Syed Saleem Peer Makandar

• Responsible for end to end hiring for Semiconductor, Embedded, Telecom and automotive domains.
• Hiring, fulfilment and budget planning and onboarded 100+ engineers.
• Accountable for handling internal & external customers and addressing the demand.
• Working closely with BU heads and sales team to close lateral positions.
• Responsible for deliverables for external clients like, Infineon, Samsung, Veoneer, HCL, LG Soft, Wipro, Sonim, Sony, Infinera, Qualcomm, Radysis, Micelio Motors, Cambium and Mavenir etc...
• Constantly working on talent pool study for better planning for upcoming demand.
• Responsible for branding & team building.
• Built a huge VMS channel (Vendor Management System)
• Handling daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly meetings with TA and Board members.
• Preparing TA team for handling new challenges and increasing the joiner ratio.
• Successful in adding more than 6 logos to LeadSoc banner by addressing new demand.
• Working on channel mix and cost per hire.
• Introducing new schemes for employee referrals and brand building.
• Handling demand Vs supply reviews and attrition replacements.
• Proper planning of IJM (Internal job movements).
• Handling dashboard meetings.
• Building TA team and grooming them to a best performance level
• Grooming TA team on how to build network in VLSI and Embedded industry
• Successfully Placed 3 leads and started building teams under them at multiple accounts.
• Involved in end-to-end salary negotiations, approvals and joining conversions and responsible for enabling team members handle critical situations.

Responsibilities:
Handling Semiconductor & Embedded positions for direct clients like Intel-Qualcomm-SanDisk-Mediatek-Broadcom-Radysis-Mavinair-ABB-Robert Bosch & Delphi etc.
Working directly with Sales and hiring managers and interacting with customers for fulfilling priority demand.
Currently Handling a team of 8 recruiters and tracking the supply against weekly demand.
Responsible for Vendor and employee referral Management.
Handling end to end recruitment and automated complete recruitment process for Graphene through Adrenaline.

Manager - Talent Acquisition @ Eximius Design May 2016 to till date
Responsibilities:
Currently handling Semiconductor & Embedded positions for direct clients like SanDisk-Mediatek-NXP-Xilinx-Microsemi-Broadcom-Qualcom-Zebra-Atalla- LeEco & Intel- etc.
Skills (Hiring on): PD, DV, Analog, RTL and Connectivity, Storage Firmware, Python, DSP, Open CL, MM, Android RIL, & etc..
• Handling a team of 5 people 2 rec-leads and 3 rec-primes and mentoring 7 recruiters in VLSI domain.
• Goal setting and allocating demand to recruitment team - tracking daily & weekly performance of the team.
• Budget Planning, Event Planning for recruitment, Vendor Management, Employee referral and Channel Management etc..
• Designed and automated end to end recruitment process for Eximius Design.
• Individual contribution for fulfilling senior positions on difficult skills.
• Responsible for Offer to joiner conversions and attrition control.
• Guiding team with new sourcing techniques for creating a better source pipeline.
• Handling HR interviews, salary justification and comp grids to make sure the right hire is in place.
• KRA & KPA settings for TA team.
 Account management, Recruitment, policies, Training, Vendor Management etc..
 Manpower Planning, Budget planning, Target setting for Self and Team.
 Expertise in hiring Middle and Sr. Management talents.
 Highly Responsible for timely delivery of service to clients.

Achievements:
• Added 5 new logos (Clients) to Eximius banner past in 10 Months.
• Got appreciations from Sales and Engineering teams for providing in-time service to the customers.
• >90% of hired candidates are billable.
• Supported team with 18 new joiners in 1 year as an individual contributor.

