Sasidharan M. Rajaram

  • Strategic Recruiter
  • Mountain View, CA
  • Member Since Mar 23, 2023

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Sasidharan m. Rajaram

PROFILE                                           

Sr technical recruiter

 

Passionate critical thinker and goal-driven professional, with over 13 year’s skills and experience in technical recruitment with a proven history of consistently exceeding goals for revenue attainment in highly competitive environments. Focused in the placement of technical teams, with an excellent knowledge of recruiting and hiring processes including sourcing, interviewing, reference checking, tracking, salary negotiations, and closing, proficient in organization design and development, resourcing and talent planning, learning and development, as well as the development of innovative HR initiatives to streamline processes and capitalize on organizational growth opportunities.

 

COMPETENCIES

 

Strong written and verbal communication skills with excellent interpersonal skills

Solid background in assessing, motivating, training and inspiring newly inducted personnel

Effective operational assessment acumen endeavored at managing the logistics of employee orientation and support

Designing schedules, assessing risk, staff recruitment and training, as well as managing budget

Proficient in LinkedIn recruiter, Google search, Job Boards; Dice, Monster, Careerbuilder and Net-temps

Skilled in using ATS/Recruitment Tools such as Talent hook, CPAs, WebPas, RecruitNess, Zoniac, gHire and Avionte etc.

Familiar with applicable State and Federal Labor laws and regulations

Sound understanding and proven experience in benefits, employee relations, training policy development, human resource, performance management, and career development

 

Skills and EXPERTISE

 

IT Recruitment

Communication Skills

Client Relationship

Compensation Management

   Talent Acquisition & Training

   Record Management

   Policy Development

   SAP

Payroll Processing

Interview Scheduling

Microsoft Office

Regulatory Compliance

 

 

 

career highlights

 

Google: Fulfilled Hardware Electrical System Integrator roles for Google Pixel team, and achieved 70% Phone Interview to Onsite interview ratio

 

Dimension 8th: Assisted J.Crew in ramping up its HANA project paving the way for $3 million business

 

Ness: Collaborated with the stakeholders to gain in-roads into more business with their clients within a short span and enjoy high trust and confidence as a result

  • Instrumental in getting $10Million outsourcing Testing project from John Wiley
  • Filled up seven Executive roles within Ness.

 

Patel: Instrumental in identifying new markets with newer clients by recruiting and retaining rare talents

  • Oversaw recruiting for Boehringer Ingelheim’s Ohio location resulted in $3Million newer business.

 

Heptronik: Developed business with existing Pharmaceutical clients by coming up with high level/right Bio-statisticians which helped the company in bagging other Pharmaceutical clients.

  • Worked with AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals in clinical staffing fetched $2M in revenue

 

Maars: Predicted the future talent needed and proactively hired candidates which resulted in more business

  • Recruited SAP resources for Rhodia chemical project resulted in $4.1 Million revenue increase.

 

Advent: Brought in contracts from Systems Integrators, and was a top performer by attaining $6Million revenue

 

Artech: Unearth new business strategies with State Government clients and established a process that would bring about $2Million in revenue in 1 year

 

 

professional EXPERIENCE

 

Google                , Mountain view, CA (www.google.com)                                                                                 July 2017 – Present

Technical Recruiter - Consumer Hardware (Contract via Nelson Staffing)

  • Worked on Hardware Electrical Engineering roles with Google Pixel and Google Home teams
  • Fulfilled scarce Hardware System Integrators for Google Pixel team
  • Efficiently perform searches for qualified job candidates
  • Review job postings and applicant qualifications to match applicants with job requirements
  • Develop and recommend recruiting strategies to meet current or anticipated staffing needs
  • Engage in Compensation negotiation and all other on-boarding procedures with the Candidates
  • Set up phone & onsite interview process
  • Meeting and greeting the candidates during onsite interview process
  • Review job postings and applicant qualifications to match applicants with job requirements
  • Develop and recommend recruiting strategies to meet current or anticipated staffing needs
  • Advise management on organizing, preparing, and implementing recruiting or retention strategies
  • Maintain a database of candidates and kept accurate records

