Surya Kalla
Hyderabad
Summary
Accomplished Talent Acquisition Leader with extensive experience of 15 years in end-to-end recruitment solutions, strategic planning, and stakeholder management. Proven track record of leading teams and collaborating with business leaders to drive successful hiring initiatives. Expertise in talent assessment, executive recruiting, and high-volume hiring. Adept at using ATS and recruiting software, social media recruiting tools, and conducting offer negotiations. Demonstrated ability to manage talent acquisition campaigns and enhance employee retention. Career goal: To leverage extensive recruitment experience to contribute to organisational growth and success.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate Director -Talent Acquisition
Gramener Technology Services
Hyderabad
04.2024 - Current
- End-to-end recruitment solutions
- Lead the talent acquisition team of five and plan aligned with organizational goals.
- Implement AI-driven recruitment tools (Claude.ai, In house LLMs) to enhance candidate sourcing and screening efficiency.
- Regular interaction with BU heads/ Hiring Managers to forecast hiring needs and create talent pipelines.
- Drive diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within the recruitment process.
- Mentor and develop recruitment team members to achieve professional growth and excellence.
- Regular check and analysis on recruitment data every month to optimize processes and improve hiring outcomes.
- Mutual partnerships with educational institutions like Great Lakes to attract top talent.
- Adapt recruitment strategies to align with evolving industry trends and technologies.
- Oversee remote recruitment processes ensuring seamless candidate experience and engagement.
- Develop employer branding strategies to attract top-tier talent in competitive markets.
- Utilize agile methodologies to streamline recruitment processes and enhance team collaboration.
Senior Manager – Talent Acquisition
Merilytics
01.2022 - 04.2024
- End-to-end recruitment solutions
- Lead the talent acquisition team of four.
- Regular interaction with BU heads/ Hiring Managers to forecast hiring needs and create talent pipelines.
- Redesigned the company's employer branding strategy, immersive candidate experiences, resulting in a 50% increase in application rates for hard-to-fill positions.
- Mentor and develop recruitment team members to achieve professional growth and excellence.
- Adapt recruitment strategies to align with evolving industry trends and technologies.
- Develop employer branding strategies to attract top-tier talent in competitive markets.
- Campus Recruiting
Senior Manager – Talent Acquisition
Genpact India Pvt Ltd
01.2019 - 01.2022
- Orchestrated the talent acquisition strategy for a global expansion initiative, successfully hiring over 700 employees Pan India while ensuring a 95% cultural fit and reducing onboarding time by 30%.
- Implemented an employee referral program, increasing referral hires by 75% and saving costs in external recruitment annually.
- Successfully managed a team of five and worked in an RPO model to hire talent to save time.
- Developed and implemented a comprehensive talent pipeline strategy, reducing time-to-fill for critical roles by 40%, and increasing offer acceptance rates from 60% to 84%.
Delivery Manager – Talent Acquisition
Kollasoft India
06.2015 - 12.2018
- Company Overview: A product-based and IT consulting firm.
- Internal Recruitment - A Travel Product (In-house) & Client Handling.
- Account management: FactSet, Capgemini, Zensar, Mphasis, Nisum.
- Major responsibilities include: talent acquisition strategies, revenue generation, delivery management, employee referrals, requirement analysis, benefits negotiation, technical recruiting, client retention, client mapping, team management, employee engagement, and team handling - 12.
- Planning and forecasting resource requirements.
- Creating a recruiting activity report to illustrate productivity.
- Interact with the client’s hiring managers to determine their needs, and provide quality candidates.
- Working closely with hiring managers in qualifying requirements, setting performance objectives.
- Full-cycle recruitment of contract personnel in the IT industry, including extensive pre-screening of candidates, submitting candidates to the hiring manager, organizing and facilitating interviews, renegotiating pay/bill rates if needed, and extending offers.
- Assisting in the prioritization of requirements, and helping to devise an overall strategy to fill requirements efficiently and effectively.
- Taking care of the timesheets, supporting finance to raise invoices, and following up until the payment is received.
- Involved in obtaining the appraisal sheets for the employees who were deployed at client sites by their reporting managers.
- A product-based and IT consulting.
