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Praneeth Varma is a talent acquisition professional with over 10 years of experience in handling full cycle recruitment. He is currently working as a Manager of Talent Acquisition for Tata Consultancy Services' Business Transformation Group. In this role, he manages lateral hiring activities for a business unit with over 1000 requirements every year. Praneeth has expertise in full cycle recruitment, stakeholder management, team handling, strategy, and operations. Praneeth is responsible for leading a high-performing recruitment team and partnering closely with senior business leaders to provide guidance on building talent pools and leading through changing market conditions. He delivers a consultative and high-quality talent acquisition service to the business and is involved in creating talent strategies to help hire top technical talent. Praneeth is also responsible for leading recruiting strategy with a focus on acquiring top diverse talent. He drives the team to be compliant and ensures all processes are followed as per audit guidelines. Prior to his current role, Praneeth worked as a Team Lead Recruitment for IBM, where he led a team of recruiters, coordinators, payroll, EDM, compensation, and benefits professionals. He was responsible for the entire recruitment life cycle as per the business needs. Praneeth has expertise in recruitment life cycle sourcing, screening, shortlisting, salary negotiation, and onboarding. He has handled across technologies/software skills and recruited IT professionals at all experience levels. Praneeth holds an MBA in Human Resources from Andhra University and a BSc in Maths, Statistics, and Computers from the same university. He has relevant experience of 11.21 years.