Gayathri Sundaram (GS)

Gayathri Sundaram (GS)

Lead Recruiter @ OpTech

About

With 9+ years of proven expertise in full-cycle recruitment, I specialize in identifying, attracting, and hiring top-tier IT professionals, while also delivering exceptional results in non-IT and professional hiring. My portfolio includes recruiting for mission-critical roles such as Application Developers, Software Engineers, Business Analysts, QA Specialists, Data Warehouse & Reporting Developers, Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Cybersecurity Experts, Data Scientists, Python AI Developers, Integration Developers, and IT Leadership positions, along with Customer Service, Call Center, Sales, Insurance, and Concierge roles. My engineering recruitment experience spans industries such as Chemical Manufacturing, Petrochemicals, and Automotive Manufacturing, where I have successfully sourced and placed candidates in highly specialized technical and operational roles. I am passionate about developing high-impact recruitment strategies that align talent acquisition with business objectives. By leveraging advanced sourcing techniques, social and professional networking platforms, and ATS optimization, I help organizations reduce hiring costs, accelerate turnaround time, improve time-to-hire, and enhance the overall candidate experience. My recruiting mindset is simple: “Every requirement is an opportunity, and every candidate has potential.” I approach each search with persistence, curiosity, and a solution-driven mindset to connect the right talent with the right opportunity.

Country

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City

United States

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Career Development Coaching, Career Development, Direct Client Interaction, IT Recruitment, Screening Resumes, IT Sourcing, Technical Recruiting, Technology Recruitment, Dice.com, Internet Recruiting, Benefits Negotiation, Screening, Interviews, Staff Augmentation, Contract Recruitment, Recruiting, Sourcing, Staffing Services, Management, SDLC

Experience

OpTech

Lead Recruiter

OpTech

LinkedIn
2022-6 - Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

Troy, Michigan, United States

• Manage and execute full-cycle recruitment for IT, Professional, and Engineering roles across both direct hiring manager engagements and VMS/MSP programs, ensuring efficient hiring outcomes and strong candidate experience. • Lead strategic hiring initiatives by partnering with hiring managers across Banking, Healthcare, and Industrial/Engineering sectors to align hiring strategies with business goals. • Develop and manage talent pipelines through talent mapping, advanced sourcing strategies, and proactive candidate engagement, ensuring a steady flow of qualified talent for current and future hiring needs. • Perform candidate pipeline management using Bullhorn ATS, tracking candidate stages, maintaining engagement with passive candidates, and ensuring overall pipeline health. • Handle high-volume as well as niche and hard-to-fill technical requisitions, delivering qualified candidates within tight turnaround timelines. • Manage recruitment operations across VMS platforms including Beeline and Workday VNDLY, handling requisition review, candidate submissions, lifecycle tracking, and MSP compliance. • Execute advanced sourcing strategies through professional networks, referrals, and industry platforms to identify high-quality active and passive candidates. • Screen, interview, and evaluate candidates to assess technical capabilities, domain expertise, and cultural fit. • Coordinate interviews, hiring manager feedback, and offer negotiations, ensuring a smooth candidate journey from submission to onboarding. • Improve turnaround time by maintaining ready talent pipelines and prioritizing urgent hiring needs. • Provide recruitment leadership through training and knowledge sharing, supporting team members in strengthening sourcing and recruitment delivery. • Track recruitment metrics including pipeline health, submittals, interviews, hires, and time-to-fill to improve hiring performance.

Sensiple

Independent Consultant - Training & Recruitment

Sensiple

LinkedIn
2022-2 - 2022-6 · 5 mos

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Interviewed and evaluated fresh graduates for recruitment roles, selecting candidates with strong communication skills and potential to develop as effective recruiters. • Designed and delivered end-to-end recruitment training programs for freshers, covering the full recruitment lifecycle including requirement analysis, sourcing strategies, resume screening, candidate engagement, interview coordination, and recruitment best practices. • Mentored and coached junior recruiters, closely monitoring their daily performance and providing continuous guidance to help them develop into effective and high-performing recruiters. • Identified performance gaps and corrected sourcing, screening, and communication mistakes, helping new recruiters refine their approach and strengthen their recruitment capabilities. • Transitioned trained recruiters into production, delegating live requirements and guiding them through real-time recruitment scenarios to build practical hands-on experience. • Provided ongoing sourcing guidance and support, helping team members understand requirements, identify relevant talent pools, and apply effective sourcing techniques to attract qualified candidates. • Monitored recruiter productivity and daily recruitment activities, tracking candidate pipelines, submissions, and progress against hiring goals. • Reported team performance updates and recruitment progress to management, ensuring transparency in production metrics and recruitment delivery. • Offered hands-on sourcing support for internal hiring and in-house projects, identifying and engaging qualified candidates through job portals, professional networking platforms, and internal databases. • Contributed to building strong candidate pipelines to support organizational hiring needs and ensure timely staffing for internal recruitment projects.

