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| AVTAR constitutes a team of competent professionals who also
have specialized educational backgrounds. This gives AVTAR an
edge, as our skills are supplemented by technical expertise
as well. Specialists who focus on recruitment solutions for
specific industry verticals, like FMCG, Banking, Telecom, IT
and Communication, have catalyzed our recruitment processes,
thereby reducing lead time of selection.
The AVTAR team carries a degree of personal involvement in delivering results. We keep constant track of industry verticals, leveraging all tangible information to enable client needs. This serves purpose not just in the overall recruitment process but also enriches client relationships.
The team's expertise across verticals, knowledge of people & cultures and intrinsic networking skills has made AVTAR a preferred HR service provider to over 250 leading corporates in India.
To constantly keep pace with client/industry standards, AVTAR
follows a congruent skill updation process. There is constant
value addition to the knowledge nucleus with training sessions
and certifications in areas of practice. Another key strength
of AVTAR is the in-depth understanding of people, industry,
technology and culture. By a series of one-on-one sessions
with our clients, we arrive at a clear understanding of each
corporate's unique organizational culture. Competency-based
interview methods ensure that each requirement is handled
to the fullest satisfaction of the client and needless to
say, the AVTAR consultant.
This also ensures that our consultants are a highly motivated,
result-oriented group, set on creating records in recruitment
success. To apply to AVTAR as a consultant/associate or to
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Saundarya Rajesh, Founder - President of AVTAR Career Creators, has completed her Masters in Management from the Central University, Pondicherry and is a gold medallist in English Literature from the University of Madras. A Chevening Scholar 2005 from the University of Bradford, Saundarya has over 20 years of work experience, which began with her tenure at Citibank in 1990. She has subsequently worked full-time and flexi-time in assignments in management education, consulting and counseling, each adding a different dimension to her personality.
Saundarya moved into talent strategy consulting, by founding AVTAR Career Creators in 2000 and AVTAR I-WIN (Interim Women manager's Interface Network) in 2005. AVTAR Career Creators is among the very first consulting firms to be awarded the ISO 9001:2000 for high quality systems and processes in human capital search and selection. AVTAR I-WIN is India's first National registry for flexi-working women professionals - an endeavour which engages with both individuals and corporates to create work-life integrated careers. Saundarya's passion for creating more flexi-time career opportunities for women has resulted in pioneering work done by AVTAR in this area, including tools for Flexidizing(R) and Unbundling(R) of Jobs leading to Flexi-career tracks.
Saundarya is one of India's leading SME's on Diversity & Inclusion. She leads the many research projects undertaken by AVTAR in the area of women's careers and gender studies. She writes frequently for business dailies on women's careers and is often quoted in relation to data on women's employment in this country. Saundarya has addressed many forums such as the Diversity & Inclusion Asia conference 2008 at HongKong, the Human Resource Conference by the University of Beijing 2007, the Confederation of Indian Industries, the Madras Management Association as well as a large number of colleges and schools. She has been invited as a Speaker at the world's largest HR Conference, the SHRM Annual Conference at San Diego, California to speak on "Flexible Working Methods to Promote Organizational Diversity - the India story"
Saundarya is currently pursuing her Ph.D in Flexi-working and has several cutting-edge psychometric assessment instruments to her credit. She loves spending time with young children, and is a regular facilitator at many out-reach programs aimed at students and adoloscents. She is also the Founder-Trustee of the AVTAR Human Capital Trust - a registered Not-For-Profit which powers many of the activities in women's development undertaken by AVTAR. Saundarya has been awarded the SCOPE Woman Exemplar (2006) award, the Yuvashakthi Entrepreneur of the Year Award (2007), the Swadeshi Jagran Manch Women Leader Award (2008), CavinKare's Chinnikrishnan Innovation Award for Outstanding Entrepreneurship 2011, TiE Stree Shakti Award 2011 and India Today's Business Wizards of Tamilnadu 2011. Mail at sr@avtarcc.com |
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| Umasanker Kandaswamy, Sr. Vice President & Chief - Client Services at AVTAR Career Creators holds a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Madras and an AMIE. With 14 years of experience in Recruitment Consulting, Umasanker is a prolific headhunter, with over 800 closures in his career, comprising of top management, senior management and reporting-to-board positions. One of the founder members of AVTAR and also the senior most member in the team, Umasanker has spearheaded large mandate recruitment projects for a variety of industries. Sourcing of any kind comes naturally to Umasanker - he manages IT sourcing with as much of versatility as Non-IT. Every year, Umasanker has as a personal goal, the training in vocational and soft skills of underprivileged children - this forms part of AVTAR's on-going CSR initiatives. His passion for people is equalled only by his passion for music and cricket - Umasanker is a great singer and is a fast bowler.
