Vandana V.K.

Head of Talent

Hyderabad, Telangana, India19 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 18 years of experience in HR and Talent Acquisition.
Led skill development programs for Telangana state.
Expert in diversity hiring and M&A support.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition and HR Operations specialist with extensive experience in technology and skill development sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionHr StrategyDiversity HiringLeadership HiringSkill DevelopmentProgram ManagementRecruitmentTalent MappingHris ManagementSourcing

Other Skills

Benefits NegotiationCollege RecruitingEmployee EngagementEmployee RelationsExecutive SearchHR TransformationHRISHiringHuman Resources Information Systems (HRIS)Internet RecruitingLeadershipM&A SupportOnboardingPerformance ManagementRecruitments

About

People, Programs and Process specialist across HR, TA, Skill Development and Finance ops Recruitment and HR Specialist with a keen eye for scouting great talent. Experience spans 18+ years across hiring for roles in software engineering, data science, big data, product management, product design etc across industries and geographies. Also managed site HR activities for IT organisations including setting up HR processes, systems, statutory compliances for a newly established and also via M&A. Program managed skill development COE under Ministry of IT for Telangana state. Roles managed: People Ops Head, Recruiting Manager, Talent Advisor, Program Manager, Start-Up Recruiter, Leadership Recruiter, D&I champion, Campus Recruiter, M&A Lead, HR Business Partner, Trainer, Mentor.

Experience

Rapidcanvas

Head - People Operations

May 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

RapidCanvas provides an enterprise-grade no-code platform for data practitioners to go from raw data to ML applications in a matter of days (not months). RapidCanvas taps into the combined power of full-cycle autoML and network of domain experts to deliver exceptional results. Customers using RapidCanvas have reduced time to value by at least 80% and improved model results by at least 15%. For more details, visit https://rapidcanvas.ai/.

Talent AcquisitionEmployee EngagementHR Strategy

Compass

2 roles

Recruiting Manager

Mar 2022 – May 2022 · 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Lead Recruiter

Mar 2021 – Feb 2022 · 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Paypal

Senior Talent Partner - Global Talent Acquisition

Sep 2018 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Hiring for global talent focused on engineering and niche talent in software development, data science, Cloud and Big Data.
TA spoc for diversity events.
M&A and HR Ops support for Hyd office during new office registration.

Talent AcquisitionDiversity HiringM&A Support

Simility, a paypal service

Staffing Manager

Jan 2018 – Sep 2018 · 8 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Simility was acquired by PayPal by mid 2018.
Was responsible for the fast ramp up of leadership roles and engineering talent in software development, big data, SDET and DevOps roles.

Talent AcquisitionLeadership Hiring

Ministry of it,e&c, government of telangana

Program Manager, Skill Development, TASK

Aug 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge (TASK) was established to enable a platform between the Government, Academia and Industry to enhance employability quotient of youth in the state.
Led a team of 12, responsible for the delivery of skilling programs and new initiatives across 31 districts of Telangana State.
Programs included organisational and personal skill trainings for students and faculty for over 400 colleges. Delivered the same with 90%+ completion ratio, and also BEC certification program for faculty and students especially for mid tier towns and rural youth for improving English language skills

Skill DevelopmentProgram Management

Google india

Recruiting Specialist II

May 2010 – Jun 2014 · 4 yrs 1 mo · IN-HYD

Recruiter Spoc for Tech and Sales teams for Hyderabad, Bangalore and Gurgaon locations. Also hired for global tech positions from India. Assisted global university recruitment team in hiring new grads from top Indian engineering colleges for various roles at international locations in US and Europe.
Other projects: talent mapping, campus hiring, program management of staffing related projects, representing Google during external events such Great Places to Work, WWW conference, GHC and GIWIE.
Helped ramp-up new teams in India for co-ordination and sourcing, involved in interviewing, selecting and mentoring the new members on the team

RecruitmentTalent Mapping

Intergraph

Sr. Executive - HR

May 2006 – May 2010 · 4 yrs · Hyderabad Area, India

Primary Responsibility:
Lead Recruiter for Plant Power & Marine and Security Government & Infrastructure teams which included niche hiring in fields related to Core Engineering and Infrastructure.
Business HR role included HRIS updating, manpower and recruitment budgeting, new recruit training for HR policies and performance management, MIS reports, payroll advice, maintain employee files etc.

RecruitmentHRIS Management

Google

HR Recruiter

Apr 2005 – Apr 2006 · 1 yr · Hyderabad Area, India

Part of the initial staffing team, instrumental in building the start-up engineering team at Hyderabad site from scratch.
Hiring spoc for both engineering and advertising operations teams from entry level to senior management level.

RecruitmentTalent Acquisition

Techpointsolutions india pvt ltd.

Sr Executive - Recruitments

Aug 2003 – Apr 2005 · 1 yr 8 mos

Worked as an Account Manager sourcing for tech roles for clients in niche technology industries. This included chip set design, semiconductor, embedded etc. for top notch MNC's and budding start-ups as well.

RecruitmentSourcing