 

Dimension 8th Solutions Inc, Sugar Land, TX | (www.dimension8th.com)                              Apr 2013 - Jul 2017

Strategic Recruiter

·          Developed and implemented recruiting strategies to source the best talent

·          Provided recruiting solutions to complex staffing issues e.g. rare “Infor/Lawson”ERP IT professionals

·          Referred candidates to the client-organizations for possible recruitment

·          Prepared and processed compensation processes and issues

  • Implemented best practices in hiring and recruiting issues and procedures
  • Achieved 100% retention rate of recruited IT professionals
  • Maintained an average 12 months retention rate for IT consultants with J.Crew
  • IT skills hired: Java Architect, Chef, Puppet, C++, Cognos Engineers, Program Managers with SCRUM certification, Selenium QA Automation, Full stack Engineers, Front end developers, Angular JS, Note JS, Oracle DBA, Epic Ambulatory Analyst, Epic Project Manager, QA, Hadoop stack, SAP Basis, SAP PI/XI, Hyperion, SAP SD, SAP MM, SAP ABAP, Java/J2EE, OpenText, SAP FICO, Microsoft Technologies, Cloud computing, Project Manager and Business Analyst.
  • Achieved “Submittals to Placements” rate of 90% with J.Crew
  • Performed full-time and contract-to-hire roles with ‘American Airlines”
  • Helped “Li and Fung” to kick start “SAP Biller direct” and “SAP OpenText” projects by hiring Multi skilled Solution Architect level SAP resources for them.

 

Ness Technologies, Teaneck, NJ | (www.Ness.com)                                                                               Jul 2012 - Mar 2013

Strategic Recruiter (Contract)

  • Oversaw the hiring IT Professionals for some of its strategic accounts such as John Wiley, Long and Foster, Pfizer, Warner Music Group and Cobalt
  • Hired Java, .NET, Scrum Masters, UI UX Designers, Web developers, Pega developers, Pega Architects, Sr Ruby developers, Ruby on Rail Engineers, and .NET leads,
  • Recruited a record number of 35 Java professionals in two months with superior Algorithm skills for Cobalt
  • Handled Bay area based clients like PayPal, eBay, Bracket, and Cisco etc.
  • Hired Vice-President, Senior Directors, and Directors for Ness

 

Patel Consultants Corporation, Union, NJ | (www.patelcorp.com)                                              Jan 2011 - Jun 2012

Sr. Technical Recruiter

  • Handled IT requirements from well-known clients such as Merck, Pfizer, Novartis, Eisai, BD, BioMet, J&J, Boehringer Ingelheim, Mercedes Benz, Celgene, MacMillan and Lexis Nexis etc.
  • Placed rare candidates for Selective Insurance thereby paving the way for a repeat business
  • Good understanding of Vendor Managed clients like Eisai, BD, Novartis, and Prudential etc.
  • Successfully placed Validation specialists for Merck Studio Model
  • Professionals recruited are: .NET programmer with ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET and ADO.NET, AJAX, WCF skills, WPF, Silverlight developers, Java Architects, Sr UI/UX designers, Java full stack developers, MS SQL BI developers, Adobe Flex developers, iSeries developers, PowerBuilder developer, C/C++ developers, Sharepoint developers, Biztalk developers, Tibco Architect, Java Architect, MS Active Directory professionals, MS Exchange professionals, WebSphere developers, Web logic Portal developers, Various Data warehouse professionals, and Oracle DBAs, etc.

 

Heptronik Corporation, NJ | (www.Heptronik.com)                                                                           Jul 2009 - Dec 2010

Recruiting Manager

  • Achieved the staffing needs of Indian based Systems Integrators like Wipro and TCS
  • Successfully placed third-party SAP consultants with their direct clients
  • Consistently placed high profile SAP consultants with Valero Energy
  • Helped TCS to staff its Hungary project with consultants from Hungarian language background
  • Hired Java developers and Architects, Database administrators, Validation Engineers, Project Managers and QA Analysts for TCS.

