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Meenal Sharma
+919216772772
meenal71@gmail.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/meenalsharma

Professional Summary
• More than 6 years of hands on experience in IT Recruitments.
• I started off as a Recruiter in my formative years, but very quickly transitioned into leadership positions as these were, and still are, where my skills and interests lie.
• I have worked with reputed organizations in the IT industry. I have been exposed to the whole gamut of areas involving Headhunting, Internet sourcing, Networking, Employee referrals, Cold calling, Direct mailing, Advertising and resume databases, Training and its activities and have attained a fair amount of success in the activities that I have undertaken.
• An effective communicator with exceptional relationship management skills and ability to relate to people at any level of business and management.
• Exposure in training new recruits, conducting recruitment events and orientation programs.
• Involved in the complete recruitment life-cycle for sourcing the best talent from diverse sources after identification of manpower requirements
• Ability to work under pressure in fast - paced environment.
• Good at MIS and Report Generation.
• Exposure in Domestic as well as International Recruitment (Singapore).
• Use positive attitude and provide confidence and support to motivate colleagues and team members.
• Excellent in mentoring and leading a team
• Hands on experience of organizing Walk-In Interviews and building and maintaining a strong candidate database and making regular placements to meet company targets and often exceeding them.
Professional Experience

Company Designation Duration
Aurec, Singapore Resourcing Specialist - Asia Sept 2008 – March 2009
Fidelity Information Services, India Assistant Manager - Resourcing Feb 2005 – Sept 2008
A1 Technology Pvt Ltd, India Senior Executive - HR (Recruitment) Feb 2004 – Feb 2005
Hi-tech Placements Pvt Ltd, India Executive - HR(Recruitment) Oct 2000 – Sept 2001

Technical Skill Summary: Technical Recruitment for:
 C, C++,VC++
 Oracle, PL/SQL , SQL, Tsql, TCL, Perl, AS400
 Mainframe - Cobol, CICS, JCL, VSAM, vision plus
 Java/J2ee (EJB, JDBC, Struts, Jsp, Servlets)
 Software testing / QA (Manual /Automated )
 .Net Technologies( Asp.Net, C#,VB.Net with Web services, Win forms, WCF, WPF)
 Weblogic, Websphere (MQ, WAS)
 Windows, UNIX, Linux admin, Security Admins
 ERP (SAP, People Soft)
 Data warehousing (Teradata, Cognos, Informatica, Business Objects, Business Intelligence)
 Reporting Tools : Actuate, VSS, Crystal Reports
 ORM Tools : Hibernate, iBatiss
 UI (CSS, XHMTL, XML, XSLT, HTML, Usability)
 J2ee Frameworks (MVC, Spring, Struts)
 Open Source Technologies(LAMP, PHP)
 Configuration Management ( Build & release, Deployment, Support etc)

Education
• Master in Business Administration (FINANCE and HRM) from Bangalore University in the year 2000.
• Bachelor of Arts(Economics Honors) from Punjab University in the year 1998

Engagement Overview

 Organization - Aurec
Duration - September 2008 – March 2009
Designation - Resourcing Specialist – Asia

Responsibilities
As a Senior Sourcing Consultant at Aurec, Singapore I specialised in:
• Servicing emerging & existing accounts/Clients for their IT positions in Asia
• End-to-end recruitment for IT requirements for Investment banks & blue chip clients.
• Understanding client requirements
• Actively involved in daily screening, scheduling, coordinating technical interviews and reporting.
• Apply extensive innovative sourcing methods to find the right candidates by leveraging different tools like internet sourcing, networking, Headhunting and referrals, etc.
• Strong follow up skills with candidates to ensure their joining on agreed date.

