About

Shamini Madhavan is a highly skilled Talent Acquisition Specialist with over 11 years of experience in IT recruitment. She has expertise in Permanent Staffing, Technical Recruiting, Candidate Engagement, and Market Analysis. Currently, she is working as a Talent Acquisition Specialist at Microsoft, where she is responsible for recruiting top talents for Microsoft 365, MS Teams, Bing, Azure groups. She is also working on volume hiring, leadership roles, diversity, and niche skills. Shamini is an expert in replenishing, managing, tracking, and utilizing the resources of the company to the optimum level. She develops and implements sourcing strategies that deliver results against a diverse recruitment strategy and ensures continuous improvement of sourcing delivery, efficiency, and effectiveness. Shamini has a major focus on leadership hiring, diversity hiring, and conducting springboard events return-ship program for women on career breaks. She interacts with the Business Groups and understands their resource needs, plans, and forecasts the future requests. She has independently organized and successfully managed several events such as walk-in drives and virtual drives. Shamini has strong experience in constructing, re-constructing, optimal, and reusable search strings on different job boards and Social Recruiting sites to identify the appropriate talent pool. Before joining Microsoft, Shamini worked as a Talent Acquisition Specialist at McAfee and Careernet Technologies. At McAfee, she was responsible for hiring top-notch talents for Security, Cloud & Networking Skills. She was excellent with Boolean strings, X-Ray searches, and had the potential to handle multiple requirements in a timeline with quality across all experience levels. At Careernet Technologies, she worked on Technical hiring within High-end Start-ups Space, E-commerce Giants, Fin-tech, Digital Telecom, Payment Solution, Big-Data Performance, and Product-based Clients. Shamini holds a Master of Computer Applications - MCA from Sikkim Manipal University and a BCA from Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College. She has relevant experience of 11.86 years and is skilled in Search and Azure. Shamini is a highly motivated and results-driven individual who is passionate about finding the right talent for the right job.