Raja Rajendran

About Raja Rajendran

6+ years of experience in Hiring of USA & India region for various technologies and…

Experience

1. Talent Acquisition Specialist

   Cognizant

   Feb 2021 — Present · Chennai, IN

   As a SME responsible for the Sourcing, Screening, stakeholder & vendor management, offer discussion, candidate follow-up, training and on-boarding of the practice. Sourcing & delivery:Being senior offshore POC, responsible for the own active sourcing includes (till candidate on-boarding) in different sourcing channel based on the technologies along with the team sourcing. Taking additional responsibility in delivery of offshore team. Stakeholder management:Being an offshore POC, give the status of the candidates who are all in the hiring process, help the business to understand the market analysis of the technologies, give the solutions/suggestions for hiring NICHE technologies like adobe campaign during the demand discussion with the stakeholder. Tracker maintenance:Experience in maintaining the tracker for all the submitted & pipeline (Future need) candidates with their exact updates to consider based on the need. Take an initiative with onsite team to build the effective candidate tracker with necessary information’s, which help everyone to understand what’s going on the practice and share the offshore performance to the lead from the tracker. Training:Involve myself to give the training to the juniors/new joiners in terms of sourcing of active & passive candidates in various job portals, building a database, basic screening, candidate follow-up, and importance/steps of building candidate database.ATS Tools used: Chire, Talview, Spire Job portals: Dice, Monster, LinkedIn recruiter, indeed, Naukri, foundit.in (Formerly Monster India), Job street, JobsDB (For Thailand) Technologies hired – IVR, Supply chain (Planning, Execution, Procurement), Digital Adobe, Adobe marketing. Completed LinkedIn Online Training Boost your InMail performance.Job EssentialsRecruiter EssentialsAI Revolutionizing Talent Acquisition

Education

• M.S.P.solai nadar memorialhigher secondary school

  Biology/Biological Sciences, General

  2009 — 2013

• Anna University Chennai

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2013 — 2017

Skills

• IT Recruitment
• Screening
• Relationship Building Skills
• Technical Recruiting
• Screening Resumes