Gautham Premkumar

Campus Hiring - India Region:

• Spearheaded strategic college alliances by formulating optimal college selection framework, identifying prime institutions for targeted recruitment.
• Forged a magnetic employer value proposition presentation, captivating top talents and fostering strong connections. Amplified company presence, cultivating a distinctive identity in competitive campus landscapes.
• Designed an agile campus calendar synchronizing diverse recruitment events seamlessly.
• Exercised financial prowess, meticulously budgeting resources to deliver impactful campus hiring outcomes. Achieved recruitment milestones within fiscal confines, showcasing adept resource allocation.
• Reduced the cost per hire by 60% compared to the previous year through optimization of targeted college selections.
• Led the process of job evaluation and formulated comprehensive job descriptions for software engineer roles.
• Identified and finalized key competencies to be assessed during interviews, ensuring alignment with role requirements.
• Designed and implemented a panelist enablement program for technical leads, focusing on improving interview effectiveness, ensuring bias-free and structured evaluations through a competency-based interview scorecard.
• Significantly enhanced hiring efficiency by quintupling selection ratio from 1:250 to 1:150 effectively reducing the time to hire.
• Successfully implemented a comprehensive onboarding program, ensuring a smooth transition for new hires from day one to manager alignment.
• Introduced 'Campus Bridges' to fortify university affiliations and engage with pre-final and final year students within the academic precinct, with an emphasis on continuous engagement.

Internship Program & Engagement:

• Training & Instructional Design: Spearheaded comprehensive internship training program and virtual mentorship training for freshers across full-stack development, data engineering, data science, and consulting domains. Acted as the single point of contact from induction to project allocation.
• Performance Tracking & Program Evaluation: Developed performance tracking mechanisms, monitoring intern and fresher progress in real-time, and utilized data insights to improve training and engagement programs. Achieved an 81% overall campus hiring conversion rate, with a 93% internship offer conversion rate.
• Onboarding & Internship Management: End-to-end design and management of onboarding plans, leading to 95%+ positive onboarding feedback and 90%+ satisfaction ratings in the internship program. Regular email outreach and virtual sessions fostered early connections, boosting retention and engagement.
• Interactive Learning Platforms: Managed the development of an interactive webpage for offered candidates, enhancing communication about company's culture, values, journey of successful professionals.
• Cross-Cultural collaboration: Worked with UK-based teams to deliver cross-cultural learning sessions through virtual “Learning Lounge” and "Fire-side chat" initiatives, driving global collaboration and awareness.
• Career Development Workshops: Launched career guidance sessions led by technology architects, providing valuable insights into succeeding within various technical propositions and career paths. Organized and facilitated sessions on how enabling functions like HR, finance and legal teams support the business.
• Buddy System for Peer Learning: Introduced a buddy system midway through the training program, fostering peer learning and creating an additional support system for participants to clarify doubts, increasing collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• One-on-One Support for Improvement: Held individual sessions with average and underperforming participants to assess weaknesses and provide tailored support, facilitating learning and performance improvement through additional resources and guidance.
• Notable projects include scrum training, project scoping workshops, PoSH (Prevention of Sexual Harassment) training, 'Eliminate Unconscious bias' training, and designation advancement programs, catering to professionals at different stages of their careers.

Lateral Recruitment:

• Recruited top talent with expertise in data architecture, ETL development, cloud migration, and client management.
  Successfully filled roles for consultants, principal data architects, and solutions enablers, emphasizing strong technical skills, team leadership abilities, and effective client communication.
• Expertise in areas of Market mapping, sourcing, screening, Mass mail, validating, interview coordination and salary negotiation.
• Expanded qualified applicant pool by 70% by implementing a comprehensive sourcing strategy utilizing online platforms(Naukri, Hirist, LinkedIn), internal databases, and a structured employee referral program.
• Expertise in using tools like Cezanne(UK) and Zoho.

