Vaishali Mehrotra
Recruiter
Hyderabad
Summary
Seasoned recruiting professional with forward-thinking, adaptable and detail-oriented approach to meeting employer requirements. Well-versed in job boards and online recruiting techniques. Successful training, supervising and motivating high-performance recruitment teams.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Recruiter
Google (Optimum Infosystems Pvt Ltd)
Hyderabad
03.2021 - Current
- Handling full recruitment life cycle. Partnering with multiple stakeholders in terms of understanding their requirements and closely working with them through the process.
- Mapping talent across different skill sets and building talent pipeline for all open positions and proactively working on pipelining prospects for future roles.
- Actively involved in implementation of activities pertaining to Candidate Experience.
- Leveraged social media platforms and online job boards to advertise open positions and engage with potential candidates.
- Managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders, coaching hiring managers and candidates on processes and policies.
- Evaluated strengths and weaknesses of candidates through effective screening processes.
Talent Advisor
Hindustan Unilever Limited
Bangalore
06.2019 - 09.2021
- Responsible for delivering on End to End Recruitment Cycle of Talent Acquisition metrics (Cost, Quality and Timeline) for Sales & Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, Information Technology & Data Analytics and Information Security functions across work levels – entry, mid & senior level.
- Direct interaction and collaboration with key stakeholders, hiring managers and leadership to ensure the recruiting strategy is aligned with the overall business strategy
- Responsible for conducting screening/interviews, with structuring and negotiation of compensation with new hires and hiring managers.
- Managing the integration of complex business factors to build talent acquisition strategies that lead to achievement of business objectives.
- Managed contractual relationships with placement agencies, contract recruiters (retained and contingent), job boards, job fairs and various internet job search websites for posting requisitions and surfacing candidates.
- Responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining a quality experience in the talent acquisition process for candidates and business partners.
- Mapping and presenting talent landscapes and organization structures of leading competitors - enable closure at leadership & senior level positions
- Extensive data analysis with monitoring and continuous improvement of key recruitment metrics (source mix, diversity ratio, decline ratios, etc.) to identify trends and gaps, to enable quick and easy decision making.
- Creating and publishing recruitment analytics/ reports to the stakeholders for strategic use.
- Responsible for career development/planning, performance and pay discussions of team members.
- Trained and conducted multiple knowledge sessions to team on passive sourcing techniques and discussing best “Sourcing Principle/Ways” on social media and non-traditional channels (LinkedIn, Hoover, Yellow Pages etc.), as well as from applicant tracking database (Taleo/Workday), job boards, networking sites and user groups.
- Collaborating with the HR Shared Services ecosystem to create WOW moments for an Employee onboarding & the Hiring Manager.
Senior Analyst - Talent Acquisition
Deloitte Consulting
Hyderabad
05.2016 - 05.2019
- End to end recruitment across multiple service lines for both vanilla and niche skills.
- Managing stakeholders and engaging closely with business/technical managers to understand the needs of the business and plan accordingly
- Expertise in closing strategy roles (Leadership Level) as well as Volume hiring (Across levels)
- Successfully closed multiple Managers, Executive Managers and Senior Managers (AVP/VP) Positions concerning critical skills
- Planning, facilitating, and conducting interview initiatives (panel selection, feedback solicitation and review, fitment positioning, finalizing, and issuing employment offers, on boarding etc.) and managing recruitment events across DCs with a footfall of 400-800 candidates.
- Hiring dynamic professionals through both passive (deep internet search) and active search (job board).
- Reporting continuous market scenario to technical managers/ heads through proper data analysis and use of market intelligence.
- Continuously improving and maintaining key recruitment metrics (TAT time, conversion/decline ratios, source mix, etc) and hence assisting swift decision making across different levels.
Lead Consultant
Randstad India Pvt Ltd
Gurgaon
05.2015 - 05.2016
- Supported clients into ITeS, Big 4’s, Management Consulting & KPO players to find top talents for their open requisitions (IT and non IT).
- Handled selection process, right from sourcing, screening, validating and meeting client’s deadlines.