ProV International

Senior HR - TAG

ProV International

LinkedIn
2020-12 - 2021-8 · 9 mos

Greater Chennai Area

• As part of the Corporate HR team, managed internal talent acquisition requirements by coordinating closely with business units to understand workforce needs and ensure timely fulfillment of open positions. • Partnered with business leaders and department heads to gather detailed role requirements, define candidate profiles, and develop targeted sourcing strategies to close positions within agreed timelines. • Worked closely with senior leadership including the Global CTO, CEO, Country Manager, Technical Heads, Customer Engagement Managers, and Business Unit Leaders to support strategic hiring needs across multiple functions. • Utilized a combination of active and passive sourcing strategies through job portals, professional networks, and industry platforms to identify and engage highly qualified candidates. • Successfully recruited for highly niche and leadership-level in-house positions, including:  Country Manager – Philippines  Dell Boomi Practice Head  Dell Boomi & Integration Architect  IFS Technical & Functional Consultants (India & Sri Lanka)  FSM Technical & Functional Consultants  Salesforce Delivery Lead • Managed the end-to-end recruitment process, including candidate sourcing, screening, interview coordination, stakeholder communication & offer discussions to ensure smooth hiring outcomes. • Built and maintained strong relationships with candidates, conducting regular touch-base discussions to understand their career expectations, project preferences, and professional concerns. • Maintained continuous candidate engagement throughout the recruitment & onboarding process, ensuring alignment between candidate expectations & project requirements. • Improved candidate experience via proactive issue resolution & effective coordination with internal stakeholders. • Awarded “Employee of the Quarter” within four months of joining in recognition of exceptional performance, proactive recruitment efforts, and successful closure of niche hiring requirements.

OpTech

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

OpTech

LinkedIn
2016-11 - 2020-9 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Chennai, India

My Responsibilities includes, • Managed end-to-end recruitment for IT requirements supporting Healthcare and Energy sector client accounts, acting as the primary point of contact between candidates and client Account Managers throughout the hiring lifecycle. • Performed full-cycle recruiting activities including sourcing, resume screening, rate negotiation, candidate submission through client portals, interview scheduling, interview debriefing, and maintaining consistent candidate communication. • Delivered qualified candidate submissions within defined timelines, aligning candidate expectations with client requirements and handing off shortlisted profiles to Account Managers. • Maintained regular candidate communication and status updates, ensuring transparency and a positive candidate experience throughout the recruitment process. • Supported recruitment across IT, Non-IT, Professional, Healthcare, and occasional Engineering roles, demonstrating flexibility in managing diverse hiring requirements. • Worked across multiple industry domains including Banking, Insurance, Healthcare / Pharma, Manufacturing, Automotive, Electric & Electronic industries, and Federal client engagements. • Collaborated with offshore and onsite recruitment teams, providing sourcing support across multiple technologies and skill sets to strengthen talent pipelines and support urgent hiring needs. • Conducted knowledge transfer sessions for new team members, sharing recruitment processes, sourcing strategies, and best practices to help them ramp up quickly. • Utilized recruitment tools such as E-Recruit for candidate tracking, submission management, and recruitment workflow optimization. • Maintained candidate databases and pipelines for submitted and prospective candidates, enabling efficient follow-ups and faster submissions. • Prepared daily, weekly, and monthly recruitment reports to track submissions, interviews, and overall recruitment progress.

