Derrick Abraham
Talent Acquisition Professional
Summary
Detail-oriented Talent Acquisition Professional successful at managing full recruitment life cycle. Develops and implements customized strategies to meet specific position requirements and source qualified candidates. Offering 4 years of recruitment strategy development.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Senior Associate Lead- Talent Acquisition
Infosys Limited
Bengaluru
03.2021 - Current
- Handling end-to-end niche hiring for experienced professionals across multiple segments like Financial Services; Healthcare & Life Science; Communication, Media & Technology; Consumer Packaged goods, Retail & logistics; Manufacturing etc. & consistently achieving more than 100% hiring targets since the last eight quarters
- Handling the diversity hiring for differently abled and female candidates and analyzing the market to identify the availability of the relevant talent pool in India
- Planning and organizing fortnightly recruitment drives which includes understanding the requirements; sourcing through different channels like LinkedIn, Naukri, FoundIt, Shine etc; screening; mapping the right panels for interview; conducting interview debrief sessions; negotiating offers; managing the approval of offers; releasing the offers for candidates & managing the Post-Offer Connect with the candidates.
- Managing and training a team of 12 people
- Partnering with multiple internal teams like Onboarding, Employee Relations, C&B, Legal etc to ensure a smooth onboarding experience for all the new joiners
- Implemented innovative recruitment strategies to increase number of high-quality job applicants specific LinkedIn Campaigns and organizing Red Carpet Event for all the new joiners.
- Implemented data-driven approach in recruitment by leveraging metrics Cycle Time, Conversion etc on a weekly basis to evaluate recruitment performance continuously and reduced time-to-fill for open positions by implementing efficient recruitment strategies and effective collaboration with hiring managers.
- Built relationships with external recruiters and staffing agencies to access quality talent.
- Created a robust talent pipeline by proactively identifying passive candidates through headhunting techniques and referrals.
Senior Executive- Workforce Management
Firstsource Solutions Limited
Chennai
07.2020 - 03.2021
- Forecasting the manpower requirements for the clients & interacting with leadership for weekly updates
- Planning manpower recruitment, gauging needs of the organization & putting a plan to fulfill the same
- Forecasting the End of Month Revenue projections for the organization
- Tracking attrition and leakage for the call center agents across multiple locations on a daily basis
- Tracking planned vs Actual on WFM metrics thereby achieving savings of ~189,000 USD in 5 months.
Planning Engineer
JSEC
Kutch
06.2017 - 03.2018
- Supervised fabrication and erection process of the Thermax chimney on site
- Was responsible for manpower planning and resource allocation for the project.
Education
MBA - Human Resources
Symbiosis Institute of Business Management
Bengaluru 04.2001 -
B.Tech - Mechanical Engineering
Dharmsinh Desai University
Nadiad 04.2001 -
Skills
Strategic recruitment
Certification
Employee Development Accreditation, Harrison Assessments International
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 06/10/95
Timeline
Senior Associate Lead- Talent Acquisition
Infosys Limited
03.2021 - Current
Senior Executive- Workforce Management
Firstsource Solutions Limited
07.2020 - 03.2021
Employee Development Accreditation, Harrison Assessments International
06-2020
Debriefing and Coaching Accreditation, Harrison Assessments International
06-2020
Planning Engineer
JSEC
06.2017 - 03.2018
MBA - Human Resources
Symbiosis Institute of Business Management
04.2001 -
B.Tech - Mechanical Engineering
Dharmsinh Desai University
04.2001 -
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