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Lavakumar Ashokan

Recruiter

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India10 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 10+ years of full life cycle recruiting experience
  • Expert in strategic recruitment planning and stakeholder engagement
  • Proficient in utilizing AI tools for recruitment processes
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Specialist in the Tech industry with a focus on strategic recruitment.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionStakeholder ManagementTechnical RecruitingTeam Management

Other Skills

Strategic PlanningEnd to End RecruitingStrategic Human Resource PlanningCandidate ExperienceDiversity, Equality, and Inclusion (DEI)OnboardingCandidate ManagementStrategic HiringHuman Resource DevelopmentApplicant Tracking SystemsDashboard MetricsProblem SolvingProgram ManagementTech Screening SkillsVendor Management

About

With 10+ years of Full life cycle Recruiting experience, worked for both India & USA Market, I am currently working as Recruiting Business Partner at Amazon, I define & execute compelling Talent Acquisition Strategies to attract top tech talent by designing relevant and /new programs and processes that facilitate req fulfilment and meet the unique talent needs of the client groups that include a special focus on niche and difficult-to-fill technical skillsets. Have effectively managed multiple projects and work productively with a variety of people, while influencing key stakeholders to collaboratively achieve TA goals. I have restructured the recruiting process based on business needs to make it more effective and efficient, resulting in improved candidate experience, branding, and quality of hires. I also use my skills in human resources, strategic recruitment planning, and people analytics to guide and influence recruiting decisions, using relevant reporting information and candidate feedback. I am aggressively using the Recruiting AI Tools in my day-to-day activity, ready to explore and adapt to the current AI Market in the recruiting space. I mentor new recruiters on process and tools, and build collaborative partnerships with TA leaders, key stakeholders, and cross-functional teams. My goal is to strengthen the recruiting muscle of every team I partner with. Competencies: Stakeholder Engagement, Strategic Recruitment Planning, Metrics Reporting, Employer Branding, Diversity Recruitment, Process Improvement, Data Analysis, Strategic Sourcing, Problem Solving, Project Management, Full-life Cycle Recruiting, x-ray search, LinkedIn Recruiting, Vendor Management, Offer Negotiations, Offer Creation, Candidate Engagement, Team Handling, AI Recruiting Tools

Experience

10 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 5 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Amazon

2 roles

Recruiting Business Partner

Promoted

Jun 2022Present · 4 yrs

  • Responsibilities:
  • Educate stakeholders on recruiting process, external demographic and set expectations of how businesses/hiring teams need to participate as well as best practices.
  • Influences multiple stakeholders, multiple project, sourcing, and closing plans across teams.
  • Contributes to an environment that prioritizes diversity, equity and inclusion and empathy with team members and customers.
  • Partner with hiring managers to build effective passive candidate & sourcing strategies
  • Conduct weekly business meetings and discuss hiring updates and metrics
  • Track sourcing, funnel, and conversion efforts to be able to articulate a story on search efforts and market response.
  • Drive process improvements amongst the team for technology inventions and other channels
  • Manage the allocation, observe trends that could affect the ability to meet the demand, and create strategies to get back on track.
  • Monitor the vacancies, pipeline, allocation, funnel conversion, time to fill, diversity, and quality of hire.
  • Provide oversight of the interviewer pool and work with Hiring Managers if additional participation or course correction required.
  • Utilize market data and talent intelligence trends to guide the business with opportunities that could address their needs faster.
  • Report insights to the business stakeholders on metrics, measurements, and status of performance indicators.
  • Mentored new recruiters on process and tools to ensure a timely and successful ramp up period.
Strategic PlanningStakeholder ManagementEnd to End RecruitingTechnical RecruitingTalent AcquisitionStrategic Human Resource Planning+10

Recruiter

Oct 2021Jun 2022 · 8 mos

Cognizant

2 roles

Executive - Talent Acquisition

Dec 2020Oct 2021 · 10 mos

  • Manage the complete recruitment life cycle.
  • Excellent Tech Screening Skills and responsible for detail evaluation of candidates against specific IT requirements
  • Work closely with Stakeholders & Hiring Managers to develop position profile and to understand overall needs and requirements. (Description, salary, timing, expectations, etc.)
  • Responsible for Sourcing Profiles from various channels like Naukri, Monster, LinkedIn, Carrier Site, Employee Referral & internal Database.
  • Efficient in Vendor management and following up with them for a strong support.
  • Create a comprehensive job description based on hiring manager specifications to be used to present to candidates and to post to job boards and internal gateways.
  • Scheduling interviews and serving as the first point of contact for all the candidates
  • Managing entire recruitment process for both generic and niche skill requirements.
  • Gathering the current, expected Salary and Explaining the benefits package of the candidates and do the parity check and recommend the best possible offer.
  • Ensuring all pre-recruitment documentation checks are completed before the offer release.
  • Gather the required documents from the candidates for extending an offer after doing a proper reference check
  • BGV initiation with appropriate documents and following up with the BGV team for the closure for on boarding.
  • Managing the complete offer release process – right from getting the expectations of candidate and preparing the offer for getting approvals and releasing the same to the selected individual.
  • Onboard new employees in order to become fully integrated Monitor and apply HR recruiting best practices.
Tech Screening SkillsVendor ManagementSourcing ProfilesJob Description CreationInterview SchedulingTalent Acquisition+1

Human Resources Executive

Dec 2020Oct 2021 · 10 mos

  • Led recruitment for Insurance, Salesforce, BFS & RCGTH domains. Managed a team of 2 recruiters and coordinated vendor hiring. Collaborated with stakeholders to define hiring needs and deliver on-demand positions.

