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Nikhil Jadhav

Nikhil Jadhav

Pune,Maharashtra

Summary

Results-Driven Talent Acquisition Lead/Manager

Strategic and performance-focused Talent Acquisition Lead with a 10+years of developing and implementing innovative recruitment strategies to attract, assess, and onboard top-tier talent. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to align recruitment initiatives with organizational objectives. Skilled in full-cycle recruitment, employer branding, and candidate experience optimization. Known for enhancing workforce diversity and inclusion.

Key Competencies:

  • Strategic Recruitment: Develop and execute talent acquisition strategies aligned with business goals, ensuring a robust pipeline of qualified candidates.
  • Leadership: Lead and mentor a high-performing recruitment team, fostering a culture of excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.
  • Relationship Building: Cultivate strong partnerships with hiring managers, executives, and key stakeholders to understand workforce needs and deliver effective talent solutions.
  • Employer Branding: Enhance the organization's reputation as an employer of choice through impactful employer branding initiatives and candidate engagement programs.
  • Diversity and Inclusion: Drive initiatives to promote diversity and inclusion in recruitment, contributing to a more inclusive and innovative workplace.
  • Process Optimization: Streamline recruitment processes, leveraging technology and data analytics to improve efficiency and provide data-driven insights.
  • Compliance: Ensure compliance with employment laws and regulations, staying current with industry trends and best practices.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Talent Acquisition Specialist

Brillio Technologies
Pune
04.2022 - Current

Company Profile :Brillio is one of the fastest growing digital technology service providers help clients harness the transformative potential of the four superpowers of technology: Cloud Computing,Internet of Things (IoT),artificial intelligence (AI)and mobility. Born digital in 2014, we apply our expertise in customer experience solutions, data analytics and AI, digital infrastructure and security, and platform and product engineering to help clients quickly innovate for growth, create digital products, build service platforms, and drive smarter, data-driven performance.
Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for the end-to-end technology recruitment process for leadership levels within defined timelines.
  • Develop and execute talent acquisition strategies that align with business
    goals and support leadership hiring needs.
  • Utilize data and analytics to measure and optimize recruitment strategies,
    improving time-to-fill, costper-hire, and quality-of-hire.
  • Monitored key recruitment metrics and targets, completing and presenting reports to management.
  • Using LinkedIn Recruiter to target profiles for specialist roles, securing optimal talent to meet business needs.
  • Being the senior TA professional, my role also includes mentoring the
    juniors and helping them achieve their targets.
  • Enhanced the overall candidate experience by implementing improvements
    in communication and feedback processes.

Sr.Talent Acquisition/Analytics Hiring specialist

LafargeHolcim
Navi Mumbai
09.2020 - 04.2022
  • Company Profile: LafargeHolcim is the global leader in building materials and solutions and active in four business segments: Cement, Aggregates, Ready-Mix Concrete and Solutions & Products. It is our ambition to lead the industry in reducing carbon emissions and accelerating the transition towards low-carbon construction. LafargeHolcim employs over 80,000 employees in over 70 countries and has a portfolio that is equally balanced between developing and mature markets.
    Responsibilities:
  • Scouting Top talent in manufacturing domain.
  • Managing Full- recruitment life cycle starting from draft of hiring strategy in terms of cost-effective sourcing (job boards, direct referrals)
  • Liaison with stakeholders & hiring managers in decision making &building solutions.
  • Successfully able to managed business units, a team from scratch of Data Analytics. Using Optimal & cost-effective source-mix.
  • Driving sourcing jams, sourcing scopes in collaboration with our research teams- to hire great talent for great teams.
  • Requirements Fulfillment within less TAT (Turnaround Time).
  • Vendor management.

