VIJAY PRASANTH MASILAMANI
Budapest,NH
Summary
15 Years of hands-on experience in talent acquisition and employee relations, worked with product technology companies and predominately handled the niche skills and ramped up engineering teams. Successfully lead and manage a team and coach them on recruitment strategies, technical sourcing techniques, Data analysis, market mapping and social platform recruiting.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Central Europe Recruitment Manager
TESCO Global P.H.Co.Ltd
Budapest
10.2022 - Current
- Developed recruitment strategies and KPIs for Central Europe recruitment function
- Built strong relationships with hiring managers through consistent communication, resulting in better understanding of their needs and more efficient candidate selection
- Create strong sourcing techniques and candidate screening methodologies for the recruitment team
- Manage leadership hiring - Sourcing, technical phone/video screening
- Engage with global recruitment market leads and share/learn best practices across Tesco global
- Accountable for the market studies and propose the salary recommendations with the Rewards/compensation team across all 3 CE markets (Hungary, Slovakia and Czechia)
- Product owner of Recruitment tools: ATS – HR Link
- Handle Early career's program (Graduate recruitment), effectively organized the events and recruitment process
- Proficient in vendor management, engage with the external vendors on cost analysis, tool functional efficiencies and escalation matrix
- Review and make necessary changes to the recruitment process and Policies in collaboration with the Legal and HR leadership team
- Manage a team of 5 colleagues across Central Europe
- Mentor and coach the team on Hiring strategies, Sourcing methodologies & salary negotiations
- Do SOWT analysis and discuss with the team members and help them to convert opportunity areas to strengths
- Handled conflict management within the team & motivate the team members on their professional developments
- Analyzed recruitment metrics regularly to identify areas of opportunity for improvement, implementing necessary adjustments to enhance overall performance
- Collaborated with internal teams to continuously improve recruitment processes and execute as efficiently as possible.
Recruitment Partner
TESCO India Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
01.2019 - 09.2022
- Partnered with Technology department managers to ascertain hiring needs and subsequently provide candidate recommendations
- Provide guidance to the managers on recruitment process, Policies, new ATS tool (SmartRecruit)
- Sourcing, technical phone/video screening, scheduling interviews
- Prepare salary fitment for the new hires and propose salary to the Recruitment head
- Discuss salary break-up, Tesco benefits and offer negotiations
- Drive weekly recruitment meetings with business leaders to present hiring statistics and bring up any challenges/achievements
- Handled internal hiring and re-hire/returnee's process
- Organized Campus recruitment: Presented HR slides (Salary and company benefits) and complete HR interviews
- Recruitment tools: ATS (SmartRecruit)
- Team lead for 4 to 5 members.
Senior Recruiter
Seagate Technology HDD (India) Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore
04.2015 - 12.2018
- Partner with hiring managers and Sr Directors/VP for resource planning and create hiring strategy
- Ramped up multiple Engineering teams/Business units
- Provide guidance to the managers on Seagate recruitment process, BBI Interview guidelines and tools
- Sourcing, technical phone/video screening, scheduling interviews, conduct weekend recruitment drive
- Proficient in working on social media sourcing tools, Job boards and Internal CRM, ATS tools
- Scheduling interviews with the techie's, managers both in India and Seagate global locations
- Prepare salary fitment for the new hires and propose salary to the business leaders
- Discuss salary break-up, Seagate benefits and offer negotiations with candidates
- Drive weekly recruitment meetings with business unit leaders to present hiring statistics and bring up any challenges/achievements
- Handle internal hiring and re-hire; provide guidance to managers/employees about IJO and re-hire process
- Recruitment tools: ATS - Taleo, Workday (at present) and CRM - Avature
- Conduct day one on-boarding orientation for the new hires and handle relocation process
- Handled Campus recruitment, presented HR slides (Salary and company benefits) and complete HR interviews
- Good exposure in Managing global stakeholders across all levels/grades
- Represented Seagate stall in technical conferences
- Proficient in vendor management and mentor junior recruiters.
