Newport. To look for relevant candidate's CVs, using job boards like Monster, Jobsite, Job Serve and Planet Recruit etc, primarily from Europe.
- Calling them to check for their availability and their willingness towards the job. Advert-response management by data management and updates besides responding to the candidates applying for vacancies through email and telephone.
- Dealing with any calls and queries from the candidates.
- Discussing different strategies and candidates profile for particular vacancies with Client Company's recruitment consultants.
- Direct contact with senior and influential staff of the company by telephone and email.
Education
Bachelors - Computer science
JNTU
Hyderabad 01.2005 - 01.2009
Skills
US IT Recruitment
Individual Contributor
Team Management
Account Management
Direct Clients
Stakeholder Management
MSA
SOW
Social media recruiting
Candidate sourcing
Talent acquisition
Contract negotiation
W2 / C2C / 1099
Accomplishments
- Personally placed 9 candidates individually and, as part of a team effort, placed a total of 32 candidates at Niktor Inc.
- Successfully placed over 400 candidates, both individually and as part of a team effort, at Neumeric Technologies.
Certification
SHRM-CP - SHRM Certified Professional
Timeline
SHRM-CP - SHRM Certified Professional
12-2024
Recruitment Manager
Lucid Technologies Inc
10.2024 - Current
Recruitment Manager
Niktor IT INC
08.2023 - 08.2024
Recruitment Manager & Bench Sales
Neumeric Technologies Corp
02.2013 - 08.2023
IT Recruiter
Tekskills Inc
02.2012 - 02.2013
Recruiter
Staffline Recruitment Group
08.2010 - 11.2011
Bachelors - Computer science
JNTU
01.2005 - 01.2009