Shubhendu Pradhan
Bangalore
Summary
Over 9 years of experience with 5 years focused on talent acquisition. Proven track record in managing full-cycle recruitment, stakeholder engagement, and competition analysis. Successfully led teams to achieve hiring goals by optimizing recruitment processes and monitoring key performance metrics. Recognized contributor to Infosys Talent Acquisition Advisory Team and recipient of awards for excellence in talent acquisition.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Team Lead
Infosys Ltd
01.2024 - Current
- Streamlined coordination with scheduling team and help identifying more touchpoints to meet the recruitment drive plan targets, drive after drive.
- Planned in-person recruitment events with a team size of 25+ recruiters and managed 500+ candidates volume drives with an effective Offer rate of 35%.
- Directed team to manage specialist and niche hiring positions (JL 7 levels) with offer acceptance rate of 80%.
- Strategized effectively for minimal Interview cancellations (at < 5%) and keeping Candidate no- shows at (<25%) in FY26 from 35 % (from FY 25).
- Ensured with team to manage good offer pipeline by tracking offer closures within 2 weeks and optimized cycle time for niche offers (~ 3 weeks).
- Collaborated with Department Heads and Hiring managers to optimize hiring decisions by conducting Interview briefing sessions.
- Keeping track and managing Diversity levels at above 40% (up from 30% from previous FYs).
- As a member of Talent Advisory committee-TA 360; planned and scheduled workshops / events with Recruitment Leaders, proposed and helped executing ideas on to develop right team mix for the recruitment drives; reducing participant drop rate by 10%.
Senior Associate Lead
Infosys Ltd
07.2021 - 12.2023
- Executed end-to-end Recruitment cycle i.e. Sourcing till onboarding with 100% fulfillment, Quarter on Quarter, with offer conversion of 75+%.
- Specialized in hiring for skills in Cloud and Infrastructure Services viz. Cloud, Devops, DBA, App support, Networking, Mainframes, Windows etc and sectors like BFSI sectors. Fulfilled roles of System Engineers, Tech Leads & Analysts, Consultants, all the way till managerial grid positions (PMs/SPMs/Principal Consultants Level).
- Collaborated with senior stakeholder calls for hiring requirements and developed sourcing/screening strategies on day-to-day basis, thus reducing TAT by 15%.
- Collected, deployed and optimized Job description across various job sites to build healthy pipeline of profiles for Technical Interviews.
- Did resume level screening and Interest checks to help Hiring managers with a preliminary level assessment on role and compensation fitment to prevent unit level disparity.
- Coordinated interview schedules, offer releases, salary negotiation and pre-boarding documentation.
- Responsible for maintaining the MIS reports ensuring SLA adherence.
- Improved Candidate experience by giving timely communication and feedback, ensuring reduction in offer drop dates by 15% and DOJ deferred cases by 30%, thus enhancing timely joining.
Associate Consultant
Feedback Business Insights Pvt. Ltd.
01.2019 - 01.2021
Sr. Business Development Executive
Arzoo.com
01.2019 - 12.2019
Sales Executive
Elgi Ultra Industries Ltd.
01.2017 - 12.2019
Sales Executive
Preethi Kitchen Appliances Ltd.
01.2015 - 12.2017
- A Philips subsidiary company
Education
MBA - Marketing
Amrita University
Coimbatore01-2015
Skills
- Recruitment drive planning
- Stakeholder management
- Data-driven recruitment strategy
- Sourcing and screening
- Offer negotiation
- Vendor relationship management
- Hiring metrics analysis
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Recruitment reporting
- Process optimization
- Mentorship
Websites, Portfolios and Profiles
www.linkedin.com/in/shubhendupradhan
Timeline
Team Lead
Infosys Ltd
01.2024 - Current
Senior Associate Lead
Infosys Ltd
07.2021 - 12.2023
Associate Consultant
Feedback Business Insights Pvt. Ltd.
01.2019 - 01.2021
Sr. Business Development Executive
Arzoo.com
01.2019 - 12.2019
Sales Executive
Elgi Ultra Industries Ltd.
01.2017 - 12.2019
Sales Executive
Preethi Kitchen Appliances Ltd.
01.2015 - 12.2017
MBA - Marketing
Amrita University