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Balaji Govindarajan Male

Senior Recruiter
Infoplus Technologies
Chennai
Personal Information
My goals
To head a Recruitment team and incorporate best recruitment practices in the organization
I'm here to
  • Network with other Recruitment professionals.
  • Improve my Recruitment skills and knowledge.
  • Hire Recruitment professionals.
  • Help other Recruitment professionals.
I can help with
Recruitment people looking for new job
Career Expertise
Career Level
Senior Recruiter, Senior Executive, Manager
Career Skills
Screening, Overseas Recruitment, Staffing, Interviewing, Recruitment Sales, Recruitment, Background Checks, Recruitment Research, Client Management, Business Development, Head Hunting, Phone Research, Selection, Resource Management
Expertise by Industry
IT - ITES - Internet, Banking and Finance
Expertise in Recruiting for Departments
Recruiting, Finance, Senior Managers, Technology, HR, Operations
Expertise in Recruiting for IT Industry
Web Methods, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Peoplesoft, Oracle, Networking, MySQL, MIS, Microsoft Dynamics, Mainframes, Lotus Notes, JD Edwards, SAP, SAS, Web Design, VOIP, VC, VB, TIBCO, Testing, Teradata, Sybase, SQL Server, Siebel, SeeBeyond, Java, Internet Marketing, Data Warehousing, CRM, Cognos, C, Business Objects, Business Intelligence, Business Analyst, BPO, BizTalk, BEA, Baan, Datastage, DB2, Informatica, Hyperion, Hardware, Graphic Design, GIS, ERP, Embedded, EAI, Dot NET, Documentum, DBA, AS400
Work Experience (Total: 9 years)
Feb 2008 - Present
Senior Recruiter
Infoplus Technologies
Chennai, TN, India
•Recruiting various IT positions to client locations in UK and European Union countries ie. ,Italy ,Finland,Germany, Norway,Sweden etc on contract/permanent assignments
• Preparing Metrics and analyze the level of internal and external positions with Practice Heads and senior management
•Negotiating on the rates with the consultants
•Submitting resumes Directly to Clients through Cbiz software .
•Interview prospective candidates to determine their qualifications, analyzing their responses
•Managing team of recruiters.
•Manage and motivate the team of recruiters
•Encourage team to work on out of box thinking.
•Coordinate with Head Office on the status of requirements
•Use of Cybersleuthing methods in tracking candidates informations
•Maintaining excellent database of vendors in UK/Europe on SAP/Oracle Apps/Business Intelligence
•Negotiating on the rates with the consultants
•Requirement fulfillment by internal resource mapping & external resource hiring thru both freelancer resource pool maintenance & vendor management too
•Interact with respective Project Heads for internal /in-house positions in determining the resources,budget ,schedule interview, negotiation on salary,offer letter, joining formalities etc are taken care of…
•Completely responsible for vendor empanelments, vendor & requirement management, Rate negotiation, dupe check, joining of the resource
•Experience in Visa processing for short term projects to UK taking consultants from India .
•Experience in collecting documents from consultants and follow up with consultants in submitting documents as per checklist and also post follow-up with British Embassy on the B-visa status
My Specializations /Expertise
Expertise on SAP niche positions on
•BO XI,
•SAP RF ID,
•SAP IS-OIL
•SAP SD CRM
•SAP IS-Media
•SAP BI BPS
Currently building network on Platinum SAP Consultants
Jan 2006 - Apr 2007
Technical Recruiter
Tekessence Software Services
Chennai, TN, India
Search for candidates including traditional recruiting methods, networking and creative sourcing methods, including but not limited to internal database searches, online searches, Internet postings, referrals, as well as user/technical groups
Experience in marketing H1B Candidates placements for projects
♦Experienced in utilizing Internet search and Boolean logic in Job Portals like Monster, Dice, Hot Jobs, and Career Builder. Also experienced in getting the resumes through the vendors from my
vendor list.
Worked on all types of Contract positions on W2 hourly / 1099 / Corp-to-Corp basis.
•Exposure in H1 Transfer of candidates .
♦ Serve as a technical specialist by sourcing, recruiting, and identifying candidates for highly specialized
positions
♦ Submitting resumes Directly to Clients through ASPs like Bull Horn etc.
♦ Interview prospective candidates to determine their qualifications, analyzing their responses
♦ Prepare resume, submit of consultant to client, track information, prepare candidate for interview,
coordinate interview details.
• Interact with respective Project Heads for internal /in-house positions in determining the resources,budget ,schedule interview, negotiation on salary,offer letter, joining formalities etc are taken care of…
♦ Maintain accurate and well-ordered documentation on all candidates, searches, hiring managers
interactions, and other recruiting activities
♦ Negotiate hiring terms and compensation packages, extend offer and work with other Vendors
♦ Create, manage and maintain a recruitment and consultant database
♦ Develop and maintain a network of contacts to help identify and source qualified candidates
♦ Review client requirements to identify skills required for qualified candidate
• Live searches, proactive searches, referrals. Hiring on W2, 1099, C2C.
•Searching & matching resumes, Salary & Rate Negotiations and submission to Account Manager.
Apr 2007 - Oct 2007
Senior Technical Recruiter
Krownos Solutions
Dubai, Dubai, UAE
• Recruitment thro traditional recruitment, networking, and Extensive Head Hunting Methods.
• Coordinating with Internal Business heads and client and candidates for smooth process.
• Coordinating with candidates for personal technical interview with client ie.Arranging temporary
visas flight tickets for the candidates for the final interview with the clients in Dubai .
• Mapping the referrals to respective positions
• Meeting Candidates by person who are shortlisted by the client
• Follow-up with the short listed candidates and clients for visa procedure, joining time.
• Extensively worked on New visa procedure, visa transfer and exit formalities.
• Maintain candidate database matrix – technology, experience and location wise.

Visa Processing:
Arranging temporary visas to the candidates attending final interview with my clients
Lasioning with UAE embassy with public relations people in arranging visas for the candidates for the short travel and work permit visa
To ensure of all documents before submitting to client,laison with candidates to check for attestion of documents,passport and then submit to client so they can get work permit visa for candidates .

Involved in booking tickets for final interview of candidates in following up with travel agents and hotel bookings for candidates
Education
2004 - 2006
Masters In Human Resource Management, Pondicherry University
Chennai, TN
2003 - 2004
Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management, LIBA,Loyola College of Business Administration
Chennai, TN
1995 - 1998
B.A (Economics), D.G.Vaishnao College
Chennai, TN
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