Ahmed Ansari

Client Relationship Management: Act as the primary point of contact between clients and the delivery team. Understand client requirements, culture, and expectations to deliver suitable candidates. Ensure timely and quality delivery of staffing services. Regularly update clients on delivery status and handle escalations when necessary. Team Leadership & Coordination: Lead and manage a team of recruiters, sourcing specialists, and account managers. Provide training, mentoring, and performance feedback to the team. Allocate resources effectively to meet client needs and internal SLAs. Recruitment Delivery Oversight: Oversee the entire recruitment process from sourcing to onboarding. Monitor requisition pipelines and ensure delivery metrics (time-to-fill, submittals, interviews, etc.) are met. Ensure compliance with client policies, legal, and visa requirements. Process Improvement & Reporting: Analyze delivery data and KPIs to identify bottlenecks and improve workflows. Prepare and present weekly/monthly reports on delivery performance. Implement best practices to improve efficiency and candidate quality. Technology & Tools: Utilize ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems) like Bullhorn, JobDiva, or CEIPAL. Leverage job boards (Dice, Monster, CareerBuilder), social media, and other sourcing tools. Ensure data accuracy and usage of tools for reporting and delivery tracking.

Led a team of recruiters and sourcing specialists, ensuring effective recruitment strategies and seamless delivery of candidates for client needs. Implemented targeted recruitment approaches that increased candidate submittals and improved placement rates through streamlined sourcing and screening processes. Monitored daily operations and performance metrics, ensuring the team consistently met KPIs such as submission-to-interview ratios, time-to-fill, and client satisfaction. Coached and mentored junior recruiters, focusing on improving their sourcing techniques, interview skills, and overall recruitment effectiveness. Actively collaborated with the Service Delivery Lead and account managers to align team efforts with client requirements and consistently meet service level agreements (SLAs). Utilized advanced sourcing platforms (LinkedIn Recruiter, Dice, Monster) and ATS systems (Bullhorn, JobDiva) to manage recruitment pipelines and ensure organized, transparent hiring processes. Facilitated weekly team meetings to review progress, share best practices, and address any challenges, fostering a collaborative and productive team environment. Ensured compliance with legal and client-specific requirements (e.g., H-1B, OPT, background checks), maintaining a high standard of quality throughout the recruitment lifecycle. Delivered regular updates to clients, addressing issues proactively and ensuring alignment with client expectations to maintain strong relationships. Led process improvement initiatives, streamlining recruitment workflows while maintaining a high level of quality and client satisfaction.

Handling End to End IT Recruitment Life Cycle - Sourcing, Screening, Evaluating from junior to senior-level positions. Experience with Boolean searches. Experience using various online portals like Monster, Dice, Carrier Builder, Indeed & LinkedIn. Manage all stages of the recruitment process for both clients and candidates. Sourcing candidates for positions via Conducting detailed job boards and database searches Vendor Relationship and networking. Researching and networking to find appropriate candidate matches and contacting these potential matches Using social media sites and events to generate contacts. Capable to screen candidates to ensure their qualifications/skills Screening, interviewing and assessing candidates in comparison to client requirements. Coordinating Technical interviews with the US/India team and maintain communications and update all the parties involved via email/phone as required. Format the resume and present shortlisted candidates to manager/clients with their key skills and all the info on the candidates as per the requirement. Preparing candidates for interview with clients. Maintain close contact with candidates/Vendors/ recruiters/offshore team. Weekly meetings with India offshore team with status update, discuss requirements to be worked as per the priorities, reset the focus as per the requirement need. Publish progress report to management every week. Ability to work on multiple requirements and source quality profiles. Must have capability to handle team. Self-motivated, passionate recruiter with hands on experience in IT Technical Recruiting for US staffing Market. Positive attitude to thrive in an aggressive and highly competitive environment. Demonstrated ability in hiring candidates across geographies within the US Good understanding of US Staffing, HR and contracting process, pay rates etc.

Roles & Responsibilities: • Responsible for Tracking, Analyzing, Prioritizing resumes. • Understand the Project requirements and specifications for various business processes and source according to company policies and Expectations. • Filtered through and reviewed completed candidate profile/resume and evaluated applicant’s work history, education and training, job skills, desired salary/hourly rate, and personal qualifications against open requirements. • Established and maintained solid working relationships with vendors. • Developed and implemented effective recruiting strategies in order to attract, screen, recruit, and select high quality candidates. • Made initial contacts, scheduled and conducted full cycle interview, met each in-person, reference checked and submitted for the matching position. • High analytical abilities with strong leadership, communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills. • Conducted in depth interviews with candidates both in-house and by telephone to determine skills, knowledge, interest, market value, and availability. • Following up with the candidates who are on the projects and ensure to collect approved time sheets from them on weekly basis. • Good knowledge of Tax Terms on a Corp to Corp, 1099, W2. • Sound experience in job portals like DICE, CB, MONSTER and Corp - Corp. • Managing and collecting the data base from different sources.

• Handled IT Based clients. Catering IT skills requirements for Permanent, Contract and C2H mode • 4 members Team handling experience. • Weekly report to AVP / Delivery Manager on weekly revenue and numbers meet. • Weekly meet on Billing/Invoice/PO clearance with finance team. Making sure the amounts are clear from clients end. • Responsible for Requirement gathering. • Following up with team for delivery purpose to complete the task on the given TAT. • Validation of the profiles before submitting it to client. • Following up with Client for feedback of the profile and interview updates. • Specialized in staff augmentation industry, with expertise in recruiting, developing strategies within the framework of company. • Expertise in complete recruitment life cycle, which includes identifying, sourcing, screening, selection, negotiation, background verification, reference check and pre/post offer follow up. • Handled across technologies/software skills and recruited IT professionals at all levels (from Entry level to Sr. Managers). • Effectively communicated with all levels of management and Client. • Sourcing the resource within the cycle time of Requirement Request by utilizing the following sources like portals, social networking sites, reference. • Candidate management. – Compensation negotiation, resolving queries at the time of Initial screening etc • Sharing the requirements with candidates by internal referral mails, posting jobs in portals, mass mailing and interacting with them on daily basis. • Understand candidates interest level and job need • Worked for contract, contract to hire as well as permanent hiring.

Able to identify/screen/qualify candidates for IT positions; the recruiter also reviews, reformats and presents resumes to hiring managers. These are some of the duties which is performing daily basis. • Source, screen, interview, and evaluate candidates. • Foster long-term relationships with candidates. • Review and understand technical job requirement requirements. • Review applicants to verify if position requirements are met. • Format resumes meeting client expectations. • Research new technologies. • Create detailed job descriptions. • Follow up with candidates.

• Handling entire operations like data warehouse, checking quality of data, developing monthly, quarterly and yearly reports for government of Gujarat.