Saurabh Katiyar

• Responsibilities included sourcing, phone screening, and interviewing candidates and making hiring recommendations to senior partners/hiring managers • Extensive experience in full life cycle recruiting methodology Like sourcing, pre-screening, interviewing, pre-closing, reference checking, salary or contract negotiations, closing, extending offers etc. • Sourced candidates having employment status (H1B's, Green Cards and citizens) from search engines like http://hiring.monster.com, http://www.dice.com, http://www.careerbuilder.com and direct mailing & resume databases. • Recruited for a wide range of skilled disciplines • Source and screen resumes, conduct phone interviews, recommend qualified candidates to hiring managers check references, update candidates on the recruitment process, and negotiate and close desirable candidates in a very competitive talent market. • Responsible for screening candidates to ensure their qualifications & skills meet open positions. • Work closely with the client, give and take updates about candidate’s submissions, and other required information. • Present job opportunities to qualified candidates and negotiate contract terms.

• Excellent ability to identify client needs on requirements with quick response time. • Sourcing the resumes according to client’s demands and mostly working on fulltime and permanent positions. • Source qualified candidates via the web, utilizing various job boards, industry contacts and the internal database. • Successfully placed IT consultants in various industries • Managed recruiting process from requisition initiation to sourcing, to acceptance of offer and final placement. • Recruited for all levels of candidates from Testers, Developers to Project Managers. • Sourced, screened, filtered resumes, checked references, interviewed and placed technical candidates with various clients (end-clients as well as other tire one vendors). • Web-recruiting strategy, selected web search tools (Dice/ Monster/ Career builder) Used these and other sources. • Screening and short listing candidates and forwarding the short listed candidates to the clients like user groups, references and employee referrals for building up a network of qualified consultants. • Ensure closing of positions and candidates joining. • Effectively filled on-going contract requirements.

• Handling the full cycle of recruitment -- source, screen, validate, offer, and close resources for job requirements. • Understanding the job description of different companies. • Responsible for searching and recruiting the candidates on various IT skills set • Short listing the suitable candidate from different sources like job portals, references etc. • Posting the jobs on the job board. • Conducting telephonic interview to check suitability and availability of candidates for further interview with clients. • Searching resumes in various US job portals • Matching the profile of candidates as per the job description • Negotiating salaries with candidates and pay rates with subcontracting companies. • Acting as first point-of-contact for consultant and maintains monthly contact with consultant • Ensuring that adequate number of qualified candidates is submitted for all assigned client requirements