Vysystems

Lead Recruiter

Jun 2020Nov 2020 · 5 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

  • Worked as a Lead Recruiter managed a team of 4 Members
  • Maintaining relationships with Client managers to understand and analyze their requirements and managed the full life cycle recruiting process. Soliciting feedback from hiring managers for process tuning.
  • Coaching and mentoring recruiters to make them understand the need of the client’s expectations and the various aspects of getting a good match.
  • Submission of shortlisted profiles to hiring managers and arranging interviews
  • Facilitating technical interviews which could either be a telephonic round/F2F or via video conferencing
  • Follow interacting with candidates and the managers until the candidate’s date of joining.
  • Coordinate with both client and candidate after selects the candidate
  • Performing detailed reference checking on selected candidates and review the results with client
  • Maintaining and developing candidate database and daily/ weekly/monthly reports such as interview status reports, closure reports & feedback reports.
Full life cycle recruitingClient relationship managementTeam managementTechnical interviews facilitationTalent AcquisitionTeam Management

Vy systems

Lead Recruiter

Jun 2020Nov 2020 · 5 mos

  • Led a team of 4 recruiters managing full life-cycle recruitment. Built strong client relationships and improved candidate engagement.

Cognizant

2 roles

Executive - Talent Acquisition

Dec 2017May 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Manage the complete recruitment life cycle.
  • Excellent Tech Screening Skills and responsible for detail evaluation of candidates against specific IT requirements
  • Work closely with Stakeholders & Hiring Managers to develop position profile and to understand overall needs and requirements. (Description, salary, timing, expectations, etc.)
  • Responsible for Sourcing Profiles from various channels like Naukri, Monster, LinkedIn, Carrier Site, Employee Referral & internal Database.
  • Efficient in Vendor management and following up with them for a strong support.
  • Create a comprehensive job description based on hiring manager specifications to be used to present to candidates and to post to job boards and internal gateways.
  • Scheduling interviews and serving as the first point of contact for all the candidates
  • Managing entire recruitment process for both generic and niche skill requirements.
  • Gathering the current, expected Salary and Explaining the benefits package of the candidates and do the parity check and recommend the best possible offer.
  • Ensuring all pre-recruitment documentation checks are completed before the offer release.
  • Gather the required documents from the candidates for extending an offer after doing a proper reference check
  • BGV initiation with appropriate documents and following up with the BGV team for the closure for on boarding.
  • Managing the complete offer release process – right from getting the expectations of candidate and preparing the offer for getting approvals and releasing the same to the selected individual.
  • Onboard new employees in order to become fully integrated Monitor and apply HR recruiting best practices.

Human Resources Executive

Dec 2017May 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Handled BFS, CBC & Digital Engineering recruitment. Conducted technical screening and improved quality of hire.
Tech Screening SkillsVendor ManagementSourcing ProfilesJob Description CreationInterview SchedulingTalent Acquisition+1

Tek leaders inc

Sr. HR Recruiter

Feb 2017Nov 2017 · 9 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

  • Responsible for Recruitment function.
  • Understanding and analyzing the client’s requirements in different skill set categories
  • Posting of job on the job portals, websites, blogs and other discussion forums
  • Telephonic Screening of the profiles, checking for Technical Fitment, Behavioral Fitment, Stability
  • Evaluating the candidate on various parameters like communication skill, personality and assessing the candidate by grading them
  • Scheduling of Interviews of the candidates in close co-ordination with client HR
  • Responsible for articulating and negotiating job offers with candidates and clearly communicating all aspects of the offer, including the salary, benefits, bonuses, relocations, etc.
  • Follow-up with candidates for Notice Period Negotiation, Post Employment Reference Checks, until joining

Indutech inc / tekleaders

Senior Human Resources Recruiter

Feb 2017Nov 2017 · 9 mos

Recruitment functionJob postingTelephonic ScreeningInterview schedulingJob offer negotiationTalent Acquisition+1

Blueally

HR Recruiter

Oct 2015Jan 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

  • Design and implement overall recruiting strategy.
  • Develop and update job descriptions and job specifications Perform job and task analysis to document job requirements and objectives.
  • Prepare and post jobs to appropriate job board Source and attract candidates by using Job Portals, Databases, Social media etc.
  • Screen candidate’s resumes and job applications Conduct interviews using various reliable personnel selection tools/methods to filter candidates within schedule.
  • Hands on experience with various selection processes (phone interviewing, reference check etc.).
  • Thorough knowledge of recruiting process from sourcing to recruiting for different employment.
  • Assess applicants’ relevant knowledge, skills, soft skills, experience and aptitude.

Education

Madurai Kamaraj University

Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA — Human Resources Management and Services

May 2013May 2016

Thiruvalluvar Higher Secondary School, Gudiyatham

High School — Mathematics and Computer Science

Jan 2011Jan 2013

Madurai Kamarajar University

Bachelor of Business Administration

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