Global Talent Acquisition & Training Manager
BFG International
Total years of experience :25 years, 5 Months
• Business partnering role to the senior leadership team with a good mix of Operational HR / ER, Strategic HR and Management responsibility.
• Key accountability for handling Global Talent acquisition for the BFG group across 7 locations encompassing niche skillsets and portfolios.
• Actively involved in the Organizational restructuring process by conducting a Skill Gap analysis with a focus on improving recruitment processes, increase employee engagement and talent management. Involved in Employer Branding initiatives.
• Conduct training need analysis (TNA) and focused on coordinating Training programs for staff across all levels. Initiated On-the job training, Off-the-job and e-learning programs in the areas of Six Sigma, Lean Management, Soft skills to name a few.
Was directly involved in delivering Soft skills programs and Cultural Adaptability programs for Staff.
• Involved in the continued focus on HR metrics and the strategic focus will be on Diversity, Ethnicity, and Graduate, Apprenticeships and Early years recruitment.
Handle HR & CIPD sessions for adult learners.
Partnered with local training institutes and delivered HR & Business Management sessions.
Developed Trainer and User manuals for the following HR functions: (for a private consultancy in Bahrain on a project basis)
• Performance Management & Organizational Efficiency
• Organizational Behavior
• Recruitment Practices
• Personnel Administration
• Corporate and Business Ethics
Provided executive search and recruitment support to organizations with prime focus on Managerial & Executive search assignments, involving extensive headhunting.
• Worked with an Horton International a Multinational Executive Search firm on C-Suite Recruitments / HR consulting engagements.
•Industry verticals - Manufacturing Automobile, Banking, Oil & Gas.
A substantial amount of time was spent in delivering Soft Skills training sessions to corporate staff
•Demonstrated the ability to critically evaluate manpower requirements and to identify the right resource to fulfill the client’s requirements within a shorter turnaround time.
•Provide professional support & advice to candidates on handling job interviews.
•Conduct career workshops to coach fresh talent to choose the right career path.
•Adopt innovative styles in professional resume’ writing.
• Spearheaded the HR function for 3Edge and hence was responsible for handling end-to-end HR & Training activities.
Delivered Soft skills, English Language sessions for the technical team and was also involved in Courseware preparation.
•Instrumental in designing a Competency Mapping chart to hire the right resource for the organisation.
• Evaluating candidates through various tools - Assessment centres, entrance tests, Personality profiling etc., for certain key technical positions.
• Prepare the Annual Recruitment Budget plan.
•3Edge being a Start up organisation, I had played a key role in building up a team of seasoned technical and non-technical professionals. Assisted the management in the smooth functioning of the organization.
• Received lot of appreciation for formulating the Competency Mapping structure that considerably saved cost, time and helped hire the ‘right resource for the right job’.
• Set up an Employee Referral forum to encourage internal referrals for filling up vacancies.
• Delivered Soft skills & English Language sessions for the technical team and was also involved in Courseware preparation.
• Spearheaded the complete process from sourcing, screening to interviewing candidates to deliver headcount targets.
• Handled recruitment for the various Centers of Excellence (COEs).
• Populate recruiting databases/tools with candidates.
• Manpower planning and designing recruitment policies
• Identify alternate sources of recruitment.
• Evaluating candidates through various tools - Assessment centers, entrance tests, Personality profiling etc., for certain key technical positions.
• Creating and administering referral programs
• Responsible for Tracking, Analyzing, Prioritizing requirements
• Rationalize the inflow of manpower into the organization
• Prepare the Recruitment Budget and evaluate the cost per hire.
• Draw out the Weekly & Monthly Recruitment MIS reports.
• Organizing and implementing all aspects of the selection process.
• Experience in formulation and implementation of client / project specific recruitment.
• Participate as needed in organizational recruitment related meetings. Ensuring cost effective method of hiring - scaled down the usage of external vendors in recruitment. Adopted other sourcing tools like Employee Referrals, Job Portals, Networking etc.,
• Offer negotiation & follow up.
• Vendor management and co-ordination - Co-ordinate with manpower consultants for critical positions
• Handling post-recruitment functions - Induction & joining formalities.
• Handled a team of 3 Recruitment Executives.
• Taking care of ad hoc assignments that may arise on a daily basis.
• Handled niche skill sets & key positions in SAP, JAVA & .NET technologies and was successful in closing the critical positions and on-boarding the hires into the company.
• Took the initiative to form a Communication Lab - for conducting Business Communication sessions & Cross cultural adaptability sessions for employees travelling abroad on projects.
• My responsibilities included Recruitment, Business development and Client Management.
• As the Recruitment Manager, I was responsible for handling IT, Engineering & BFSI requirements.
• My role demanded sourcing appropriate profiles, database building, client building, relationship management and delivery.
• I had an in depth understanding of the IT skills & jargons which helped me in a great way to handle positions across different verticals.
• Responsible for handling senior management positions.
• Prepared the Recruitment budget & Recruitment MIS and conducted weekly and monthly recruitment review meetings.
• Managed a team of 8 consultants.
• Maintained a quick turnaround time by providing the clients with appropriate profiles to fill up critical positions.
• Was successful in roping in new clients and built relationship with them.
• Primary responsibility of the Recruitment team was to recruit software professionals and support personnel for the company. My Key Result Area was Recruitment. (Pre & Post Recruitment needs).
• As a Recruitment & Resource Coordinator, I was the focal point for all recruitment related activities. The functional aspect of the job involved interacting closely with Resource Management Group (RMG) with respect to the current requirements in different projects requiring specific skills and working against a given target.
• My nature of job also involved handling interviews, preparing offer letters and organizing for pre-employment medical checkups for selected candidates
• Independently handled a good number of resource requests. Set the process flow in the recruitment system which will include the following activities.
• Well-planned interviews’ schedule - received appreciation from project managers for good planning.
• Brought in a Vendor Management System wherein I have equipped consultants with the company’s recruitment policies and also made them aware of the requirements whereby they can source ‘the right person for the right job’. Also monitored the performance analysis of consultants for every quarter.
• Co-ordinate with the RAPT team (an internal software support team) for creating portals for recruitment and successfully launched the recruitment module. Automated the process of sending regret letters to rejected candidates.
• Participated in a number of Career events / job fairs to attract the best talent available in the job market.
CAMPUS RECRUITMENT
• My primary area of achievement has been the Campus Recruitment.
• Played a pivotal role in coordinating with a number of reputed campuses for the annual campus recruitment. Solely responsible for maintaining the campus database pertaining to the number of campus visits planned, date of visits, organizing the interview panel and all other arrangements pertaining to the same. Visited and hired a large chunk of fresh engineers & MCAs from reputed institutions across the country.
• My key areas of operation were Career Counseling and Placements.
• As a Career Counselor my nature of job involved screening of enquires and sourcing business by conducting presentation in colleges, schools and other academic institutions and also included certain marketing activities (e.g.) conducting visibility exercises in colonies and other residential localities.
• As a Placement Coordinator, I was part of the Placement cell, wherein my routine nature of job involved regular interaction with companies in getting eligible students to be placed
• Job involved Career Counseling and enrolments. Preparing Courseware and General Office Administration like Stock Maintenance and providing Student Service Assistance.
• My nature of job as a Student Service Co-coordinator was to help the students with their queries, faculty assistance, and preparation of Blue Book manuals and attending to their problems if any
HR / Learning & Development