Assistant Manager – India Staffing
The Boston Group (TBG)
02.2012 - 06.2015
- Full-cycle recruitment of contract personnel in the IT industry including: extensive pre-screening of candidates, submitting candidates to hiring manager, organizing and facilitating interviews, renegotiating pay/bill rates if needed, and extending offers
- Revenue Generation
- Salary Negotiation on selection of candidates
- Handling a team of 10 recruiters/Sr Recruiters
- Single Point Of Contact (SPOC) for clients like Deloitte, Polycom, Tata Elxsi, Virtusa etc
- Understanding the Criteria on Client Rates, Margins & CTC of resource for Negotiating Salary
- Monitoring HR Manpower Database, Attendance & Leaves of the employees
- Preparation of MIS Reports as per the requirement
- Motivating the team to keeping the Team Active and updating them and train them latest Technologies and make them good recruiter
Team Lead- Staffing
Magna InfoTech Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad
03.2009 - 06.2010
- Accurately assess and analyze the client staffing requirements
- Managing a team and ensured that the requirements were catered and fulfilled by the team
- Provide end-to-end solutions for staffing requirements by identifying the suitable resources through quality recruitment process
- Maintain Database of resources through Job portals, Employee references
- Manage RADAR (Applicant Tracking System) with new updates and data entry that is used throughout the organization
- Screening and Evaluation: Perform initial level of technical screening through tech panels
- Evaluate and assess candidates on the required competencies
- Responsible for salary negotiations and salary fixation
- Freeze joining period and organize necessary arrangements for on-boarding the candidate
- Networking and Client Relations: Build good network of vendor partners empaneled to address the requirement
- Arranging for technical interviews on time by speaking to alternate panelists
- Co-ordination and follow -ups on offers and joining
- Regular follow-up plan for good hit ratio during regular walk-ins
- To generate the Leads in the defined market through regular interactions and making sure the requirements are fulfilled
- Account Management for IBM, Fulcrum Logic and Fiserv by providing solution to their needs and pain points
- Interacting with the Clients to gather their feedback regarding the services provided
- Represented Magna InfoTech in the vendor calls happening in IBM
- Responsible for giving commitments for submitting the relevant profiles on the high priority requirements on behalf of Magna InfoTech, and making sure that the commitment is met
- Timely feedback in terms of shortlists and rejects
- Quality of feedback in terms of reason for rejection to the consultants
- Collate feedback from Panelists immediately after the interview by proper documentation
Sr. Resource Executive
Wipro Technologies
06.2004 - 01.2005
- Requirement Analysis and Source Mix Decision
- Sourcing for potential candidates through Job portal (like Monster, Naukri, LinkedIn ,internal databases, Placement agencies and utilizes traditional recruiting techniques as Headhunting and personal contacts
- Screening of resumes to shortlist appropriate resumes matching the requirements
- Moving the screened profiles for Database entry
- Preliminary screening for interviews and interact
- Scheduling & coordinating interviews / events including sending call letters to the candidates as per the interview calendar
- Make the necessary documentation kits for the interview
- Assist the interview panel during the interview process
- Once the interview process is completed, collate the documents into Offers, Rejects, Decision Pending and No Shows
- Communicate to the candidates the outcome of the selection process appropriately
- Doing Reference Check
- Conducting HR interviews, negotiation and fixing the compensation for the candidates
- Follow-up on closures in selection with respect to offers & acceptances
- Follow up with offer made candidates for offer acceptance & co-ordinate for joining
- Managing the queries of employee’s regarding their referrals
- Carrying out entire cycle of WASE for Hyderabad
- As an HR Panel for the Campus recruitments
- Maintaining the required MIS reports on daily basis to be sent across to the Management
- Responsible for conducting recruitment drives in colleges and Wipro Campus
- Handled multiple walk-ins at multiple locations
- Handling weekly review calls
- SPOC for Arranging Technical Panels and event
Education
MBA - Human Resources Management
Gayatri Vidya Parishad
Andhra Pradesh, IndiaSkills
- Talent Assessment and Acquisition
- Executive Recruiting - Analytics/Data Management
- Social media recruiting tools
- Stakeholder management
- Compensation analysis
- Work Planning and Prioritization
- Team collaboration and leadership
- Candidate pipeline management
- Global recruitment
- Data-driven decision making
- Talent management
Accomplishments
- Recruitment Drive initiatives -Have successfully led recruitment program's resulting in a 40% reduction in time-to-hire.
- Increased Quality of Hires-Developed a targeted employee branding strategy at Merilytics increasing quality of hire by 50%, contributing to better productivity.
- Enhanced Candidate Experience-Revamped the candidate experience, achieving boosting employer reputation.
- Drove Employee Referral Success- Launched employee referral program at Genpact leading to 45% increase in hiring.
- Joining Ratio on average - 84%
- Diversity Hiring - 30% of overall hires.
Certification
- LinkedIn Recruiting
- AIHR Talent Acquisition Certified
Top Skills Hired
- Database systems (SQL and NoSQL)
- Data warehousing solutions
- ETL tData Science
- Database systems (SQL and NoSQL) ,Data warehousing solutions, ETL tools, Data Science, Data APIs, Python, Java, and Scala programming languages, Hadoop. Business Analytics tools: SAS Business Analytics (SAS BA), QlikView, Sisense, MicroStrategy, TIBCO Spotfire, Tableau Big Data Analytics, Power BI, CognosCloud: AWS, Azure, GCP. Data Visualization tools, Data Governance Tools
- ERP- SAP (all modules, Celonis, Data Management Edwards
- Data Governance tools- Collibra, Erwin, Informatica, MDM, Talend, Alation, Alteryx,
- EPM: Hyperion Essbase Planning & Management, PBCS (Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service)
- Sun Technologies.
- Microsoft Technologies.
- Testing: Manual & automation
Timeline
Associate Director -Talent Acquisition
Gramener Technology Services
04.2024 - Current
Senior Manager – Talent Acquisition
Merilytics
01.2022 - 04.2024
Senior Manager – Talent Acquisition
Genpact India Pvt Ltd
01.2019 - 01.2022
Delivery Manager – Talent Acquisition
Kollasoft India
06.2015 - 12.2018
Assistant Manager – India Staffing
The Boston Group (TBG)
02.2012 - 06.2015
Team Lead- Staffing
Magna InfoTech Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad
03.2009 - 06.2010
Sr. Resource Executive
Wipro Technologies
06.2004 - 01.2005
MBA - Human Resources Management
Gayatri Vidya Parishad
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