Himanshu Lamba

• Serving as a strategic partner in planning annual campus strategies alongside senior business leaders across CEC, I manage the development of a comprehensive campus engagement plan each year, incorporating innovative ideas to continually raise benchmarks. Currently, I oversee engagement with over 57 campuses across India.
• Leading a mid-sized campus recruiting team, I collaborate closely with the team to meet annual hiring targets while maintaining high quality. Last year, the team successfully hired over 1,000 full-time employees and more than 400 interns.
• Re-engineered the "Campus Beats Engagement Program" into a hybrid format to educate early talent applicants about careers in a professional services company. The program engaged over 40,000 participants across 106 schools in India, receiving an NPS score of 90%.
• Partnered with the talent development team to launch online trainings for upcoming joiners (interns or FTE) known as the pre-boarding program for the new joiners to be project ready from the beginning itself.
• Lead a hackathon program to attract and hire the best talent in the analytics and tech space. The program was run between the tier 1 institutes and we successfully rolled offers from IIMs, and GLIMs and met the ongoing hiring demand.
• DEI Initiatives: Designed and implemented the "Women in Consulting" program to enhance diversity through campus hiring, successfully increasing the women offer ratio from 30% to 34% in the 2023-2024 placements.
• Team Management: Mentoring and guiding the team, overseeing performance appraisals, and ensuring access to appropriate professional development opportunities.

• Collaborated with stakeholders and staffing partners to develop hiring strategies based on business requirements.
• Managed the full-cycle recruitment process for leadership roles, while also driving proactive hiring efforts to align with business needs and strategic objectives.
• Implemented best practices and innovative solutions to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the recruitment process.
• Developing dashboards on recruitment activities and market trends, and sharing the analysis with leadership to collaborate on and refine future strategies.
• Managed, mentored, and developed a recruitment team of three for leadership and executive hiring, ensuring the implementation of effective recruitment strategies and alignment with overall recruitment plans.
• Monitored and assessed recruitment metrics to gauge the effectiveness of recruitment efforts and refine strategies.
• Team Management: Provided mentorship to a small team, oversaw performance appraisals, and ensured access to relevant professional development opportunities.

Senior Human Resource Associate - Recruiting, Jul’19 - Jun’21

Human Resource Associate - Recruiting, May'17 - Jun 2019

Human Resource Assistant -Recruiting, Nov'15 - Apr'17

• Collaborated with business leaders to address both short-term and long-term talent needs, providing updates and recommending effective strategies.
• Managed end-to-end recruitment across levels, lead a team of three as a professional development coach and mentoring new hires.
• Handled recruitment for DW/BI, Big Data analytics, cloud technologies & enterprise roles, focusing on mid to senior-level candidates.
• Utilized candidate databases; Naukri, LinkedIn, social media, and referrals, for sourcing.
• Handled salary negotiations and managed SAP SuccessFactors ATS for candidate profiling.
• Revamped the contractual hiring model, including vendor management and onboarding, and played a key role in launching the ZS Bangalore office and branding during CYPHER.

Campus Recruitment

• Engaged with BU/CG leadership to address niche skill hiring and organized campus events such as Case Solving workshops and Hackathons.
• Designed and executed the internship program, liaised with placement officers, and enhanced campus recruitment processes.
• Promoted flagship contests like Campus Beats and streamlined recruitment processes.

• Lateral Recruitment
• Drive talent acquisition efforts by prioritizing immediate and critical needs by working with key stakeholders
• Delivered top-quality headcount growth into the firm's technology consulting division by hiring high-quality caliber individuals
• Efficient with LinkedIn recruiter platforms, social media and referral recruiting
• Responsible for 360-degree recruitment spanning through sourcing, screening, conducting HR interviews, structuring competitive package proposals, salary negotiations and extending offers
• Control recruiting channels like job portals, employee referrals, business, social and direct networking thereby adhering to cost-effective recruiting
• Contributed in process improvement plans and promoted diversity in hiring
• Played critical role in revamping contractual hiring model, was responsible for vendor management, interview coordination and onboarding.

• Campus Recruitment
• Liaison with Placement officers, students placement committee for the campus recruitment and employer branding activities
• Publish recruiting calendar for all campus activities before the campus season
• Engaging leadership participation in campus branding events to make an impeccable impact
• Enhancement and streamlining existing campus recruitment process including the assessment process
• Promoted participation for ZS flagship contests like Campus Beats/ Brown bag events, Hackathons
• Lateral Recruitment
• Helped ZS build the AMS and Test Track from 0-60 in 6 months
• Responsible for end to end recruitment for various skills across entry level in business technology track as well as for some enterprise roles
• 100% in house sourcing of candidates through various channels (LinkedIn, Job Boards, Social Media, Employee Referrals, Off campus)
• Creating data and maintaining a pipeline of available talents in market for future role ensuring quality and cost effectiveness
• Execute effective salary negotiations considering the internal parity and market trends/ conditions
• Negotiation on joining bonus, notice periods
• Hands on experience with SAP Sucessfactors ATS (Recruitment Management System).