About

Smita Rath is a Senior Executive Talent Acquisition at Capgemini with over 6 years of hands-on experience in recruitment, staffing and client management in Embedded/Telecom/Networking. She is a competent professional with rich experience in resourcing, recruitment, and selection. She specializes in recruitment through LinkedIn and other social media, old database, internal reference, and job portals. With exposure to the complete recruitment life cycle, Smita has experience in tasks including filling project requirements, interviewing, screening, and reference-checking candidates for various positions. Smita is an expert in sourcing and is responsible for the day-to-day management of multiple business accounts. She maintains relationships with hiring managers/BU Heads/Sales to understand and analyze their requirements. Her good knowledge and understanding of various domains help her understand a particular requirement. She also conducts walk-in-interviews on a regular basis, proposed to fill up the vacancies. Smita has worked with Cientra Techsolution (formerly known as Mindlance Technologies) as a Talent Acquisition Specialist. Her responsibilities included working closely with Technical managers/BU Heads/Internal sales to understand and acquire exact requirements, generating a candidate pool through various sourcing techniques, hiring professionals through employee referral programs, and conducting walk-ins for critical requirements. She pre-screened (phone and face-to-face) and mapped candidates by evaluating their alignment and compatibility to specific job requirements. She continuously tracked waitlisted candidates to ensure short-term hiring targets were quickly achieved. Smita also conducted initial HR discussions and post-offer follow-ups. She prepared weekly and monthly reports on recruitment. She hired for technologies such as Embedded (Device Driver, Low-level Drivers, Multimedia, etc.), Telecom (Wireless (3G/4G Engineers, IMS (VoIP/sip)), Networking (Datacenter, Virtualization, Protocol Engineers, etc.). Smita has also worked with Mirafra as a Senior Staffing Specialist. Her responsibilities included end-to-end recruitment in large numbers for product and service-based industries in a highly competitive environment. She understood the client requirement and sourced profiles through databases, referrals, and portals. She took preliminary interviews of candidates via telephone, provided them with job descriptions, and forwarded their resumes to clients. She scheduled candidates for interviews and followed up with them until they came on board. She consolidated and organized recruitment databases, handled and maintained job postings, mass mailers, ads, etc. She also maintained and developed ongoing professional relationships with candidates through the use and