Senior Recruiter
IBM - India Software Labs (ISL/IRL)
Bangalore
06.2014 - 04.2015
- Engaged with senior technical team to understand products, technical requirements, interact with business stake holders to understand software products and customers/end-user of the Products developed by BU
- Sourcing, technical screening, scheduling interviews & coordination, offer discussion
- Provided Hiring plan to senior Managers and conduct weekdays/weekend drives on regular basis at different IBM location in Bangalore
- Worked collaboratively with offer and on-boarding team on quick execution of offer letters and update the managers on regular basis.
Senior Recruiter
Cerner Corporation
Bangalore
07.2013 - 04.2014
- Provided recruitment planning to the Director's and hiring managers
- Sourcing profiles through job portals, internal reference, Networking, advertisement, job posting and social networking sites (Linked in)
- Salary Negotiation & Joining dates and continuous follow-up with offer candidates to reduce decline ratio
- Provide MI report for different skill sets and discuss the salary fitment with HR Manager's from USA
- Participated in Campus Recruitment (Bangalore colleges & IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur) and accountable for completing HR interviews
- Recruitment Tool – PeopleSoft and Kenexa.
Senior Staffing specialist
Cisco Systems India
Bangalore
10.2011 - 06.2013
- Interacted with Hiring managers & directors to make hiring plan and strategies
- Worked closely with senior technical team to understand products, technical requirements, business stake holders, customers/end-user of the software products developed by hiring team
- Sourcing, Evaluate/Qualify, Pre-screening and take HR Interview for technical round qualifiers
- Screen Employee referral resume & respond back to them
- Prepare & present weekly hiring report with Managers & Recruitment Lead
- Engaged with coordination and Sourcing team to complete the hiring process successfully
- Conducted week-end recruitment drive for Niche requirements & larger volume hiring
- Prepare offer fitment & propose salary recommendation to managers by comparing internal team parity
- Recruitment tool – Virtual Edge
- Salary Negotiation & Joining dates and continuous follow-up with offer candidates to reduce decline ratio
- Driven Internal team transfer by guiding hiring manager as per cisco policy
- Prepare Market intelligence report for different technical skills
- Supported pilot project Diversity hiring for engineering group.
Technical Recruiter/HR Executive
Nokia R&D India Pvt.Ltd.
Bangalore
06.2008 - 09.2011
- Worked closely with technical leads and hiring managers for resource planning and hiring
- Sourcing profiles through job portals, internal reference, Networking, advertisement, job posting, consultants and social networking sites
- Short listing profiles received in Internal talent scout mailbox & Nokia career site or Taleo Tool
- Scheduling interviews with the techie's, managers, HR both in India and Onsite
- Provided recruitment report to Business leaders and HRBP across Nokia global Locations
- Recruitment tool – Taleo
- Involved in Campus Hiring (starting from conducting written test and till final offer announcement).
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electronics Technology
PSG Institute
07.2007
MBA - Human Resources Management
Acharya Institute of Management
Skills
- Technology Recruitment & CV skill mapping
- Problem solving & Analytics
- Change management & Adaptability
- Time management abilities
- Leadership Recruitment
- Networking & Negotiation
- External vendor Management
- Market research
- Data-driven decision-making
- Recruitment Strategies
- Applicant Tracking Systems
Languages
- Tamil, Native language
- English, Proficient (C2)
- Kannada, Upper intermediate (B2)
Timeline
Central Europe Recruitment Manager
TESCO Global P.H.Co.Ltd
10.2022 - Current
Recruitment Partner
TESCO India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2019 - 09.2022
Senior Recruiter
Seagate Technology HDD (India) Pvt. Ltd
04.2015 - 12.2018
Senior Recruiter
IBM - India Software Labs (ISL/IRL)
06.2014 - 04.2015
Senior Recruiter
Cerner Corporation
07.2013 - 04.2014
Senior Staffing specialist
Cisco Systems India
10.2011 - 06.2013
Technical Recruiter/HR Executive
Nokia R&D India Pvt.Ltd.
06.2008 - 09.2011
Bachelor of Science - Electronics Technology
PSG Institute
MBA - Human Resources Management
Acharya Institute of Management
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