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Pooja  Sharma

Pooja Sharma

Bengaluru

Summary

Strategic Talent Acquisition Partner with 14 years of experience building and leading global recruitment strategies across Engineering, R&D, Corporate, and Shared Services functions. Proven success in diversity hiring, workforce planning, global TA operations, and employer branding across APAC, EMEA, and the US. I want to build high performing team with clearly define goals and expectations, foster open communication with the stakeholders, emphasize teamwork, collaboration and invest in continuous learning and more

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Talent Acquisition Partner

AtkinsRealis
08.2023 - Current

We’re AtkinsRéalis, a world-class Engineering Services and Nuclear organization. We connect people, data, and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers, and project managers, we can change the world.


Handling a team of 5 recruiters supporting me for the Engineering Business for India & Egypt GTC centers.

Develop and implementing best-in-class sourcing & recruitment strategies using social networking, referrals, internet searches, and other innovative methods.

Conduct market mapping to provide key business stakeholders with insights on talent availability, emerging skills, and market trends. Proactively engage and pipeline external candidates to meet both immediate and future hiring needs.

Hosting weekly and biweekly meetings with the Business to provide the updates on the recruitment status.

Maintaining high candidate satisfaction, ensuring compliance and process excellence, creating efficient and effective processes, technology adoption & optimization, and maintaining a highly engaged and motivated workforce.

Having experience on working in multiple projects Like India Sub level, SOP Documents etc.

Partnered with the branding team to conduct the LinkedIn events/Campaigns for the new service lines to attract the talent from the external market.

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

ARCADIS, Design And Consultancy
07.2021 - 08.2023

I was closely working along with Engineering business across GTC Locations in India, Romania & Phillipines.

Creating recruitment dashboards and presenting infront of Leadership team to discuss on navigating challenges.

Also supporting Campus hires to cater the needs of Business across Organization

Doing Market intel for the niche roles to understand the talent availability in the market.

collaborating with Business to align with the goal of the organization.

Conducted training sessions on LinkedIn recruiter lite to the recruitment team across Locations.




Assistant Manager - Talent Acquisition

TAAL Tech
07.2018 - 07.2021

Handling end to end recruitment for all lines of businesses, working closely with the Stakeholders to understand the current demand and future demand of the business.
Handling requirements for India/Europe/USA offices
Conducting meetings with business for understanding the Long term/Short term/ Mid term goals of the business
Identifying the talent gaps for achieving the goals of the business
I am also involved in taking care of Salary Fitment, Offer Negotiation, Offer Generation,
Ensure that all the positions should be closed effectively with out revenue loss.
Weekly review meetings conducted to give the daily status to the management about the recruitment.
Involved in the Manpower planning held by SBU.
Analyze recruitment statistical data, including cost of recruitment, recruitment success rates (acceptance vs. rejection), retention and turnovers rates, and identifying sources of retention problems.
Well versed in hiring top talent through Social Media.
Experienced in how to Overcome with the few challenges like Attracting top talent, Engaging Talent, Compensation, Improving Quality of hires,
Keeping track of passive candidates through external sources like Linked in, Social media etc.
Designing and Implementing recruitment strategies and policies for hiring top caliber candidates for the business
Generating reports for Offer V/S Decline
Generating the revenues for the business and maintaining the close relationship with the candidates and Stakeholders
Identifying the business need to achieve the goals set for the Organization,
Implementing and Designing training plan for the internal staff as per the business needs,
Also involved in the induction process till the candidate is onboard

Team Lead

Covenant Consultants
04.2011 - 11.2016

I am purely in to Oil & Gas, Aerospace, Industrial, Automotive, Heavy Engineering, Embedded and IOT Recruitment, where I am responsible for handle various Clients independently and closing their positions.
Responsible for understanding the job specification, Head Hunting, Screening & conducting prelim, short-listing & sourcing profiles, telephonic interviews, reference checks for the candidates, Follow ups for the feedback, confirmations and joining.
Sourcing the right candidate through various tools like Job Boards and Networking Portals
Negotiate salary with clients and candidates, frequent follow up with the candidates until they join the clients and building good relationships with the clients on day to day basis.
Negotiate salary with clients and candidates, frequent follow up with the candidates until they join the clients and building good relationships with the clients on day to day basis.
Working on multiple requirements on a daily basis and doing timely submissions.
Following a proper procedure for reference check pre submission and thereby probing those references to generating sales leads.

Education

MBA - Human Resources Development

Sai Sudhir PG College
Bengaluru, India
05-2010

Skills

  • Leadership Hiring
  • Demand Forecasting
  • Leadership Connect
  • Competency Based Recruitment
  • Talent Building
  • Recruitment Strategies
  • Market Intel

  • Talent Attraction
  • Diversity Hiring
  • Campus Hiring
  • Vendor Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Candidate Experience

Languages

Telugu
English
Hindi
Marathi

Timeline

Talent Acquisition Partner

AtkinsRealis
08.2023 - Current

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

ARCADIS, Design And Consultancy
07.2021 - 08.2023

Assistant Manager - Talent Acquisition

TAAL Tech
07.2018 - 07.2021

Team Lead

Covenant Consultants
04.2011 - 11.2016

MBA - Human Resources Development

Sai Sudhir PG College
Pooja Sharma