 Organization - Fidelity Information Services (Previously Second Foundation India Pvt Ltd)
Duration - February 2005 – September 2008
Designation - Assistant Manager – Resourcing

Responsibilities
• Responsible for the Full Life Cycle of Recruitment for India and Overseas for offshore and on-site recruitments.
• Strategized and sourced passive candidates through networking, cold calling, head hunting, internet searches and research. Also maintained a systematic and comprehensive database/Pipeline of all candidates
• Sourced active candidates from on-line databases, contact lists, internal databases.
• Gathered defined job specifications from technical managers with detailed job descriptions and skill requirements.
• Actively involved in daily screening, scheduling, coordinating technical interviews and reporting.
• Posted regular advertisement in job portals like Naukri, Monster etc.
• Scheduled interviews of the short listed candidates, frequent follow-ups, calls, interview co-ordination, etc.
• Organized and coordinated Onsite Client Interviews.
• Informed the candidates of their status of interviews attended.
• Performed Salary Negotiations with candidates, in such a manner that, both the ends be satisfied.
• Constant follow up with candidates to make sure he/she takes up the offer, and accepts to join.
• Collected, researched and documented Market Intelligence Data to maximize efficiencies, establish accountabilities, and enable predictability.
• Mentored and Guided Team Members
• Organized many out station and in town Walk-In interviews for mass hiring.

= Report Preparation Responsibilities:
 Generated and updated Resource Requirement Sheet.
 Project specific hiring trackers
 Prepared Daily, Weekly and Monthly recruitment reports and also maintained interview status Trackers.
 Prepared Tracking Sheet of recruiter’s daily calls.
 Handled RMG activities for a short duration of time
= Achievements
 Took an ownership of closing all the positions of a complete project in a speculated time and closed 17 Positions for a crucial project in 45 Days (On Board).
 Took an ownership to work on Niche Technologies and closed the positions with in SLA.
 Awarded Star of the Quarter for the Best performance in recruitment in Fidelity Information Services.
 Placed Maximum number of candidates in Second Foundation now, Fidelity Information Services during the tenure.
 Awarded Star of the Quarter for the Best performance in recruitment in Second Foundation Inc.
 Got appreciation mails from Vice President, Center Head, Resourcing Manager India and Resourcing Manager Second foundation Inc. US.

 Organization - A1 Technology Pvt Ltd
Duration - April 2004 – February 2005
Designation - Senior Executive - HR (Recruitment)

Responsibilities:
• Handled recruitment for the Development centers in India for various levels.
• Located potential candidates through portal, internal database, headhunting, referrals, networking, internet searching, etc.
• Preliminary Technical & HR screening of candidates & checked the fitment with open requirements & get the information not mentioned in resume i.e. joining time, expected salary etc.
• Scheduled and Conducted Walk-In interviews
• Coordinated with Technical panel for Technical interviews and actively participated in getting the feedback regarding the candidates & thus tried to get better profiles and hence sourced the best talent
• Conducted HR Round of the selected candidates, which involves negotiating and matching of salaries according to organizational standards and also answering to their queries, if any.
• Issued offer letters to the selected candidates and did vigorous follow up with selected candidates & confirmed their joining.
• Executed the joining formalities, conducted and coordinated the induction for the new joinees

 Organization - Hi-tech Placements Pvt Ltd
Duration - October 2000 – September 2001
Designation - Executive – HR

Responsibilities:
• Interacted with client to get the requirements and also took regular feedback from the Client for the selected candidates
• Sorted and screened the resumes for the requirements (SAP, JAVA, QA, MS TECHNOLOGIES, C++, Etc) of the client companies.
• Interacted with the candidates, coordinated and made them reach for an interview.
• Resolved all the issues for the candidate and facilitated them to join

Certifications and Training
• Certification for Certified Internal Auditor at Fidelity Information Services
• Soft Skills Training
• Leadership Skills Training
• “Decision Analysis and Resolution Concepts and Techniques"

Strengths and Potentialities
• Have strong network of 8000+ connections on LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/meenalsharma)
• Well versed with efficient browsing of job portals & search engines
• Maintaining data sheets and MIS database.
• Demonstrated ability to be proactive and perform well under pressure while managing challenging assignments.