PRIYA KUMAR
Chennai
Summary
Expert Talent Acquisition Partner with little over 12 years of extensive experience in talent acquisition and management. Proven strategist in developing and executing impactful recruitment plans, utilizing insights into labor market trends and hiring practices. Adept at fostering strong relationships with hiring managers and candidates, ensuring clear communication and transparency throughout recruitment process.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Recruiter II
Amazon.com
Chennai
07.2022 - Current
- Manage the full life cycle of recruitment for the Devices & Services and AGI organization for lateral and specialty roles.
- Partner with business leaders and the director of each function to build a hiring strategy with an emphasis on time-to-fill metrics and improving the candidate experience.
- Extensive data analysis, with monitoring and continuous improvement of key recruitment metrics (source mix, diversity ratio, decline ratios, etc.). To identify trends and gaps, to enable quick and easy decision-making.
- Identified gaps in the interview funnel and recommended solutions to improve the average time-to-hire.
- Progressively build the candidate pipeline through all sourcing channels (Employee Referrals, LinkedIn, Job Boards, and Internal Database) and consistently deliver and exceed individual and org goals.
- Planning and strategizing the entire recruiting efforts for lateral and specialty hiring.
- Work with compensation and HRBP teams on identifying compensation gaps and benchmark ranges based on role, decline ratio, and market analysis.
- Currently, we use iCIMS and HIRE (a homegrown tool) for applicant tracking and reporting.
- Share weekly metrics reports with business stakeholders, covering current openings, pipeline, month-over-month ratios, sharing new sourcing/branding opportunities, and asking for input into key areas to target talent pipelines.
- Designed quarterly business reviews (QBRs) and yearly business reviews (YBRs) for business leaders to share highlights, lowlights, and key initiatives, along with high-level recruiting metrics.
- Reducing TAT (Turnaround Time) and CPH (Cost per Hire) to the highest possible level.
- Backup creation for expected attrition in all departments.
- Driving several special projects and initiatives.
- Roles Hired in Tech: Software Development Engineer, Software Support Engineer, Application Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineer, Software Development Engineer in Test, Technical Product Manager, Wireless G, Bluetooth Testing, and Applied Scientist.
Recruiter I
Amazon
Chennai
03.2019 - 06.2022
- Interacting with Stakeholders, Hiring Managers, and Business Unit Heads for requirement clarity, resource requirement strategy, G deciding the timeline on the same
- Sourcing candidates from various job portals, ATS and Employee Referrals
- Managed Mid to Top level of recruiting projects well within Time, Budget and Quality parameters
Talent Acquisition
Prodapt Solutions Private Limited
Chennai
02.2018 - 03.2019
- Created job descriptions and posted on the applicant tracking system (ATS), Indeed, Craigslist, and other posting tools
- Conducted phone and in person interviews, reviewed resumes and evaluated candidates to find the most qualified IT professional for client's requirements
- Independently hired multiple positions from entry level to senior level professionals Associate Director, Senior Project Manager and Technical Architect
- Responsible for continuously updating and maintaining recruiter database for daily activity pipeline management and forecasting data
- 90 % of the positions have been closed by direct Sourcing through Naukri, LinkedIn G Employee Referral Booths
- Part of Effective Employee Engagement activities such as Knowledge Sharing Forum, Employee Grievances G Learning Lunches
Technical Recruiter
Amazon.com
Chennai
04.2017 - 02.2018
- As a Recruiter, I collaborated with the business to understand the requirements, develop, and drive the recruiting strategy and practices to fit Amazon culture
- Also, conduct periodic hiring meetings and events to help meet the hiring needs
- Act as talent advisor to educate the business on talent pools, create qualified applicant pipelines, and provide information needed to make the best decisions for the organization
