Jyothi Gopalan

• Led a team of 11 Talent Acquisition experts delivering for key Business across 3 Key Business Units at Microsoft MCAP CORE.
• Developed strategic talent acquisition plans spanning across business - Data & AI, Bizapps - in delivering top-notch recruiting excellence with defined KPIs.
• Instrumental in driving D&I hiring plans, resulting in 78% successful hires for diversity.
• Championed & implemented the D&I hiring strategy in leading programs – Springboard ( diversity) , PWD summit , WomenThinkNext resulting in overall for 48% D&I hires in a Fiscal.
• Advised Businesses on and utilized salary benchmarking, attrition, leveling data and key market talent drivers in order to continuously shape our talent strategy and track progress against our KPI goals
• Executed & led hiring across niche roles – Architects & Program Directors – L63 & above.
• Instrumental in conceptualizing 'Learn it All,' a learning series to train and develop driving talent acquisition needs across GTA.
• Partnered with Core members in the 'Talent Pool' project aimed at mapping, identifying, and capturing key ready-to-hire candidates across roles, effectively reducing the Time to Hire.
• Advised hiring managers and panels on best practices related to interviewing techniques - Hire for Potential, Hire for Roles, and Screening techniques for optimal hiring experience and reduced bias.
• Analyzed market data to assess competitive landscape in order to develop targeted outreach campaigns.
• Coached, mentored, and trained team members in order to achieve optimal productivity and performance.

• Built a strong SDE 2 pipeline for current and future needs across product groups.
• Championed the Employee Referral program across BUs, designing and driving strategies and training sessions to enable and build ER channel, thereby increasing the ER percentage to 29% for SDE 2. Brought down the time to review the ER pipeline from 23.38 days to 5.91 days.
• Research-based competitive landscaping, building talent maps, market, and staffing intelligence.
• Stakeholder interaction and management through regular sync-ups, kick-offs, sharing of hiring progress reports.
• Expertise in research-based social media hiring strategies using LinkedIn, GitHub, and Stack Overflow.
• Mining internal database, those tools like Beamery and ICIMS.
• Extensive experience in diversity projects and initiatives.
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Business Unit: IBM Cloud computing Business unit.

• Responsible for the end to end recruitment life cycle right from meeting business, understanding the hiring plans, setting up the sourcing strategy, sourcing profiles, solutioning on the Hiring needs, managing the interviews, offer roll out and negotiation till candidate onboarding.

• Building active and passive pipeline for skill-based pods for current and future needs.
• Driving the recruitment efforts right from getting the requirement from the Hiring Manager, screening the profiles, shortlisting, coordinating interviews, offer negotiation.
• Successful built a strong pipeline of 800 women technical leads as a ready built database for Diversity Hiring.
• Subject matter expertise in hiring for DevOps, networking and Systems engineering roles.
• Implemented hiring for INTUIT AGAIN – platform to bring women on a career break back to work.