Utkarsh Shikhar
Summary
Driven and decisive Talent Acquisition professional offering 9+ years of experience managing human resources teams to deliver compliance, personnel communication and workforce programs. Flexible and focused with expertise in recruitment and retention, staff training, development and complex problem resolution. Develops and implements HR strategies and initiatives aligned with overall business strategy.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Manager- Talent
Argenbright Holdings
11.2022 - Current
- Managing and leading a dedicated team of recruitment specialists who completes the recruitment life cycle within the given TAT; sourcing the best talent from diverse sources which includes sourcing, short listing candidates, conducting interviews, salary negotiations, joining formalities & background verification
- Use various methods to recruit and network with potential candidates including social media platforms, networking events, job fairs, campus hiring and Alumni networks
- Work closely with HR business partners and talent managers across US and India offices to have a full-scale understanding of hiring needs and available positions within the company
- Offer strategic advice, counsel & consultative solutions to Executives on people management aspects of their business to include driving organizational development, team effectiveness, executing change management strategy and employee engagement solutions
- Steered efforts in performing execution of HR programs & processes across multiple entities including implementation of management incentive plan, performance management differentiation, employee classification redesign, diversity, and talent management
- Managing Business Resource Groups (employee-led communities) to ensure the specific constituencies they support, (LGBTQ+, diverse abilities, ethnicity, etc.) stay energized, engaged, and empowered
- Generate and create reports pertaining to monthly updates for company's leadership about upcoming talent acquisition initiatives
- Communicate regularly with HR department to get a clear view of company's hiring needs and organizational goals
- Work closely with marketing department to develop creative ways for addressing talent acquisition challenges
- Proactively seek market intelligence to gain competitive advantage in attraction, assessment, and sourcing methodologies
- Play a key role in executing in the core HR of rich combined expertise in managing various functions of HR including in implementing and managing performance and development system for all employees, designing, and supporting the company talent frameworks including performance management, succession planning and workforce/human resource planning whilst guiding and managing Human Resources services for the Company
- Have designed & deployed multiple D&I interventions like re-integration program for women returning after career break, mentoring initiative for junior women, leadership program for mid & senior level women & executive sponsorship program including creation & monitoring of diversity level targets at organization & project level
- Reporting directly to management and collaborating closely with colleagues to ensure all HR duties are undertaken in planning, workforce projections in India with business leaders and guiding the recruitment delivery
- Reviewing Compensation & Benefits for business; addressing employee grievances, handling disciplinary actions, and statutory compliance and redundancy cases
- Leading Diversity Champions / Partners Network, representative of all businesses and functions to drive D&I initiatives at the ground level and address issues and challenges at the account / engagement level
- Organizing employee engagement, recognition & programs and ensuring prompt resolution of employee grievances & maintaining cordial employee relations
- Accordance with employment law, company policy and ensuring any risk to the business is minimized.
Team Leader- Talent
WOOD
04.2018 - 11.2022
- Successfully transitioned Talent Acquisition from Manila (Philippines) and responsible to hire for Europe, America, Canada, and Gurgaon office of the organization
- Supporting for Global recruitment and analytics of Internal Corporate Functions (Sales, IT, Research, M&A, Financial Modelling, Corporate Finance, Employee Life Cycle, Global Mobility, Reward, Finance Operations)
- Perform full scope recruitment efforts (initial sourcing, qualification of candidates, offer recommendation, negotiations, and onboarding) for specific positions and responsible for workforce budget & planning
- Partner with hiring teams to build effective lateral hiring, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage stakeholders' expectations
- Designing and delivering innovative sourcing strategies and solutions to meet business growth needs
- Ensure recruitment team's efforts are consistent with the organization policies and practices
- Adjudicate background checks per company guidelines and ensure on-boarding practices are followed
- Managing various recruitment events (interns, campus, hiring drives, etc) as required
- Closed critical positions in a fleeting time and brought down average hiring TAT to 40-45 Days
- Hired 60+ lateral & leadership hires (Analyst, Senior Analyst, Domain Analyst, Assistant Manager, Managers, Senior Managers and VP's) Globally in fleeting time
- Possess a strong ability to screen interview candidates within the framework of the position specifications and identify an ideal candidate within an appropriate and consistent timeline
- Conduct in-depth interviews of potential candidates, demonstrating the ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high offer-to-interview ratios
- Strategic partner to the business by providing market intelligence, insights & key analysis on a regular basis for recruitment related activities
- Managing timely feedback between Hiring Managers, suppliers (where relevant) and candidates
- Responsible for collation of interview notes and ensuring timely and appropriate completion
- Work closely with HR business partners to have a full-scale understanding of hiring needs and vacant positions within the company
- Hire for business critical/niche & super requirement by putting up an effective hiring plan - keeping mind Cost per hire, Source mix & target Diversity ratios
- Communicate effectively with the hiring manager and interview teams to ensure preparedness during the interview process Share and exchange information with all levels of management
- Recommend ideas and strategies related to recruitment that will contribute to the long-range growth of the company, implementing any new processes and fine-tuning standard processes for recruiting that fits within the company's mission to deliver the highest quality results to the customer
- Plan and focus on achieving our key metrics like Diversity, Employee Referrals, Alumni hiring etc and advise Hiring Managers on which candidates to progress to next stage, ensuring the right recruitment decisions are made, challenging the business' recommendations as required
- Participate in special projects/recruiting initiatives including assessment of best practices in interviewing techniques, leveraging of internal sources of talent, and identification of top performers for senior-level openings
- Manage tracking and reporting of service delivery in the HR Shared Services Team according to agreed KPI's/SLAs and other measures agreed.