Talent Acquisition Consultant

Tata Communications Limited
Pune
07.2019 - 07.2020
  • End to End recruitment (Requirement gathering, Sourcing, Technical Screening, Short listing, Interview Co- ordination, Salary negotiation, Offer release, Offer Follow-up, On-Boarding)
  • Was involved into major & business critical hiring for various units of business.
  • Regular meetings with hiring manager to the effectiveness of recruiting plans & implementation.
  • Requirements Fulfillment within less TAT (Turnaround Time).
  • Sourcing Channels used - Naukri, Social Media (LinkedIn & Facebook), and Employee Referrals, Success factor, Eightfold etc.
  • Google X-ray Search, GitHub, Stack Overflow Internal database (ATS), etc.
  • Hunting profiles from competitor companies.
  • Organize and planning of Walk-In Drives and active participation to meet hiring numbers
  • Experienced in Volume/Mass Hiring.
  • Engaging with candidates to ensure minimal back out's.
  • Worked on recruitment of technical skills from Junior To Manager positions.

Senior Associate - HR

BDO India LLP, GS Lab Pvt Ltd
Pune
11.2018 - 07.2019
  • Working as RPO SPOC at client location
  • Handling 5 member's team
  • Developed Recruitment Strategies: Designed and implemented recruitment strategies to meet IT talent needs, enhancing the overall hiring process.
  • Managed Full-Cycle Recruitment: Oversaw the entire recruitment process from job requisition to onboarding, ensuring timely and quality hires.
  • Collaborated with Leadership: Worked closely with department heads and senior leadership to understand staffing requirements and provide regular updates on recruitment progress.
  • Sourced and Attracted Candidates: Utilized job boards, social media, networking events, and employee referrals to build a strong talent pipeline.
  • Screened and Interviewed Candidates: Conducted initial screenings and coordinated interviews to ensure consistent and fair candidate evaluations.
  • Preparing the Market Insight for the business to analysis the market availability and Share Insights on Event Locations and Target Organizations
  • Ensure all recruitment related KPI's (Time to hire, Employee referrals, gender diversity in hiring, channel mix, Joiners ratio, Reduce Drop out ratio) are met
  • Positions Closed: Python Automation QA, Security Analyst, C/C++, Bigdata

Talent Acquisition Consultant

Capgemini -Financial Services
Pune
03.2017 - 11.2018
  • Was working in sourcing Team and hiring for Legacy Skill resources
  • Responsible for sourcing Junior to Managerial level hiring
  • Pre-Screening of potential Candidate in terms of qualification, work experience
  • Astute in deciding and implementing various channels of recruitment:
  • Employee Referral, Job Portals, LinkedIn, Internal database
  • Involved in scheduling interviews as & when required & coordinate for the drive along with the Drive SPOCS & Panels
  • Stakeholder Management- Interacting with stakeholder on weekly basis to provide update on open demand
  • Report Generation- Involved in various internal reports preparation
  • (Demand Supply Report, Offer Joinee Report, Weekly Supply Plan)
  • Positions Closed: Mainframes, AS 400, Tandem
  • Sharepoint, .NET, C++
  • PMO,ITPM,Scrum Master, Agile Coach,Adobe AEM, Filenet, Thunderhead
  • Python, Splunk, Devops, Java- PCF.

HR Consultant

Inventurus Knowledge Solutions Pvt. Ltd
Mumbai
05.2016 - 02.2017
  • Was handling the entire recruitment cycle from understanding the requirement given by Manager till the joining of candidate
  • Working on various IT, Non IT mandates
  • Sourcing closest matching profiles through job portals
  • Taking initial interview of the candidate and checking the willingness of the candidate
  • Regular follow up with the selected / offered candidates for the offer letter / joining formalities
  • Meeting the monthly targets as proposed by the management team
  • Database Management: Maintaining detailed reports of various requirements, resumes sent against each requirement, interview schedule details, list of candidates selected / rejected and details regarding the offers
  • Mentoring junior colleagues in the recruitment process
  • Positions Closed: .Net Technologies, Manual/Automation Testing, Java
  • Non-IT:: Account receivable, Medical billing, Payment posting.

