1. Abhishek Das
+91-9900237596
hrabhishekdas@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/hrabhishekdas
OBJECTIVE:
Created sustainable success for organizations through more than a decade of experience recruiting all levels of
professionals across multiple industries, including exempt and non-exempt employees. Recognized as a talented
communicator who articulates complex value propositions with a precision that ensures buy-in at all levels. An
expert negotiator who establishes an environment of confidence and trust. Experienced in human resources;
stays abreast of industry trends and laws.
SUMMARY:
• Possess strong technical/business acumen and understanding of technical requirements; deep sourcing
skills and experience sourcing active/passive candidates; excellent candidate assessment skills.
• Interviewed prospective candidates and educated candidates on process.
• Negotiated with candidates, extend offers, provided compensation, facilitated the placement of candidates
and solicited referrals of top talent in the area
• Used social media outlets like LinkedIn and Facebook to collect perspective candidate from existing
employee and their referral.
• Provided support to higher level management to participate in interactions, feedback and welcome
candidate when they are hired.
• Enhanced and support employee through good referral package for full time positions available. Send
reminder and current job opening list to in-house applicants.
• Updated and tracked candidates in accordance to company’s standards.
• Submitted qualified candidates to open job requirements.
• Effective in sourcing, networking, referral generating, relationship building, strong negotiating and closing
skills.
• Provided candidates in cross platform and corporate business units
• Implemented full lifecycle of recruiting by sorting out the resume, taking technical screening, arranging
telephonic interview with the internal pannel.
• Delivering high quality candidate for interview resulting to save quality time and resource of Company.
• Used applicant Tracking System.
• Demonstrated a high degree of ingenuity, lateral thinking, analytical skills and business acumen; built and
maintained long term client and candidate relationships and have a well-developed understanding of
industry and marketing dynamics to ensure the achievement of maximum growth and profitability.
• Strong analytical skills with flair in coordinating events at different levels.
• A resourceful, solution-focused professional with excellent interpersonal and rapport-building skills.
AREAS OF STRENGTH
End to End Recruiting(USA & India) Candidate Development Pipelines
Advance recruiting techniques (Boolean & X-Ray) US & India Technical Recruitment
Salary, Rate Negotiations and closing deals PeopleSoft HRMS
Client & Hiring manager relationship Development Report Generation
Immigration Policies (USA) Multi-task Competent
Solutions Oriented Communication skill(verbal and written)
Resource Management Group(RMG-TAG) Vendor Management System(VMS)
Social Networking & Building referral networks Passive/Active Recruiting
Sourcing Methodologies: Expert user LinkedIn, Social Networks, Employee referrals systems, and standard
job boards, Google, Internet sites, Dice, Monster, Naukri, Corp-Corp, CareerBuilder, Indeed, Bullhorn Reach &
Third party agencies etc.
2. Professional Summary:
Tavant Technologies Dec 2015- Present
Sr. Executive-Contract Hiring/Volume Hiring/Lateral/Exec Hiring
• Responsible for End to End Recruitment
• Developing and executing recruiting plans
• Develop recruitment strategy. This may include job posting optimization, recruiting marketing channel
development, job board procurement, digital and non-digital employment marketing, comprehensive
recruitment campaign planning, talent planning, etc
• Daily Interacting with onsite manager to know about the priority requisitions and responsible for
building excellent technical talent pipeline for all open requisitions of Consumer Lending & Retail,
Media via direct and vendor support. Sourcing, Screening, i/w & offer follow ups.
• Involved in weekly client & Team call.
• Responsible for End to end hiring for skilled candidates up to AVP level
• Requirements Gathering from TAG Managers/BUs/ DELIVERY/SALES TEAMs
• Requirement complete discussion with respective Delivery team/Initiator/Technical Team
• Sourcing/Screening qualified candidates(Via Preferably Direct source & approved vendors)
• Coordinating Interviews with Tavant technical panels/Customer managers
• Documentation work/Offer negotiations & generation through ITAP(Internal Database for offer
generation & employee ID creation)
• Initiating and follow ups for BGV completion of selected candidates.
• Onboarding and Arranging induction programs
• Maintaining all trackers and driving weekly con call with various Delivery managers/BU heads and
with RM, AVP & VP and ISG team to discuss open and future requirements status and planning’s.
• Updating the candidate’s status in ITAP (Internal ATS of Tavant Technologies Talent pool).
• Running weekend drive whenever volume hiring is required.
Vendor Management SPOC
• Spearheading the vendor management system.
• Identify the process, periodically evaluate the vendors and identify new vendors for supporting the
talent acquisition process.
• Agreement release/Review/Invoice/Payments release.
