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Education
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RAJESHWARI BANDRAD

Bengaluru

Summary

Dedicated and results-driven Resource Management Specialist and Lead Recruiter with 3.7 years of experience in resource planning, end-to-end IT recruitment, and analytics. Skilled in leveraging tools like SAP and Excel to optimize resource utilization and support recruitment lifecycle from planning to onboarding. Proven success in achieving hiring targets, driving utilization to 95%, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Associate

KPMG (EXL services)
Bengaluru
10.2022 - 11.2024
  • Managed resource planning and scheduling for KPMG Tax and Audit service lines, supporting teams across multiple UK regions.
  • Analyzed incoming demand based on project complexity, deadlines, resource availability, skills, and historical data.
  • Used the SAP Resource Management tool to identify suitable staff for open demands, based on skill sets, availability, location, and utilization targets.
  • Allocated and scheduled resources to projects, ensuring an optimal match between demand and the available workforce.
  • Created and delivered Excel-based dashboards and reports on utilization, resource availability, and bench status.
  • Proactively flagged resource conflicts, overbookings, and shortages, and proposed realignment solutions in collaboration with team leads.
  • Managed bench resources by tracking unassigned staff across branches, proactively identifying suitable upcoming projects, and facilitating timely allocation to reduce bench time.
  • Conducted regular resource review meetings with managers to discuss staffing challenges, overbooking, and underutilization.
  • Forecasted resource demand across multiple projects, using historical data and project pipelines, ensures 95% resource utilization.

Lead Recruiter

Siddh RecruiTech LLP
04.2021 - 10.2022
  • Achieving and exceeding the recruitment targets Responsible for end to end in IT recruiting including analyzing JD, planning, sourcing, screening, interview coordination.
  • Experience with permanent and C2H recruitments for clients and document verification at the first level.
  • Client Handling Experience.
  • Good negotiation skills to discuss pay.
  • Recruited for all levels of candidates, from Entry level to Mid- level positions and senior- level positions.
  • Performing reference and background checks Experience in other aspects of HR like HR onboarding, engagement.
  • Understanding the requirements and briefing the same to the team Responsible for social media networking and sourcing techniques to identify active and passive candidates and to build a pipeline of candidates based on the needs of the business.
  • Presenting shortlisted candidates with profile summaries to the client for various positions.
  • Interacting with the candidate, and doing the initial screening.
  • Understand their competencies & skill sets, making them understand the job role Scheduling interviews telephonic, virtual, and Face to Face with the candidates after shortlisted & maintaining a tracker.
  • Proficient with job boards, postings & searching skills like, Naukri, Monster, LinkedIn, Shine and Indeed another Social networking site.

Education

MBA - Human Resource Management

Visvesvaraya Technological University
01.2018

Skills

  • Resource planning
  • Resource allocation
  • scheduling
  • Project scheduling
  • Bench management
  • LinkedIn
  • Naukri
  • Boolean search
  • Salary negotiations
  • Offer generation
  • Onboarding candidates
  • Workday recruitment, job requisition management, position, and job management
  • Mis reporting

Certification

Workday HCM – Cloud Foundation (Foundation-level certification)

Accomplishments

Achieved 95% resource utilization across projects by proactive forecasting and planning

Technical Hiring Exposure

  • Full Stack Developer, Frontend (React, Angular), Backend (Java, .NET, Python, ROR)
  • Quality Assurance: SDET, Automation Test Engineer, QA Tester
  • Data Roles: Data Analyst, Data Scientist, Data Engineer
  • Technical Architect, DevOps Engineer, Network Engineer, Project/Product Manager

Timeline

Senior Associate

KPMG (EXL services)
10.2022 - 11.2024

Lead Recruiter

Siddh RecruiTech LLP
04.2021 - 10.2022

MBA - Human Resource Management

Visvesvaraya Technological University
RAJESHWARI BANDRAD