- Sourcing profiles through various Job portals G handling applicants through different channels, which includes Search Engines, Vendors, Internal Applicants, Referrals, Career site applicants, Domain Mapping G Social Media
- Owning end-to-end responsibility from recruiting perspective
- Sourcing, Offers, joining follow up, Metrics G etc
- Actively participated in defining strategies to generating employee referrals G involved in closing Sr
- Niche Skills
- Connecting with passive candidates for reference generation G future requirements
- Software Development Engineers (SDE II G I), Senior Software Development Engineers (SDE III), Software Development Managers, Data Engineers, Quality Assurance Managers, Quality Assurance Engineers and Web Developers
HR Recruiter
Computer Sciences Corporation
Chennai
07.2015 - 03.2017
- Company Overview: (CSC) Allegis Group
- Working on IT requirements
- Have good Working Hands on experience on portals like Naukri, Monster, Timesjob and Linkedin
- Interacting with business to understand requirement and identifying right resource
- Conducting walk-in drives if there is multiple position for one requirement
- Taking initial rounds of interview
- Line Up the candidate for Entire Recruitment G selection
- Scheduling the interviews in coordination with the panel G the Candidates
- Short listing resumes by evaluating the candidate's communication skills, presentation and technical skills based on the client's requirements
- Interacting with the business to get clarity on the requirement
- (CSC) Allegis Group
Associate Consultant
Careernet Technologies Private Limited
Bangalore
02.2014 - 05.2015
- Taking and fulfilling the requirements of the clients
- Matching the requirements of the candidates with the job profile
- Short listing resumes by evaluating the candidate's communication skills, presentation and technical skills based on the client's requirements
- Checking the interest of candidate for our Client Companies
- End- to- End follow-up of candidate
- Taking feedback of the candidate from the clients
- Discuss Salary structure with the employees
- Handling a team of 18 Members
HR Executive
Source One Management Services Private Limited
Bangalore
01.2013 - 01.2014
- Responsible for managing the full recruitment life cycle from receiving the requirement, sourcing, screening, validation to acceptance of offer and final placement
- Coordinating with candidates from the time of resume screening until candidate get on-board
- Sourcing profiles from various recruiting sources like Job Portals, Referrals
- Scheduling F2F and Telephonic interviews for candidates
- Ensuring the periodic follow-ups with the yet to join candidates and ensuring their joining on time
- Attending weekly client calls and meetings
Education
B Tech -
Avanthi Institute of Engg G Tech JNTU Kafiinada
05.2012
Skills
- Recruitment Strategy
- Full Cycle Recruiting
- Sourcing Strategy
- Stakeholder Management
- Strategic Planning
- Metrics, Analysis & Reporting
- Process Development & Improvement
- Diversity Hiring
- Market Intelligence
- Process improvement
- Tech Recruitment
- Talent sourcing
- Candidate experience
- Hiring strategy
- Compensation analysis
- Applicant tracking systems
Projects
The Talk Hour - A Leadership Series:
Lead a team of four to successfully deliver talk shows with diverse leaders across Amazon to the TA team, which helps them grow professionally and personally
L&D Team:
Providing trainings on the process, dashboards and hiring policies. We a team of 4 worked together to train the team with the guidelines, processes, dashboards to pull the reports and any new added policies to ensure that the team is updated and also do a compliance check if the team is adhering to them.
Accomplishments
- Received the AWSome award for successfully delivering Applied Scientist roles in the given span of time at Amazon in 2024.
- Awarded "The Best Team Player" at Prodapt Solutions.
Timeline
Recruiter II
Amazon.com
07.2022 - Current
Recruiter I
Amazon
03.2019 - 06.2022
Talent Acquisition
Prodapt Solutions Private Limited
02.2018 - 03.2019
Technical Recruiter
Amazon.com
04.2017 - 02.2018
HR Recruiter
Computer Sciences Corporation
07.2015 - 03.2017
Associate Consultant
Careernet Technologies Private Limited
02.2014 - 05.2015
HR Executive
Source One Management Services Private Limited
01.2013 - 01.2014
B Tech -
Avanthi Institute of Engg G Tech JNTU Kafiinada
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