Onesi Gnaniah

Past

• Recruiting Manager at SmartDog Services
• Sr. Technical Recruiter (Contractor) at PayPal (A division of eBay)
• Sr. Corporate Technical Recruiter (Contractor) at Temple-Inland

• Sr. Technical Recruiter (Contractor) at Coremetrics
• HR Services Technical Recruiter (Contractor) at Accenture
• Sr. Technical Recruiter at Personal Enterprises, Inc.
• Sr. Technical Recruiter/Business Development Analyst at Softmatrix, Inc.
• Business Development Manager at Unlimited Innovations, Inc.

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Education

• Texas A&M University-Commerce
• Westmont College

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Onesi Gnaniah’s Summary

Highly skilled and well spoken Recruiting executive with a proven track record of results in various corporate settings. Successfully recruited for a variety of positions for large and small scale IT projects both in the technical and business areas. Achieved efficiency of hiring as well as provided numerous cost savings to every corporation worked at.

Onesi Gnaniah’s Specialties:

Core competencies include: Full Life-cycle recruiting, Vendor Management, Recruiting Strategy, Account Management, and Business Development

Onesi Gnaniah’s Experience

• Recruiting Manager

  SmartDog Services

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2008 — May 2009 (10 months)

  Managed the entire recruiting process (key point of contact for all things recruiting) for SmartDog while playing a heavy role with corporate recruiting. Supported the following practices within the company: DBA/Infrastructure Services, Global Development, and Functional Support for various modules of Oracle. Worked closely with Director of Operations in recruiting demand forecasting as well as recruiting strategy.

• Sr. Technical Recruiter (Contractor)

  PayPal (A division of eBay)

  (Public Company; ebay; Internet industry)

  April 2008 — August 2008 (5 months)

  Completed full lifecycle recruiting for the Global Development Center for Paypal in Austin.
  
  Achievements:
  • Played a key role in the decision making process in the hiring of all the resources providing insight into skills, compensation, and cultural fit for each resource brought into the organization. Had heavy interaction on a daily basis with managers from various organizations providing great value in helping them make the right decision for every hire. Brought on 21 key resources in 3 months!!
  • Swiftly mastered the applicant and requisition tracking systems which are Brass Ring & PIX and enabled quick and quality pace of hiring.
  • Developed ad-hoc metrics reports (spreadsheets) which provided weekly snapshots on the efficiency of the recruiting process

• Sr. Corporate Technical Recruiter (Contractor)

  Temple-Inland

  (Public Company; TIN; Paper & Forest Products industry)

  April 2007 — March 2008 (1 year)

  Provided full life-cycle corporate technical recruiting for the Information Systems and Technology department (IS&T) for the Corporate Headquarters of Temple-Inland.
  
  Achievements:
  • Enabled the HR organization to attain $100k of cost savings in hiring fees for fiscal year 2007 and $28k for fiscal year 2008.
  • Closely interacted with various stakeholders throughout the IS&T organization in defining requirements, recruiting strategy, as well as compensation for all candidates that went through the hiring process.
  • Efficiently utilized the internal JDE requisition and applicant tracking system to make sure that requisitions were filled on a timely basis and adequate applicants were considered for each role.

• Sr. Technical Recruiter (Contractor)

  Coremetrics

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  February 2007 — March 2007 (2 months)

  Completed full life-cycle corporate Recruiting for the entire organization which includes both the San Mateo (Corporate) and Austin locations.
  
  Achievement:
  • Established the foundation for the recruiting process for the Austin location

• HR Services Technical Recruiter (Contractor)

  Accenture

  (Public Company; ACN; Management Consulting industry)

  October 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 5 months)

  Executed full-lifecycle corporate technical recruiting for various IT groups working for the Texas Eligibility Project for Accenture in Austin, Texas.
  
  Achievements:
  • Received the Gold Fish award for achieving as high as 7 hires in a month. Brought on 42 resources in 15 months. There was a strenuous assessment process (4 interviews) as well as an offer approval process and thus the average time to hire for each candidate was 1 month.
  • Rapidly became an expert user of Accenture's HR systems which are Taleo and Lotus Notes. Provided critical feedback on customizing Taleo to align with the various aspects of Accenture’s sophisticated hiring process.
  • Developed ad-hoc metrics reports (spreadsheets) which provided weekly snapshots on the efficiency of the recruiting process
  • Played a critical role and streamlining the dynamic recruiting strategy with the HR Services team.

• Sr. Technical Recruiter

  Personal Enterprises, Inc.

