Akash Praharaj

-Manage full-cycle recruitment for Tech at Scout24 across various verticals. -Drive employer branding projects & candidate experience. -Data-driven analytic reporting to senior management. -Closely collaborated with Engineering Managers, Directors, VP & CTO on hiring strategy. -Onboarding & training -Manage & mentor colleagues -Lead multiple projects to streamline and structured various topics such as recruitment process improvements, Diversity & Inclusion & Talent pool. -Participated & Moderated as speaker in various events.

-Manage full-cycle recruitment for all of the Tech & Product openings at Scout24 across various lines of business. -Data-driven Recruitment. -Implementation of a modern technology recruiting strategy. -Revamped internal recruitment training. -Analysed and implemented different process improvements across Product & Tech Recruitment. -Implemented modern & latest recruitment trends to optimize efficiency. -Coached & onboarded new colleagues. -Collaborate with stakeholders across Product Org to help forecast future hiring needs. -Developed innovative strategies to ensure talent pipelines are being strengthened in order to support current and future needs of the business. -Provided training and support to stakeholders in order to streamline processes, ensure an amazing candidate experience and make the best hiring decisions. -Proactively identify bottlenecks in the hiring process and propose creative solutions.

Leading the tech hiring for the European platform. Conducting 360 degree TA including strategy consulting, training and stakeholder-management as well as hands-on recruitment.

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with 95 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people defeat obesity, hemophilia, growth disorders and other serious chronic diseases. Major Task Accomplished -Has been the SPOC for all TA requirements of the Hiring Managers/Business. -Reported directly to HR COE Head. -Handled Recruiters and Administrators to ensure that the TA process runs smoothly for the business. -Create and maintain all process-related data and reports. -Manage stakeholder expectations and escalations -Proactively come up with solutions for various TA needs for the business. -Provided innovative TA strategy and drives various TA initiatives for the business. -Managed a Team of 4 Senior Recruiters and 2 Junior Recruiters and 4 recruitment coordinators. -Responsible for KPI and performance management of the team. -Ensuring seamless TA operations for the business through proper communication and coordination with the business, TA team, and HRBP. -Delivered successful plans to hire 150 plus employees in 1 year with an average time to close the position to 50 days. -Managed stakeholder expectations and escalations. -Provided innovative TA strategy and drives various TA initiatives for the business. -Developed sourcing approach, work allocation, utilization of recruiters and administrators, and also mentoring recruiters. -Updated CVP, HR Head, and stakeholders by generating weekly reports and dashboards.

Shell has established a new IT hub in Bangalore, and plans to scale it up over a five-year period. The purpose of the IT Hub is to enable the Business by focusing on business outcomes, delivering fit for business technology solutions which enable business agility and profitable growth. • As Recruitment Advisor, I have been involved in Full life-cycle recruiting with expertise in stakeholder management, vendor management. • Have handled team of 4-5 recruiters and worked along with them to achieve goals. • Worked in major ramp up project of Shell to establish new IT hub in Bangalore which involved recruitment for across level of experience from leadership hiring to fresher’s. • Successfully organized campus recruitment to hire fresh talent. • Actively participated in hiring Graduates as part of Shell Graduate program from top B-school such as IIM’s. Actively managed Downstream Business in Shell. • Involved in day to day calls with stakeholders to give status updates and make them • understand recruitment process. • Hosted induction program for new employees to make them understand on employee referral program. • Organized various employee referral program. • Hired more than 500 consultants in a span of 1 year as part of ramp up project.

Managing the progression, development and partnership with All State Insurance. I currently manage the revenue of around $80k-$1M across the client portfolio. -Managing recruitment delivery across these clients through a team of 9 recruiters and an AssistantManager. -Managing the delivery of staffing services and 360-degree customer delight for Clients, Consultants, and MSPs by providing pre-and post-sales assistance. -Maintaining sales pipeline for the clients and ensuring quality delivery in accordance with the SLAs of the clients. -Single point of contact for the Hiring Managers and MSP POCs and establishing a strong rapport with them. -Reaching out to MSP vendors and hiring managers seeking feedback on our submissions and interviews. -Active participation in client calls with the hiring managers and getting critical insights into the open jobs. -Verifying the availability and best time with a consultant for the interview and lining up the interviews. -Handling all escalations from the client as a SPOC -Managing and prioritising a high requisition volume across all the clients. -Creating various metrics and reports that enable better accountability of the recruiters

-Partner closely with Recruiting Manager, Human resources leaders, and business leaders to ensure that recruiting is consistent with the business goal. -Experience in ATS “BULLHORN" and extensively utilized job portals like Dice, monster, career builder and LinkedIn Etc. -Full Life cycle recruiting assignment with Telecom clients (Verizon, AT&T & T-Mobile). -Worked in telecom domain as senior recruiter prospected and identified qualified candidates and matched them with appropriate positions. -Responsible for performing high volume recruitment of senior level technical consultants for placements on client contracts. -Work involves day-to-day working with C2C (self-incorporates and Vendors), 1099, and W2. -Involved in Negotiating the rate/salary with the consultant as per the applicable Employment Term/Type, explained benefits, and oversaw pre-employment paperwork. -Work with Sales Team to proactively align recruitment efforts with market demand. -Maintain talent pool and was responsible for maintaining relationships. -Mentored a team of experienced recruiters, and provided training to the new members of the team. -Maintained and developed daily/monthly PO Status reports of the team for management’s review.