Resource Executive

ThinkPeople Solutions Ltd
Navi Mumbai
02.2015 - 03.2016
  • As a Technical Recruiter I was Understanding ongoing hiring needs of their business and establishing the right sourcing mix in order to generate a strong pool of talent for open roles.
  • Drafting & publishing attractive job advertisement and managing responses. Effective usage of Job Posting, Mass Mailing on the Job Portals.
  • Reaching out to target talent via social networks.
  • Experience with Mindtree, HCL, IGATE, IBM job portals.
  • Meeting the monthly targets as proposed by the management team.
     Positions Closed:
  • Domain : BFSI,Telecom,Semiconductor.
  • Design Verification, ASIC, Physical Design engineers. DFT Engineers.
  • Big data development (Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Pig),.
  • Data warehousing technologies (ETL, Informatica, Teradata, Data stage).
  • Java Technologies (Java, J2EE, spring, Spring MVC, Hibernate, Struts, GWT etc.).UI Technologies (HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, AngularJS, Nodejs, Phone gap).

IT Executive

SMS Taxicabs Pvt Ltd
Mumbai
01.2013 - 12.2014
  • Working as support Level at L1 Position handling the application and, on SQL
  • Here we use to maintain the database of the cabs and the Driver called (Saathi) in the back end of the application
  • Also troubleshoot the issue coming the application
  • Working on Microsoft CRM (Customer Relationship Management System).

Education

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

Valia College

Diploma - Software Testing SEED

Skills

  • Recruitment Strategies
  • Strategic Sourcing
  • Leadership Hiring
  • Stakeholder Management
  • SLA Management
  • Vendor Management
  • Market Intelligence
  • Campus Hiring
  • Team Management
  • Salary Negotiations
  • Recruitment Metrics Analysis
  • Data-driven decision-making
  • Diversity and Inclusion Strategies
  • Referral Program Management
  • Employer Branding
  • Behavioral Interviewing
  • Applicant Tracking Systems
  • Competency-Based Interviewing
  • Boolean search proficiency

Certification

  • Certified LinkedIn Recruiter (2019)
  • Excel with LinkedIn Recruiter Assessment Certified (2023)
  • DevSkiller - Tech Recruitment Certified Professional.
  • LinkedIn Talent Sourcing (2016) Certified
  • Certified LinkedIn Generative AI In HR (2023)
  • Certified Introduction to Generative AI from Google!
  • Certified LinkedIn Agile Foundations Course (2023)
  • HR Analytics Course By Great Learning Academy (2024)
  • Certified Naukri Maestro Recruiter
  • Certificate of Recruiting & Hiring By Eazl
  • Social Media Recruitment By Udemy
  • Recruiting : Talent Acquisition & Hiring 2023 by Udemy.
  • Boolean Search For Recruitment & Sourcing (HR) by Udemy.
  • Finding your Purpose for TA Transformation By Social Talent
  • Great Learning - ChatGPT for HR (2023)
  • Certified Data Visualization With Power BI (By Great Learning 2024)
  • Power BI: Dashboards for Beginners certified.

Accomplishments

    Brillio Special Award Certificate (Awarded Twice)

  • Recognized for outstanding performance and significant contributions to the team and company.
  • Group Excellence Award Certificate
  • Appreciation from CTO for bringing on board top-tier leadership talent in Brillio.
  • Got Certificate for Achieving Quarterly Target in Think People Solutions.
  • Appreciation form Head HR at LafargeHolcim for doing best Analytics hiring.

Languages

Marathi
First Language
Spanish
Beginner (A1)
A1
French
Beginner
A1

Timeline

Lead Talent Acquisition Specialist

Brillio Technologies
04.2022 - Current

Sr.Talent Acquisition/Analytics Hiring specialist

LafargeHolcim
09.2020 - 04.2022

Talent Acquisition Consultant

Tata Communications Limited
07.2019 - 07.2020

Senior Associate - HR

BDO India LLP, GS Lab Pvt Ltd
11.2018 - 07.2019

Talent Acquisition Consultant

Capgemini -Financial Services
03.2017 - 11.2018

HR Consultant

Inventurus Knowledge Solutions Pvt. Ltd
05.2016 - 02.2017

Resource Executive

ThinkPeople Solutions Ltd
02.2015 - 03.2016

IT Executive

SMS Taxicabs Pvt Ltd
01.2013 - 12.2014

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

Valia College

Diploma - Software Testing SEED

Nikhil Jadhav