Nishad Varghese Palathingal

Manage full life-cycle recruitment, headhunting to onboarding and retention.
Manage social media communication strategy & external job posting and brand management.
Manage, supervise, and train the recruiting team and report on its performance.
Keep track of recruiting policies & metrics (e.g. time-to-hire and cost-per-hire).
Update current and design new recruiting procedures & strategies (e.g. mass recruitment and on-boarding processes). Research and induct new sourcing/ recruiting countries as per skill requirements.
Coordinate with department managers to forecast future hiring needs, budget and project plans.
Stay up-to-date on UAE labor legislation and inform recruiters and managers about changes in regulations.
Build the company’s professional network through relationships with HR professionals, colleges and overseas partners. Plan and execute local and overseas recruitment with clients.

Achievements: Recruited 7000+ globally in 3.5 years for various categories & clients including UAE Airports & Sea Ports and Major corporates' in UAE & Qatar.

• Annual recruitment Forecasting and budgeting.
• Planning and execution of strategy and policies.
• Liaising with business heads to support their short and long term manpower requirements.
• Global recruitment for skilled, semi-skilled & unskilled manpower. (Blue Collar & Staff Category). Overlooking recruitment of approximately 4000 applicants annually.
• Deployment planning and mobilization of manpower as per business requirement.
• Managing recruitment partners globally. Coordinating recruitment drives and selections.
• Training & development of recruitment, visa team & Recruitment partners globally.
• Liaise with all local and foreign government offices for recruitment approvals and documentation.
• Extensively worked towards Retention and Employee Welfare Projects.

• Managing new and existing clients.
• Lead and business development.
• Managing a team of 3 recruiters & 2 HR support staff.
• In charge of recruitments local & overseas.
• To develop and maintain long standing and strategic relationships with Clients and Candidates throughout the Health & Social Care arena, offering a consultative recruitment solution suited to their needs.

• Provide support to the HR Manager to develop the department’s strategic plans and budget, in particular the recruitment plans and initiatives.
• Actively contributes to develop / revise HR policies and procedures in particular recruitment related policies and processes.
• Leads / participates in projects of critical importance for own area/ Office of Human Resources.
• Manages the day-to-day operations of the Recruitment Section, providing expertise, encouraging and ensuring teamwork, aligning work processes in order to achieve high performance standards, meet established targets, objectives and employee engagement in a motivated work environment;
• Prepares the short and medium term Recruiting Plans, in consultation with hiring departments and /or search committees and implements the same after obtaining approval of the HR Manager.
• Maintains Excel spreadsheets on position vacancies and status of the recruitment for each in Oracle HRMIS.
• Writes advertisements for the web, newspapers etc. Vets the advertisements with the hiring departments. Uses creativity and innovation in the job ad content.
• Ensures the employment pages of company are kept current to reflect the most up-to-date vacancy status

• Recruited for Clients based in US & Canada from India Office.
• Managed a team of 5 recruiters and 2 sources
• Reporting to Recruitment manager based in Canada.

• Started as a Junior Recruiter and grew to the position of Senior IT recruiter managing reputed Clients accounts like Microsoft, Google and Apple.
• Lead the Pilot project (Return to India) for IT professionals based in US and Canada.