About

Prateek Nahak is a Recruitment Associate at Microsoft with over 3 years of experience in IT recruitment. He has a prodigious experience in the hiring process and organization from India and the USA, and is skilled in headhunting, navigating job portals, human resource management, and client and vendor coordination. Prateek has a learning attitude and strives to improve his skills and knowledge on a daily basis. He always looks for fresh methods to execute ideas and learn something new. Every mistake is seen as a learning experience and failure as a part of the success journey. Prateek has strong networking skills with both companies and individuals. He has knowledge of Boolean search strings, X-Ray search, social networks, job boards, web mining, search engines, list groups, and association membership. He has working experience with portals such as Naukri.com, Monster.com, and LinkedIn. At Microsoft, Prateek manages Microsoft interviews and recruitment events for IDC India team across Bangalore, Noida, and HYD. He has conducted almost 2000+ interviews and onboarded 450 candidates at Microsoft. He adopts differentiated hiring approaches for fulfillment like LinkedIn Recruiter, References, Naukri, and Monster.com. He liaises between TA function and Delivery team for effective planning and data flow. Prateek also conducts weekly connects on PJs (Pending Joinees) and pipeline and discusses challenges and mitigation plans. He also handles leadership hiring on niche skills like Cloud (Azure Storage, Azure DPG, CosmosDB), Java, Full-stack, Backend, and Frontend. Apart from his job, Prateek likes reading, traveling, and always trying to explore something new. He has worked as an IT Recruiter for Alp Consulting and as a Customer Executive for Reliance during his college days. Prateek holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Garden City University, an Executive Programme in APHRM from IIM Lucknow, and is currently pursuing PGDM in Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration from Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management. He is skilled in Search, Azure, Java, Frontend, Backend, and Web technologies and has relevant experience of 4.70 years.