Sindhuja Chinnam

• Extensive Experience in handling Recruiting, Recruiting Team, Finding the candidate for the positions and expert in hiring OPT/CPT/H4 EAD/L2 EAD /TN/H1B (C2C, TRANSFER) /GC EAD, GC & Citizens.
• Continuous interaction with the hiring managers & Consultants on a regular basis.
• Responsible for sourcing talented candidates according to the job description of the client through internal databases, group referrals, job portals like Dice and Monster etc...
• Individually handle the whole OPT/CPT recruitment process.
• Involved in OPT online / Onsite training and placements & good experience in cold calling.
• Maintaining a healthy pipeline of OPT/CPT/H4 EAD/ L2 EAD/ TN/H1B/GC EAD, GC & USC Consultants for Training or Direct marketing.
• Good skills in finding the right candidates through Free job portals, Social networking sites, referrals & Universities.
• Maintaining database & follow up with all the consultants to make healthy relationships.
• Interaction with the Team and finalizes the deal for the candidate.
• Able to work with demanding time schedules, has excellent attitude towards teamwork and possesses good interpersonal skills.
• Make sure to collect all the documents from the candidates.
• Providing eligible candidates with appropriate job offerings and placement.
• Extremely motivated, Goal-oriented individual who thrives in a target driven, client facing business areas.
• Strong computational and analytical problem solving skills, with motivation to learn new technologies/ Skills.
• Extensive experience in INTERNET, MS OFFICE, SOCIAL NETWORKING & FREE JOB BOARDS.
• Highly skilled at sourcing using Networking, Headhunting and direct Market search strategies.
• Having good experience on Complete Recruitment Life Cycle.

ATS: Ceipal
Portals: Monster, Dice, LinkedIn
Clients: HCL America

• Understanding the client requirements, coordinating for short listing and screening including preliminary interview of the candidates.
• Handled all the IT Technologies involving combination of complex skill sets and rare technologies.
• Extensive experience of Internet Recruiting for candidates and industry leads, pre-screening to quality potential candidates.
• Dealing with consultants on GC, EAD, CITIZEN and H1B, etc. Negotiating the rates on Contract, Contract to hire basis and full time.
• Coordinating, Scheduling & Conducting Interviews.
• Expertise in using job portals like Dice, Monster, Career builder, Techfetch, etc.
• Hands on experience working on Social Networking sites and experience in job posting websites like LinkedIn ,Bullhorn, Ladders, ejobsville, Google groups, Craigslist and Job score.
• Keeping Track of Responses & Short listing Profiles.
• Worked on Fulltime or Permanent, Contract, Contract to Hire.
• Have strong work experience with Boolean search and the resume formatting skills.
• Assigned the tasks of sourcing suitable candidates for different positions
• Experience in international Recruiting/Staffing/Consulting Business across US
• Responsible for recruiting and maintaining good relationship with existing candidates of the organization.
• Performed recruitment tasks by applying the policies, rules and procedures of the organization.

ATS Used: Ceipal
Portals: Dice, Monster, Ladders, Indeed, LinkedIn
Clients: Arrow Electronics, Veritas, Apple, Palo Alto Networks, CISCO, Heartflow, Bloomenergy

Standav Corp is a Systems Integration company located in Santa Clara, CA and Dallas TX with offshore locations in Sydney, Australia and Hyderabad, India. We Specialize in Salesforce Ecosystem, CPQ Solutions, Virtualization and Storage, DEVOPS Managed Services, IT Staffing- Application Development, Integration and Data Management.

