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Avinash Mishra

@avinash_mishra

Talent Acquisition Specialist (Cloud Security and Security) at Cisco Systems, Inc.

Bangalore, India

Cisco Systems, Inc.UPTU

Avinash Mishra is a performance-driven professional with over 6 years of experience in end-to-end recruitment, specializing in the IT sector. He possesses expertise in talent acquisition for critical roles, including Cloud and System Security. His skills encompass full recruitment lifecycle management, stakeholder engagement, and developing proactive hiring strategies to meet business growth objectives.

Experience

Talent Acquisition Specialist (Cloud Security and Security)

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Mar 2021 - Present

Work with Stakeholders for filling the technology gaps in terms of resources. Involved in senior, mid-level hiring for dynamic technical resources for Cloud Security and security. Worked on some of niche requirement related to ProdSec(Product security) and SysSec(System Security). Worked for some of the critical team like AWS integration, Umbrella Kafka and DevSecOps. Responsible for End-to end recruitment for Security team. Involved in HR discussion, Offer Negotiation and onboarding discussion. Involve in recruitment planning with stakeholder. Responsible for employee engagement activity within the business unit. Responsible for Candidate experience improvement program. Responsible for talent management program.

Senior Recruitment Executive

Crediwatch India Pvt Limited (FinTech)

Jul 2020 - Feb 2021

Work with outside headhunters and staffing agencies to identify new talent in outside technology. Review and analyze resumes using our in-house ATS software program. Responsible for Campus Recruitment for Full time and summer interns from Tier 1 College. Conducted campus recruitment for IIT, NIT and ISB. Scour job search websites for potential recruits and contact those candidates personally. Interview potential technical staff members using industry-standard techniques. Introduce new hires to the company and walk them through the hiring and training process. Serve as an employee advocate for new hires as well as established employees. Complete all new-hire paperwork with candidates who meet the expectation of the job.

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Bounce (WickedRide Adventure Pvt Limited)

May 2019 - Apr 2020

Responsible for Campus Recruitment for Tier 1 Collages. Conducted campus recruitment for IIT, NIT and ISB. Handled Recruitment for New City from Scratch. Responsible for Taking HR Discussion with the Candidates. Responsible for Bulk hiring in Operations, and different segment of Supply Chain Management. Responsible for End-End Recruitment from requirement gathering to closing the position For Non-It Positions. Involved in Stakeholder Management. Responsible for Recruitment branding through different networking channels. Responsible for making hiring plans on weekly and monthly basic. Involved in Face-to-Face technical discussion with candidates as HR spoc. Responsible for all the communication related to recruitment. Responsible for creating weekly and monthly reports for recruitment progress. Responsible for salary negotiation with the candidates.

Senior Recruitment Executive

Ab InBev (On Payroll of Allegis)

Jan 2018 - Apr 2019

Responsible for handling an end-to-end recruitment across all levels. Understand nature & importance of manpower requirement from the department head includes (Partner and Director level) and plan recruitment. Source CVs from different sources like job portals, referrals and database. Posting the jobs on portals. Conduct preliminary screening, short listing & take initial telephonic interviews. Schedule relevant candidates for interviews, taking the availability of department heads. Keep detailed record of the post-interview feedback by the interviewer. Issue Offer letter to a selected candidate, Make salary negotiation for offer acceptance. Database Management. Uploading candidates' profile on company’s hire craft. Systematically updating & maintaining records of a number of candidates sourced, rejected, shortlisted, interviewed, offered, appointed. Update the recruitment tracker on daily basis about minute activities in the process. Effectively close manpower requisition within the stipulated timeframe.

Technical Recruiter

Aditi Staffing India Pvt Ltd

Feb 2016 - Apr 2017Bangalore, India

Responsible for the full life cycle of recruitment. Responsible for understanding IT/ Non-IT job requirement and sourcing the required resource for eBay and PayPal projects. Regular conference call with hiring manager to get more clarity on the project requirement. Actively involved in passive sourcing through LinkedIn, google+, Ladders, Indeed and Twitter. Strong understanding and extensive experience in Retail, e-commerce, banking and healthcare. Part of fun labs team to engage the employee on Friday for activities. Responsible for recruiting resources for Contract, Full-time and Contract-to-hire. Responsible for follow-ups with on-boarding team to ensure resources are getting the start on given dates. Strong experience with MS Office. Responsible for relationship management by providing the result in given interval of time.

Associate Staffing

Artech Info systems Pvt Ltd

Dec 2014 - Jan 2016Noida, India

Responsible for handling Direct Implementation Partners for Corp to Corp, Full time Requirements and Handling Some Direct Clients. Responsible for the full life cycle of sourcing, screening, interviewing and closing the positions. Filtering through and reviewing complete candidate profile/resume and evaluated applicants work history, education and Training, job skills, desired salary/hourly rate, and personal qualifications against open requirements. Developed and implemented effective recruiting strategies in order to attract, screen, recruit, and select high quality candidates. Practiced numerous sourcing strategies including referral generation, ad placement, position postings, direct sourcing/cold calling and networking to develop a qualified pool of candidates. Visited campus for the pool hire for one of our clients. Managed the drive with our seniors to learn more information about the process. Possess excellent knowledge of recruiting and hiring processes including sourcing, interviewing, reference check, tracking, salary negotiations, and closing. Souring and submitting the qualified candidates using the internal database, Dice, Monster, Career Builder, LinkedIn, Google groups. Follow-up with candidates for Client Evaluation Schedules/Re-schedules, and also on updates before and After the Evaluation. Maintaining the good relation with consultants for future requirements. Coordinating directly with the onsite Manager and offshore Service Delivery Personnel on Updates, feedback etc. Responsible for Meeting Daily and Monthly Team Targets.

Education

UPTU

Bachelor of Technology

Electronics and Instrumentation

Jan 2010 - Jan 2014Grade: 68.94%

Skills

End-to-End Recruitment
Talent Acquisition
Employer Branding
Stakeholder Management
Offer Negotiation
Candidate Experience Improvement
Manpower Planning
Sourcing (LinkedIn, Google+, Ladders, Indeed, Twitter)
Java/J2EE
Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Scrum Master
Project Management
MS Office
Basic C