Anand Ratan

About Anand Ratan

SUMMARY • Dynamic and result-oriented individual with more about 13+ years of experience, around 10 years of recruiting experience in US Staffing. • Lead teams of recruiters (Seniors, Juniors & freshers) to accomplish the required goals. Mentoring the team to utilize the available resources meticulously to transform them into solutions • Possess strong technical/business knowledge and understanding of US Recruiting, technical requirements; deep sourcing skills and experience sourcing passive candidates; excellent candidate assessment skills. • Possess excellent knowledge of recruiting and hiring processes including sourcing, interviewing, reference checking, tracking, salary negotiations, and closing. • Worked in diverse industries such as Information Technology, Networking, Healthcare, Bio-medical, Telecommunication, Engineering and many more • A resourceful, solution-focused professional with excellent interpersonal and rapport-building skills. • Responsible, loyal, reliable, and independent worker with high level of enthusiasm and creativity. • Self-motivated professional who achieves results and has superior ability to coordinate and perform several projects simultaneously.

Experience

1. Lead Technical Recruiter

   SOFTHQ

   Apr 2021 — Present

   Lead a team of 6-8 recruiters, with experience in mentoring and training new team members, ensuring proper resource allocation to meet recruitment requirements• Successfully sourced and placed multiple candidates for the different IT and Non IT roles.• Sourcing/Recruited suitable candidates for both contract and permanent position• Built strong client partnerships to understand workforce needs, define job roles, and source, screen, interview, and select top talent for technical, managerial, and support positions.• Maintained and analysed weekly, monthly, and yearly performance reports to track progress.• Ensured compliance with client SLAs, meeting turnaround times (TAT) for hiring targets.• Create and execute sourcing strategies to fill current openings and help build a healthy pipeline of qualified candidates for future openings• Dealing with Infosys, HCL America, Atos, State clients and Georgia-Pacific Full time permanent & Contract requirements.• Interfaced with clients requiring staffing services to determine number of hires, salary, positions, and job descriptions for short-term, long-term, full time and temporary employees.• Sourced resumes to select best-qualified candidates and interviewed candidates to better assess qualifications and ascertain personality, personal character, and work ethic.• Validated applicants’ references and communicated with previous employers to qualify capabilities and verify work history.• Pay Rates Negotiation with Employers and Vendors• Have knowledge of W2, C2H, C2C,1099• Posting and maintaining jobs online• Followed up with clients to evaluate temp employee performance and client satisfaction.• Partner with Management-level members of the Talent team to determine sourcing strategy to attract talent• Utilize advanced search techniques including Boolean search on LinkedIn, social media, job boards and employee referrals to uncover high quality underutilized talent pools

Education

• Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU), Lucknow

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech

  2007 — 2011