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| Ms. Lakshmi Radhakrishnan |
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| Lakshmi, Head - Consumer Practice and Interim Careers is a B.Sc.(Comp Sci) and an MCA from the University of Madras. She has over a decade of experience in the Recruitment Industry. Having worked in this industry during its early slog years, Lakshmi was one of the first few professionals to work extensively in Turn-Key recruitment processes. She has anchored several bulk recruitment efforts for industries as varied as Banking, Telecom, FMCG , Shipping ,Insurance and Engineering. Being a founder member of AVTAR, Lakshmi has hired large numbers of professionals for these industries, ranging from 50 - 350 hires, in a single mandate long before the days of BPO mass-hiring. She has a matrix specialization and works on the vertical of Banking and the horizontal of Product & Brand Management. She currently heads AVTAR's BFSI business across Chennai and Bangalore. One more feather to Lakshmi's cap is the fact that she was part of the pioneering team which created India's first Flexi Career service for women, AVTAR I-WIN. Lakshmi is AVTAR's point-person for I-WIN and manages relationships with I-WIN corporates. A passionate Chennaiite, Lakshmi is fun-loving, music-minded, and loves travelling and dancing.
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| Karthik Ekambaram, heads the Diversity Practice for AVTAR. Karthik is an MBA with 14
years of experience in business analysis and consulting. Starting his career in IT business consulting, Karthik moved into HR consulting handling recruitment for a number of IT companies. With a strong 8 years of experience in Software Development, Project Management, Business Analysis, Business Development and Account Management, Karthik currently manages IT Recruitment for leading IT , ITES and IT user companies. Karthik's speciality is that he has managed all kinds of IT positions in varied technologies, such as Client server and web applications, ERP applications, Database applications, Infrastructure Management Services, Business Analyst and Domain Consultants. Karthik is equally well-versed in managing junior, middle and senior level positions - he has closed several hundreds of positions for Software Engineers, Project lead / Managers, Program Managers, Delivery Managers, Practice Managers and Vice-Presidents.
A deep and abiding interest in business consulting has prompted him into look at Diversity & Inclusion as a business driver for organizations by employing it as a talent, CSR and business strategy tool. He has carried out Job Analysis, Time and Motion studies at several client sites for the purpose of Flexidizing and Unbundling of jobs to create flexi-career tracks in organizations interested in implementing flexible working options for their employees.
A great party animal, Karthik is the soul of any get-together. He captains one of AVTAR's cricket teams and loves travelling.
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| Priya, one of the founder members of AVTAR, is a Sociology graduate with over 10 years of work experience. She manages the Finance & Accounts Vertical for AVTAR across industries and is also the Management Representative for AVTAR's ISO compliance activities. Priya has handled junior, middle and senior level positions in Corporate Finance, Commercial, Treasury, Taxation, Transfer Pricing, Management Assurance, Internal Audit, Business Process Re-engineering, Process Mapping and SOX compliance. Priya is an avid reader of both Tamil and English fiction. Her favorite hobby is the translation of English articles, poetry and themes into chaste Tamil - her love for vintage Tamil film music makes her unbeatable in this genre! Priya also holds a Six Sigma Green Belt and is a certified Internal Auditor.
