Rasika Walimbe

• Responsible for building, implementing, and executing a strategy for identifying and engaging the future top industry talent to the organization.
• Responsible for coaching and developing a team of Talent Acquisition. Training and Development also reward and retain the team and manage performances.
• Maintain and upgrade the SOP & Policy formulation (like IJP, Employee referral, buddy referral program, etc.)
• Work on various initiatives to improve the candidate/employee experience during the interview process, pre-joining, and post joining.
• Manpower planning, budgeting & forecasting, also project annual hiring volume collaboratively with hiring managers/business leaders and conduct a regular review on the execution and finetuning
• Promoted a data driven culture & coordinated 3 phases of recruitment including data analysis, screening & Scheduling
• Reduced average hiring TAT by 8 days via rebuilding the Professional communication.
• Implemented innovative sourcing strategies that increased the quality of candidate pool by 35%, leading a higher success rate in hard- to- fill positions
• Helped in improving the Company reviews across Glassdoor, Linkedin & Google bringing in unique branding initiatives.

Significant Milestone :

• Me & my team members have been consistent achievers winning the "pat on the back" quarterly award consecutively 4 times in a row for closing various critical roles.
• Successfully on-boarded 200+resources in less than 50 days for a Pilot Project.
• Carved out Recruitment SOP/ Employee referral policy & hiring cost analysis for the key staffing/ recruitments projects
• Campus Hiring – Organized & conducted campus drives in nearly 11 Engineering & B-schools across India (Tier1 &2)

• Supporting SAAS based & FMCG start-ups with hiring activities.
• Headhunting for Lateral & Leadership roles across all Non IT & IT functions.
• Communicate with clients to get a clear view on their hiring needs and organizational goals.
• Supporting mass hiring assignments for Junior roles i.e. helping clients with Bulk footfalls to make the hiring drives successful

• Handling end to end Sales & Marketing recruitments for West & South Zone.
• Mapping B-schools & connecting with Placement co-ordinators for campus hiring.
• Planning out Employee engagement events.
• Training & calibrating Junior resources in the team.
• Assess candidates to determine their fit for the position.
• Draw up detailed interview reports with analysis.
• Working individually as Social Media Recruiter for hiring the candidates from various Social Channel like LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, GitHub etc.

• Managing end to end recruitment process for Bulk & Lateral hiring using the right source mix.
• Organizing campus hiring activity for volume positions.
• Ensuring timely closures for both IT & Non IT positions.
• Organizing Employee Engagement Activities.
• Assisting in preparing weekly & monthly reports.
• Taking care of Induction & On-boarding of new joiners.

• Managing End to End Recruitments for Lateral & Leadership roles.
• Vendor management – Volume Hiring
• MIS: Preparing reports on the no of closure, internal movements, and offer decline numbers to ensure the flow of work to reach the aspire rates. Sending weekly, Monthly and quarterly headcount and hiring report.
• Background verification.