SMITHA PRABHAKAR

Clients - HCL, Commscope, Brillo, Southern California Edison, Federal Reserve Bank and few more

Region - USA market

• As dedicated Recruitment Manager, was responsible for developing long-term relationships with assigned clients for the USA market
• Identify training opportunities and provide career coaching to ensure employee development and progression
• Serve as liaison between clients and cross-function internal teams to ensure timely & successful delivery of solutions in accordance with SLA's
• Increased customer satisfaction by resolving issues.
• Completed duties to deliver on targets with accuracy and efficiency.
• Consistently arrived at work on time and ready to start immediately.
• Resolved conflicts and negotiated mutually beneficial agreements between parties.
• Displayed energy and enthusiasm in fast-paced environment.
• Serves as office event planner for multi-state locations - planning annual fest, team building activities, Christmas parties etc

Clients - Mphasis, TCS & Mindtree

Region - USA Market

• Advised clients on optimal interview and offer processes to streamline recruitment experiences.
• Forged positive relationships with clients and candidates to actively deliver new business opportunities.
• Matched candidates expertly to achieve successful, timely recruitment and onboarding.
• Maintained high suitability standards through diligent screening, interview and assessment processes.
• Nurturing, building, and maintaining strong relationships with client partner; anticipating staffing requirements and expectations and developing value-added services to support changing client needs
• Work closely with recruiting team to ensure deliver customers and responsible for achieving agreed business targets of individual team
• Following up with clients after delivering candidates, interviews and placements to ensure expectations are met, as well as soliciting additional job orders and pre-marketing new candidates
• Managing a team of recruiters to handle recruitment activities and helping & guiding them to achieve objectives and keep them motivated
• Advertised job vacancies through online platforms.
• Expertly negotiated salary requirements and finalised arrangements between client and candidate.
• Developed strong understanding of client companies' values, work culture, and environment.
• Monitored numerous job applications consecutively, qualifying and shortlisting responses to improve workflow efficiency.
• Informed candidates about interview results and made job offers to successful interviewees.
• Briefed candidates about responsibilities, salary and job benefits.
• Facilitated background checks and applicant screenings to vet candidates.
• To forecast, plan and review monthly recruitment targets.

Clients: Mphasis, Wipro, TCS, State Farm, Bank of America, Microsoft, JPMC, Wells Fargo, TD Ameritrade, Home Depot, Comcast, BMW and much more

Region - USA Market

• Drove hiring process in high-volume / time-sensitive environment, working directly with hiring managers and clients and managed candidates efficiently
• Established positive relationships with prospective candidates through networking and regular communications.
• Recruited and hired candidates in state and out-of-state for contract, contract-to-hire and permanent placements for all IT positions for multiple client companies
• Handled end-to-end recruitment processes, ensuring smooth and swift transactions from initial advert to job offer.
• Involved in Internal Hiring, conducted in depth interviews with candidates both in-house and by telephone to determine skills, knowledge, interest, market value, and availability

Clients: Microsoft, Expedia, Alaska Airlines, Big Fish Games, Starbucks, HCL and many more

Region - USA Market

• Effectively recruited IT Professionals in time-sensitive environment
• Developed strong understanding of client companies' values, work culture, and environment.
• Prioritized clients' requirements in high volume, time-sensitive environment to meet deadlines
• Expertly negotiated salary requirements and finalised arrangements between client and candidate.
• Handled end-to-end recruitment processes, ensuring smooth and swift transactions from initial advert to job offer.
• Briefed candidates about responsibilities, salary and job benefits.
• Established positive relationships with prospective candidates through networking and regular communications.
• Advertised job vacancies through online platforms.
• Registered new candidates, developing wide-ranging database to meet client recruitment needs.
• Interviewed, assessed and matched prospective applicants with vacancies at client companies.
• Monitored numerous job applications consecutively, qualifying and shortlisting responses to improve workflow efficiency.
• Worked towards exceeding targets agreed on with clients regarding number of candidates placed.
• Facilitated background checks and applicant screenings to vet candidates.
• Scheduled and conducted interviews, evaluating candidate pool to select top talent.

Clients: IBM, Wells Fargo, Ford, Wall mart, AT&T, Express Scripts, Google and many more

Region - USA Market

• Create and execute recruiting strategy, which results in top-tier, qualified talent pool of professionals and strong candidate pipeline
• Develop and execute sourcing strategy, pre-screen candidates and deliver pre-qualified diverse candidates for hiring manager's evaluation
• Trained and coached new and junior recruitment specialists to improve quality of hires across all business sectors
• Mainly worked on IT requirements and also had hands-on experience working with functional requirements
• Extensively used Boolean search/ key-string search in order to find best match decreasing response time as per client demand
• Drove offer process - including extending offers, closing candidates, and generating offer letters
• Analysed passive and active candidates creating spread sheet based on qualifications.

• Organised meetings and events guaranteeing professional results.
• Took minutes and thorough notes in meetings for distribution.
• Produced and distributed monthly reports using Excel knowledge, enabling improved business analysis.
• Facilitated and processed incoming calls and emails, distributing relevant information to necessary departments.
• Organised filing system for important and confidential office documents.
• Monitored office inventory supplies, re-ordering for service provisions.
• Prepared regular reports on expenses and office budgets.
• Handled diary management for smooth-running administration processes.
• Met deadlines on admin tasks to minimise disruption to colleagues and workflows.
• Secured data and documents to maintain confidentiality according to company and regulatory standards.
• Booked meeting rooms, travel and dining arrangements to facilitate business events.