Aparna  Valsan , HR Specialist

Aparna Valsan

HR Specialist

OMA Emirates

Location
United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
Education
Master's degree, MBA- Finance and Marketing
Experience
5 years, 6 Months

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Total years of experience :5 years, 6 Months

HR Specialist at OMA Emirates
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • My current job since June 2022

• Recruitment and selection of suitable employees into the designated business/technical Unit.
• Ensuring all recruitment positions have an up-to-date job description and are evaluated accordingly.
• Successfully hired wide range of candidates for both white collar and blue-collar jobs,
• Onboarded digital marketer, graphic designer, chartered accountants, media head, sales managers, android developers, IT support engineer, pos developers, IOT, data analytics, blockchain engineer, python, big panda, QA engineer, solution architects, .net developer, ecommerce developer, IOS, etc.
• Make recommendations where appropriate regarding improvements to existing HR policies, procedures and systems.
• Maintain absolute discretion and maturity in handling sensitive/ confidential data in the HR Department.
• Administer and assist in payroll process, ensuring compliance with audit requirements.
• Develop an employee-oriented company culture that emphasizes quality, continuous improvement, and high performance.
• Responding to staff queries on visa/ labor/ passport related matters.
• Periodic reports for management, as necessary or requested, to track strategic goal accomplishments.

Talent Acquisition Specialist at EJAmerica
  • India - Chennai
  • September 2021 to June 2022

• Clients handled Infosys, Wells Fargo, Global Foundries
• Involved in Full Life Cycle of IT Recruitment and End to end recruitment (E2E) life cycle, Permanent Hiring, C2H and Internal Hiring, Employee Relationship, and Joining Formalities etc.
• Worked on Software MNCS like Infosys, Mindtree, Global Foundries, etc.
• Directly handling Business and getting requirements from the client.
• Conduct HR interviews for Permanent hiring.
• Sourcing the relevant profiles as per the Job Description shared by account Team. Getting relevant profiles from Websiteslike (Indeed, Naukri, LinkedIn, Zip recruiter & Monster)
• Publishing Employee Referrals within the Organization and working with referral Profiles.
• Conducting Technical & HR Interviews with the Certified Eligible Panels.
• Collecting necessary documents from the candidates, doing BGV check before processing Offer. Uploading the Candidaturein the specified Portals.
• Initiating Offer Process to the selected Candidates. Onboarding the Candidate as per mentioned date to the client forbillability.
• Follow-up with the shortlisted candidates.
• Post offer follow-up until the candidate onboarding.
• Maintaining the status tracker of candidates.
• Maintaining detailed day 2-day tracker, updating database on daily basis.
• Maintaining record of Complete Joiners.
• Working for multiple locations (US, Mexico, Germany, Romania).
• End To End Recruitment. i.e., Screening, Sourcing, Short listing, calling up for Candidates, scheduling interviews, offerinitiation, Clearance, onboarding the candidate, aligning candidate to account Team.

Senior Associate at Amazon - India
  • India - Chennai
  • August 2014 to June 2017

Promoted to team lead, handle a team of 30 members, provide quality and performance monitoring.

Conduct weekly, monthly and quarterly meetings within the team

Conduct 2nd level of screening, group discussions, final onboarding on in house requirements for Alexa data services.

Establish quality standards by role, region and vertical. Engage data engineering and analytics to deliver automated solutions, where possible.

Assess performance of quality metrics, surface exceptions to the respective teams. Setup and execute processes to enable operations to drive corrective actions as necessary.

Setup and execute processes to verify the corrective action effectiveness and report

Co-ordinate with data engineering to create and distribute canned analysis reports where automated solutions do not exist.

Worked to maintain strong working relationships with the Human Resources staff, resulting in positive and productive collaborations.

Act as SPOC and handle 30-60 member team, provide them technical leadership and improve quality of work within the team

Effectively communicated company values and mission throughout the interview process. Performed more in-depth reference checks as needed.
Projects:

Kaizen Project - implementing shortcut keys to increase productivity

Just do it- Training project for beginners to understand English Accents.

Kaizen - synchronizing conventions across different platforms

Six Sigma certification, Lean Management.

Education

Master's degree, MBA- Finance and Marketing
  • at SRM University
  • January 2014
Bachelor's degree, B.Sc- Visual Communication
  • at Madras University
  • January 2009

Specialties & Skills

Recruitment
Onboarding
Talent Acquisition
Training and Development
Induction
DATA ANALYSIS
Training
MICROSOFT EXCEL
Induction
UAE Labour Law
Talent Acquisition
ONBOARDING

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
Tamil
Native Speaker
Malayalam
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Kaizen (Training)
Training Institute:
Amazon India
Six Sigma (Training)
Training Institute:
Amazon India

Hobbies

  • Classical Dancer
    done stage shows