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Mohankumar Selvaraj

Mohankumar Selvaraj

Bangalore

Summary

Adept at workforce planning and fostering stakeholder collaboration, I spearheaded talent acquisition strategies at CGI, enhancing employer branding and diversity initiatives. My leadership in recruitment planning and candidate experience management resulted in over 30% referral hires, showcasing my ability to blend analytical prowess with empathetic candidate engagement.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Manager -Talent Acquisition

CGI
Bangalore
11.2021 - Current
  • Developed and executed recruitment plans aligned with business goals.
  • Guide and mentor recruiters, fostering a high-performance team culture.
  • Used recruitment metrics (time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, quality of hire) to optimize hiring.
  • Forecast hiring needs, and create proactive recruitment strategies.
  • Building a strong employer brand to attract top talent.
  • Design effective interview processes, and evaluate candidates objectively.
  • Proficiency in ATS and HR software to streamline recruitment.
  • Convince top talent to join, and negotiate offers effectively.
  • Ensuring hiring practices follow labor laws, diversity guidelines, and regulations.
  • Manage a high-volume search workload via direct sourcing, employee referrals, and search partner relationships, as well as ongoing pipelining, including weekend drives, internal job postings, social media, and vendor support for prospective hiring.
  • Interacting with the technical team to gain insight into the project and process.
  • Collaborated with client hiring managers throughout the selection process to provide services, including detailed job descriptions, job ads, online postings, talent pool sourcing, reference checks, candidate prescreening, salary negotiation, orientation, and onboarding.
  • Provide ongoing training to recruiters on best practices, technology tools, and legal compliance.

Senior Consultant -Talent Acquisition Group (Team Lead)

Virtusa Consulting Services
Bangalore
04.2021 - 11.2021
  • Lead a team of seven recruiters, guiding them to perform at their best and manage the performance metrics, yearly performance reviews, etc.
  • Driving candidate experience survey activities for SBU.
  • Translating all the business needs into actionable hiring steps, following a detailed discussion on the job aspects, and aligning all the stakeholders to achieve measurable results.
  • Designing a sourcing strategy to create the best talent pool, ensuring the timely availability of resources for the organization.
  • Planning and executing an employee referral program for the hiring needs, along with ad-hoc or special referral bonus programs, to ensure more than 30% referral hires.
  • Building and managing relationships with hiring partners to fast-track the quick hiring goals and bridge any internal gaps as required.
  • Compensation and benefits negotiations with selected candidates, review any revised pay hikes, to ensure the overall margin goal, CPC, and hiring target are achieved.
  • Designing post-offer connections and periodic health checks of the offered pipeline to maximize the selection-to-offer and offer-to-joining ratios.
  • Ensuring a smooth onboarding experience and managing all hiring-related stakeholder meetings with BGV, GHRO, and PMO to maximize coordination and smooth operations with maximum process adherence.

Senior Executive -Talent Acquisition

Wipro Limited
Coimbatore
05.2015 - 04.2021
  • Managing the end-to-end recruitment life cycle, from sourcing, screening, scheduling, selection, negotiation, various approvals, offers, to post-offer follow-ups for all levels and grades.
  • I have also supported all groups across IT infrastructure system integration projects (networking, platforms, storage, and backup) from a sourcing capacity.
  • Built a pipeline for technical positions within business units.
  • Daily, weekly, and monthly updates and reviews with supervisors and the management team.
  • Understanding the company's talent acquisition strategies and sourcing profiles, which match the expected job responsibilities and business requirements.
  • Sourcing the best talent candidates at various levels through databases like job portals, databases, networking sites, and employee referrals, etc.

Team Lead -Talent Acquisition

Covenant Consultants
Chennai
02.2012 - 05.2015
  • Team Handling, Client Handling, Sourcing and Coordinating, Business Development.
  • Lead an 8-member team.
  • Training, leading, mentoring, and monitoring the performance of team members to ensure efficiency in process operations and the meeting of individual and group targets.
  • Responsible for attending the weekly and monthly meetings, and updating the functional head on the status of revenue achieved and collections done by my team.
  • Currently handling permanent recruitment for some of the prestigious companies.
  • Interacting with the clients and taking the detailed requirements.
  • Discussing with the POC HR for new requirements
  • Getting clarity from the resource owner.
  • Handled clients like IBM, Capgemini, NTT Data (Keane), ITC Infotech, Tech Mahindra, Honeywell, OFS, Citius Tech, Smart Play, etc.
  • Pre-screening of potential consultants in terms of their qualifications, work experience, reference checks, and remuneration, etc.
  • Handled the entire recruiting cycle, such as sourcing, screening, contacting, confirming, interviewing, and placing the qualified consultant.
  • Obtain and set up interviews between applicants and client companies.
  • Handles clients' demands and ensures that their needs are fulfilled.
  • Established and maintained professional relationships with candidates.
  • Coordinated many face-to-face, telephonic, and webcam interviews.
  • Organize exclusive walk-in interviews for the clients almost every week.

Education

M.B.A. - Human Resource

St. Peter's University
Chennai
05-2011

Skills

  • Workforce Planning and Execution
  • Recruitment planning
  • Stakeholder collaboration
  • Employer branding
  • Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Initiatives
  • Reporting and Analytics
  • Candidate Experience Management
  • Interview and Selection Oversight

Accomplishments

  • Received an award for 'Best Talent Hunt and Sourcing – Mining Tower'
  • Received the Business Excellence Award
  • I got an award for outstanding contributions in meeting the service requirements within the timeline
  • I have been appreciated formally by senior leadership and the business head for closing the niche mandates on time
  • I have successfully closed the senior mandates by using low-cost sources

Languages

  • English
  • Tamil
  • Kannada

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 07/15/87

Certification

  • SHRM - FUTURE READY TALENT LEADER

Timeline

Manager -Talent Acquisition

CGI
11.2021 - Current

Senior Consultant -Talent Acquisition Group (Team Lead)

Virtusa Consulting Services
04.2021 - 11.2021

Senior Executive -Talent Acquisition

Wipro Limited
05.2015 - 04.2021

Team Lead -Talent Acquisition

Covenant Consultants
02.2012 - 05.2015

M.B.A. - Human Resource

St. Peter's University

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