shankar Darna

• Handling India & APAC regions for recruitment perspective and handling stakeholders globally.
• Currently handling a team size of 25 people including Manager, Leads & Recruiters across the
locations.
• Extensively worked on Budgeting & Forecasting for the year.
• Working closely with Marketing team for Employer branding(Internal & External) Responsible for
team performance evaluation through multiple metrics like cost per hire, conversion ratio, SLAs etc.
• Design and execute recruiting strategies to attract, evaluate and hire qualified candidates
• Proactively identify and address hiring needs
• Evaluate and refine sourcing and selection procedures

• Design and execute recruiting strategies to attract, evaluate and hire qualified candidates
• Proactively identify and address hiring needs
• Evaluate and refine sourcing and selection procedures
• Manage a team of recruiters and provide assistance as needed
• Promote diversity in the workplace and ensure recruiting strategies attract diverse candidates
• Oversee and improve overall candidate experience
• Maintain talent pipelines with potential candidates and past applicants for future staffing needs
• Research and recommend new sourcing tools and recruiting software (e.g. ATS)
• Ensure proper onboarding and training for new hires

• Responsible for supporting the needs of the business on acquiring talent with a team of 1 Leads with
20 Recruiters.
• Effectively managed an average of 60 - 90 open requisitions concurrently.
• Possess excellent knowledge of recruiting and hiring processes including requirement gathering,
requirement analysis, sourcing, interviewing, selling, salary negotiations, offering and post offer
follow-ups.
• Developed, drove and executed comprehensive search strategies to recruit senior and niche
candidates in limited candidate spaces.
• HR discussion for the short listed candidates-Negotiating and fixing the Compensation and Benefits
and initiating the approval.
• Prepare relevant offer documents for Approval and process the same to HR team, for offer roll out.
• Responsible for initiating reference check by processing offer and relieving letter of the candidates
to the background verification team.
• Developed an effective pipeline of key talent available for immediate hire as succession planning
needs.
• Utilized cost effective tools to reduce average spend per hire and decrease cycle times.
• Negotiating Vendor Agreements / Contracts.
• Interact with the Hiring managers and Delivery heads to analyze their satisfaction levels and
improve the quality of resources.
• Performance management of placement consultant and assessment of performance.
• Writing/Reviewing reports and metrics to the Executive Leadership team: Client/Hiring managers
reviewing items such as Weekly New Requirements, Total Open positions, Aged Requirements
Analysis, Joiners Analysis, Offer Analysis, Challenges in getting the positions filled, and what strategy
to get the position filled and barriers to overcome.
• Reviewing the open positions with the team, prioritization of the requirements as per business and
ensuring timely closure.
• Identifying the strengths and weakness of the team and guiding, motivating and improvising the
teams capabilities for the professional growth.

Responsibilities:
• Responsible for supporting the needs of the business on acquiring talent with a team of 7 Team Lead
& 50 Recruiters.
• Effectively managed an average of 90 - 150 open requisitions concurrently.
• Closed Vice President kind of profile in UHG
• Possess excellent knowledge of recruiting and hiring processes including requirement gathering,
requirement analysis, sourcing, interviewing, selling, salary negotiations, offering and post offer
follow-ups.
• Developed, drove and executed comprehensive search strategies to recruit senior and niche
candidates in limited candidate spaces.
• HR discussion for the short listed candidates-Negotiating and fixing the Compensation and Benefits
and initiating the approval.
• Prepare relevant offer documents for Approval and process the same to HR team, for offer roll out.
• Responsible for initiating reference check by processing offer and relieving letter of the candidates
to the background verification team.
• Developed an effective pipeline of key talent available for immediate hire as succession planning
needs.
• Effectively spearheaded off-campus recruitments.
• Utilized cost effective tools to reduce average spend per hire and decrease cycle times.
• Negotiating Vendor Agreements / Contracts.
• Strong Employee Referral Schemes.
• Create and place the job postings
• Interact with the Hiring managers and Delivery heads to analyze their satisfaction levels and
improve the quality of resources.
• Maintaining a harmonious work climate by meeting the SEs regularly to understand their problems
and solve them.
• Performance management of placement consultant and assessment of performance.
• Writing/Reviewing reports and metrics to the Executive Leadership team: Client/Hiring managers
reviewing items such as Weekly New Requirements, Total Open positions, Aged Requirements
Analysis, Joiners Analysis, Offer Analysis, Challenges in getting the positions filled, and what strategy
to get the position filled and barriers to overcome.
• Managing and mentoring a team of 7 Team Lead & 50 Recruiters.
• Reviewing the open positions with the team, prioritization of the requirements as per business and
ensuring timely closure.
• Identifying the strengths and weakness of the team and guiding, motivating and improvising the
teams capabilities for the professional growth.

• Responsible for supporting the needs of the business on acquiring talent with a team of 7 Team
Lead & 50 Recruiters.
• Effectively managed an average of 90 - 150 open requisitions concurrently.
• Possess excellent knowledge of recruiting and hiring processes including requirement gathering,
requirement analysis, sourcing, interviewing, selling, salary negotiations, offering and post offer
follow-ups.
• Closed VP kind of role at Aurobindo pharmacy and Manager kind of role at Patni Computers
(IGate)
• Developed, drove and executed comprehensive search strategies to recruit senior and niche
candidates in limited candidate spaces.
• HR discussion for the short listed candidates-Negotiating and fixing the Compensation and
Benefits and initiating the approval.
• Prepare relevant offer documents for Approval and process the same to HR team, for offer roll
out.
• Responsible for initiating reference check by processing offer and relieving letter of the
candidates to the background verification team.
• Developed an effective pipeline of key talent available for immediate hire as succession planning
needs.
• Effectively spearheaded off-campus recruitments.
• Utilized cost effective tools to reduce average spend per hire and decrease cycle times.
• Negotiating Vendor Agreements / Contracts.
• Strong Employee Referral Schemes.
• Create and place the job postings
• Interact with the Hiring managers and Delivery heads to analyze their satisfaction levels and
improve the quality of resources.
• Maintaining a harmonious work climate by meeting the SEs regularly to understand their
problems and solve them.
• Performance management of placement consultant and assessment of performance.
• Writing/Reviewing reports and metrics to the Executive Leadership team: Client/Hiring managers
reviewing items such as Weekly New Requirements, Total Open positions, Aged Requirements
Analysis, Joiners Analysis, Offer Analysis, Challenges in getting the positions filled, and what
strategy to get the position filled and barriers to overcome.
• Managing and mentoring a team of 7 Team Lead & 50 Recruiters.
• Reviewing the open positions with the team, prioritization of the requirements as per business
and ensuring timely closure.
• Identifying the strengths and weakness of the team and guiding, motivating and improvising the
teams capabilities for the professional growth