Ardhendu Chanda

• Build strong collaborative partnership with various lines of cross functional business of walmart to ensure a successful delivery of qualified candidates (focusing on diversity & Inclusion)
• Steps followed kickoff meeting with HMs, finalization of job requirement, posting JD in different job boards and LinkedIn, sourcing & screening (structured Interviews, karat test or hacker rank test, other assessment, behavioral interviews, phone, Teams, Zoom), negotiating of salary, hiring manager review, Interviews, offer letter preparation (through workday), reference & background verification
• Supervise/mentor/help a team of two scourers and six recruiters, improve KPI and metrics of the team. Prepare weekly/monthly reports for both mine and my teams, involve in candidate, client and stakeholders communications & team meetings, research, calculate time to fill and cost of hire , conduct online hiring event, conduct data analysis for better decision.
• Actively participate in Succession planning and DEI program
• Tools used: Social medias mainly LinkedIn, Workday, Avature, google search, blogging, X-ray search, ATS (Workday), Indeed, Teams, Zoom, online hiring event/job fair, researching newer sourcing tool

Got Laid off in Jan 2023 because of uncertain economy and nearly hiring freeze condition. The complete team got laid off except 2 members of our team.

• Responsible for my personal contribution in hiring candidates as well as also supervice a team of seven offshore junior recruiters and also responsible to maintain teams’ goal, metrics, and performance
• Post jobs, source & screen (mainly through hacker rank test), negotiate salary, hiring manager review, Interviews, on boarding (Reference check, drug test, Background verification) & delivery
• Communicate with several clients, VMS&MSP program managers, Hiring managers, account managers for smooth and timly TA process and conduct team meeting, tweaking/implementation of strategies
• Involved in Campus recruiting, Tools: LinkedIn, ATS, and Job Boards

• Partnering with C-Level Executives, senior hiring managers/account managers, and HR leaders to set and drive strategy, goals, process, and metrics while supporting a client-aligned recruiting team and providing individual recruitment contributions
• Hands on end to end recruiting; Intake call, job posting, sourcing & screening/interviewing, negotiating, work-up, placement, onboarding, and delivery of qualified technology, engineering, light industrial, construction and telecom consultants. Build Pipeline
• Measure cost per hire & time to hire also involved in data analysis. Research on sourcing tool Blogging and Bing.
• Leverage recruiting-sourcing primarily using LinkedIn, X-Ray search, blogging & job boards, Boolean, ATS-Bullhorn, C2C candidates
• Generate annual gross profit of 437K in the year 2020
• Build relation and manage VMS and MSP providers, hiring & account managers, conduct team meeting & Kickoff meeting with HMs

• Responsible for my personal contribution in hiring candidates as well as manage a team of four junior recruiters a sourcer and also responsible to maintain teams’ goal, metrics, and KPI
• Post jobs at job boards and LinkedIn, recruit end to end through sourcing & screening, negotiating salary, HM's review, interviews, onboarding (reference check, drug test, Background), build pipeline
• Prepare several reports, several client communications, Team meeting, tweaking/design/ implementation of several strategies. data analysis, research on sourcing tools to minimize time to fill and cost per hire.
• Manage & build relation with VMS/MSP program managers, communicate with company stakeholders, conduct data analysis for future market, tweak recruiting strategies, build pipeline
• Generate annual gross profit of 478K in year 2019 as an individual

• Build talent acquisition team from scratch, set up TA process after consultation with director(reporting to), build strong collaborative partnership with various account managers, hiring managers, client VMS/MSP program managers and cross functionally with other departments to ensure a successful and timely TA process
• Actively manage a team of 4 on-shore recruiters and 7 offshore junior recruiters and maintain/improve metrics of the team by helping/mentoring/ training and help HR in the onboarding process
• involve in end to end recruiting: Intake call, job posting, sourcing, screening/interviewing, negotiating, work- up, placement, onboarding, pipe line building, reporting, actively involve in business development process and client communication, data research for better decision.
• Personally recruit IT candidates for financial IT clients with fixed income, market data for financial domain to fulfill my target & quota. Calculate time to hire and cost of hire for data analysis.
• Involved in campus recruiting and job fair for fresh graduate for entry level positions.

• Responsible for my personal contribution in hiring candidates as well as supervise a team of 5 junior offshore recruiters and was also responsible to maintain/improve teams’ goal, metrics, and KPI
• Communicate and manage client's MSP/VMS program managers and build great relationship, make sure open positions are properly served, post jobs at job boards and linkedIn, recruit personally(fulfill my quota), help my team members by negotiating rate/salary, interviewing and prepping the candidate before interview and solving any issues.
• Prepare reports, conduct team meeting, work distribution, tweak/design/ implement of several strategies, pipeline building.
• Involved also for campus recruiting for entry level position.

Gap at work Oct 2013 – Sept 2014 My father was suffering from deadly disease and was hospitalized in India. I went to India to take care of him so, I was not working at that time.

• Engage in hands-on full life cycle recruiting started from Kickoff meeting with hm, job posting, sourcing, screening/interviewing, negotiating, work- up, placement, onboarding
• Conduct face to face, telephonic and skype interviews, determine candidate fit through technical(3rd party test, technical interview though technical person) and behavioral screenings, negotiate salary/rate part, Prep the candidate for interview
• Submission through Fieldglass, Beeline, updating using Max hire ATS, LinkedIn Recruiter (LIR), use indeed, dice and monster for job posting and sourcing, help HR is onboarding process.
• As a lead recruiter, mentor/help/ 4 junior recruiters team, manage & communicate with SWA and AA VMS program managers, Conduct research on sourcing tool depending on metrics and recommend and got approve for using LIR for sourcing tool which increase the offer acceptance by 23%.

• Hands-on full life cycle recruiting following a strict matrix system and maintain/improve KPI. Carry a work load of 15 to 20 recruitment and was filling contingent workforce for JPMC, Wells Fargo, Merry Lynch, Comstock, MERCK, ATENA, united health care, BCBS , Pepsi and etc.
• Recruited It guys with fixed income, market data for financial domain.

• Perform the function of lead Full Lifecycle Recruiter and as a “Recruiting Manager” while overseeing recruiting efforts of 8 offshore recruiters by distribution of work allocation, maintaining the matrix of submission and KPI, while simultaneously recruiting on the most difficult to fill requisitions.
• Attend all hiring manager’s kickoff meeting regarding requirement, help junior recruiters in screening and negotiating salary/rate part, submission to the client via email/ portal, VMS communication.

• IT, Construction, Engineering, Light Industrial, warehouse recruitment
• Led a team of 3 recruiters team
• All Soft and TekForce are sister concern.

• IT, Construction, Engineering, Light Industrial, warehouse, IT, and Telecom recruitment.
• Develop & manage SBC account for their contingent workforce.