Sensiple

Team Lead

Sensiple

LinkedIn
2015-11 - 2016-10 · 1 yr

Chennai, India / Iselin, NJ, USA

Sensiple is a global leader in consulting and Information Technology Services company Head quartered in United States-New Jersey with its offices in Omaha and India. Sensiple has evolved from being a business consulting company in its early stages to one stop world class IT solution provider over the years. We help clients to outperform the competition. Sensiple Services includes Customer Experience, Digital Enterprise, Enterprise Application, Business Application, Application Testing and Infrastructure Services. Specialties IT Solutions & Services, Customer Experience, Cloud Computing, IVR, Contact Center Support, Microsoft Lync, Unified Communication, Big Data, Mobility, Bigcommerce, BIDW, Application Testing, Digital Marketing, Analytics, Website Optimization, SEO My Responsibilities includes as follows: • Maintain Client relationship and attend Client’s conference calls to update about the progress and activities of the recruiters. • Handled a team of 5 recruiters and taking care of assigning / assisting / monitoring their assigned requirements till submission • Assigned the daily goals to all the recruiters. • Assist and explain the recruiters on each and every requirements to their understanding as per client’s need • Provides weekly update report on all recruiting activities to the Clients and to my Reporting Manager • Helping Management to decide action plan for improving team productivity. • Team with hiring managers to develop proper job descriptions and effective searching strategies • Tracking all the recruitment activities of the entire team by using the provided tools like cBizsoft, Jobs Diva, etc.

Sensiple

Trainer

Sensiple

LinkedIn
2014-11 - 2016-10 · 2 yrs

Chennai, India / Iselin, NJ, USA

My Responsibilities includes as follows: • Prepared training material of my own on entire US recruitment activities which includes job types, visa’s, tax terms, requirement understanding, type of clients, how to talk to a candidate / employer, details needed before submitting a profile, etc. • Coordinate and conduct an individual training sessions based on Associates and Organizational learning needs. • Trained 15 number of freshers, starting from US Geography, Tax Terms, Work Authorizations, Negotiation till end-end Recruitment Process • Trained People about how to search in Social Networks, Google, Cbiz, Job Diva and Multiple Job Portals like Dice, Career Builder and Monster • Give more importance to the slow learners and understand their difficulty in performing their tasks and educate / motivate them with more examples in extra sessions • Provided proper mock calls training and correct them on their flaws before they hit the floor for production • Responsible for their improvement and daily targets

Sensiple

Technical Recruiter / Senior Technical Recruiter

Sensiple

LinkedIn
2011-8 - 2015-8 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Chennai, India / Iselin, NJ, USA

My Responsibilities includes: • Full life-cycle recruiting of all levels. • Handle requisitions (use of materials) and provide end – end recruitment service which includes sourcing, screening, selection, hiring and on-boarding. • Worked across various domains like BFS (banking and Financial Services), Telecom, Retail, Healthcare, Insurance and Pharma based clients. • Clear understanding of the US Staffing processes/ Techniques – W2/ 1099/ Corp-to-Corp/ H1B Transfers • Identifying potential candidates through Dice, Career Builder, Monster and other job portals, contacts and networks. • Responsible for mastering the use of recruiting tools and Technologies (Chiz, Job Diva, LinkedIn) to remain at the forefront of talent Acquisition. • Maintaining the database of submitted and To-be submitted candidates to keep regular follow-ups which results in quick submission. • Scheduling interviews & Follow-ups and short listing candidates • Screening and confirm the basic qualifications like skill-set, interest, job-fit, salary – expectation, career – pipeline and Work-Authorization. • Continued success in direct sourcing, networking, referrals, Internet and job boards • Coordinate the process of selection and negotiating the salary with perspectives • Create and implement staffing department policies and procedures, including work force planning • Handled requirements deals with all types of visas like H1B, EAD, GC, US Citizens, etc. • Developed and Managed strong consultative relationships with hiring managers and candidates • Maintaining timely documentation of all conversations with candidates within our internal database • Developed behavioral interviewing questions to improve retention of payroll candidates • Develop position-specific screening questionnaires • Follow-up with Account Managers and the placed candidates at regular intervals to maintain a healthy business relationship. • Maintained daily, weekly and monthly reports to be used in Meeting

Education

Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy

Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy

LinkedIn

Human Resources Management / Finance Management (Dual Specialization)

Intern - Main Project in Technosoft Global Services Mini - Project in Anand Engineering Products (P) Ltd,

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