  (Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  October 2004 — September 2005 (1 year)

  Provided full-lifecycle agency technical recruiting for clients of PEI in the Sacramento and Napa Valley regions.
  
  Achievements:
  • Brought in $281,662 in total profit margin in 1 year for contract and permanent placements
  • Became quickly proficient with the internally built applicant tracking system (ACT) and provided ample information in this system about every candidate that was contacted.
  • Performed account management on an interim basis (while recruiting) for PEI’s top dollar accounts while the Sr. Account Executive was on maternity leave.

• Sr. Technical Recruiter/Business Development Analyst

  Softmatrix, Inc.

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2001 — October 2004 (3 years 9 months)

  Performed technical recruiting, account management personnel management and business development. This was done mainly for Hewlett-Packard Divisions in Roseville, California, Mountainview, California and Fort Collins, Colorado. The other clients included Warner Brothers, Agilent, Veritas, and Ebay.
  
  Achievements:
  • In 3 years, brought in over $3,000,000 in revenue for the company through the placement of over 100 consultants for various projects for the clients mentioned above.
  • Provided critical account management through frequent interactions with various managers at all the clients listed above. Travelled to Ft. Collins, Colorado to meet with HP managers to strategize on the recruiting for their various needs.
  • Built the recruiting process from scratch and implemented an applicant tracking system (Mindscope) that streamlined the recruiting process.
  • Interacted closely with Human Resources and Finance Departments to ensure that consultants were hired and were paid on a timely basis.

• Business Development Manager

  Unlimited Innovations, Inc.

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  December 1997 — February 2001 (3 years 3 months)

  Performed sales and marketing of the software solution, CERECONS (Capitation and Eligibility Reconciliation Solution), targeting the Medical Service Organizations in both the Southern and Northern California regions.
  
  Achievements:
  • In 3 years, brought in over $100,000 in sales revenue for the company through closing various critical sales deals that open the doors for future revenue as well.
  • Assisted in recruiting internal staff and developing client proposals
  • Played a vital role business partnership development, market research, advertising, client relations, and CERECONS User Manual development.

Onesi Gnaniah’s Education

• Texas A&M University-Commerce

  Masters , Business Administration , 2008 — 2010 (expected)

• Westmont College

  BA , Economics & Business , August 1993 — May 1997

  Activities and Societies:

  Key Papers & Projects Presented
  • Developed a business plan for a fictitious small business
  • Firm analysis on Microsoft Corporation
  • A quantitative and qualitative analysis of three managerial economic models for Marketing decisions
  • Developed a decision analysis for a case study regarding advertising strategies
  • Small Business Consultant: TWCR, Inc

Additional Information

Onesi Gnaniah’s Interests:

Organization Development, Strategic planning, Community Theater, Non-Profit Fundraisers, Tennis, Reading and Travel.

Onesi Gnaniah’s Groups:

ELECTRONIC RECRUITER'S EXCHANGE (WWW.ERE.NET)
FORBES.COM (WWW.FORBES.COM)

•    PHD Networking Excellence
•    Networked Recruiter (34,197+ total network) 3rd Largest Recruiting and HR & 2nd Largest Agency Group
•    Linked:HR (#1 Human Resources Group)
•    LION™ Worn with Pride! [Choose wisely ... ] < BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS >
•    Westmont College Alumni
•    SourceCon2010
•    ERE.net
•    Independent Recruiters Group
•    NetworkingPros
•    Recruiting Professionals Network
•    TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
•    TalentBar: HR and Recruiter Network
•    Texas A&M University-Commerce
•    Innovative Recruitment Forum
•    Recruiters United | Rexsocial.com
•    Diversity - A World of Change
•    Austin Human Resource Management Association
•    Onsite Recruitment Network
•    Openreq.com (Recruiters & Staffing Professionals)
•    ORACLE CONNECTIONS
•    Oracle ERP ...
•    Corporate Recruiters. #1 Group for Corporate Recruiters.
•    HR & Talent Management Executive
•    Staffing Industry Recruiters
•    Talent Acquisition Executive
•    GlobalHR
•    Contract Recruiter Listings
•    MBA Highway | MBA & Recruiter Network
•    Recruiters & IT Business professionals
•    National Staffing & Recruiting Industry Association
•    WATCH D.O.G.S. (Dads Of Great Students)
•    Software Development Jobs
•    Talent Acquisition Professionals (Corporate Recruiters Only)
•    Recruiter Development & Support Group
•    Top Recommended People
•    Global HR Forum
•    Leaders in Recruiting
•    JobsDirectUSA