Hi, I’m
MARGARET SOFIA PRIYADARSHINI
Talent Acquisition Consultant
Chennai,TN
Summary
Results-driven Talent Acquisition Professional with 13 years of experience in end-to-end recruitment, talent strategy, and stakeholder management. Proven expertise in hiring for technical, leadership, and niche roles while partnering with business leaders to meet organizational goals. Skilled in talent sourcing, recruitment process optimization, and building strong talent pipelines. Recognized for delivering quality hires, enhancing candidate experience, and driving recruitment excellence in fast-paced environments.
Overview
14
years of professional experience
Work History
NATWEST GROUP (Royal Bank of Scotland)
Talent Acquisition Consultant
10.2019 - Current
Job overview
- Responsible for Technology hiring in the bank. Hiring across all business units for the Executive & Leadership positions.
- Responsible for high volume and ramp up capability hiring, developing recruitment strategies for the large manpower requirements projected across domain.
- Understand the job description and source right candidates, from internal employee referrals or Buddy program by sending mails, posting jobs on available job portals like Naukri, professional networking sites, company’s database, and outsourcing agencies.
- Screen and shortlist candidates, based on mapping with the requirement, projects they have worked upon, their education, company's background, and conduct written/online tests, wherever required.
- Follow-up the candidate for HR round, document verification, salary negotiation etc.
- Working with cross functional teams on New Process implementation, Stake holder’s trainings, Transformations and Global TA Projects and delivering customer experience.
- Partnering with Business Leaders, HRBP, and TA teams to design and enable the diversity & inclusion strategy by bringing innovative ideas that propel our DEI work forward with long term results in mind. Experience in building effective multi year DE&I strategies, including full life cycle plans in the areas of recruitment, talent management, learning and engagement.
GMR GROUP
Executive - HR
03.2015 - 04.2018
Job overview
- Worked on complete end to end technical and non-technical recruitment life cycle, from on-boarding at all- entry, mid and senior level position for Energy, Airport & Infrastructure sector.
- Requirement gathering from Project Managers & Delivery Heads of various departments.
- Understand the job description and source right candidates, from internal employee referrals or Buddy program by sending mails, posting jobs on available job portals like Naukri, IIMJobs, professional networking sites, company’s database and outsourcing agencies.
- Screen and shortlist candidates, based on mapping with the requirement, projects they have worked upon, their education, company's background and conduct written/online tests, wherever required.
- Schedule telephonic/face-to-face technical interview for shortlisted candidates, with the technical panel.
- Follow-up the candidate for HR round, document verification, salary negotiation etc.
- Hiring in Hirecraft Recruitment Tool.
- Been a part of bulk hiring, intern hiring and Campus Hiring.
- Draft the offer letter & roll out the same, to the candidates who are selected.
- Initiate the Background verification & Medical Check up of the selected candidate
- Collect all the required documents to create the personal file.
- Follow up with applicants till they join the company.
- Effectively integrate the new employee into the organization, by making the company announcement, boss assignment and introducing to the team and the company’s culture.
- Assisting the new joinee by scheduling and arranging all his training sessions, quickly motivating him to become a productive team member.
- Preparing the personal file of the new joinee and employee id creation
- Delegate and get work done from them.
- Maintain EOD/weekly reports and monthly Recruitment Status reports, including joining and follow up reports.
- Generating, maintaining and presenting quarterly HR Report on behalf of the entire HR Team
- Maintain resumes & interview tracker.
- Maintain reports of offered candidates/joinees and also those of declines. Documentation and file management.
- Update the job requisition database and the temporary employee database. Cluster, received resumes, on the basis of skill sets and experience level, and build my own database for future reference.
- Worked as a mentor for juniors and handled the team in absence of team lead, when required
- Active member of various employee engagement activities
TRANS CONTINENTAL TRADERS, CHENNAI
HR Executive – Recruitment
02.2012 - 01.2015
Job overview
- Receiving the Manpower Recruitment Order from the immediate Superior (Business Development Executive and Team Leader)
- Receiving the details during the Kick off Meeting before starting the Process of Recruitment.
- Understanding the Nature of the requirements and the Nature of Company for which the required Job is sought for.
- Collecting the Applications of the candidates preparing a preliminary ground for the Step – 1 Scrutiny through making telephonic calls.
- Collecting the relevant and necessary such as their interest of Overseas job assignment and overseas mobility.
- Gathering the Candidates information such as their Present Role and Capacity, total experience and the relevant experiences to qualify the Positions sought for. Collecting the Information such as Candidate’s Academic Back Ground, Professional Experiences, Career Benchmarks, Pay and Benefits at present positions, Expectation for the future Employment, Family Background, Psychological impression, Behavioral knowledge etc.
- Final Scrutiny of the Candidate’s applications and forwarding the same to the Clients for the further review and final selection.
- On receipt of the Offer coordinating with the candidate for Offer Acceptance, or any related queries and sorting out the queries in coordination with the clients. Obtaining the Offer acceptance and advising the Candidate for the necessary formalities for the Overseas Job such as Passport, Medical and Visa Processing etc.
- Coordinating with the Administration Department , throughout the post selection process and till the mobilization of the Candidates.
- Successful in learning End to End recruitment Procedure.
- Hands on Experience in Recruiting Higher Level , Middle Level and Lower Level Candidates, such as Categories in STAFF i.e. General Managers , Managers, Head of the Dept., Engineers, Supervisors, Superintendents. For Lower level categories Skilled , Semi Skilled and Unskilled categories.
- Hands on Experiences in Recruiting to Multi – Disciplined Industries (Core NON – IT ) industries like Oil & Gas, Petrochemical & Refineries , Power, MEP Projects, Ship Building, Ship Repairs, Marine, Building , Roads and Infrastructure , Drilling and Rigs, Oil Exploration, Civil Construction, Maintenance, Manufacturing etc.
Education
Department of Business Administration
Master of Business Administration (MBA) from HRM & Finance
University Overview
- Full Time 5 Years Intergrated Course.
- Utkal University, Vani Vihar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
- GPA: 75.6%
Zinc Smelter Senior Secondary SchoolVizag
HSE from Science
University Overview
- Full Time
- CBSE
- GPA: 62.2%
Kendriya VidyalayDhenkanal
SSC
University Overview
- Full Time
- CBSE
- GPA: 70%
Skills
Talent Acquisition & Recruitment
End-to-End Recruitment
Stakeholder Management
Strategic Hiring
Talent Sourcing
Candidate Screening & Interviewing
Recruitment Strategy
Executive & Leadership Hiring
Diversity & Inclusion Hiring
Offer Negotiation
Candidate Experience Management
Timeline
Talent Acquisition Consultant
NATWEST GROUP (Royal Bank of Scotland)
10.2019 - Current
Executive - HR
GMR GROUP
03.2015 - 04.2018
HR Executive – Recruitment
TRANS CONTINENTAL TRADERS, CHENNAI
02.2012 - 01.2015
Kendriya Vidyalay
SSC
Zinc Smelter Senior Secondary School
HSE from Science
Department of Business Administration
Master of Business Administration (MBA) from HRM & Finance