Shashank T

12+ Years of diverse experience in BPO, KPO and IT staffing industry as a self-motivated and result oriented Professional with experience in IT Staffing. Involved in Full Life Cycle in Recruitment with responsibilities in Sourcing, Identifying, Interviewing, Screening, Formatting and placing personnel in quick turnaround time in contract, contract-to-hire and permanent positions throughout the United States. Ability to work effectively in high-pressure environments.

Recruited resources in various technologies and platforms. Strong interpersonal and communication skills, creativity, excellent attitude towards teamwork and common goals achievement.

Business Development/Key Account Management Lead at Current Position (2024-06 – Present)

• Conducted prospect research and new business outreach using LinkedIn, Selling.com, and Apollo.io to identify and engage potential clients and business opportunities.
• Managed global prospect communication, follow-ups, requirement understanding, and relationship building to develop new business opportunities.
• Supported stakeholder and vendor management, coordinating with internal teams, suppliers, and external business contacts to ensure timely execution of requirements.
• Developed exposure to B2B customer engagement primarily in USA and Europe regions, business development processes, lead generation, and maintaining professional client relationships.
• Worked closely with Merchandising, Sourcing, Production, and Operations teams to understand customer requirements and coordinate product-related activities.
• Gained hands-on exposure to product costing, quotations, product specifications, and commercial requirements, strengthening understanding of the overall business development cycle.
• Developed working knowledge of gemstones, diamonds, fine jewelry, sourcing, and jewelry production processes, enabling effective communication with customers and internal stakeholders.
• Maintained structured prospect and engagement records, ensuring consistent follow-up, pipeline management, and opportunity tracking.
• Demonstrated strong communication, stakeholder coordination, relationship management, and negotiation skills while working across multiple teams and external contacts.

Freelance Recruitment Engagements at Clouddesign LLP, Unique Solution (2023-03 – 2024-04)

Involved with 2 companies for their recruitment assignments for Technical hiring such as Sr. Java, QA, MERN, MEAN Stack Developers for Bangalore and Nagpur locations. Acting as an individual contributor.

• Involved in Sourcing, Screening, and Scheduling interviews.

Relocated to Hometown (Nagpur) at Personal (2022-07 – 2023-03)

Relocated to Hometown because of shoulder surgery and leg surgery and Father's demise in Sep 2022.

Assistant Manager – Talent Acquisition at Yash Technologies (2022-06 – 2022-07)

• Acted as a Tower Lead for the captive center hiring in Pune and Bangalore.
• Managed accounts like Schlumberger, John Deere Finance (JDF), Morgan Stanley and CITI Bank.
• Involved in recruitment of new team members for Captive Hiring Team (Pune) with handling existing team of 5 recruiters.

Senior Executive Talent Acquisition at Xoriant (2021-09 – 2022-04)

Managed accounts for Master Card and Citi Bank for multiple positions like Big Data, Data Modeler, Java Developer,.Net, SQL DBA, UI Developer (Angular and React.JS), QA (Junior to Senior roles). Also managed a team of 3 recruiters dedicated with individual contribution.

• Involved in Stakeholder Management and Vendor Management.
• Attending and conducting Daily stakeholder meetings.
• Actively involved in Vendor management to get quality resumes and arranging daily interviews individually and for team.
• Involved in external interview panels coordination for daily and weekend interviews.
• Conducted Weekend drives for individual and team with as many interviews possible for multiple skills.
• Coordinated with the internal and external panels for few Skills.
• Rewarded and awarded with the 4th Highest Recruiter of the quarter (Q4) with highest number of Joiners 27.
• Had 42 Joiners in Q1 (Jan – Mar 2022).

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist (Lead) at Ampcus Tech Pvt Ltd (2020-12 – 2021-09)

Involved in sourcing for talent and managed client accounts via FieldGlass Beeline, IQNavigator etc. Involved in full Recruiting Life Cycle, especially in technical screening for qualified candidates. Specialties: Full Life Cycle Recruitment, Strategic Recruiting & Planning, Extensive team building & Negotiation.

• Screened through complete process of testing and evaluating a candidate's skills and experiences against a set of requirements using friendly conversation questions to uncover strengths and weaknesses.
• Scheduled phone and Video interviews for candidates and guided candidates for Interview preparation.
• Involved in Client coordination, team management, team building, account management, requirement gathering from the business development managers and hiring managers.
• Onsite-Offshore co-ordination with account managers & hiring managers.
• Involved in process planning & implementing management policies.
• Experience in full cycle of recruitment process.
• Working with Account Managers/clients to qualify job orders.
• Sourced & Recruited all level of candidates from Support to Architect/lead/ technical, Functional and Techno-Functional positions.

Senior Executive Talent Acquisition (IT) at Infotree Global Services (2019-10 – 2020-08)

Working with Infotree the company based in Plymouth, MI and in India the offices based in Delhi, Jammu, and Indore. Specifically working on client Bayer majorly till now but along with that Sogeti, Birlasoft and Perspecta, Takeda Pharmaceuticals are the clients with whom working on M2M model. All the clients working with are purely W2.

Working on most of the IT requirements and Techno-Functional requirements such as Business System Analyst, SAP Analyst and SAP ABAP Developer, Enterprise Agile Coach, Database related roles right from Analyst to Architect level, Application Development related roles including front end, back end, and full stack right from Application Developer to Architect level.

Sr Executive (Recruitment) at Diaspark Inc. (2019-06 – 2019-10)

Diaspark Inc. is a CMMI level 5 company based in Edison, NJ. Experience recruiting candidates for the direct clients. Recruiting H1B, US Citizens, Green Card holders and TN visa holders, EAD for numerous positions. Worked extensively for Consulting, Finance, IT, Insurance domain for all over US. Experience in Placing candidates for Corp to Corp, W2 and Direct hire. Specialties: Full Life Cycle Recruitment, Strategic Recruiting & Planning.

Assistant at Conquest Technologies LLC (2019-02 – 2019-05)