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VASU CHONA

Talent Acquisition Specialist
Delhi

Summary

Dedicated and results-oriented Recruitment Specialist with 11 years of experience in full-cycle recruiting and talent acquisition. Proven ability to attract top talent through innovative sourcing strategies and comprehensive candidate assessments. Seeking to leverage expertise in recruitment and client relationship management to drive organizational growth and exceed hiring targets.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Assistant Manager, Talent Attraction & Acquisition

Ernst & Young GDS
8 2022 - 12.2023
  • Responsible for planning, strategy, sourcing, shortlisting, screening, pitching, coordination, and negotiation
  • Understand competition, technology, and market trends to provide innovative candidate experience
  • Utilized Success factor and Hirevue (Applicant Tracking System) to streamline recruitment workflows and ensure compliance with hiring protocols
  • Managed team of 5 sourcing specialists within Assurance and Digital domain
  • Connecting weekly with Stakeholders on hiring needs and planning strategy with available pool of candidates with Market Mapping
  • Built strong relationships with hiring managers and stakeholders to understand hiring needs and provide strategic talent solutions
  • Reviews sourcing methods used and continue to adapt sourcing strategy to suit needs of role and identify new methods to use
  • Also proactively work on sourcing strategies to develop talent pipeline and identify future talent needs
  • Source potential candidates through online channels (e.g
  • Social platforms and professional networks), job boards (Naukri, iimjobs, LinkedIn etc), career portal, Employee reference and other Direct channels
  • Build and maintain active pool of candidates to meet future hiring targets in effective manner
  • Design and drive employee referral programs on monthly basis
  • Administering and providing feedback on various assessment process including psychometrics, leadership assessments, Psychometric assessment and other relevant tools
  • Proactively source candidates through combination of channels including job portals, headhunting, referrals, social media, Agency etc
  • Gain market intelligence by talent mapping and performing competitor analysis
  • Develop a strong Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) hiring strategy across the organization
  • Executing strategies (market intelligence, branding, recruitment capacity plan, diversity initiatives) to support business recruitment needs.

Team Lead Recruitment

CVENT India Pvt.
02.2019 - 08.2022

Responsible for overall daily management of all US and India Open positions

  • Sending Monthly, Weekly, Daily Dashboards to Stakeholders of India and APAC regions with Hiring and Offer Updates
  • Maintaining joining tracker
  • Connecting weekly with Stakeholders on hiring needs and planning strategy with available pool of candidates with Market Mapping
  • Managing and mentoring team of 7 people which consists of Associates, Sr
  • Associates, Assistant team lead and interns
  • KRA’s Team performance, source mix, stakeholder management, absence management
  • Built employee referral strategy to increase Low cost hiring and motivate employees to refer more
  • Setup and planned sourcing strategies for hiring 3D Designer roles for Acquired client only with referrals and leverage institutes for massive hiring needs
  • Managed employee referral, direct sourcing channels and social media hiring
  • Also managed external vendor partners to complete batches within TAT
  • Acting as Talent Advisor to all applicants
  • Managing US Stakeholders and helping in smooth transitioning of Positions from US to India till onboarding of candidates with in TAT
  • Managed Candidate Experience, Data Management, Referrals and more
  • Managed the complete life cycle of recruitment & selection process for sourcing the best talent from diverse sources (Requirement Gathering, Analysis of Requirements, Recruitment Planning, Sourcing, Screening, Validation, Assessments / Interviewing, Salary Negotiation, Offers till On-boarding / Joining Formalities)
  • Counseling candidate on corporate benefits, salary, and corporate environment
  • Handling end to end recruitment process, understanding mandate, industry mapping and head hunting
  • A deft follow up on Select to Offer & Offer to Joining ratios
  • Working and managing different vendor partners in Delhi/NCR
  • Manage employee’s integration including pre-joining, day of joining & post joining.