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| Mr. Eswar Balasubramanian |
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| Eswar is a Management Post Graduate in Finance & HR from Anna University, with over 4 years of work experience. With well-honed expertise in industries like Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, KPO's, BPO's and Power & Energy Sectors, Eswar currently manages AVTAR's Bangalore Branch. His speciality is that he has managed a range of Banking & ITES related positions in varied levels and has closed some exclusive assignments for key banking accounts in Business Intelligence - a rare and much sought after skill, consecutively, for the past three years. Eswar is equally well-versed in managing junior, middle and senior level positions - he has placed some critical positions like Head of Anti Money Laundering Operations, Head of Financial Operations, Senior Manager- Retail Credit and Unit Head- CMS Operations. for some of his top notch clients. Eswar plays chess, is a Tablist and loves to sing bajans. His favorite hobby is to spend time with children, offer free coaching classes for the needy and indulge in community service.
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Roy is a Public Administration Graduate from University of Madras, he finished his schooling in Pondicherry. Coming from a background of IT, Roy joined AVTAR as a trainee consultant and has now grown to lead a 10 member team. With close to a decade of experience in recruitment, Roy is a dedicated head-hunter, often working shoulder-to-shoulder with his teammates and challenging them to close the search before he does! The IT/ITES/BPO industry is naturally his first love, but Roy is proud of the fact that he does not have any boundaries with regard to managing a search. Identifying the right candidate for the mandate and ensuring that the search is closed successfully is Roy’s biggest thrill. Constantly on the look-out for knowledge in new industries and verticals, Roy loves an engaging search. Turn-key projects from clients for large mandate recruitment are a favorite of his. He takes pride in placing candidates across levels and many of his closures are in positions such as Director, VP, AVP and in middle management levels too in functions such as IT Software, ITES – Operations, Finance & Accounts, Sales & Marketing, HR, Banking Operations, BPO, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Infrastructure, Manufacturing, etc. Having closed several global positions, Roy’s Linked-In list reads like a who’s-who of industry!
Roy is married and a proud father of a baby daughter. His most loved hobby is playing cricket and he is an avid gymmer, working out at least thrice a week to maintain his physique. He is Captain of the AVTAR cricket team and rain or shine, every weekend, the beach on east coast road will find him and his team playing an involved cricket match!
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Vijayakumar is an MBA in HR from University of Pondicherry and one of the earliest selects in AVTAR’s Recruitment Process Trainee program(batch of 2001). Having literally grown up the ranks, it was a proud moment for all at AVTAR when Viji (as he is fondly called by his friends) took over the mantle of branch head at Coimbatore when AVTAR opened its office there in 2008. With more than 10 years in managing every facet of recruitment – be in the diligent back-end operations or focused high-end search or hands-on client management, Viji is the ultimate people’s person. He has proved time and again his expertise in his forte – the Manufacturing Domain and has several key closures to his credit in companies both in India and abroad. Moving back to Chennai to develop the manufacturing vertical for AVTAR, Viji ensures that his team members are experts in the nuts-and-bolts of recruitment. Allied industries such as Engineering, Chemical, Pharma and Electronics manufacturing companies are also part of his clientele. Viji is often called upon to add his thoughts to the strategic initiatives of AVTAR, since he is a great lateral thinker and a very creative person. He loves mentoring the on-going batches of RPT’s at AVTAR and is looked upon as a sort of big brother to every new RPT. A very friendly and approachable boss, his team at Coimbatore still looks upon him as a de-facto guru! A long term person, Viji believes that success is surely waiting at the end of the journey for the person who works hard and in a dedicated manner.
Viji is married and loves travelling with his wife. What he also loves is driving his racer bike to touch the dash board needle to other end! He loves playing Cricket and part of AVTAR cricket team.
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