Ilayaraja Ramanathan
Senior Manager - Talent Acquisition
Chennai
Summary
Versatile Senior Manager specializing in Talent Acquisition and skilled at planning, implementing and overseeing key improvements to drive business growth and efficiency. History of cultivating an open culture with free exchange of information. Pursuing new professional challenges with a growth-oriented company.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Senior Manager – Talent Acquisition
Tech Mahindra
- im handling 3 horizontal business business which focuses on competency building for ServiceNow, SFDC, MSCRM, D365, IFS & other low code platforms
- Did quick turn around of improving joining nos: which has helped Delivery team to get new projects.
Group Head – Service Lines (Horizontal)
- Managed 2 large horizontal units, which was managing various technologies like Pega, BPM, Angular JS, Mobility Platform, Sharepoint, Dell Boomi, Outsystems, ReactJS, Alfresco, Documentum, Adobe CQ, Hybris etc
- Owning resource fulfillment for growth
- Nurtured relationship with Unit Heads to understand priorities in effective way
- Developed & executed strategic roadmap for talent acquisition aligned with organizations growth objectives
- Collaborated with Senior Leaders to understand hiring needs, resource planning & pipeline creation
- Appreciated for continuous improvement & innovation in addressing critical demands
- Enhanced candidate experience
- Managed partnership with vendors and Placement directors
- Involved in negotiating contracts to ensure cost effectiveness
- Ensured high quality standards in hiring process
- Involved in reducing recruitment related costs
- Published regular reports and analytics on recruitment activities and present findings to senior management
- Works with Business team to solve escalations
- Works on Recruitment strategy & stakeholder management Thoroughly worked in Vertical & horizontal business units
- Have been part of process & policy change
- Mentoring as passion created winning teams.
- Managed time efficiently in order to complete all tasks within deadlines
- Strengthened communication skills through regular interactions with others
Campus hiring
- Managing campus hiring for TamilNadu region
- Responsible for conducting Offcampus & Oncampus drives
- Traveled across state to attract fresh talents from colleges
- Have been awarded best campus hiring SPOC for TN region.
- Implemented creative sourcing strategies such as attending career fairs which led to stronger candidate pipelines
Resourcing consultant
R2 International (European Market)
- Worked as International Recruiter
- Worked on requirements received by Business Development teams
- Converting consultants for contract position
- Maintain huge vendor database
- Adhering to needs of clients within timeframe
- Coordinate with consultant and vendor to arrange client interview
- Conducting Technical screening on behalf of client
- Giving Interview tips to consultants
- Maintaining consultants on resource pool
- Follow up on shortlist
- Follow up on offers, till time of joining
- Keeping track of available consultants
- Working on various roles across technologies
- Also involved in Headhunting through social networks.
IT Recruiter
eQuest Consulting
- Playing key role as technical recruiter
- Short listing Quality candidates what ever provided by team members Sourcing, screening, validating Quality candidates at right time by using different methods like Job portals, posting job, through vendor’s data base or by references
- Explaining elaborately about requirements and organization expectation to candidates
- Maintain huge vendor database
- Adhering to needs of clients within timeframe
- Coordinate with consultant and vendor to arrange client interview
- Maintaining data bank for all categories of Resumes
- Screening, short listing and interviewing candidates for relevant positions
- Follow up on shortlist.
Resourcing Head
ANZ
01.2022 - 03.2024
- Accountable for offshore and onsite Talent acquisition
- Managed teams which was present in India & Australia
- Worked closely with Sales and Growth office
- Was actively involved in revenue enablement discussions
- Responsible for Vendor addition and compliance.
- Proved successful working within tight deadlines and fast-paced environment.
- Resolved problems, improved operations and provided exceptional service.
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
- Organized and detail-oriented with strong work ethic.
- Strengthened communication skills through regular interactions with others.
- Passionate about learning and committed to continual improvement.
HR Recruitment
Logica India (On payroll of eQuest)
- 03.2011
- Working on End to End Recruitment process
- Screening Profiles, Scheduling Technical Interviews Handling vendors
- Conducting HR interviews Maintaining database of candidates self generated and Vendor CVs
- Scheduling interviews with International Team for required skills
- Involved in Freshers hiring
- Rolling out Offer Letters to selected candidates
- Managing Weekend drives, Scheduling panels, managing candidate & interview process
- Registration desk management Managing Technical Panel and Project Manager Interview Conducting HR interview
- Reports publishing Managing employee Referral CVs
- Taking care of Joining formalities.
Education
MBA (HR & Marketing) -
Kumaraguru College of Technology, Anna University
08.2005 - 06.2007
Executive Program in HR Analytics -
IIM Rothak
05.2020 - 06.2020
Skills
Talent Acquisition
Team Building
Strategic Planning
Campus Hiring
Vendor Management
Audits
Recruitment Operations
Operations Management
Campushiring
TamilNadu, Managing campus hiring for TamilNadu region. Responsible for conducting Offcampus & Oncampus drives. Travelled across the state to attract fresh talents from colleges.
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 09/03/81
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Awards
- Received appreciation email from The Chennai Centre Head for handling Employee Referral CVs in a best manner.
- Awarded the best campus hiring SPOC for TN region.
- Received an award for the most number of interviews in my 6th month with this company.
Timeline
Resourcing Head
ANZ
01.2022 - 03.2024
Executive Program in HR Analytics -
IIM Rothak
05.2020 - 06.2020
MBA (HR & Marketing) -
Kumaraguru College of Technology, Anna University
08.2005 - 06.2007
Senior Manager – Talent Acquisition
Tech Mahindra
Group Head – Service Lines (Horizontal)
Campus hiring
Resourcing consultant
R2 International (European Market)
IT Recruiter
eQuest Consulting
HR Recruitment
Logica India (On payroll of eQuest)
- 03.2011
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