Over 13 years of HR experience across Analytics, Consulting, Finance, Technology, Outsourcing, E-Commerce, Product and Retail sectors with top Fortune 100 MNC’s across India and Middle East regions with exposure in APAC, GCC, Europe, UK & Americas talent market. Extensively engaged in roles like Talent Management, Early Careers, Employer Branding and Learning & Development role. Recognized consistently for innovating processes and design for maximum business value and talent impact with strong focus on stakeholder management and candidate needs. Part of the admission panel at Indian Institute of Management Bodhgaya, Kashipur, Raipur, Ranchi, Rohtak, Sambalpur, Sirmaur, Trichy and Udaipur and S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai. Also, part of Steering Committee at University of Wollongong, Dubai.
Overview
5
5
years of post-secondary education
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Campus Recruitment Manager
Barclays India
Pune, Maharashtra
10.2020 - Current
Work with the US, UK teams, regional people partners and business stakeholders to build strategy and plan for graduate recruitment.
Partner with the Global team campus recruiting teams to plan for talent attraction and engagement initiatives.
Design and execute an effective regional campus attraction strategy including social media campaigns.
Work with various business and recruitment leads to forecast demand and identify campuses for full time and summer interns.
Prepare annual recruitment and engagement calendar, plan budgets for the year and seek sign off from respective leads.
Manage campus relationship by engaging with business leads and other internal stake holders to plan and leverage optimum sourcing strategy.
Coordinate with stakeholders to manage panel, interviewers, and logistics for recruitment, marketing and engagement events.
Engage and educate hiring managers to get support with the graduate hiring process.
GCC Group Campus Program Lead
Landmark Group
Dubai,, UAE
04.2019 - 07.2020
Build Group Level Campus Program across UAE, KSA, Egypt, UK and India.
Partner with CEOs and Head of Business and HR for driving organization campus strategy including head-count planning, budgeting, legal governance, engagement and policy.
Develop brand promotion including employee value proposition, creating branding materials and build social media presence.
Build process and policies including governance framework for the campus programme.
Utilise the most appropriate forms of assessment within selection processes.
Understand career aspirations of the students in the region and develop talent attraction strategy.
Formulate engagement and operational plan for target universities.
Collaborate with Compensation team to gather and share market intelligence and recommend compensation philosophy.
Partner with various stakeholders to educate and build campus program for future workforce and create talent pipeline.
Build talent framework and career roadmap for campus hires and support in the induction programme.
Part of Recruitment ATS Integration/Transformation process leading to automation of process.
APAC Campus Recruitment Manager
Amazon
Bangalore, Singapore, Hong Kong, China
05.2015 - 02.2019
Manage a team of campus recruiters with oversight of APAC team for graduates across core locations to strategize, execute hiring and engagement programs.
Create innovative plans to develop year-round on-campus activities & events that facilitate brand awareness and career opportunities.
Collaborate with HR/TA along with business to launch Leadership Development Programs and periodic valuation of current programs.
Develop operational plans and branding activities at target schools along with campus leads, to attract top talent.
Develop, communicate, and implement university relations workshops, training and interview guides to campus recruiters, presenters, interviewers.
Develop, implement and execute on-campus events that include; pre-placement talk; career info session, guest talks, leadership visits, on-campus interviews, and Fulfillment Centre visits with student clubs & placement representatives.
Ensure recruiting process is consistent across all verticals of business, providing consistent experience.
Provide insights to business leaders about recruiting metrics, conversions, and stats on an on-going basis and analyze their significance to provide key trends on campus.
Partner with compensation & benefits team to ensure market competitiveness for campus hires.
Ensure all data relating to recruiting and candidate management is accurately maintained.
Revamped the internship engagement model by bringing in more clarity of projects assigned to interns and increase accountability of business leadership.
Expanded Amazon Customer Excellence (ACE) into APAC region.
Launched Code Wizard Challenge and Alexa Skill Wizard Challenge for Tech campuses.
Better transparency and engagement with campuses leading to process improvements and deep brand penetration.
Featured in many business newspapers (TOI, Nielsen B-School survey, ET etc) as preferred and dream company to work.
Positioned Amazon at number 3 in Universum report 2018.
Lead Branding & Diversity initiative for Campus Programme team, part of India Diversity team and Candidate Experience team.