Associate Recruitment

Randstad- RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing)
01.2019 - 01.2019
  • Managed end-to-end recruitment process for RPO client (CVENT India), including sourcing, screening, and hiring top talent across various functions
  • Utilized Hirebridge (Applicant Tracking System) to streamline recruitment workflows and ensure compliance with hiring protocols
  • Developed and executed recruitment strategies tailored to client needs, resulting in 80% decrease in time-to-fill metrics
  • Built strong relationships with hiring managers and stakeholders to understand hiring needs and provide strategic talent solutions
  • Responsible for overall daily management of all US and India Open positions
  • Sending Monthly, Weekly, Daily Dashboards to Stakeholders of India and APAC regions with Hiring and Offer Updates
  • Connecting weekly with Stakeholders on hiring needs and planning strategy with available pool of candidates with Market Mapping
  • Managed employee referral, direct sourcing channels and social media hiring
  • Also managed external vendor partners to complete batches within TAT
  • Acting as Talent Advisor to all applicants
  • Managing US Stakeholders and helping in smooth transitioning of Positions from US to India till onboarding of candidates with in TAT
  • Managing Candidate Experience, Data Management, Referrals and more
  • Managing complete life cycle of recruitment & selection process for sourcing best talent from diverse sources (Requirement Gathering, Analysis of Requirements, Recruitment Planning, Sourcing, Screening, Validation, Assessments / Interviewing, Salary Negotiation, Offers till On-boarding / Joining Formalities)
  • Counseling candidate on corporate benefits, salary, and corporate environment
  • Handling end to end recruitment process, understanding mandate, industry mapping and head hunting
  • Deft follow up on Select to Offer & Offer to Joining ratios
  • Managed different vendor partners in Delhi/NCR for hiring needs.

Associate Recruitment

Adecco Staffing
08.2018 - 12.2018
  • · Managed end-to-end recruitment process for RPO client (CVENT India) , including sourcing, screening, and hiring top talent across various functions.
  • · Utilized Hirebridge (Applicant Tracking System) to streamline recruitment workflows and ensure compliance with hiring protocols.
  • · Developed and executed recruitment strategies tailored to client needs, resulting in 80% decrease in time-to-fill metrics.
  • · Built strong relationships with hiring managers and stakeholders to understand hiring needs and provide strategic talent solutions.
  • · Responsible for overall daily management of all US and India Open positions.
  • · Sending Monthly, Weekly, Daily Dashboards to Stakeholders of India and APAC regions with Hiring and Offer Updates.
  • · Connecting weekly with Stakeholders on hiring needs and planning strategy with available pool of candidates with Market Mapping.
  • · Managed employee referral, direct sourcing channels and social media hiring.
  • · Also managed external vendor partners to complete batches within TAT.
  • · Acting as Talent Advisor to all applicants
  • · Managing US Stakeholders and helping in smooth transitioning of Positions from US to India till on-boarding of candidates with in TAT.
  • · Managing Candidate Experience, Data Management, Referrals and more.
  • · Managing the complete life cycle of recruitment & selection process for sourcing the best talent from diverse sources (Requirement Gathering, Analysis of Requirements, Recruitment Planning, Sourcing, Screening, Validation, Assessments / Interviewing, Salary Negotiation, Offers till On-boarding / Joining Formalities)
  • · Counseling candidate on corporate benefits, salary, and corporate environment.
  • · Handling end to end recruitment process, understanding mandate, industry mapping and head hunting.
  • · A deft follow up on Select to Offer & Offer to Joining ratios.
  • Managed different vendor partners in Delhi/NCR for hiring needs.

Recruitment Relationship Manager, Volume hiring for Banking Industry

Allegis Global Solutions – RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing)
07.2016 - 08.2018

Managed end-to-end recruitment process for RPO client (American Express), including sourcing, screening, and hiring top talent across various functions

  • Utilized Taleo (Applicant Tracking System) to streamline recruitment workflows and ensure compliance with hiring protocols
  • Developed and executed recruitment strategies tailored to client needs, resulting in 80% decrease in time-to-fill metrics
  • Built strong relationships with hiring managers and stakeholders to understand hiring needs and provide strategic talent solutions
  • Conducted weekly and fortnightly meetings with stakeholders to keep them updated about hiring
  • Managed complete life cycle of recruitment & selection process for sourcing best talent from diverse sources (Requirement Gathering, Analysis of Requirements, Recruitment Planning, Sourcing, Screening, Validation, Assessments / Interviewing, Salary Negotiation, Offers till On-boarding / Joining Formalities)
  • Managed team of 7 sourcing specialist and sourcing team lead
  • Managed direct exclusive hiring centre for American express
  • Managed Candidate Experience, Data Management, Referrals and more
  • Counseling candidate on corporate benefits, salary, and corporate environment
  • Handled end to end recruitment process, understanding mandate, industry mapping and head hunting
  • A deft follow up on Select to Offer & Offer to Joining ratios
  • Managed different vendor partners in Delhi/NCR to complete batches within TAT
  • Manage employee’s integration including pre-joining, day of joining & post joining.

