Melita Tauro

Duties & Responsibilities:
- Create and maintain Recruitment files and conduct the entire recruitment cycle for all vacancies within the Dubai office. This includes sourcing, short listing, arranging interviews, being part of the interview panel and making the offer where applicable.
- Guide and assist the functional managers and departmental heads with the approved recruiting needs.
- Ensure all recruitment requisitions are advertised in accordance with set Standard Operating Procedures.
- Conduct and record satisfactory background reference checks for the shortlisted candidates.
- Respond to all recruitment queries and address promptly to facilitate the recruitment cycle.
- Be the point of contact, coordinate and conduct the entire on-boarding and orientation for new hires.
- Validate, prepare and discuss with prospective employees, the offer letter, visas and work contract.
- Create New Hire Personnel records and ensure all recruitment data is appropriate and up-to-date.
-Primary point of contact for dealing with all verification of employment inquiries (approximately 50 per week) maintain daily trackers and provide reports on this.
- Check past employee records and respond to re-hire eligibility inquiries.
- Collate and document job descriptions for the Dubai office.
- Organizing staff training - team building and employee engagement activities.

Since March 2013, have been assigned the following Additional Responsibilities:
- Handling HR documentation and personnel records of approximately 2000+ off-site employees.
- Liaising with site HR POCs and the Program Managers to ensure smooth provision of all HR requirements.
- Working on Oracle - PeopleSoft HRIS for updating employee details within timelines.
- Conduct and address SOX audit related queries and providing relevant supporting documentation.
- Assisted the Recruitment Manager in framing HR-recruitment policies, creating-documenting-implementing appropriate processes.
- Validating the approved Task orders and approving hiring requisitions on the online portal.
- Maintaining records and reports of approved hiring requisitions.

Duties & Responsibilities:
- Recruitment, induction, joining formalities, regular employee interaction and maintaining healthy employee relations.
- Organize staff training sessions on operational and HR related matters across all nine offices.
- Address employee queries and resolving staff grievances within timelines, through the Grievance Redress Cell.
- Create and release all staff letters, maintain and update personnel records and manage staff performance trackers.
- Guide the line managers to conduct quarterly performance management processes and carry out the bi-annual salary appraisal cycle.
- Organize monthly employee engagement programme and annual national level staff meetings.
- Work with finance teams for release of salaries, bonus, salary advances and other staff payments, after seeking appropriate approvals.
- Assist in processing the monthly payroll and disbursement of salaries and salary slips.
Major achievements:
- Was the HR team representative, in the Internal Audit team for the ISO Audits of all departments
- Guided by the management, revised the company’s HR policies and released a fresh Employee Handbook.
- Initiated regular employee engagement activities and conducted training programs.
- Worked as a member of the temporary adhoc Committee set up for boosting Marketing activities of the company.
- Successfully managed all HR responsibilities for the 8 regional offices.

Duties & Responsibilities:
- Recruitment of staff, including batch hiring and organizing campus drives.
- Induction, joining formalities, regular employee interaction and maintaining healthy employee relations.
- Organizing and conducting staff training sessions on operational and HR related matters at regional levels.
- Resolving staff grievances within timelines and ensuring disciplinary action in consultation with line managers and management.
- Maintain and update all personnel records on both the HRIS and in hard copy file-formats.
- Responsible for the smooth functioning of HR matters between the out-sourced staff and the vendor company.
- Assist in quarterly performance management processes and annual salary appraisal cycle.
- Organize bi-monthly employee engagement programme and quarterly regional staff meets.
- Conduct staff exit interviews, record feedback and share with concerned line managers and senior management.
- Worked with the national level team to build an Alumina for keeping in contact with ex-employees.
- Gathering regional employee updates and thereby contributing to publishing staff newsletters at a national level.
- Coordinating with the legal consultant for all statutory & legal compliance requirements.

Major achievements:
- Was promoted to handling an additional region within 10 months.
- Much appreciated for streamlining the branch HR functioning and prompt problem solving concerning a 300+ employee strength.
- Successfully drove the regional implementation and daily use of HRIS software (Adrenalin-Breeze) and a online Global Training Programme.
- Organized within strict timelines the transition of the staff outsourcing vendor company.
- Self-learning (on the job) of various statutory compliance, applicable to both branches.

Duties & Responsibilities:
- Recruitment of staff across all levels and functions.
- Induction and processing all joining formalities for new staff.
- Conducting staff training sessions on topics such as Communication Skills, Email Etiquette, Personality Development, Professional Grooming, Client Servicing and Customer Service.
- Addressing staff grievances and taking suitable disciplinary action in consultation with concerned line managers and the management.
- Working with the finance team for salary releases and settling payments of exiting staff.

Major achievements:
- Enabled in setting up the HR function for the India Office, as it was a start-up company in India.
- Formulated employee policies and created the Employee Handbook.
- Undertook a study to understand the pay scale rates in India for various job roles.
- Being a startup company in India, the recruitment included hiring senior operations, finance & functional managers through head hunting.
- Huge learning curve due to the weekly departmental con-calls with the US based corporate office & other international offices.

- Successfully completed recruitment projects across varied verticals for key clients
- Among the top 5 Highest Revenue Generating Employees for my department across branches.