Hi, I’m
Rakeshori Khomdram
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Bengaluru/Bangalore
Summary
Dedicated Talent Acquisition Specialist successful at managing full recruitment life cycle. Develops and implements customized strategies to meet specific position requirements and source qualified candidates. Offering 10 years of recruitment strategy development.
Overview
11
years of professional experience
5
Languages
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Deloitte USI
Talent Acquisition Specialist
02.2022 - Current
Job overview
- Leading full-cycle recruiting process for multiple roles simultaneously while maintaining high-quality standards in candidate assessment and selection.
- Collaborated with Senior Leaders and Hiring Managers to determine job requirements and understand business needs.
- Reduced time-to-fill for open positions by implementing efficient recruitment strategies and effective collaboration with hiring managers.
- Maintains High Stakeholder relationships, engaging directly with Managing Directors, partners, Country Head, Senior Vice Presidents and Senior Managers.
- Delivers market insights to Senior Stakeholders and collaborated on Hiring strategies
- Coordinating with internal stakeholders (Talent BA, Background verification, Operations) to ensure seamless and on-time delivery
- Conduct Analysis and Report on Key Recruitment metrics to present it to the business leaders
- Ensures adherence to processes and quality assurance standards.
- Provided regular updates on talent acquisition performance metrics to senior leadership, supporting data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement efforts.
- Actively participating in Campus Programs such as Campus Hiring, Campus Events and Campus Post offer Connects.
- Established strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment on talent acquisition goals and objectives.
- Spearheading projects on Decline Analysis and Requisition Control Mechanism.
- Experienced in handling vendors and mobilized various channels to attract top talent.
Standard Chartered
Resourcing Specialist
08.2018 - 01.2022
Job overview
- Company Overview: Standard Chartered PLC is a British multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in London, England. It operates a network of more than 1,200 branches and outlets across more than 70 countries and employs around 87,000 people.
- Collaborated with client hiring managers throughout the selection process to provide services including: Detailed Job Descriptions, Talent Sourcing Pool, Reference Checks, Job Ads and Online Postings, Candidate Pre-screening, Contract Negotiations, Behavioral Based Assessment.
- Calibrating the business and HMs on process flow, the policies and guidelines.
- Maintaining the SLAs and KPIs.
- Performing phone interviews with candidates.
- Administering appropriate company assessments.
- Making recommendations to company hiring managers.
- Coordinating interviews with the hiring managers.
- Following up on the interview process status.
- Maintaining relationships with both internal and external clients to ensure staffing goals are achieved.
- Communicating employer information and benefits during screening process.
- Staying current on the company's organization structure, personnel policy, and federal and state laws regarding employment practices.
- Work closely with the employment agencies, and industry associations.
- Completing timely reports on employment activity.
- Standard Chartered PLC is a British multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in London, England. It operates a network of more than 1,200 branches and outlets across more than 70 countries and employs around 87,000 people.
Cognizant
Recruiter
12.2017 - 03.2018
Job overview
- Company Overview: Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Headquartered in the US, Cognizant is ranked 205 on the Fortune 500.
- Gathering recruitment requirements and working with the hiring managers and other stakeholders in term of new vacancies, job description and sourcing strategies.
- Effective handling of requirements from the request of hire to the closure of request at a minimum time and cost.
- Ensuring process complaint as defined by the organization.
- Analyse talent requirement for each assigned business units.
- Screening and reviewing the profiles for each requirement.
- Build and implement the candidate engagement strategy for candidates is pipeline for effective joining ratio.
- Engagement with BUs and Hiring Managers and building a loyalty towards the TAG by providing prompt service and support.
- Creating reports based on each requirement.
- Management of MIS and ensuring fitment as per company compensation policy.
- Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Headquartered in the US, Cognizant is ranked 205 on the Fortune 500.
Shell Business Operations
Recruitment Co-ordinator
12.2016 - 10.2017
Job overview
- Company Overview: Royal Dutch Shell commonly known as Shell, is a British-Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in the Netherlands. It is one of the six oil and gas supermajors and the sixth largest company in the world measured by 2016 revenues.
- End-to- end recruitment of Finance Operations.
- Scheduling of all interviews & screening the candidate prior to the interview.
- Stakeholder management - Work closely with the Business Heads for drawing recruitment plans, setting up processes and job descriptions.
- Meeting the recruitment numbers within the given SLA (Service Level Agreement).
- Understanding the business requirements and linking it with the sourcing and selection strategies.
