Shefa Jawaid

• The Employee Engagements role involved engagement of employees on 3 sub-levels: New Hire Engagement, All Employee Engagement & Leadership Engagement. Drove employee welfare and engagement activities, involved in Employee Engagement Survey & drove new initiatives for leadership connect.
  
• Workforce Management role: I was responsible for short term planning, management, maintaining internal forecasts and tracking of forecast accuracy. I worked on tracking progress in the staffing area and highlighted any deviations. I focused on maximising performance levels and competency for the organisation. I was also responsible for innovation in the workforce management space – providing insights on improving efficiencies.
  
• The Corporate Social Responsibility role included leading, designing & developing CSR programs & initiatives and actively involved in effective stakeholder management.
  
• The Corporate Communications role involved building an effective internal communication mechanism with internal employees creating a culture of transparency and openness
  
• Talent Management & Employee Engagement: Conduct regular 1-1 with employees, Pulse and skip level meetings to identify problem areas and propose appropriate solutions. Drive new hire and leadership engagement. Conduct exit interviews, stay interviews and pre-hire orientation
  
• Talent Acquisition: Understand and determine the current staffing requirements and develop forecasts. Prepare Job Description for new & revised roles and determine efficient recruitment strategies.
  
• Performance Management: Actively involved in performance appraisal cycle and working on performance potential grid. Worked on Increments & Promo/ons.
  
• Compensation & Benefits: Determining Long and short-term incentives, Salary Increments for employees’ basis the annual and forecasted budget through collaboration with internal and external market
  
• Rewards & Recognition: Designing rewards & benefits program for all employees considering the client needs, employee motivation and market availability. Determining the annual budget for the rewards plan and responsible for monitoring the compliance of the awards.
  
• Others: Looking into HR policies, retention programs, workforce planning, facilitating townhalls, AMM & Conclaves, Employee Grievance Handling
  

Worked in Infrastructure Management Services in the Middleware section. Technologies that I worked with are Weblogic, Websphere and Unix. I was also involved in maintenance and troubleshooting of about 1000+ Servers, and hosting applications