Practice Director
Information Asset LLC
Total des années d'expérience :23 years, 7 Mois
Recruiting for this Top Notch organization with a wonderful team.
Overseeing recruitment, globally.
Recruit professionals across the entire Data Governance spectrum.
Head Talent Acquisition for Prodapt across North America and help build a scalable function on foundations of collaboration, transparency and integrity.
o Leading, Building and Augmenting the Talent Acquisition function including a Campus Hiring and recruitment branding initiative
o Hiring up from 30 employees to 345+ (excl Sub contractors) in less than 2 years
For a Federal Government Healthcare Supply Chain Project - Significant hiring challenges included:
• Branding of the organization, hiring niche domain experts willing to commit to high degree of travel (up to 100%) across the United States
• Minimal infrastructure, team coupled with cost consciousness and channel optimization
• Compliance with Federal Government guidelines including establishing and implementing the E-Verify program across the organization, Background Check process etc.
o Stakeholder management including Executive, Resource Management Group, Delivery Heads and Teams, Immigration teams.
o Management Reporting
o HR functions including employee relations
Spearhead the North America Hiring Team for (ITS - Integrated Testing Services) to effectively staff Technical Requisitions not limited to Testing resources by:
o Leading, Building and Augmenting the Onsite-Offshore recruitment team
o Ensuring a healthy pipe-line of qualified resumes available on tap at an optimal cost
o Stakeholder management including Executive, Resource Management Group, Delivery Heads and Teams, Immigration teams.
o Full Life Cycle recruitment - Including screening resumes for technical fitment and advise stakeholders accordingly
o Management Reporting consisting of hiring status, demographics, channel mix, contractors
• Key Achievements:
o Architected the credibility of the hiring function and brought about a transparency to the hiring process and ensuring minimal or no escalations due to non-delivery
o The vendors in the hiring system were ‘cleaned up’ and core vendors created ensuring predictability
o Reduce hiring cost significantly through effective negotiations with vendors on rates and terms
o Streamlining of contractors and their payments / renewals / terminations
o Handled TAT where requirements needed to be fulfilled in hours
o Ramped up AppLabs by 110+ in a year with an extremely lean team
Significantly increased hiring of local talent
Increase in Direct Hires
90% + fill rate
• Led the recruitment function across manufacturing, research and corporate functions globally
• Team of 9 reports in addition to temp staff and matrix reports
• Complex recruitments of expat scientists from institutions of global repute like MIT and recruitment of Business Development professionals for plants in Mexico and Russia etc.
• Responsible for the recruitment function with team of 58, initial team was 10 people - structure was re organized and restructured to be scalable
• Campus Recruitment, Process re-engineering, Introduction of Automation
• Feedback mechanisms where none existed
• Re-assuring stakeholders of the credibility of the recruitment function and reinforce their faith in delivery capability of the function
• Managed the Hyderabad Center Recruitment Delivery. Set up recruitment processes from scratch as this was a new center
• Built competencies within the recruitment team for increasing hit ratios
• Strategized and conceived ‘out of the box’ initiatives to attract talent as the organization focused on a niche segment that requires high degree of skill
• Vendor Management Head - Ensured Balance in usage of Vendors. Reduced costs by rigorously reducing vendor share of recruitment and ensuring optimal source mix
• Head Process Re-Engineering Team consisting of business analysts, developers, infrastructure admin etc. to restructure and automate the recruitment process in its entirety
o 180 Recruitment Professionals were relocated to centralized locations to function as single units
which helped gear up the organization to scale up to 50, 000 Associates in the next 3 years
• Member, Global Recruitment Strategy team; ramped up operations in China, Hungary
• Executing college recruitment drives. Conducting Pre-Placement talks, visiting Management and
Engineering campuses nationally
• Hiring of vertical domain specialists in the BFSI, Oil and Gas and Telecom domains
• Implementing Six Sigma initiatives to improve hit ratio across stages in an interview process
• Specializing in recruitment trouble shooting missions
• STAR Performer award winner for two consecutive years
• Managed team of four in recruitment for various ODCs (Offshore Development Centers) and offices
• Gained three promotions in a span of 2 years
• Ramped up by 500+ across skills, recruitment across industry verticals
• Handpicked by CEO Ganesh Natarajan to be Head Recruiter / Resourcer for The South Bell Corporation Offshore development project. Ramped up operations by 300+ numbers in 3 months.
• Based in Chicago - for a quarter, to handle recruitments resourcing and streamline activities
• IT / BPO Recruitment; Support, Back office staff for airlines
• Recruitment for Cabin Crew for airlines like Cathay Pacific / Singapore Airlines
• Promoted from Associate to Consultant in a span of just six months.
• Successful placement/ sourcing of Candidates -30-40 numbers - with a ratio of 95% acceptance
• Began HR career as an IT Resourcing Consultant. Initially involved only with scheduling and logistical aspect - transitioned to manage recruiting assignments independently and successfully for TOP notch organizations