 

Maars Systems Inc. (acquired by Teledata Group), Naperville, IL                                       Mar 2007 - Jun 2009

Sr. SAP Recruiter

Maars was a well-known SAP consulting firm operating in US market since 1997 and was taken over by Teledata Group in June 2008

  • Assisted Maars in setting up recruitment team in India with its processes and procedures
  • Helped to place record no of SAP consultants with one of its Chemical clients in a short time-frame.
  • Ensured faster turnaround time on requirements from SAP Systems Integrators thereby paved the way for continuous business from them.
  • Supported IT needs of the Tier 1 staffing firms like Forward staffing, Insight Onsite, Judge Group, Indotronix/Apollo, Harvey Nash (UK based Multinational firm) and Intertek Global services to name a few

 

Advent Global Solutions Inc, Arlington Heights, IL | (www.adventglobal.com)                  May 2005 - Feb 2007

Sr. SAP Recruiter/Account Manager

  • Supported recruitment process for Ciber, Yoh IT services, and other Systems Integrators
  • Managed Siemens Business Solutions account by sourcing them right profile at right time
  • Consistently maintained good number of consultants on billing
  • Set a new record within AGS by attaining higher revenue thru C2C/3rd party placements
  • Worked on SAP requirements from direct clients like Tesoro and Siemens
  • Named as a high-achiever within AGS by consistently exceeding the target
  • Proficient in working on job portals of Dice, Monster etc., and mentored recruiters
  • Attained highest revenue among the recruiters by attaining $6M in revenue in 2006
  • Facilitated AGS to streamline the recruiting processes

 

Artech Information Systems LLC, New Jersey | (www.artechinfo.com)                                   Oct 2004 - Apr 2005

Sourcing Specialist/Account Manager

  • Handled various NY State government agencies’ requirements for staff augmentation
  • Excellent experience handling NYS OTDA, one of the many NYS government clients requirements
  • Assumed the Account management role, and foster long-term relationship for NYS Clients
  • Involved in full life-cycle from sourcing to job offer stage for NYS government clients
  • Handled requirements from various North Carolina state government agencies
  • Managed a team of Recruiters for NYS requirements and trained and mentoring junior recruiters
  • Sourced, screened, interviewed, and evaluated NY candidates
  • Sourced and interviewing candidates; presents the best to clients with as varied skills as Sr Java back end developers, VB/VB.NET developers, IT/QA Testers, Sr Oracle developers, Database Administrators, Oracle PL/SQL developers, Oracle Application developers, and ASP.NET developers
  • Performed quality check on the resumes submitted for NY State clients
  • Prepared proposals for staff augmentation in response to NY State government clients’ RFPs
  • Conducted follow-up interviews with candidates at the end of phone or on-site interviews
  • Negotiated with clients to finalize on the candidates’ start date factoring in both clients’ and candidates’ convenient date

 

American Solutions Inc.                                                                                                                                Jan 2001 - Oct 2004

SAP Consultant

Worked on a couple of SAP BW projects for Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pitney Bowes
 

Bristol-Myers Squibb

  • (a) Schedule Attainment - It measures the Percentage of current week production plan that was completed within the week
  • (b) Ship to Promise - It measures shipping performance against customer orders in terms of dates and quantities

 

Pitney Bowes

  • Analyzed the reporting needs of the Client
  • Interacted with the developers to set up InfoCubes, ODS objects according to the requirements of the Client
  • Converted the legacy reporting into BW reporting

 

 

 

 

 

education and certification

 

 

Bachelors in Business Administration (BBA)

Post- Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management (PGDPM)

Post-Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications (PGDCA)

SAP BW Certified in 2.0B and 3.0 by SAP America in 2002/2003 (ID: 0002670992)