Karthikeyan Ramachandran

Experience

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  MRF

  Aug 2017 - Feb 2018

  Territory Sales Incharge

  Act as a point of contact for existing and potential customers within assigned territoryIdentify local business opportunities and challengesReport on regional sales results (weekly, monthly, quarterly and annually)Present our products and services to prospective customersIdentify customer needs and recommend product solutionsWork closely with salespeople and other internal teams to meet individual and group sales quotasAnswer customer questions about features, pricing and additional servicesCross-sell products, when appropriateCollaborate with sales representatives from different territories to share best practices and support a cohesive sales approach Show less

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  Photon

  Mar 2018 - Mar 2020

  Human Resources Executive

  Photon is the largest and fastest growing provider of Mobile-First Omnichannel Experiences. Photon works with 37% of the Fortune 100 companies as their digital innovation partner of choice and has the largest digital consumer footprint with over 250 million daily consumer touchpoints. Photon has the largest pool of omnichannel engineers with over 3,800 engineers across offices in the US, Canada, Europe, Mauritius, India, Shanghai, and Indonesia.Roles & Responsibilities:Human Resources executive with strong communication and interpersonal skills.Skilled in operating various job portals like Linkedin, Nakuri, Indeed etc.Experience in end to end recruitment process.Experience in Vendor management and negotiations.• Maintenance of HR Information system (HRIS) like, Clients requirements, Interview Schedules, Selected / Rejected candidates • Provide HR advice to employees and managers• Support and be a critical resource for different HR projects (Talent Management, Employee Engagement, employee and leadership development)• Facilitates staff performance, promotion, and development discussions with management• Provides tactical HR support on aspects such as job description development or review, compensation changes, data management Show less

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  Capgemini

  Mar 2020 - Jun 2020

  Recruitment Specialist

  • Full cycle recruiting for our prestigious financial clients across the nation focusing on Java, Bigdata technologies for various platforms such as Andriod, Ios and Computing. • Excellent sourcing, screening, and selecting candidates based upon strategic qualification criteria through portals like Naukri, Indeed, Monster & LinkedIn. • Developed and maintained strong working relationship with stakeholders, vendors and other team members that yield success, predictable results and credibility. • Leveraged online recruiting resources to identify and recruit the very best candidates and participated in the development of the ongoing and creative cost-effective sourcing strategies. • Built and maintained networks of potential candidates through pro-active market research and on-going relationship management. • Extensively worked on a data validation project using My connect and maintaining employee information in the internal database.Portals: Naukri, Indeed, Linkedin.Skills: Sourcing, recruiting, social media recruiting, excel, PowerPoint, X- ray search Show less

