Pragyan Paramita

Client: Renesas Enterprise Pvt. Ltd. (Oct 24 - Present)

• Partnered with business leadership to fulfill hiring goals for corporate teams across multiple hiring units: Power Products, Analog and Connectivity, High Performance Computing, Sales, Operations, and Direct Organization.
• Led end-to-end recruitment delivery for key corporate functions by partnering with business leadership, and ensuring hiring strategies were aligned with critical business metrics and organizational objectives.
• Devising talent acquisition strategies that focus on mid-senior level and leadership hiring for niche tech and non-tech roles, such as Product Manager, Program Manager, Analog Chip Designer, Layout Engineers, Verification Engineers, RTL Design Engineers, DFT Engineers, Sales, and FAE, across multiple business units.
  • Closely collaborated with the business leaders to assess hiring needs, develop strategies, and implement hiring plans. Also, ensured alignment of those plans with critical business metrics, such as diversity, geolocation.
• Talent Strategy and Stakeholder Management: Worked with senior management in developing and driving the Talent Acquisition Strategy, with a focus on proactive candidate sourcing that results in attracting and retaining a diverse pipeline of qualified candidates for all positions, and maximizing the return on investment.
• Talent Reporting and Analytics: Managing the Recruitment Dashboard and sharing various weekly and monthly reports with the leadership team.
• Managing the Recruitment Dashboard and sharing various weekly and monthly reports with the leadership team. Publishing and sharing periodic trackers, dashboards, with the TA team and associated stakeholders.
• Closely mentored peers to help build a quality pipeline, aligning with the job requirements.
• Defining and leading organization-wide projects to set up mechanisms to capture industry insights using market intelligence and continuous improvement in talent benchmarking.
• Publishing and sharing periodic trackers, dashboards, and associated stakeholders with the TA team.

Projects:

Landscaping market for mapping competition placement in terms of pay ranges, role titles, etc.
Steered the offer approval process for partnering with the TA team and brought in process improvements for the same by identifying errors and gaps.

Achievements:

• Around 60 offers and 50 joiners in the first year.
• Multiple appreciation emails and feedback from stakeholders.
• Multiple positive feedbacks related to the candidate interview experience and onboarding process.

Client: Google (Oct 21 - Oct 24)

• Spearheaded talent acquisition efforts for Google in the APAC region, emphasizing stakeholder management by consulting with leaders to fulfill new hiring requirements effectively, surpassing recruitment targets through inclusive practices, optimizing the process, and enhancing the candidate experience.
• Utilized diverse sourcing strategies, including search engines, Google's applicant tracking system (ATS), job boards like Seek Out, LinkedIn, GitHub, and social networks, to build a robust talent pipeline proactively.
• Conducted thorough candidate reviews and screenings to assess suitability for roles, providing support through interview stages, preparing candidates, and negotiating compensation packages, while extending offers.
• Supervised and mentored a team of 10 members, facilitating their professional growth while managing the end-to-end recruitment process.
• Specialized in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) by guiding candidates through interview preparations and monitoring their performance on coding platforms, achieving a notable 60% pass-through rate in initial screenings.
• Recognized for outstanding diversity management achievements, and commended by the client for successfully filling the Engineering Manager position.

• Sourced candidates via LinkedIn, Facebook, Naukri, Monster, and referrals to expand talent pool.
• Collaborated with senior management and hiring managers to define project requirements and budgets.
• Managed vendor relationships, ensuring high-quality candidate sourcing through updated technical screening profiles.
• Conducted recruitment needs assessment through Workday, facilitating Webex interviews and campus hiring events.
• Oversaw buyout processes, negotiating bonuses to ensure seamless candidate onboarding.

Contract to Hire: State Street Corporation

• Engaged with senior management to clarify project requirements and resource allocation.
• Sourced candidates through online platforms including LinkedIn and Naukri.
• Coordinated with vendors to enhance candidate sourcing efforts and profile updates.
• Managed recruitment processes in Workday, conducting interviews via Webex.
• Led campus hiring and recruitment drives to address urgent staffing demands.
• Negotiated bonuses during buyout processes to ensure smooth onboarding of selected candidates.

• Responsible for requirement/JD validation, market mapping, talent insights, formulating and executing the sourcing strategy, stakeholder and client engagement, vendor management, interview coordination, and candidate engagement until onboarding, within TAT.
• Coordinate with the business heads globally, including India, APAC, EMEA, and the US, to identify their hiring needs and determine the effectiveness of our recruiting plans (new migrations and backfill hiring).
• Core member of the hiring team, employee retention program, training programs, and projects implementation for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hiring.
• Building a pipeline through the internal database, Workday, Seekout, My Source, Beeline, Employee Referrals, and job boards—Naukri and LinkedIn Recruiter.
  • Manipulation of data using VLOOKUP, executing pivot tables, Power Pivot, and formulas in Excel sheets for creating dashboards and reports according to requirements.
• Reporting and screen snap on key metrics based on skill set.
• Delivering regular reporting and analysis of documentation to clients.
• Reviewing and dispositioning direct applications for the global regions.
• Spearheading high-impact projects like competitor intelligence/mapping and DEI initiatives, along with other daily operations in hiring.
• Disposition and track employee referral resumes with agreed-upon operational service levels.
• Track the inbound applications to relevant requisitions across all the geographies.
  Proactively build passive and active candidate pipelines to meet sourcing needs, as per business expectations.
• Participate in crucial stakeholder meetings, including weekly cadences, and debriefs.
  Through innovative research, build a candidate pipeline and effective outreach for the weekday and weekend walk-in interviews.
• Track and maintain a real-time record of candidates in ATS, and monitor the interview pipeline and selection ratio of diversity and non-diversity candidates.
  Timely and accurate reporting of inbound applications' review status.

• Managed end-to-end recruitment for US-based clients, sourcing and screening profiles from internal databases, employee referrals, and job portals like CareerBuilder, LinkedIn, Monster, and Dice.
• Conducted full-cycle recruiting including interviews, offer negotiations, and closing candidates for assigned positions, assessing candidates based on skills, experience, location preferences, and work commitment.
• Formatted resumes to client specifications, submitted candidates through vendor management systems (VMS) and maintained a comprehensive database, using tools like JobDiva.
• Built strong candidate relationships to ensure a robust pipeline of specialized skill sets, consistently meeting daily and weekly submission targets.
• Achieved notable milestones including 2 hires during the OJT period, 12 hires within 6 months, and contributed to a high-performing team recognized in two consecutive quarters.