Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

Dec 2019 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Evangelizing social media recruitment and employer branding across different business units and across geographies for the Talent Acquisition function in India.
• Improving employee experience and advocacy through strategic interventions across candidate and employee touchpoints.
• Strengthened Employee Advocacy Program in India across different business units.
• Strengthened Campus Engagement to increase the connection of the Ericsson businesses with the campus students and leveraging the various platforms including social media to intensify the brand resonance.
• Creating consistent voice across channels through external outreaches online(Social Media) and offline(Campuses, Tech communities) to promote the brand, programs, and initiatives.
• Proactively recognizing emerging trends, problems, and business needs. Providing innovative solutions to be applied wherever necessary by designing, developing, and securing deployment of strategies, policies, processes, and tools in the own area of expertise.
• Driving the creation, maintenance, and improvement of global change communication templates and tool kits, including best practices.
• Driving the creation of a global approach to strategic communication.
• Driving the implementation of global employer branding communications and engagement programs.
• Acting as senior advisor to the unit’s Leadership Team members on all branding matters.

Apr 2019 – Nov 2019 · 7 mos

• Recruitment delivery on Research and Development, Product Development technical competencies: Researcher - Artificial Intelligence, Data Scientists, Chief Architects, Product Development Leaders, Site Leads, Project Managers, Senior Testers, IoT Architects, Chief UI Developers, UX Architect and Operations for Mid and Senior Level hiring.
• Transitioning TA delivery from a transactional reactive model to an advisory proactive and solution-oriented capability.
• Conducting advisory intake sessions using market intelligence and defined sourcing strategy. (Recruitment Strategy Framework)
• Accessing and sharing market intelligence during intake sessions and aging requisitions reviews.
• Coaching of team members to advisory intake capability through demonstration and on the job coaching.
• Review of talent communities to align with demand forecasting and aged requisition analysis.

Jul 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

Jan 2016 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Talent Advisor : Lead Generation, Research and Sourcing of qualified candidates to meet future needs and a bolstered talent pipeline. Leveraging talent expertise, understanding of talent acquisition plans TAP, business model, operations, competitive position and business group products to identify the top business priorities and make recommendations and influence the hiring team, manager or internal stakeholders regarding talent acquisition plan.
• Recruitment delivery on Researcher - Artificial Intelligence, Data Scientists, Chief Architects, Product Development Leaders,
• Site Leads, Project Managers, Senior Testers, IoT Architects, Chief UI Developers, UX Architect
• and Operations for Mid and Senior Level hiring.
• Accomplishments:
• Brand Advocate: Top 10 Team Ericsson Influencer at the Global Leadership Board - Achieved a strong, visible social media presence in 110 countries and developed social advocacy concepts with viral potential. (Employer Branding)
• Awarded the CEO’s Club On Trac Award for the zeal and commitment showcased in the year 2017-18
• Awarded RISE Award for the outstanding contribution in setting up a new benchmark for the performance year 2018 - 19

Sep 2012 – Jan 2016 · 3 yrs 4 mos · TamilNadu

• About RuralShores: With the vision of Transforming Rural Youth into Confident and Caring Knowledge Professionals through Impact Sourcing, RuralShores aims to provide a livelihood to 100,000 rural youth by providing jobs at the doorstep of rural youth rather than bringing them to the job.
• Centre Head HR - Talent Acquisition, Talent Engagement & Development, Training & Development.
• Formulating and benchmarking functional best practices to focus on revising and implementing HR policies, procedures, and services, ensuring compliance with legislation and best practice.
• Workforce planning and headcount management, proactive recruitment strategies, and diverse sourcing pipelines, as well as workforce redeployment.
• Accomplishments:
• Recognized as Campus Hiring Champion.
• Recognized as Employee Engagement Expert by Board of Directors.
• Developed New Joiners Orientation Programme.
• Change Management Champion
• Independently anchored and organized CSR initiatives.

Jan 2012 – May 2012 · 4 mos

Apr 2011 – Jan 2012 · 9 mos

• Responsible for the recruitment function of Enterprise Services and IT infrastructure divisions cutting across multiple skill sets such as Application development skills, Microsoft technologies, middleware, and IT infrastructure skills across India
• Conducting HR interviews, negotiating offers, and closure of positions on the joining of candidates.
• Tracking Cost Control, Joining Ratio, Source Mix and diversity mix

Aug 2010 – Apr 2011 · 8 mos

• TALENT ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
• Responsible for end to end Recruitment process of the company starting from junior level to Senior / Director Level.
• Monitored the resource allocation and leave management system.
• SPOC for employee engagement, employee benefits & employee grievance handling for 2400 employees, across 264 branches
• Managed organization development (OD) as whole in all regions of manpower planning, training development, employee relation, compensation and benefits total rewards.
• Re-framed existing HR Policies, Procedures and Practices detailed in the Employee Handbooks

Sep 2007 – Jun 2008 · 9 mos · TamilNadu - Trichy