• Managing Naukri, Monster, and LinkedIn portals, Identifying and negotiating with the vendors on the
renewal.
Brillio Jan2014 – Dec 2015
Talent Acquisition- North America/India
Senior Executive/Recruitment Specialist
Brillio (Spin off Collabera.), a $100 Million Startup Professional ,is a USA based IT service provider, providing
a host of services from application development, IT support, consultancy, new know how areas with specialty in
emerging & disruptive technologies.
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for hiring across a portfolio of technical and domain skills along with senior level hiring
for Bangalore/US.
• Determine and prioritize recruiting requirements, develop and implement the recruitment strategy for
high-volume skills and niche skills.
3. • Provide market intelligence and business trends on talent pool availability and compensation. Maintain
recruitment dashboard for allocated departments
• Handling high volume as well as niche / specialty skills by having an active pipeline of potential
candidates through social media, internet searches and referrals.
• Negotiate salary and benefits to drive closure for all positions roles
• Ensure optimal source mix to keep hiring costs down.
• Vendor management
• Trained in Competency-based Interview methodology
• Sourced active and passive candidates through creative search strategies including: networking, cold
calling, on-line databases, employee referrals, LinkedIn, Yahoo Groups, Google, industry referrals,
networking, career fairs.
• Increased percentage of hires from employee referrals by conducting referral road shows, increasing
referral bonus for niche skills. Improved source pool for niche skills by identifying active and passive
outstation candidates willing to relocate to Bangalore.
• Increased selection ratio during weekend drives by introducing week-day prescreening interviews
• Accomplished better Offer-Joiner ratio by introducing a post-offer follow-up process. Increased joining
ratio by maintaining contact with the candidate through periodic newsletters about the organization’s
achievements
• Responsible for all recruitment activities for technical and functional roles within the banking product
unit. Determine and prioritize recruiting requirements, develop and implement the recruitment strategy
for the unit. Provide market intelligence and business trends on talent pool availability and
compensation. Network through industry contacts and employees for hiring senior management roles.
Manage business relationship with staffing vendors. Ensure data is updated in the applicant tracking
system. Maintain the recruitment dashboard.
• Supported business growth by meeting hiring targets of across technical and domain roles. Achieved
this by using employee referral, staffing vendors, new-paper advertisement, internet job boards, direct
applications and walk-in recruitment events.
• Improved staffing turnaround time by 10% by implementing process changes within recruitment team
set up a backend team to source, screen and schedule candidates for interviews; streamlined the
interview process, organizes pan-India recruitment events; showcase the business unit at industry
events.
• Rolled out innovative employee referral drives across multiple locations to create awareness of the
business unit.
• Handling all Internal fulfillment functions for the allocated Business Unit
• Initiating transfer of resources to different projects and Business Units
• Maintaining Bench Report
• Organized Competency-based Interviewing workshops for new interviewers in the Unit.
• Ensure the adherence to recruitment standards and process compliance within the team
• Develop and sustains strong relationships with middle management through proactive communication
and commitment to understanding the services and needs of the assigned business lines. Form an
integral part of the selection process for middle management hiring for the unit/region
• Able to manage daily activities to maximize productivity, quality and delivery of services in a cost
effective manner
• Presented job opportunity to the qualified candidates and negotiate contract terms, negotiated
compensation package, assessing relevant experience, education skills to determine pay type/rate,
relocation benefits, required H1 processing and other benefits.
• Successfully placed multiple H1B resources for full time positions. Educated and negotiated about the
immigration policies.
• Involved in GC Initiation Process and educated resources about organization policies respectively.
• Prepped and debriefed the candidate. Providing coaching and advice to the candidate throughout the
client interview process to include counteroffers and job transition.
• Known for sizzling communication strategies that sell people to people, business to business,
interacting with Sub contracting companies.
• Evaluate challenges and opportunities inherent to the emerging business needs and suggest
alternatives / feasible solution to the Business.
• Identify and track key business trends, analyze and understand people challenges
4. • Convert the talent pipeline strategy into actionable approach for the business by analyzing details of
skill requirements, numbers, competencies, domain etc.
• Provide direction to team and business with appropriate key changes required in HR initiatives for
maximum people impact;
• Managed there is no shortage of candidate or profile when the position is available. For any tentative
skill set, there are backup profiles or candidates.
• Participated in special projects/recruiting initiatives including assessment of best practices in
interviewing techniques, leveraging of internal sources of talent and identification of top performed for
senior-level openings.
• Built pipeline of potential future business equal to 2-3 times monthly requirements.
Post Selection Activities:
• Understanding candidate’s salary expectations & negotiating on proposed salary in such a way that
both the ends are being satisfied.
