A Senior Recruitment/Talent Acquisition Specialist with a demonstrated success history of working in the staffing and recruiting industry with strong focus on IT, Telecom, Networking and Software Development.
Experienced in running a 360 Desk; coordinating with the clients and working with the operations team to identify the best available skills in the market. Skilled in Permanent as well as Contract Recruitment.
• Dynamic and result-oriented individual with more than 7 years of professional IT recruitment experience in Telecom, Banking, financial, Government, Energy and Software development industry. Expert in full cycle recruitment and placements in Canada while being offshore.
• Extensive experience sourcing candidate pipelines focusing on time and speed and critical analysis. Making sure to present a right and cultural fit candidate which would be cost effective.
• Possess excellent knowledge of recruiting and hiring processes including sourcing, screening, interviewing, reference checking and tracking, salary negotiations, closing and on-boarding.
• Successfully placed top-notch candidates in quick turnaround time in contract, tempt to perm and full-time positions including VMS/RFS/MSP accounts and RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing) solutions program.
• Sourced and placed candidates from various professional/social networking platforms - LinkedIn Recruiter, Monster, Indeed, Workopolis, Jobillico, Facebook, Meetups and instant chat groups.
• Worked closely with active as well as passive candidates, to keep building my funnel of candidates which helped me recruit fast for different positions.
• Self-motivated professional who achieves results and has superior ability to coordinate and perform several projects simultaneously.
• Successfully started offshore recruitment operations as a start-up and launched it till the delivery.
• Successfully started Emergitel offshore operations in Lahore, PK and led the end to end recruitment cycle with 10 team members.• Conducted training sessions with new recruiters on the recruitment process and made sure they meet the KPI\'s within the critical time spam of 24 hours for contract recruitment.• Conducted daily meetings with the team for day to day priorities and submissions.• Partner with hiring managers and recruiters to conduct role intake and identify /assess/resolve issues in previous recruitment efforts.• Maintain open lines of communication between candidates and hiring manager throughout entire recruitment lifecycle• Mentored and coached team members as well shared technology knowledge to better qualify our candidates for better success rate.• Manage candidate data in ATS and maintain accurate candidate documentation to ensure legal compliance with employment practices, policies, procedures.• Develop a sourcing strategy for each requisition and pipeline project• Proficient with Application Tracking tools and talent sourcing/networking sites (Workopolis, Monster, Indeed and LinkedIn) as well sourcing qualified candidates utilizing referrals, cold calling and my personal network.• Proficient with VMS (Flextrack, Fieldglass, Beeline, IQNavigator)• Interacting with clients to understand the requirements clearly• Excellent Sourcing Skills from Professional Networking Sites, Blogging, Social networking sites• Excellent Screening Skills and responsible for detail evaluation of candidates against specific requirements• Extraction of suitable candidates depending on the requirement from various channels of sources• Phone screens via phone or video conference• Interaction with the candidates & scheduling them for an Interview based on panel availability• Maximizes profitability by negotiating pay rates with candidates based on position requirements