- Helped building an effective pipeline of candidates by proactively sourcing, screening and submitting resumes.
- Scheduled multiple rounds of Interviews (Telephonic or Face-To-Face) with the shortlisted candidates and coordinated with the Hiring Teams.
- Regularly followed up with clients for the feedback on the submitted applications. Negotiated the salary with the candidates according to client’s requirement.
- Maintained Databases/ATS as per the skills and requirements and prepared daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly reports.
- Participated in the Hiring process of new team members and mentored junior recruiters.
Assistant Manager - Account Management
New Era India Consultancy
New Delhi
11.2011 - 05.2014
- Was involved in the IT and Non IT recruitment process for clients into Financial Services, ITeS, Shared Services, IT Firms, KPO, Telecom, FMCG,Automobile, Pharma & Life sciences, etc.
- Sourcing - Industry & competition mapping for critical & niche assignments as well as through Job portals, Social network, References & Database
- Candidate evaluation - Interviewing candidates for a thorough assessment
- Offer & Benefits Negotiation - Strong experience in negotiation in challenging situations
- Reference Checks - Conducting Reference Checks and as required, conducting Discreet Reference Checks.
- Manage appropriate Source Mix and maintain minimum cycle time for each closure.
- Involved in Behavioral and Competency based Interviewing & partnering with Hiring Managers for appropriate hiring decisions.
- Interpret & Negotiate competitive compensation mapping the internal capability for a win- win offer.
- Coordinating with the Finance team to ensure timely billing for all positions closed. Responsible for own collections which has been 100% for every financial year
- Leading a Team with annual Top line target
Education
MBA - Human Resources Management
New Delhi Institution of Management (NDIM)
New Delhi 07.2009 - 07.2011
Bachelor of Commerce - Commerce
Avadh Girls’ Degree College
Lucknow 06.2006 - 06.2009
Skills
Full cycle recruiting
Accomplishments
- Successfully closed 15 positions for one of the most complex GTech role - WSE in 2 months and received a video appreciation from Hiring Manager.
- Recognized by clients (Hiring Managers) & candidates for focused, fast and quality delivery on complex roles with 14 Kudos so far at Google.
- Project Sunshine: Delivered 25% of project deliverables to hire technical recruiters (OAs: 120%; PTR: 13%)
- Conducted and facilitated LinkedIn search training for entire GBO India recruiters and sourcers.
- Acted as a Program Manager for TVC hiring for recruiters in GBO India contributing to 7 selects and 5 offer accepts.
- Successfully closed 150 Positions for Project TATE in 4 months for Unilever.
- Core team member of the “Unilever Career Page Revamp” (in progress) & involved in branding Initiatives of UniOps.
- Created Campaigns with support of global TA team to attract women talent for leadership roles in IT- “Women in Tech”
- Initiated and executed process development and pipeline building related projects such as market mapping, industry mapping and interviewer metrics.
- Initiated and executed process development and pipeline building related projects such as market mapping, industry mapping and interviewer metrics.
- Received Recruiter of the month award 3 times in 2015 by placing highest number of candidates and generating highest revenue among the other team members.
- Part of the CRC (Center Resource Cell) , designed to cater to senior level roles for clients into multiple industries.
- Successfully closed multiple C- level roles
- Received Recruiter of the month award 8 times
- Led a team of 4, responsible for their delivery and performance reviews.
Google India
Hindustan Unilever Ltd.
Randstad India
New Era India
Timeline
Recruiter
Google (Optimum Infosystems Pvt Ltd)
03.2021 - Current
Talent Advisor
Hindustan Unilever Limited
06.2019 - 09.2021
Senior Analyst - Talent Acquisition
Deloitte Consulting
05.2016 - 05.2019
Lead Consultant
Randstad India Pvt Ltd
05.2015 - 05.2016
Assistant Manager - Account Management
New Era India Consultancy
11.2011 - 05.2014
MBA - Human Resources Management
New Delhi Institution of Management (NDIM)
07.2009 - 07.2011
Bachelor of Commerce - Commerce
Avadh Girls’ Degree College
06.2006 - 06.2009
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