Ishwarya Prakash
Chennai
Summary
Strategic Talent Acquisition professional with over 10 years of experience in executing comprehensive recruitment strategies across engineering, manufacturing, and niche roles. Recognized for enhancing diversity hiring initiatives and streamlining recruitment processes to achieve outstanding candidate and stakeholder satisfaction.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Specialist - Talent Acquisition
Flex ( Flextronics technologies pvt ltd)
chennai
05.2022 - Current
- Lead end‑to‑end talent acquisition for Non‑IT manufacturing, engineering, operations, corporate strategy, audit, risk, finance, and HR roles supporting large manufacturing plants and shared service environments.
- Drove manpower planning discussions with business leaders to forecast demand based on production volumes, new projects, expansion plans, and attrition trends.
- Interpret complex engineering and technical job descriptions and translate them into competency‑based sourcing strategies aligned to business needs.
- Partner with hiring managers and leadership teams to define competencies, evaluate role criticality, and prioritize hiring for business‑critical positions.
- Managed competency‑based interviews and selection calibration, facilitating structured feedback and offer fitment discussions.
- Build and manage recruitment analytics dashboards covering:Hiring SLA achievement
Average aging by grade
Offer‑to‑join ratio
Source effectiveness
Diversity hiring metrics
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to optimize hiring cycle time, candidate experience, and stakeholder satisfaction.
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Ciel HR Services
chennai
05.2021 - 05.2022
- Effectively handled IT and Non IT positions for clients.
- Developed and maintained partnerships with clients to align recruitment strategies with their needs.
- Conducted thorough candidate screenings and interviews to identify top talent.
- Utilized applicant tracking systems for efficient management of candidate pipelines.
- Collaborated with teams to design effective job descriptions that attract qualified candidates.
- Organized and participated in recruitment events and job fairs, enhancing candidate outreach and engagement.
- Posted positions on job boards and alternate channels to attract diverse talent pools.
- Negotiated employment offers with candidates, ensuring alignment with client expectations and securing top talent.
Executive - Talent Acquisition
Randstad India
Chennai
10.2015 - 01.2019
- Managed recruitment across multiple functions at Randstad India, ensuring alignment with organizational needs.
- Coordinated with stakeholders and hiring managers to clarify requirements, maintaining regular interactions with SPOCs and candidates.
- Identified top talent by mapping search and recruitment firms across various sectors to enhance candidate sourcing.
- Handled Consultants, Senior consultant, Business development, for IT, ITES, Non IT, BFSI verticals. Maintaining manpower database to meet future requirements.
- Hiring through Social media, Headhunting & Professional Networking Screening & short-listing candidates profile as per the requirement
- Scheduling, conducting face to face interviews, salary negotiation, follow up and building a rapport till the candidate joins.
Recruitment Executive
Image Infotainment Limited
Chennai
11.2014 - 10.2015
- Managed end-to-end recruitment from sourcing to placing candidates and post-recruitment.
- Sourced candidates for software technologies including front end, back end, database, data warehousing, and multimedia skills such as 2D, 3D animation, VFX, and audio/video engineering.
- Incorporated referrals from created network to gain access to managers and generate qualified leads. Gained experience in using online job boards such as Monster, Naukri, Indeed, along withSocial Networking through LinkedIn.
- Recruited candidates through internet research, internal database, cold calling, referrals, and other sourcing methods.
Associate Software Engineer
Accenture Services Pvt ltd
Bangalore
08.2012 - 11.2013
- Executed regression testing by repeatedly running recorded test scenarios, identifying errors in modified builds to ensure software quality.
- Performed Database Testing while Executing SQL Queries. Verified fixes and closed bugs during regression test cycle.
- Analyzed test results and maintained defect records in Test Director to support effective bug tracking and resolution.
- Analyzed Business, Functional requirements and developed test plans, test cases and generated test scripts for both positive and negative testing.
- Creation of detailed test cases by understanding the end user requirements for manual testing.
- Attending review meetings and walk throughs to better understand the requirement documents and the application
- Conditioned test accounts using Admin Tool and Chase online.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering Technology - Electronics & Instrumentation
SRM Valliammai Engineering College
Chennai05-2012
Skills
- End-to-end talent acquisition
- Competency-based interviewing
- Recruitment analytics
- Diversity hiring
- ATS management (Workday, Beamery, LinkedIn Recruiter)
- Market analysis for niche skills
- Stakeholder collaboration
- Negotiation
- Coaching and mentoring
Languages
English
Advanced (C1)
C1
Telugu
Native
Native
Tamil
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Beginner (A1)
A1
Certification
- Indian Sign Language - Basic ( SingAble )
- Beamery Certified AI recruiter
- Linkedin Certified AI recruiter
- Naukri Maestro Recruiter
Accomplishments
- Top Scorer in Candidate Survey and Stakeholder Survey (2025 & 2026)
- Honored for Diversity for Corporate niche roles.
Timeline
Specialist - Talent Acquisition
Flex ( Flextronics technologies pvt ltd)
05.2022 - Current
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Ciel HR Services
05.2021 - 05.2022
Executive - Talent Acquisition
Randstad India
10.2015 - 01.2019
Recruitment Executive
Image Infotainment Limited
11.2014 - 10.2015
Associate Software Engineer
Accenture Services Pvt ltd
08.2012 - 11.2013
Bachelor of Engineering Technology - Electronics & Instrumentation
SRM Valliammai Engineering College