Initiated Campus Induction Programme to better integrate campus hires with Amazon in a holistic way.
Campus Recruitment Specialist
Accenture
Bangalore, Karnataka
01.2010 - 04.2015
Lead campuses like IIM (Indian Institute of Management), IIT (Indian Institute of Technology), ICAI, Special language skills, Engineering & Graduate colleges for recruitment in India.
Work with various business and recruitment leads to forecast demand and identify campuses for full time, summer interns and ad-hoc demands.
Build strategy and plan for recruitment, engagement related initiatives for Strategy (Consulting), Technology, Outsourcing and India Corporate Functions.
Prepare annual recruitment and engagement calendar, plan financial budgets for the year working with internal stakeholders, finance, and seek sign off from respective leads.
Manage campus relationship by engaging with campus sponsors, institutes coordinators, and other internal stake holders.
Execute and manage recruitment, internship, engagement and branding activities.
Gathering market intelligence and competitors hiring strategy.
Changed aptitude test format from pen & paper based to online platform that helped in transparent and cost-efficient process.
Increased presence in hiring diversity candidates of up to 31% across zones.
Streamlined process of post recruitment until on boarding and reduced renege percentage by 12%.
Shadowing Campus POC for the team members thereby creating the next in line Campus POC.
Associate Consultant
Manpower Professionals India
Bangalore, Karnataka
06.2009 - 01.2010
Compiled research data and gave professional presentations highlighting finds and recommended optimizations.
Understand various client’s requirement and fulfill them as per mandates.
Handle End-to-End lateral recruitment for ITeS, BSFI and Technology clients.
Publish monthly reports, revenue pipeline and creating potential candidate database.
Sourcing of profiles from social network channels and reducing cost on job portal fee.
Instrumental and planned walk-in drives for BPO clients at entry level that was not done earlier.
Received Achiever’s Award for the month of July, September & October 2009.
Human Resource Associate
Fides Global Consultants Pvt Ltd
Bangalore, Karnataka
04.2008 - 03.2009
Maximized team knowledge and productivity by effectively training, monitoring and directing employees in application of best practices.
Responsible for recruitment of future talent for BFSI and IT sector clients.
Preparing job descriptions, conducting walk-in’s and salary negotiations.
Organizing cultural events and recreational activities.
Designed posters and mailers to publish at various job fairs and educational institutes.
Developed content, material, and presentations for training program.
Conducting skill gap analysis for students.
Organized and executed an interactive forum between corporate clients and 152 academic representatives.
Event Coordinator
Merittrac Services
Bangalore, Karnataka
01.2005 - 02.2006
Managed administrative logistics of events planning, including proctoring, event coordination and promotions.
Worked for clients such as Accenture, CMG Logica, Dell and FIC.
Supported in planning logistics and smooth process of events.
Scheduled interviews and feedback management at various events.
Mastered organizational and time management skills by screening over 300 resumes in a day.
Selected for conducting ‘Organizational Fit’ interviews within one month of joining client location.
Education
MBA - Human Resources Management
St Joseph’s College of Business Administration
Bangalore
06.2006 - 03.2008
No Degree - Human Resources
Cornell University
Certificate Course
05.2013 - 04.2014
BBA - Marketing
Bangalore University
Bangalore
06.2002 - 03.2005
Accomplishments
Received Future Workplace Award 2019 for Recruitment & Onboarding initiatives.
Amazon Customer Excellence (ACE) a B-school case study competition was ranked one of top 3 in India.
Part of delegation representing APAC at Global University Leadership Summit at Seattle, USA.
Launched Code Wizard Challenge and Alexa Skill Wizard Challenge for Tech campuses.
Promoted twice within 4 years of joining Accenture
Received Accenture People Developer Recognition
1/300 across Accenture Global to be selected for HR Academy partnered with Cornell University.
Dream Team Award for 3 consecutive years 2010, 2011 & 2012
Additional Information
Awards: Innovators in Talent Acquisition Award 2020 by World Assessment Council's GoDigital and Young HR Achievers in India 2019 by World HRD Congress.
Assistant Vice President – Projects & Transformation (LEAD BA) at Barclays IndiaAssistant Vice President – Projects & Transformation (LEAD BA) at Barclays India