Darryl Dsouza

Deputy Manager – Campus Recruitment & Lateral Hiring
March 2019-October 2021

Asst. Manager – Campus Recruitment & Lateral Hiring
Aug 2016 – March 2019

Key Responsibilities:

Campus Recruitment & University Connect

• Managing End-to-End Campus Hiring.
• Create detailed plan with clearly defined objective, desired outcomes and calendar of events
• Collaborate with business and Universities to develop recruiting strategies at targeted institutes/universities
• Develop operational plans and branding activities at assigned institutes with business.
• Build relationship with business partner, placement officers, faculty, alumni and students and HC Stakeholders
• Develop, communicate, and implement, recruiter toolkits, interview manuals/guidelines to ensure campus recruiters and targeted teams have necessary information to be effective.
• Preparing Power BI reports and presentation to showcase Campus Dashboard.
• Streamlined Campus workflows by identifying bottlenecks in existing systems and proactively addressing these challenges through appropriate solutions implementation.
• Championed diversity and inclusion efforts within the workplace, resulting in an inclusive environment that fostered creativity and innovation among employees from various backgrounds.

Key Responsibilities: Lateral Hiring

• Leading Talent Acquisition for Mercedes-Benz Cars groups  Responsible for Driving TA strategies, Demand Planning, Talent Mapping & Analytics
• Partner with business leaders to identify and address current business challenges and recommend appropriate recruiting strategy to ensure flawless hiring execution
• Experience in driving and implementing modern recruitment strategies that encompass social media, search engine optimization and proactive sourcing.
• Plan & drive focused hiring on Diversity & Inclusion.
• Facilitating cost optimization; ensuring timely deliveries as per SLAs, TAT & Source mix
• Educate hiring managers on recruitment methodology and strategy and manage and influence hiring process
• Manage Motivate, Mentor & Monitor staffing team performance in line with business expectations
• Successfully decreased hiring cost by closing 90% of positions through direct sourcing and referral channels.
• Responsible for Vendor empanelment, Vendor Assessment and performance tracking

• Responsible for sourcing the candidates from various channels like web portals, social networking, internal references & Vendors.
• Responsible for extending offer of employment to selected candidates, which includes explanation of terms and conditions.

• Support End-To-End recruitment activities for Mercedes-Benz Cars Group
• Looking after campus placement Co-ordination and Planning
• Direct interactions with hiring managers to understand recruitment needs
• Giving company presentation to candidates at time of interview
  Conducting weekend recruitment event.

• Direct point of contact for client
• Getting the requirement from client and forwarding the same to backend team and
• Interview co - ordination at the clients place
• Follow up with the candidate from offer stage till Joining.

• Managing recruiting process from sourcing to final placement
• Mapping the requirements with business & understanding the job description
• Sourcing potential candidates through job portals, internal database, networking, referrals
• Organize and co-ordinate information, Schedule, Feedback and Follow-up actions on profiles processed.