Anantha Sricharan MG

Talent Acquisition Lead, Peepal Consulting, Bengaluru
Nov 2024 – Present
Roles & Responsibilities:

• Leading end-to-end talent acquisition processes across mid to senior-level mandates for clients in technology, product, and consulting domains.
• Managing and mentoring a team of recruiters; providing guidance on sourcing strategies, stakeholder communication, and candidate engagement.
• Building strong relationships with hiring managers, understanding workforce plans, and translating them into effective hiring strategies.
• Driving diversity hiring initiatives and ensuring quality and inclusiveness in talent pipelines.
• Utilizing multiple sourcing platforms including Naukri, LinkedIn, and internal databases to attract top talent.
• Conducting market mapping, competitor analysis, and talent intelligence to support proactive hiring.
• Ensuring adherence to SLAs including Time to Fill (TTF), cost-per-hire, and quality of hire metrics.
• Acting as a key point of contact between clients and internal teams, ensuring smooth coordination and hiring outcomes.

• Client: HP Inc: (10 Months) Designation: Project Coordinator (HRBP Role) Roles & Responsibilities:
• Work closely with business leaders to develop and implement HR strategies that support the overall business objectives.
• Manage employee relations issues within the business unit, providing guidance on complex HR matters, conflict resolution, and ensuring that company policies and regulations address employee grievances.
• Involved in talent acquisition, development, and retention strategies. They help identify staffing needs, recruit top talent, and ensure employees have the necessary skills and opportunities to grow and succeed.
• Oversee performance management processes, including setting performance standards, conducting appraisals, and providing feedback to employees. Work to ensure that performance management systems are fair and aligned with business goals.
• Cultivate a positive work environment and strong company culture that attracts and retains talent.
• Organize and support initiatives aimed at boosting employee engagement and satisfaction.

• Client: Swiss Re: (4 Months). Designation: Recruitment Relationship Manager (Dec'22 to April'23) Roles & Responsibilities:
• Building positive relationships with stakeholders, clients, and candidates.
• Worked on the ticketing process for candidate hiring such as Service Now.
• Worked on Success Factor recruiting tool for hiring, offering and sourcing.
• Set hiring goals (e.g., quarterly, and annual)
• Proven experience interacting with various levels of staff, candidates, management, external customers, vendors, etc.
• Highly skilled in handling multiple senior stakeholders, partners, and overall client-facing environment. Advisory mindset and well-connected with a similar industry network.
• Talent to remain motivated in a dynamic work environment as well as a proven ability to work independently.
• Fully conversant with the current diversity strategies & practices in the industry, get diversity best practices & recommendations into hiring practice, provide plans to hire, and increase diversity candidates maintaining the quality of the candidates.
• Previous experience of working on different TA technology tools like Workday, video interviewing platforms, onboarding tools, HM & Candidate survey tools.

• Designation: Recruitment Relationship Manager (May'22 to Dec'22) Roles & Responsibilities:
• Be the Hiring Manager & Candidate experience ambassador to ensure high quality of Hiring Manager & Candidate experience from start to end of the hiring process
• Comfortable and at ease with managing high-level critical Key Performance Indicators like Time to Fill, Time to shortlist, Conversion rates, quality ratio's, Service excellence & cost optimization.
• Worked on Success Factor recruiting tool for hiring, offering and sourcing.
• Manage all communication with candidates from the moment they apply until they get onboard
• Interview candidates at various stages of the hiring process (phone screening calls, video interviews, and in-person meetings)
• Use skill assessment tools and tests to screen candidates
• Oversee internal and external communication, making sure that our company maintains a positive reputation as an employer (for example on Glassdoor, LinkedIn, and social media)
• Organize hiring events and participate in job fairs to network with potential candidates.

• Designation : Recruitment Coordinator to Recruitment Relationship Manager Worked for DXC Technology, on the pay roles of Allegis Global Solutions from (Feb'17 to May'22) Roles & Responsibilities:
• Involved in the complete life cycle of Recruitment, including Sourcing using creative Strategies, evaluating, screening, and interviewing the candidates.
• Identify Top Talent that meets the Hiring Manager's requirements and as per the job description.
• Compensation negotiation and processing reference checks.
• Utilize internal databases, job boards, and Social Media platforms to identify potential candidates.
• Prepare recruitment materials and post jobs to appropriate job boards.
• Conduct interviews using various reliable recruiting and selection tools/methods to filter candidates within the schedule.
• Trained newly hired team members on recruiting tools such as Workday.
• Worked in operations for 3 years such as updating in master tracker, maintaining of address tracker of candidates (during the pandemic period), BGV checks and providing updates to recruiters, and offer release.
• Worked in Candidate Engagement Team as an HR buddy spoc for candidates from their selection till onboard for almost 2 years.
• Use skill assessment tools and tests to screen candidates during the recruitment process.
• Hands-on exp in conducting bulk hiring such as Walk-in drives and drives conducted online.

• Client : Cognizant Technology Solutions Ltd: (6 months). Designation : HR Analyst Roles & Responsibilities: 1. Find clients and foster long-term relationships. 2. Understand client requirements. 3. Evaluate resumes and applications. 4. Assume responsibility for pre-interview screening. 5. Match the most suitable candidates to different positions. 6. Create relationships with job seekers and provide advice.