Responsibilities:
 Responsible for end to end recruitment and operations
 Working on VLSI, Embedded, Automotive and corporate functional requirements for Contractual & permanent hiring.
 Responsible for bringing new business and establishing network with VLSI & Embedded training institutes for hiring trained freshers.
 Responsible for end to end recruitment and quality hiring for all domains and handling demand and supply on day to day basis
 Interacting with product and services clients for new demand
 Working with new methodologies to fulfil VLSI & Embedded demand
 Customers handled @ Semiconductor & Embedded side:
“Pozibility, GLV, Nortcele, Altran, L&T, Cerium Systems, Cyient, Microsemi and many more”.
 Having strong network in industry and very focussed and result oriented in offer to joiner conversion.
 Responsible for timely delivery of service to clients
 Helping customers on recruitment automation to improve their recruitment process
 Designing KRAs & KPAs for start-up companies
 Plan and engage with corporates for strategic activities including guest lectures, panel discussions, conclaves, workshops, competitions etc.
Achievements:
Empanelled good number of new customers for VLSI & Embedded requirements.
Increased supply ratio against each demand.
Excellent brand builder

TALENT ACQUISITION RESPONSIBILITIES:-
• Recruitment process owner and designed a tool (Ngage) & automated the recruitment process through it.
• Responsible for Hiring from Entry Level, Mid & Senior Level hiring of Different Clients at Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai & Pune Sites on a month on month basis from different sources & demonstrated flexibility to take up different assignments. Managing a team of 4- Allocation of tasks and fixing targets for the team.
• Sourcing the niche profiles in the industry for IT, Telecom & Investment Banking i.e. Software Engineers, Leads, Architects, Program managers & Project Managers, Analyst, Technical Writer, Website Manager, PR Specialist, SQL Developer and Business Intelligence.

• Planning Recruitment Strategies to attract the best talent for Sasken’s clients in ITES Domain & Responsible for all Channel /source management.
• Conducting recruitment events from all over India for mass hiring.
• Retention Projects: Implemented Projects/assignments that are aligned towards increasing employee satisfaction and reducing attrition---Employee Satisfaction Survey to maintain appropriate contact with employees to stay abreast of concerns and address personnel issues
• Worked closely with Talent Engagement Department to resolve employee grievances post joining the organization & even at the stage of on-boarding them.

• Process & Location Audit Champion: - Represent Talent Acquisition function on a regular business, organization and process audits.

• Vendor Management and rating: Selecting consultants / vendors as per their skills and narrowing down based on their previous year’s performance and conversion ratio.
• On boarding Mid level Hires: Handle the employee life cycle within the organization starting from Hiring & on boarding. Hands on experience of conducting on boarding on a weekly basis of Mid Level Hires & agent Level.

• Designing of recruitment advertisements and dealing with the recruitment agencies.

• Planning and executing Job fairs, out station recruitments & developing recruitment models for Expanding talent pool.
• Conducted training program for new recruits and Orientation Program for the existing team.

• Making Offers after Compensation fitments and Salary Negotiations-Agent & Lateral Level.

Clients Handled:
• Samsung, Qualcomm, STE, STM, Intel, AVAYA, IMC, Infineon, TI, USIT, Tandem etc..
• Responsible for Recruitment Review PPT's and Dashboard: Responsible for preparing Review PPT's on a monthly basis and Managed other critical MIS & monthly dashboard's for voice hiring and demonstrated good analytical skills & focus on numbers- Maintain reporting metrics for entire recruiting process (Offers, Declines, Source mix, TAT, Cost per hire etc.)

Key HR Initiatives:
 Implemented & organized Rewards & Recognition program for Employee Referral towards making it more robust and rewarding to the employees.
 Work closely with the leadership team towards the training plan for Team Members and there-by planning & designing team members coaching & counseling path.
 Design the survey process and questions, conduct the same for better results & effective feedback, and suggest action plans that can bring more employee satisfaction.
 - Devised recruitment strategies and created streamlined processes related to Talent Management and C & B so that they are in line with industry Best Practices.
 Proactively involved in re-structuring the employee referral programs, other pay & non - payout schemes.
 Streamlined best process of Talent Acquisition for Sasken
 Designed best HR assessments for lateral and Leadership hiring.
 Designed a tool called nGage for end to end talent acquisition for Sasken
 Introduced TBIP incentive scheme for Sasken employees
 Received appreciations & Spot awarded on “ Out Standing Performance”