Kanksha Shah
Chennai
Summary
Talent acquisition professional with 9 years of experience in complete human resource recruitment lifecycle and client management across level functions and sector including Management Consulting, Assurance , Service , Fintech.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Associate
EY GDS
Chennai
05.2019 - 11.2024
- Ensured the management of end-to-end recruitment cycle, which includes gathering hiring requirements and approvals, recruitment plans, sourcing, skill assessment, offer approvals, and compensation fitment.
- Recruited for various functions of EY with backgrounds in Consulting, Assurance, and Tax, and Diversity & Inclusion (DE&I) hiring.
- Strong stakeholder management by building positive relationships, gaining and delivering valuable insights and information.
- Stakeholder Management: Providing weekly and monthly hiring updates.
- Frequent connects with stakeholders on critical positions and hiring strategies.
- Well versed with Naukri, Linkedin, IIM Jobs, and Hirist.
- Understanding and gathering the requirements from different Business Unit Heads and ensuring that the manpower targets of the Business Units are met within the TAT (Turnaround time).
- Planned and executed a recruitment strategy to identify and tap talent pools for enhanced candidate engagement.
- Empowered business leadership with market intelligence for capability, talent pool, and compensation for effective decision making.
- Training and mentoring a team of 2-3 reportees for the last 8 months.
Senior Associate
Unimoni GBS (Previously known as UAE exchange)
Chennai
09.2017 - 05.2019
- Strong experience in end-to-end recruitment life cycle (sourcing, screening, interviewing, negotiation, and fulfillment) for IT lateral hiring and non-IT hiring.
- Partnering and building strong relationships with the business, the hiring manager, and the recruitment team to determine business staffing needs.
- Develop and implement cost-effective recruitment plans that minimize time to fill, optimize fit, retention, and place top-quality and diverse candidates in open positions.
- Develop creative approaches to the recruitment process to identify and attract qualified candidates to open positions and future opportunities through employee referrals, internet sourcing, social media, etc.
- Screening candidates against corporate needs from job portals such as Naukri, Monster, and alternate sourcing network like LinkedIn.
- Strong web searching skills and unique use of information available on the web for screening technically qualified candidates.
- Requisition initiation, mining resumes, interviewing and screening potential candidates, including face-to-face and phone interviews, video conference. Conducted walk-ins and coordinated with the interview panels, getting approval from the management. Collecting required documents (visa and BGV) and following up until the onboarding process.
- Maintaining and sending weekly report on new joiners and number of positions pending to the top management. Handling recruitment review, database, escalations, vendor management, salary negotiation, and offer management.
- Handling recruitment review, database, escalations, vendor management, salary negotiation, and offer management.
Senior Executive, Talent Acquisition
Headhunters Consultancy
Chennai
09.2016 - 02.2017
- Understanding client requirements and accordingly execute a search plan for identifying potential candidates to fit the client's requirement.
- Interviewing job applicants, reviewing resumes, evaluating applicant skills, and making recommendations regarding applicants' fitment to the role.
- Conducting a recruitment drive to match the current requirements of the clients. Recruiting candidates for the permanent mid-level managers.
- Salary negotiation with prospective candidates
- Sourcing candidates using multiple sourcing channels, including internal databases, job portals/social networking (Naukri, Monster, Shine, LinkedIn), head-hunters networking, and reference.
- Engaging candidates for statically positioning job opportunities and client organizations.
- Building and strengthening candidate relationships to be able to network and headhunt passive job seekers.
- Scheduling and coordinating the entire recruitment process. Strengthening client relationships to streamline and improve service delivery.
Executive
Covenant Consultants
Chennai
05.2013 - 07.2014
- Understanding Clientele requirements.
- Responsible for sourcing talented candidates according to the job description of the client through internal databases, job portals such as Monster, and Naukri.
- Reviewed complete candidate profile/resume and evaluated applicants' work history, education, desired salary, and their notice period to be served against open requirements.
- Scheduled the candidates for interview and followed up accordingly until the interview.
- Followed up with the selected candidates until joining.
- Handled recruitment across all verticals (Junior, Middle, and Senior Level). Self-motivated with a drive to take responsibilities and accomplish objectives. Developed strong client and candidate relationships and maintained communication with both. Coordinated employee engagement activities in the organization.
- Self-motivated with a drive to take responsibilities and accomplish objectives. Develop strong client and candidate relationships and maintain communication with both.
- Coordinated employee engagement activities in the organization.
- Develop strong client and candidate relationships and maintain communication with both. Coordinated employee engagement activities in the organization.
- Coordinated employee engagement activities in the organization
Education
Master of Human Resource Management - Humar Resource
D G Vaishnav College
Chennai 05-2013
Bachelor of Social Work - Social Work
Stella Maris College
Chennai04-2011
Skills
- Skill based Sourcing
- Experience in using Applicant Tracking Systems
- Effective Time Management
- Improving the candidate experience
- Recruiting
- Market Mapping
Accomplishments
- Received 3 Spot Awards between FY 19 and FY 20
Languages
English
First Language
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
C2
Gujarati
Proficient (C2)
C2
Tamil
Beginner
A1
Timeline
Lead Associate
EY GDS
05.2019 - 11.2024
Senior Associate
Unimoni GBS (Previously known as UAE exchange)
09.2017 - 05.2019
Senior Executive, Talent Acquisition
Headhunters Consultancy
09.2016 - 02.2017
Executive
Covenant Consultants
05.2013 - 07.2014
Master of Human Resource Management - Humar Resource
D G Vaishnav College
Bachelor of Social Work - Social Work
Stella Maris College
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