Employee Engagement:

• Employee Recognition Program: Implemented a comprehensive employee recognition program to acknowledge and reward outstanding contributions, fostering a positive and motivating work environment.
• Events Management: Curated a diverse calendar of annual events that catered to various interests and preferences, including social gatherings, team-building activities, and cultural celebrations. Managed budgets and resources effectively for event planning and execution.
• Employee Wellness Program: Launched comprehensive wellness initiatives focused on physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Organized regular sports events, health screenings and partnered with external experts to provide workshops on nutrition, stress management, and work-life balance to promote a healthy lifestyle.
• Employee surveys: Conducted regular employee surveys to measure satisfaction and identify areas for improvement. Utilized eNPS to gauge employee sentiment and drive positive change.
• Employee Retention: Exercised open-door policy to encourage open communication, grievance handling, conducted exit interviews to identify areas of improvement, and developed targeted retention strategies to retain potential talent.

• Leading the six-member team which manages end-to-end campus hiring, recruitment operations and onboarding.
• Designed a mentorship framework that guided technical mentors in delivering structured six-month technical mentorship. Delivered 'Train the Trainer' sessions to impart knowledge on varied instructional methods like role play, case studies, discussion leading, and brainstorming, enhancing mentor effectiveness.
• Revamped recruitment processes by developing a competency-based interview framework that improved candidate assessment, reducing errors and increasing consistency in evaluation outcomes.
• Developed and delivered 'Campus to Corporate' training program for newly onboarded associates, equipping them with critical skills such as personal branding, time management, team-building, paradigm shift, adult learning and corporate etiquette ensuring industry readiness from day one.

Region-level recruitment:

• Managing end-to-end campus hiring for Engineering & Non-Engineering freshers for Tamil Nadu, Kerala & Puducherry region.
• Experienced in volume hiring, sourcing, screening and candidate engagement.
• Expertise in University ranking, identifying target schools, corporate communication, slot negotiation and campus calendar planning.
• Excelled in scheduling interviews and driving panelist nominations.
• Anchoring recruitment events - delivering EVP presentations, planning, organizing, coordinating test and interview process.
• Data management and proper documentation of selection process in compliance to the recruiting policy.
• Maintaining an effective work relationship with all stakeholders hence ensuring an outstanding client and candidate experience.
• Proven expertise in managing large-scale recruitment processes with a track record of handling 1,00,000+ applicants annually at Infosys.

Pan India Recruitment - Super Niche Entry level roles(Track Owner):

• Centrally managed the super niche entry level roles - Power Programmer, Digital Specialist Engineer and Engineering Analyst hiring track for India geography with primary focus on hiring from IITs/premier institutes across the country.
• Extensively involved in devising institute specific hiring plans, investing in relationships with key stakeholders, executing large scale hiring events across locations, monitoring post offer connect & onboarding SLAs to maximize positive candidate experience/ offer conversion etc.
• Designed and implemented targeted interventions at key accounts to brand Infosys as an Employer of Choice during various stages of the hiring cycle.

Program Management - Employer Branding Initiatives:

• Driving registrations for InfyTQ and HackWithInfy programs by planning and implementing strategies on region basis for India Geography.
• Fostering an alumni connect program to facilitate meaningful interactions between accomplished graduates and the present student community.
• Quantifying, identifying and ranking the panelist contribution in terms of interviews taken in a year for Panelist Rewards Program

• Led a research-driven strategy to improve retention rates among B-school campus hires in a factory setting. Proposed and implemented a transition from a six-day work week to a five-day work week, involving extensive analysis of operational feasibility and compliance with labor laws. Collaborated with department managers to assess headcount, shift rotations, and leave policies.
• Revitalized B-school recruitment through a survey-informed approach, introducing Gamification and Competency-based interviews after gathering insights from Tier 1, Tier 2 B-school students, and recent hires.
• Got awarded with a pre-placement offer.

• Conducted campus recruitment training on soft skills and aptitude.
• Conducted classroom and virtual training sessions for CAT aspirants on test, GD and PI preparations.