Pushkar Prabhudesai

About Pushkar Prabhudesai

With over 9 years of experience in Recruitment and Talent Acquisition, I specialize in lateral and leadership hiring. My keen eye for identifying top talent and passion for building dynamic teams have driven organizational growth across various practices and technologies.Key Highlights:Talent Acquisition: Successfully led recruitment efforts, ensuring the best talent is brought on board.Resource Management: Recently promoted to Resource Manager, optimizing resource allocation and ensuring efficient project staffing.Demand Lifecycle Management: Proactively managing the demand lifecycle to meet resource needs promptly and effectively.Workforce Management: Overseeing workforce management to align talent with the right opportunities for optimal results.I am dedicated to leveraging my extensive expertise to contribute to organizational success. Open to new opportunities where I can drive impactful recruitment strategies and resource management.

Experience

1. Senior Consultant - C1 Workforce Management & Fulfilment Gc & Ca

   Capgemini

   Jul 2024 — Present · Pune, IN

   Key Skills: Workforce Management| Capacity & Demand planning | Reporting | Stakeholder Management | Talent Management | Business Operations• Staff projects with appropriate resources timely by identifying suitable internal profiles for upcoming roles to reduce bench time and support smooth project starts.• Managing resource deployment through the internal bench, rotation, and lateral hiring mechanisms (External hiring)• Managed workforce planning and resource allocation for consulting teams across North America, Europe, and APAC.• Maintained utilization, availability, and engagement views to support staffing decisions and project timeline alignment.• Supported redeployment planning with Delivery and Talent teams to reduce bench downtime and maintain continuity.• Planning to bridge the skill gap required for the won deals for Capgemini and the talents available internally or required to be hired from the external market.• Managing Demand lifecycle.• Forecasted resource availability from roll-offs and bench, ensuring proper channels were identified for acquiring new resources.• Optimized resource allocation to maintain a balanced and efficient workforce.• Deploying new joiners, Confirming-deconfirming resources, initiating back on track plans etc.• Contributing to staffing activities and arranging staffing leadership meetings to table staffing progress• Interacting with Business Leaders, Project Managers with regards to project requirements, utilization, and mobilization• Set-up & establishing linkage between resources and managers to ensure that projects are staffed efficiently• Scrutinizing & assessesing capabilities (skillsets) and interests of resources to appropriate staffing positions; updated repositories of employee profiles to facilitate the staffing and business development process• Generate and analyze reports using Excel (formulas, VLOOKUP, PivotTables, and Graphs)), providing actionable insights to management and stakeholders.

Education

• Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Delhi

  Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Business/Commerce, General

Skills

• Recruiting
• Technical Recruiting
• Sourcing
• Screening
• Screening Resumes
• Talent Acquisition
• Internet Recruiting
• IT Recruitment
• Contract Recruitment
• Benefits Negotiation
• Microsoft Office
• Vendor Management
• Technical Recruiter
• Interviews
• Temporary Placement
• Executive Search
• Management
• Applicant Tracking Systems
• Human Resources
• Staffing Services
• Search
• Fieldglass
• Interviewing
• Talent Management
• Microsoft Excel
• Staff Augmentation
• Microsoft Outlook
• Teamwork
• Social Media
• Rpo