Praveen Donepudi

About Praveen Donepudi

Passionate recruiter with more than 18 years of expertise in recruiting and building candidate pipeline using various sourcing strategies. Designed, developed and implemented end-to-end recruiting solutions for both Full Time and Contract requirements. Proven software development background and earned a bachelor’s degree in Engineering. Specialist in full life cycle recruiting and attained excellent customer satisfaction ratings with hiring managers, candidates, and executive stakeholders. Expert in career advice for candidates and making them aware of new hiring trends on a regular basis. Knowledge of Federal and State employment regulations along with Immigration laws.

Experience

1. Talent Acquisition - Strategy & Consulting

   Accenture

   Jun 2019 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Delivery Lead, Capability Network:Driving CN headcount growth for business by required percentage keeping in mind diversity and optimal channel mix. Ensure the sourcing team maintains the channel mix. Responsible for End to End recruitment delivery across levels for all the practices within Capability Network. Set key stakeholder expectations and deliver within norms for the CN Talent acquisition team for lateral hiring. Handled Practices like Talent & Organization (T&O), Supply Chain & Operations (SC & O), CFO & Enterprise Value, Resources, CMT, Products, Financial Services (FS), Business Strategy (BS), Tech Apps & Strategy- Sourcing for skills and levels across CN- Analyze and use cost-effective and appropriate recruitment sourcing channels- Interacting with business, understanding critical requirements, and ensuring sourcing delivery through an appropriate mix of channels- Making quarter by quarter sourcing strategy depending upon the recruitment numbers shared by our internal clients- Initiating schemes for Agencies and Employee referral to ensure the inflow of profiles- Giving timely inputs and feedback to vendors and internal teams to streamline the search- Agency empanelment: Agency education and induction, allocation of skills, handling queries related to skills, process, invoicing, Agency performance evaluation- Worked extensively on expanding our reach on various social media platforms to create brand value and reach a larger audience as a pull factor. Came up with hot skill posts and created posts for social media across all practices.

Education

• S.F.S School

  Higher Secondary

  1980 — 1992

• Gowtham Junior College

  Intermediate

  1992 — 1994

• University of Madras

  B.E, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  1994 — 1998

Skills

• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Staffing Services
• Vendor Management
• Temporary Placement
• Recruiting
• Executive Search
• Resource Management
• Screening
• Staff Augmentation
• Sdlc
• Benefits Negotiation
• Talent Acquisition
• Technical Recruiting
• IT Recruitment
• Internet Recruiting
• Contract Recruitment
• College Recruiting
• Sourcing
• Screening Resumes
• Applicant Tracking Systems
• Permanent Placement