Gini George

Randstad Enterprise is a global leader in the staffing and recruitment industry, partnering with large MNCs in Fortune 500 companies, providing workforce solutions.

• Full cycle recruitment: Lead the recruitment process from req-intake to offer negotiation, partnering with hiring managers to attract top-tier talent. Handling up to 12 requisitions and targetting 8 offers a month.
• Stakeholder Management: Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, ensuring alignment between recruitment strategies and business goals.
• Candidate Experience: Ensure a smooth, positive experience for candidates, with clear communication and timely updates.
• Referral Management: Drive and optimize the employee referral program to enhance talent acquisition.
• Data-Driven Recruitment: Conducted comprehensive market research to benchmark against industry standards, and identify areas of improvement in talent acquisition strategy.
• Collaboration: Work with HR and business leaders to align recruitment efforts with organizational goals and long-term strategy.

Granicus is a leading SaaS-based product company in the GovTech industry, helping government organizations connect better with their respective citizens in a better and more efficient manner.

Granicus GCC India is a strategic global hub for digital innovation and transformation. I was part of the three-member TA team that helped scale up the headcount from 130 to over 400 in two years and six months.

• Responsible for end-to-end, product-specific IT recruitment in various departments, like Cloud operations, Engineering, Data Science, Security, and Customer Success.
• Maintained the average requisition aging under 60 days through market mapping and prioritizing early joiners. Onboarded high-quality resources within the stipulated SLAs (TAT). The average time to hire is 67 days, time to offer is 39 days, and offer to joining is 28 days.
• My offer acceptance ratio is 95%, offer to onboarding is 86%, and diversity ratio is 33%.
• Responsible for requisition intake, presenting market intel and insights to calibrate with the hiring manager on the requirements. Utilized a data-driven approach to track and analyze hiring metrics, making recommendations for process improvements, and best practices.
• Provided guidance and support to hiring managers on all aspects of the hiring process, including req creation on ATS (Lever), interview training, and candidate assessment. Also, responsible for providing ad hoc reporting on the status of the candidate pipeline.
• Built a healthy professional relationship with the hiring managers across time zones through weekly and bi-monthly reporting on calls.
• Responsible for job postings and advertisements on various job platforms, while ensuring that the job postings are gender-neutral to attract diverse candidates.
• Building sourcing strategies to source a good mix of profiles from direct sourcing, applicants, and referrals. My Source mix ratio (Direct sourcing: Applicants: referrals) is 44: 30: 26.
• Updating all the interview steps, email communication, feedback, and discussions in our ATS (Lever). This documentation makes it easier for the TA leadership to pull the reports, and analyze the trends.
• Conducted comprehensive interviews and assessments to evaluate candidates' qualifications, skills, and cultural fit.
• Responsible for interview coordination and scheduling. Additionally, I prepare the candidates for the interviews by providing them with vital info about the role, the team, and the impact they will make.
• As a Granicus cultural ambassador, I educate candidates on the company’s culture, benefits program, policies, and career growth opportunities. This helps in keeping candidates excited and motivated about the opportunity throughout the four-step interview process.
• Skilled in salary negotiation, offer generation, securing necessary approvals, offer closure, reference check, post-offer follow-up, initiating the onboarding process in the HRIS system, and assisting the candidates through the BGV process.
• Led lift-and-shift recruitment projects from scratch and got recognized for it with the "Infinite Mile Award" in Q3 2023.
• Additional projects: Led the 'Sports Fest 2023' as part of employee engagement programs.
• Tools: Naukri, LinkedIn RPS, Lever ATS, DocuSign, UKG HRIS, Excel (Pivot and V-lookup).

Worked as a TAG Business Partner at AIA (Artificial Intelligence and Analytics) for the GGM region (Europe).

• Led the BFSI and Life Sciences portfolios as a TAG Business Partner.
• Responsible for 360 recruitment efforts, starting from building strategies to planning and executing recruitment drives and account-specific hiring, including sourcing, scheduling, HR discussions, offer negotiation, offer punching, and post-offer follow-up, including BGV until onboarding.
• Planned and strategized recruitment drives for volume and niche hiring.
• Proficient in stakeholder and vendor management.
• Mentored and led a team of sourcers and recruitment coordinators.
• Tools: Naukri, Monster, LinkedIn RPS, Cognizant proprietary ATS, scheduling tool - TalRight, Peoplesoft HCM, Excel (Pivot and V-lookup).

• Responsible for end-to-end recruitment, supporting the MSP engagement program with Microsoft. Leveraged Beeline (VMS tool) to track requisitions, submit candidates, and schedule interviews. Closed negotiations and punched offers throughout internal ATS Connected.
• Created a recruitment strategy that outlines the sources, methods, and timeline for finding candidates, and delivered high-quality resources, competing with 15 other vendors, helping TEKsystems to secure the spot of prime vendor at Microsoft.
• Tools: Beeline, ATS (RWS and Connected), LinkedIn/RPS, job portals such as Indeed, CareerBuilder, Monster, Dice, and ZipRecruiter.

• As a teaching faculty I'd undertake 3-week crash course for the General studies subjects that covers History, Polity, Geography, Economics, and the Sciences. Indian History & Indian Polity are my strong suit.

• Responsible for troubleshooting, providing technical assistance and support for incoming queries and issues related to computer systems, software, and hardware.
• Respond to inbound calls, emails and chat. Creating tickets using ServiceNow tool to escalate to the respective team.

• Responsible to gather required information to support the senior science officer for Analysis, Design and Development of the project.
• Designated as Associate software trainee.
• Project title: “Design & Development of Spread Spectrum Communication of Crew Members of a Tracked Vehicle”.
• Tools used: MPLAB X IDE , XC16 Compiler, Orcad 9.0