Pravin Balaji

Lead Recruiter

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India20 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

18 years of experience in talent acquisition
Expertise in strategic hiring initiatives
Proven track record in developing interview processes

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned Talent Acquisition leader in the Finance and Design sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionRecruiting

Other Skills

InterviewsProcess ImprovementSourcingScreeningHiringHuman ResourcesManagementBenefits NegotiationScreening ResumesIT RecruitmentResource ManagementTalent ManagementInterviewing

About

I am a seasoned talent acquisition leader with over 18 years of experience building and managing high-performing recruiting teams to meet complex and dynamic hiring needs. My expertise spans across finance, design, digital transformations, strategic hiring initiatives, including volume hiring for shared service setups, leadership hiring, and leading campus hiring. I excel in problem-solving, capacity planning across regions, and driving operational efficiency. My experience includes leading regional projects and collaborating on global initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. I am trained in competency frameworks and assessments, enabling me to identify and secure top-tier talent that drives business success

Experience

20 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

12 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Mckinsey & company

2 roles

Lead Recruiter

Jun 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

RecruitingTalent AcquisitionInterviewsProcess Improvement

Senior Recruiter

Jun 2013 – Jun 2022 · 9 yrs

As Senior Talent Acquisition member, responsible for account management of design function hiring and support HR leader in support function hiring
Point of contact for the design leadership in hiring
I partner with Design leadership, to identify, attract and hire design talent into key roles including presentation designers, graphic designers and design coordinators
I was responsible for the full life cycle includes drafting an effective sourcing strategies, Seek advice from recruiting leadership in using an appropriate combination of direct sourcing and referrals to approach.
I device plan for meeting our quarterly design hiring targets, based on talent needs developed sourcing strategies collaborate with other recruiters and design hiring panel members for recruiting events.
Played a pivotal role in developing new interview process and participated in designing the assessment and interviewing process.
Calibrating with the design hiring team to brought in feasible structured interviewing model to have the best in class interviewing process and give superior candidate experience throughout the process
To strengthen hiring panel & building capacity for interviewing. I worked with certified panel members to coach and drive new panel member’s to attain independent interviewing panel members

RecruitingTalent AcquisitionInterviewsSourcingScreeningHiring+1

Scope international

Associate Manager (Talent Acquisition Specialist)

Nov 2006 – Jun 2013 · 6 yrs 7 mos · Chennai Area, India

Worked with a 4 member team, lead the group in supporting their respective business verticals
Responsible for End-to-End recruitments for Consumer banking operations, Finance shared services and HR shared services
I have supported finance shared services and banking operations for a significant time in my tenure with Scope International
Started supporting the Finance shared services in 2007 and continue till 2011, In 4 years the unit had continue to grow and grown 4 fold in head count
I have developed expertise in niche hiring last, in my last 2 years with scope international when I supported the senior leadership hiring for program management roles which report in to leadership
Have developed skills to understand senior leader pay structure and benefits, worked with compensation team while computing comp for Vice President and above
Responsible and Accountable for the teams’ target achievements in terms of number of hiring within the required budgetary specifications.

RecruitingTalent AcquisitionHuman ResourcesManagement

Nurture resources

Human Resource

Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr

Source profiles from different job portals as per the client requirement.
Good domain knowledge in recruitment for banking, health care bpo’s and financial sector.
Have to plan for the monthly targets.
Have to prepare a report on downloading of resume from portals & short-listed candidates.

RecruitingHuman Resources