Mar 2015 – Dec 2015 · 9 mos · Noida Area, India, USA, Australia, UAE, Africa, Europe, Singapore, Japan, China · On-site

• Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders by determining annual campus recruiting strategy, establishing hiring targets and expectations, proactively identify, develop and manage relationships with key college and university career services teams, academic leaders and student groups particularly within industry specific academic interface programs at a global level.
• Identify and support opportunities for Talent Advisors to hone talent market expertise and apply this knowledge to evaluate the availability of talent across critical global talent markets.
• Provide the leadership and direction in recruiting best-in-class talent to ensure that the company is hiring the “best and the brightest” available talent at all levels, across geography.
• Identify, evaluate, and manage proactive recruitment sourcing plans, position specific talent identification strategies and initiatives for the global region including: networking, internet job boards, database mining, referrals, ad response, professional outreach, agencies and advanced recruiting techniques.
• Drive cutting edge recruiting programs by participating in projects that enhance the Talent Acquisitions process and provide the organization a competitive advantage in our key global markets.
• Deliver resource plans based upon multiple sources of information (internal and external) to reflect a comprehensive understanding of functional area of responsibility and provision of thorough and ongoing market intelligence.
• Design and produce value-added management information, reports and statistics to reflect productivity and service level delivery. Use Resourcing metrics and MI to identify key trends and opportunities to improve attraction and selection activities.
• Integrate company core values and ensure that hiring and selection processes yield high performing candidates who possess our leadership principles and values.

Dec 2012 – Feb 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Gurgaon, India, USA, UK, Chile, China, Singapore · On-site

• Lead a strategically focused Global Recruiting Team that works effectively, creatively and collaboratively with individuals and teams throughout the organization with agreed service levels and metrics.
• Establishing a Global Recruiting Strategy (India, Chile, China, Romania, Singapore, UK and USA) for Leadership hiring, Campus & Lateral recruitment, customizing processes as well as staying abreast of industry trends and local labor market conditions.
• To ensure, in conjunction with business managers, that the movement of resources across accounts and business areas across the globe is facilitated in order to address increased profitability; prioritization of delivery; prevention of known business issues such as attrition; and other key business goals
• Continually evaluate and refine recruiting processes and tools to ensure standardized recruiting processes, interviews, and documentation which are in compliance with legal requirements and guideline as well as providing maximum efficiency and optimal candidate experience.
• Providing training & education to hiring managers and partners on the recruiting process, interviewing techniques, effective networking strategies, etc. to inspire a stronger partnership between hiring managers, HR, and the recruiting team.
• Participate in the development and rollout of key Evalueserve programs in line with core global design concepts and regional/business specific needs (e.g., Employment Branding; Interview/selection; Career site; University Programs; Employee Referral Programs, etc)
• Build and manage a selection of external vendors / consultants to support recruitment sourcing; scalable across the geographies and languages; with a goal of reducing costs and building a cohesive group of key partners/providers.

Sep 2007 – Nov 2012 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Noida Area, India, USA, Costa Rica, Australia · On-site

• Responsible for overall recruitment cycle from workforce planning to Candidate On boarding with special focus on the vitality of the recruitment metrics covering Quality of Hire, Turnaround time, Recruitment channel efficacy, Diversity Hiring, On boarding efficacy, Hiring equity, and compliance to the recruitment policies and fair employment practices
• Leadership hiring, team management, strategic planning, MIS reporting.
• Designing recruitment tools and processes that relate directly to business needs, including selection and assessment tools, customized sourcing initiatives and talent management best practices.
• Architecting multiple scales of recruiting models or solutions and managing the transition and delivery
• Translating business direction into actionable hiring needs, advising on risk and working closely with leadership team on the design and development of recruiting focus areas to deliver against business commitments.
• Developing and driving an effective Recruitment Channel Management Strategy for the business ensuring best in class talent for the organization at optimum cost. This includes articulating and implementing an effective strategy for driving performance of the recruitment function through channels like Search firms, Referrals, Social Media, Job boards and print ads.
• Designing recruitment tools and processes that relate directly to business needs, including selection and assessment tools, customized sourcing initiatives and talent management best practices.
• Building strong relationships with Compensation and central HR with a view to building equity structures to enable the attraction of highly competitive talent profiles within a very narrow BFSI marketplace.
• Handling the Vendor Management process, set the deadlines/ SLA’s to all the vendors/monitoring their performance on quarterly basis.

Aug 2003 – Aug 2007 · 4 yrs · New Jersey, USA · On-site

• Handled responsibility of end to end recruitment efforts for the BFSI Relationship, managed to successfully ramp up and build a pipeline of resources that has helped the business gain confidence from its Client.
• Deployment of policies and processes in US geography. This includes understanding the modulus of the policies and ensuring that they are understood and deployed completely.
• Performance Management and Compensation and Benefits : Implementation and communication of the Corporate & Unit level appraisal guidelines amongst employees, Updating the system with employee appraisal details Tracking appraisals to closure, Analysis of appraisal, Facilitating Mentorship and Performance Improvement Plans in the Unit, SPOC for all Employee queries related to C&B.
• Responsible for the confirmation/promotion processes for the entire BFSI associates in US geography.
• Grievance handling, ensuring amicable resolution of conflicts. As the point of contact for close to 1,400 associates, my role also needs me to ensure that grievances raised by employees are addressed fairly and without prejudice.
• OD interventions: Responsible for identifying pain areas and developing long and short term action plans to improve employee satisfaction. As a part of my effort in this direction am leading the employee engagement group within the NJ/NY area.

Sep 2002 – Aug 2003 · 11 mos · Noida (India), New Jersey (USA) · On-site

• Sourcing, screening, interviewing and placing technical candidates with various clients (end-clients as well as other third party consulting companies) on Telecom technologies, Client server, Microsoft Technologies, QA, DBA, ERP (SAP – All Modules, Oracle Apps – All Modules, JD-Edwards, BAAN, etc), Networking, Internet Technologies, Mainframes, Data warehousing, etc based projects for India, US, UK, and Australia.
• Major accounts: Deloitte & Touche, American Express, GE, McKinsey, Countrywide, Knowledge Network, Morgan Stanley, Best Software, TMAR, etc.
• Market intelligence report based on skills & requirement, mobilizing human resources through various means such as Headhunting, Advertising, References, and Existing databank
• Networking with Consultants and Sub-Contractors (USA) with respect to the resource requirements

Apr 2001 – Aug 2002 · 1 yr 4 mos · Noida, India · On-site

• Sourcing, screening, interviewing and placing technical candidates with various clients on Telecom technologies, Client server, Microsoft Technologies, QA, DBA, ERP, Networking, Internet Technologies, Mainframes, Data warehousing, etc based projects for India, US, UK, and Australia.
• Market intelligence report based on skills & requirement, mobilizing human resources through various means such as Headhunting, Advertising, References, and Existing databank.
• Major accounts handled: GE, IBM, Oracle, Accenture, HSS, Geometric Software, KPIT, Zensar Technologies, Voxtron Design Lab, Bharti Telesoft, NIIT, Wipro Technologies, Wipro Infotech, STG, etc

Apr 2000 – Mar 2001 · 11 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India · On-site

• Sourcing, screening, interviewing and placing technical candidates with various clients on Telecom technologies, Client server, Microsoft Technologies, QA, DBA, ERP, Networking, Internet Technologies, Mainframes, Data warehousing, etc based projects for India, US, UK, and Australia.
• Market intelligence report based on skills & requirement, mobilizing human resources through various means such as Headhunting, Advertising, References, and Existing databank.