Joeseph Raj

• Recruited consultants on W2, 1099, and C2C for candidates with visa statuses including H1B, Green Card, U.S. Citizen, and EAD. • Screened candidates for availability, interest level, work authorization in the U.S., salary expectations, relocation needs, technical skills, and core competencies. • Sourced potential candidates through job boards and ATS platforms such as Ceipal/Conrep and JobDiva. • Negotiated salary/hourly rates with candidates and Corp-to-Corp rates with consulting companies. • Scheduled interviews, managed hiring processes, and coordinated onboarding for new employees. • Worked on contract, contract-to-hire, and full-time positions for direct clients. • Recruited across various IT verticals and technical roles in the Information Technology industry. • Focused on sourcing passive candidates through networking, cold calling, and internet research. • Utilized job boards such as Dice, Monster, and CareerBuilder. • Managed external vendor relationships, including negotiating right-to-hire agreements and rate structures. • Drove full-cycle recruitment in high-volume, time-sensitive environments, partnering directly with hiring managers and managing candidates through successful placement.

Interact with stakeholders and business clients, responsible for PMO calls. Experience in Workday HRMS portal. Hands on end-to-end recruitment life cycle process in a fast-paced high-pressure environment. Interacted with technical panels to conduct the weekdays and weekend drive interview. Responsible for HR interviews & Salary negotiation, taking offer approvals from the stakeholders, releasing offers and take the offers to the closure. Strong knowledge on multiple recruiting sources including various job boards such as Monster, Naukri, LinkedIn, GitHub, Employee Referrals (ER), Vendors, job postings in Workday and IJP Broadcasting. Schedule a weekly sync-up with the hiring managers to provide updates on the job requirements. Maintaining the daily tracker and follow up on the candidates. Responsible for HR interviews, releasing offer through the Workday HRMS Create and innovate sourcing strategies to optimize quality, cost and availability of right talent pool. Plan campus drives, driving branding initiatives to bring in Technology campus pool Drive referral initiative and Diversity hiring in Technology space. Deft at engaging stakeholders to discuss hiring trends, forecasts, job requirements, market mapping and hiring plans. Involved in Employee Referral Program, IJP, Career Talk and other Activities. Involved in Campus hiring like branding and driving campus recruitment and outstation job portal drives

• Responsible for client relationships, hiring decisions, candidate negotiation, and offers. • Conduct weekly meeting with the recruiting team • Coordinate with the recruiters and help in they need • Involved in vendor agreements for third party employees, Master agreement • Involved in negotiating and closing business contracts. • Handled the complete Recruitment Life Cycle - Sourcing, Candidates Tracking, Short-listing Profiles, Rate Negotiations (Vendors, US Citizens Etc.), Submissions according to client specifications, Follow-ups, Reference checks, interview coordination’s and paper work. • Involved in screening the resumes and schedule the Technical and end client interviews. • Negotiate salary packages and billing rates acceptable to both parties leading to a win-win situation (for W2 / 1099/corp to corp cases). • Post requirements on job portals like Dice, Monster, etc. • Worked with H1B, TN & Green Card holders, US Citizens, EAD etc. on tax terms - 1099, W2 and C2C • Responsible to get the Placement Order (PO) from the client once the consultant is placed. • Keeping a track of the candidates for future references and marketing. • Identify potential candidates who can be transferred on the company’s H1, fix their salary according to the market rate of their skill set and place them at client sites. • Conducting preliminary interviews with candidates to ascertain their competencies, skills and aspirations • Receiving Placement Order (PO) from clients (If any consultant placed). • Actively involved in negotiating and closing business contracts. • Negotiate salary packages and billing rates acceptable to both parties leading to a win-win situation (for W2 / 1099/corp to corp cases).