•Recruiting Consultants across USA, working with clients like Veritas, Apttus, Salesforce, Arrow Electronics, Tech Mahindra (Americas), Equinix, Infinity, HighFive, Xentaurs, Cisco.
•Working for requirements like PM, Security based, Python, Network Engineers, Devops, ServiceNow, Siebel, Salesforce, Apttus CPQ, Net Source, Storage Engineer, Remedy BSA, VMware, Customer success Manager, UX designer, IBM Cloud Architect....!!
•Coordinating with clients regarding interviews for the consultants
•Worked on MULESOFT requirements, Sourced Solution Architects, TPEM Presales & MULESOFT Developers

• Reviewed code and debugged errors to improve performance.
• Investigated issues and defects to determine problem root cause and formulate corrective action recommendations.
• Diagnosed and corrected errors within code to allow for integration of proprietary applications.
• Applied scripting knowledge to supplement Java development.

ATS Used: Ceipal
Portals: Dice, Ladders and LinkedIn
Clients: Wipro, Cognizant, Apex Systems and TechM

Mainly focused on W2, C2C, CTH & Full Time Requirements.
Responsible for full cycle recruiting, sourced, screened, filtered resumes, checked references, interviewed and hiring top technology talent for positions ranging in scope from Entry level Engineer to Architects.
Searched for qualified candidates on Monster, Dice, Techfetch, Ladders, and LinkedIn and also on local database by applying appropriate search strings.
Conducting extensive searches through Prohires, job sites, job postings, internal database and search engines, networking, goggling etc.
Identifying the matching consultants for the requirements.
To check whether consultants are suitable to the Requirement or not.
Understanding the salary requirements of prospective candidates and negotiating compensation so as to maximize profit margins for the company.
Timely communication with candidates for their availability for contracts.
Recorded applicant information accurately into company database to maintain accurate information relating to each individual and status of their submittals
Working on End to End process from Sourcing to till consultant joining on board at the client place on committed date with Client.
Strong with networking and relationship building.

ATS Used: Job Diva
Portals: Monster, Dice, Ladders, LinkedIn and Techfetch
Clients: Tech Mahindra, HCL america, Galaxy, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and few state clients.

Managing full-lifecycle of recruitment (full-time/permanent, contract) and hiring processes, sourcing (direct, indirect), pre-screening, interviewing, reference checking, offer negotiations and hiring documentation.
• Have experience recruiting for contract, contract to hire and permanent positions.
• Made extensive use of the major job boards including: Dice, Monster, Zip recruiters, Carrier Builder downloading viewed resumes and posting advertisements on the professional sites Like LinkedIn or Google group to attract qualified technical individuals to apply.
• Recruit all kinds of roles of software professionals.
• Worked on Corp to Corp or 1099 and W2 tax terms.
• Managed end-to-end Recruitment, database and applicant tracking through Ceipal.
• Filtered through and reviewed completed candidate resume while evaluated applicant’s work history, education and training, job skills, desired salary/hourly rate, and qualifications against open requirements.
• Evaluated and initial screening of selected candidates, route to sales staff for placement, and placing resources as per client needs.
• Negotiated salaries and hourly rates, extended offers of employment to successful candidates and supported in filling up all the necessary paper work after the hire.
• Worked with candidates on various work permit visa’s (H1B,TN,E3 EAD, Green card and US citizens).
• Acting as a bridge between VMS and recruiters.

ATS Used: NA
Portals: Dice, Monster, LinkedIn and Ladders
Clients: Inhouse projects, UST Global, Infosys, Wipro

Responsible for all aspects of Recruiting with Direct Clients and major Tier 1 vendor’s & as per the client requirements.
Maintained high profile in the professional and business community.
Skilled in cold calling, negotiating contracts, consultative selling, forming alliances and partnering with clients.
I hired consultants on W2 and Contract bases for our direct clients especially OPT's.
My responsibilities include sourcing, interviewing and hiring of IT professionals for multiple projects and assignments in the IT services industry.
I am involved in creating and managing a candidate network and queue with a wide variety of IT skills.
Maintained an efficient database, with the help of which I could successfully deliver right IT people in right time.

***Rockstar Rookie Award for the year 2016*** for getting candidates on bench and making closures with the client UST Global.