• Making Salary fitments and releasing E-mail Offers.
• Ensuring all the required documents are handed over to operations team prior to the date of joining.
• Ensuring there is minimum drop out cases.
• Constant Follow up with yet to join candidates to ensure their joining.
• Arranging and cordinating walkins.
• Vendor Management.
• Interview Coordination, Talent Mapping.
• Constant interaction with Business Managers to understand the requirement.
• Preparation of Daily reports and Screening database.
• Interview Coordination for Drive / Walk Ins and Scheduled Interviews.
• Pre offer and post offer follow up.
• Involved in entire recruitment process .
• Good understanding of IT Recruitment
Keshav Consulting Solutions (Keshav Information Technology Solutions) Jan 2011 to Dec2013
HR Executive/Recruiter, IT Recruitment -North America
Keshav (pronounced "KAY-shov") Consulting Solutions, LLC (KCS), is a minority-certified firm, founded in
2004 and is based in Morrisville, North Carolina. KCS specializes in IT Consulting and IT Staffing. KCS serve
a wide range of customers from small companies to the Fortune100 throughout North America.
• Responsibility for full life cycle recruitment, providing direction, coaching and development to the
team.
• Managing staff and mentoring all team members.
• Maintain accurate and well-ordered documentation on candidates, searches, hiring manager, account
mangers interactions and other recruiting activities to ensure Company and legal compliance with
employment practices, policies and processes.
• Outstanding persuasion, diplomacy and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of selection process and successfully manage challenging
assignments required
• Strong ability to analyze, define and refine requirements.
• Successfully placed IT consultants in various industries.
• Used other sources like user groups, references and employee referrals for building up a network
of qualified consultants
• Experience placing senior/executive/C-level and niche candidates
• Helping team folks in their search for the complex requirements.
• Sourcing best quality resumes from different portals – Careerbuilder, Monster, Dice, Techfetch,
JobDiva using Boolean searches.
• High proficiency in working simultaneously on Career builder, Monster, Dice, Techfetch separately.
• Formatting effective resume presentation and content to highlight candidate’s qualifications for target
position.
5. • Preparing the daily and weekly reports for the management.
• Co-ordinating with the Client’s in getting the feedback and new requirements.
• Screen consultants based on job description, checking consultants in depth knowledge in the relevant
technology, functional skills, job history, geography, ability to travel, and other relevant skills required.
• Ensures that adequate numbers of qualified candidates are submitted for all assigned client
requirements in a timely manner.
• Analyzing client requirements to interview candidates to ensure that all submittals are of the
highest caliber and closest fit to the client’s needs
• Mining resumes, Interviewing and screening potential candidates including face-to-face, phone
interviews and conducting reference check, also negotiate hourly rates/salaries with candidates or sub
contractors.
• Follow up with candidates after the phone/in-person interview and gather the interview feed back and
checking their availability/interest if they get an offer from the client.
• Talent Acquisition Role -After receiving an offer for the candidate- Administered pre-employment
processes (Prepare and sign by the candidates the following forms) Staffing form, Exhibits, Drug test
and Background check authorization forms, W2 Agreement form, completing all the paper works to
start the candidate.
• After employment -Resolution for the queries of the consultants after joining such as (Discrepancy in
filling the Time Sheet, pay check issues etc.)
• Do a requirement & supply mapping and share suitable CVs with the project poc. Follow up with the
poc to identify the right fit and get them locked against the requirement.
• Clear understanding of US benefits, compensation, employment types and terms like C2H (Contract to
Hire) position, C2C, W2, 1099, EAD, GC and Citizens and other visas.
• Involved in handling escalations as and when it arises, to fill-up communication gaps, salary
negotiations and consultants' availability for the project
• A passion for professional ethics and adherence to company core value cares about people and gets
results.
• Responsibilities also include but not limited to support New Trainee Recruiters in understanding the
requisition and finding a right match.
Education/Certification:
• MBA Full Time from Osmania University (HR-Specialization)
• Certified in Oracle HRMS R12.x Applications
Achievement:
• Received Award Employer of the Year – Keshav Consulting Solutions (2012-2013)
• Has won- Performance & Valuable Contribution to the Company-US Talent Acquisition (Brillio)
(2014)
• Has won- Performance & Valuable Contribution to the Company-US Talent Acquisition (Brillio)
(2015)
• Has won PAT-ON THE BACK for fulfilling niche requirements of KPMG& Freddie-Mac
(Brillio) (2015)
STRENGTHS:
• Comprehensive problem solving abilities
• Excellent verbal and written Communication skills
• Ability to deal with people diplomatically
• Willingness to learn
• Team facilitator.