- Collecting the required Documents and updating technical feedback in Kenexa (Internal Recruitment Tool).
- Stakeholder Management.
- Involved in various Campus Interviews.
- Was taking care of reimbursement of outstation candidates.
- Have worked with different LOB's within when there is high volume.
- Have planned for walk in model interview drive in a short duration.
- Ensure good candidate experience.
- Royal Dutch Shell commonly known as Shell, is a British-Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in the Netherlands. It is one of the six oil and gas supermajors and the sixth largest company in the world measured by 2016 revenues.
- Reason for leaving: Organisational Restructuring
TransGNX
Team Lead
06.2014 - 06.2016
Job overview
- Company Overview: Trans GNX is a premier organization that has specialized in the domain of Human Resources strategy and management, representing such stakeholders like Human Resource Practitioners, Educationists, Job Providers and Job Seekers. Trans GNX provides pan India services with reliable, responsible and professional staffs to fill IT, ITES, manufacturing, accounting and human resources positions.
- Handling End-to-End Recruitment activities.
- Sourcing profiles from Job boards & Portals.
- Scheduling interviews, briefing and debriefing candidates before and after interviews.
- Shortlisting candidates according to their skill set and presenting them to the client's panel for further discussions.
- Interacting with the Panels & Ops. Managers to get a better understanding of their requirements and feedback on the schedules.
- Handling the salary negotiation, documentation & BGV for the shortlisted profiles and closing the position within the given timeline.
- Organising and Co-ordinating Walk-in drives at work as well as Client's Location.
- Following up with candidates and managing the candidate pipeline.
- Creating and Updating Job Descriptions on job boards & portals.
- Generating maximum references through every day walk-ins and networks.
- Maintaining timely documentation of all conversations with the candidates within our internal database.
- Responsible for Internal Recruitment.
- Expertise in Volume Hiring/Campus Hiring/Skill Set Hiring/Mid & Senior Level Hiring.
- Trans GNX is a premier organization that has specialized in the domain of Human Resources strategy and management, representing such stakeholders like Human Resource Practitioners, Educationists, Job Providers and Job Seekers. Trans GNX provides pan India services with reliable, responsible and professional staffs to fill IT, ITES, manufacturing, accounting and human resources positions.
- Handling a team of 6 Resources.
- Monitoring & Managing their everyday activities.
- Setting up everyday meetings with the team to brief them their respective objectives and streamlining the process to ensure smooth functioning.
- Setting up KRAs for every individual and ensure that they achieve the same within the given timeline.
- Mentoring every individual for understanding their pros & cons and motivate them in achieving their targets.
- Respect every individual's contribution and encourage them to increase their numbers to bring out the maximum productivity.
- Maintaining daily, weekly & monthly MIS Reports and showcasing the same to the Manager.
- Handling the Induction sessions for the new employees.
- Ensuring that the newly joined understand the Organisation's Policies and Terms & Conditions.
- Consolidate their understanding of the roles & responsibilities of the profile.
- Highlighting areas where Training & Development would be appropriate.
- Enlightening the new employees on how their work performance will be monitored and the kind of career progression they would have during their tenure.
Education
Madras University
BBA
06.2009 - 06.2012
Anna UniversityChennai, India
MBA from Human Resources Management
07.2012 - 07.2014
Skills
Teamwork
Time Management
Ability to Work in a Team
Effective Time Management
Ability to Work Under Pressure
Communication
Interviewing
Recruiting
Communication Skills
Microsoft Office
Internal & External Stakeholder Management
Screening resumes
Recruitment
Applicant tracking systems
Salary and benefits negotiations
Boolean search proficiency
Accomplishments
Spot Award for the stakeholder management skills and clear communication
Recognized multiple times by leaders and business leaders for strategize and on time closing on positions and clear updates
Journaling, Reading and Crocheting
I love to journal my day, experiences and thought process on a daily basis
I love reading biographies, psy-fi and murder mysteries
I also do crocheting in my free time.
Timeline
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Deloitte USI
02.2022 - Current
Resourcing Specialist
Standard Chartered
08.2018 - 01.2022
Recruiter
Cognizant
12.2017 - 03.2018
Recruitment Co-ordinator
Shell Business Operations
12.2016 - 10.2017
Team Lead
TransGNX
06.2014 - 06.2016
Anna University
MBA from Human Resources Management
07.2012 - 07.2014
Madras University
BBA
06.2009 - 06.2012