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  Firstsource

  Oct 2020 - Oct 2021

  • Working as a liaison between Business Development Manager and Clients for covering the requirements that flow equally from multiple direct accounts by following the TAT which depends on the requirements. Responsible to provide quality as well as quantity and speed of requirement coverage while working together with team by helping, training multiple recruiters. Trained and mentored new recruiters (Fresher’s) about the entire recruitment life cycle process of FirstSource • Managing full life cycle of recruitment: Requirement gathering, requirement analysis. Strong ability to source profiles through internal and external databases, job portals, referrals and vendors, screen profiles and select candidates based on strategic qualification criteria, conduct HR interviews. • Experienced in all phases of the entire hiring cycle, from writing job requisitions, placing jobs on- line, in-depth interviews, reference checks, preparing offers, negotiating offers, converting offer into joiners. Managing HR Tools and Reporting and analysis of data • Successfully used a number of innovative sourcing techniques, including cold calls, direct mail, diversity outreach, agencies, a network of contacts. Experience in Campus hiring, conducting Job fairs, Virtual drives etc. • Proficient in Leadership hiring like Managers, Senior Manager, DGM, GM, and Vice President for the Organization. • Managing Talent Partners and tracking their performance. • Maintain MIS reports; client wise, requirement wise, for candidates sourced through network building regular Interaction with the Hiring Managers, Delivery Heads for understanding the requirement and business needs good Experience in Managing Stakeholders Show less Specialized in both IT recruitment and Non-It recruitment:IT - have worked on cutting edge technologies like, Java (Fullstack, UI, React.Js, Angular, Node.Js, MongoDB, Spring, Microservices, API) .Net (.Net Core, Asp.Net, Ado.Net, Vb.Net), Database developer (SQL, Data Warehouse, SSIS, SSRS, Power BI, ETL) BigData (Hadoop, Spark, Scala, Hive), Machine learning/Artificial Intelligence (Deep learning, NLP), Python (Django, Flask), Azure, Data Science, Project Manager (PMP, PMI, Prince, Agile, Scrum), Business Analyst (Agile, Scrum, Jira), QA (Selenium, Cucumber, Manual and Automation) etc for both web and mobile based projects.IT Infrastructure: Linux, Unix, SQL, ITIL (Incident, Change and Problem management), ITSM, IT Service delivery, L1, L2 and L3 Support (ServiceNow, BMC remedy, Jira), Telephony, Voip, Tcp/Ip, Network support (Routers and Switches), Azure cloud, AWS cloud, IVR (Cisco, Avaya, Genesys, AWS connect) Non-IT – IT Audit, Risk Management/Cyber security, FP&A, SAP HANA, SAP FICO, Human Resources, Pre-sales, Manager, Senior Manager, DGM, GM etc.Projects:Working on various pilot projects like Market Intelligence, Recruitment Training Documentfor New Joiners, Recruitment SOP, Recruitment Process Document for Client, Candidate Experience Feedback Survey, Employee Referral, Diversity Hiring.Achievements:Worked on a pilot project and successfully hired a team of Financial Consultants (CA and ICWA professionals) and Support Engineers (45 members) for one of the US based client within a span of 2 months. Show less

  • Senior Executive Talent Acquisition

    Jun 2021 - Oct 2021

  • Talent Acquisition Coordinator

    Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
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  Red Hat

  Oct 2021 - Aug 2022

  Senior Executive Talent Acquisition

  • Managing full life cycle of recruitment: Requirement gathering, requirement analysis. Strong ability to source profiles through internal and external databases, job portals, referrals and vendors, screen profiles and select candidates based on strategic qualification criteria, conduct HR interviews.• Experienced in all phases of the entire hiring cycle, from writing job requisitions, placing jobs on- line, in-depth interviews, reference checks, preparing offers, negotiating offers, converting offer into joiners. Managing HR Tools and Reporting and analysis of data• Successfully used a number of innovative sourcing techniques, including cold calls, direct mail, diversity outreach, agencies, a network of contacts. Experience in Campus hiring, conducting Job fairs, Virtual drives etc.• Extremely adept in the use of referral recruiting, creative sourcing techniques, and automated systems for applicant tracking and resume retrieval including, but not limited to Monster.com, Naukri.com, LinkedIn, etc.• Working closely with Practice heads, Delivery managers, stakeholders & Architects/Technical Panels to determine the Order Board and in identifying candidate pool required to close the positions.• Managing sourcing and hiring cycle through job portals, consultants, advertising responses, employee referrals & external referrals.• Strategizing and planning for the fulfillment of open requirements at all levels.• Constant engagement with candidates from offer made stage until the candidates join the Organization.• Keeping a backup in case if the selected candidates do not join.• Source high-quality candidates to ensure 100% satisfaction to the technical teams.• Extensive use of LinkedIn recruiter and X-ray search to hire candidates with niche skills, and using Avature to pipeline for the recurring requirements.• Hands-on experience using Workday and ICIMS for maintaining the candidate details. Show less

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  Arcadia

  Sept 2022 - now

  Taking care of End to End technical recruitment.

  • Talent Acquisition Manager

    Oct 2024 - now

  • Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

    Sept 2022 - Oct 2024