Process Champion- HRSS
Mercer Consulting Pvt Ltd (Marsh & McLennan group of companies)
02.2016 - 04.2018
- Responsible to hire for New York, Boston, Dallas, Houston, and Gurgaon office of the organization
- Hiring includes for various BU'S such as Services, Research, Sales enablement role, BU, F&A, Insurance, advisory, actuarial, Consulting
- Review and research HR inquiries to set up a case in our case management tool for forwarding to the appropriate HR area to manage
- First point of contact for the global Talent Acquisition support team and other HR business areas regarding the HR process
- Sourcing, Screening, Short listing, mapping skills with existing requirements, interest check, scheduling interviews, travel, salary negotiations, final closure, and regular follow up till joining of the candidates
- Manage recruitment process for MMC's various Divisions to ensure maximum effectiveness
- Manages and coaches recruitment team and provides day-to-day direction
- Provides guidance on how to deal with challenging searches, manage expectations of hiring managers and candidates, work with and 'close' difficult applicants/searches
- Well versed with various sources of recruitment such as Portals, References, Head hunting, Market mapping & Vendor hiring
- Managing potential assessment exercise across different business units of the organization by doing market mapping, compensation benchmarking and industry trends
- Responsible for generating offer letters, sending out the offer letters to the candidates and the Hiring managers, background checks, reference checks, and onboarding required paperwork
- Releasing Confirmation letter to the new joiners after all the conditional of the offer is met
- Procurement, allocation, and management of work infrastructure (laptop, phones) for new hires
- Creating the job descriptions as per the requirement into our recruitment portal (Taleo), posting those requisitions to job boards, employee referral website and another internal site
- Accurately record changes in PeopleSoft in accordance with agreed processes and administer changes to individual's terms and conditions, contract updates, letters, and amendment
- Performance of all Transactions supporting Global mobility, including drafting emails, responding to phone calls, giving inputs to internal team for data updating / correction
- Ensure all employee data management related actions or updates are completed accurately in PeopleSoft in time for payroll deadlines and line with procedural guidelines
- Working with Global TA Team and Business Managers in creating sourcing strategies for hard to fill positions
- Responsible and accountable for new process implementation / transitions, process documentations and performance monitoring.
Human Resource Executive
ANRI SOLUTIONS HR Services Pvt Ltd
01.2015 - 02.2016
- Responsible for complete life cycle of recruitment starting from a sourcing to onboarding & explaining role to team, attracting of prospective pool of candidates, Selection process, Salary Negotiations & handholding till the final joining of candidate
- Specialist in hiring for Primary/Secondary Research, M&A, Company Valuations, SOX, Finance and accounts, Banking and Financial services, Sales through direct channel, Hiring vendor across NCR and bulk hiring through campus
- Draft advertising vacancies and advertise the same in a wide range of media like websites, Job Portals like Naukri, Monster, and LinkedIn etc
- Sourcing of candidates with complex Boolean search strings, associations, niche & major job boards, blogs, & business networks
- Design and manage recruitment and selection processes (resume screening, screening calls, interviews) etc
- Proactively seek market intelligence to gain competitive advantage in attraction, assessment, and sourcing methodologies
- Using standardized screening techniques, Assess the skills, qualifications, and experience of potential candidates
- Establishing and maintaining good working relationships with all clients (Big 6 firms & leading IT companies) to understand the hiring needs of the clients
- Closely collaborating with stakeholders to identify the candidates and mapping the right skillset for analytical and Business research role
- Direct interactions with Functional Heads, Directors, and Managers to understand the positions and collaborating closely with them on the active mandates
- SPOC recruiter for pre hiring orientation after rolling out an offer to ensure high offer to joining ratio
- Visiting clients for F2F meetings to understand the business requirements and to bring more business to the organization.
Business Operation Executive
Numeric Power Systems
10.2012 - 12.2013
- Responsible for complete life cycle of recruitment starting from talent attraction to onboarding & explaining role to team and trained managers and other personnel to use new and upgraded machinery
- Worked as part of a team for a company and interacted with computer and software engineers, quality control specialists and others to increase efficiency and establish best practices
- Ensuring that company's operations, such as manufacturing and shipping, work properly and meet factory and management specifications.
Education
MBA (HR) -
ICFAI University, Hyderabad, IBS Gurgaon
01.2012
Skills
- Talent Management
- Managed Client Contracts
- Employee Hiring
- New Hire Onboarding
- New Hire Orientation
- HRIS Applications Proficient
- Training Development
- Project Management
- Recruitment and Hiring
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Assistant Manager- Talent
Argenbright Holdings
11.2022 - Current
Team Leader- Talent
WOOD
04.2018 - 11.2022
Process Champion- HRSS
Mercer Consulting Pvt Ltd (Marsh & McLennan group of companies)
02.2016 - 04.2018
Human Resource Executive
ANRI SOLUTIONS HR Services Pvt Ltd
01.2015 - 02.2016
Business Operation Executive
Numeric Power Systems
10.2012 - 12.2013
MBA (HR) -
ICFAI University, Hyderabad, IBS Gurgaon
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