GRO Consultant

Team Lease- RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing)
12.2014 - 03.2016

Managed end-to-end recruitment process for RPO client (Interglobe Technologies), including sourcing, screening, and hiring top talent across various functions

  • Utilized Taleo (Applicant Tracking System) to streamline recruitment workflows and ensure compliance with hiring protocols
  • Individual Contributor for hiring Entry level to Senior level Profiles
  • Independently handling lateral, Midlevel hiring and Voice/Non-Voice mainly for WFM, SME, Team Leader, Manager, other support functions for Travel Domain
  • Time to time attending meeting with LOB partners for better understanding and quick closure of all positions within timeline
  • Handled Volume Hiring for front-line executives
  • Advocating usage & feasibility of alternative sourcing techniques for attracting passive job-seekers
  • Managing Referral within organization
  • Responsible for sourcing through Direct channels like job portals, Campus and Internal Employee Referrals in order to save cost
  • Vendor management/Sourcing and ensuring timely availability of interviewers at vendor site
  • Taking care of pre background checks to ensure that candidate has clear track record before onboarding
  • Managed employee grievance of early life to minimize attrition
  • Strong adherence to internal policies of organization
  • Investigation negative Background Verification Reports
  • Process / Business Analysis/ Audit
  • Process/recruitment /documentation / Induction/ new joiners Tracker
  • Proactively investigate data to help continuously improve departmental performance and be detail oriented with focus on consistent accuracy
  • Assist in reviews & analysis of Reports
  • Strengthen of Footfall / Met to offer/ joining and Induction data
  • Detailed & in depth analysis of Footfall and Met to offer data
  • Offer and joining analysis.

Recruiter (Mid-level and Senior Level Niche Hiring)

Numax technology
06.2012 - 11.2014
  • Hired IT profiles like java developer, c++, .net developer, python, AWS, Solution architect, Cloud architect.
  • Handled and mentored team of 5 sourcing specialist
  • Managed and organized multiple Events for companies
  • Time to time attending meeting with LOB partners for better understanding and quick closure of all positions within timeline
  • Managing Referral within organization
  • Responsible for sourcing through Direct channels like job portals, Campus and Internal Employee Referrals in order to save cost.

Education

Bachelor of Arts English Honours -

Shobhit University- School of Distance Learning
Meerut
01.2013 - 05.2014

XII - CBSE -

Greenway Modern School
Delhi
03.2005 - 03.2006

X - CBSE -

Greenway Modern School
Delhi
03.2003 - 03.2006

Skills

Talent Acquisition skills with Planning, Sourcing and Organizing – Recruitment

Accomplishments

· Awarded Quarterly and Half yearly in EY GDS for being the best people manager and new comer of the year.

· Awarded by CEO in India companywide at CVENT for being the Top 1% Talent.

· Successfully individually hired 84 positions in 2019, 117 positions in 2021 and 130 positions in 2022 through Employee referrals, direct sourcing channels and other social media platforms within CVENT India.

· Have been promoted year on year due to high performance and was taken on rolls with CVENT India Pvt. Ltd.

· Have been awarded as a “Soul of CVENT” for being the Top 1%.

· Awarded Annually year on year for being the Top performer in 2019 2020, 2021 and 2022 with CVENT.

· Successfully increased the Employee Referral hiring percentage from 10 to 25% with CVENT.

· Successfully transitioned the US positions to India and closed all the role within TAT at CVENT.

· Successfully closed critical positions within TAT

· Awarded for being the best performer in AMEX.

· Trained and motivated team members to optimizing their talents and potentials.

· Awarded with Best Performer certificate in IGT.

Timeline

Team Lead Recruitment

CVENT India Pvt.
02.2019 - 08.2022

Associate Recruitment

Randstad- RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing)
01.2019 - 01.2019

Associate Recruitment

Adecco Staffing
08.2018 - 12.2018

Recruitment Relationship Manager, Volume hiring for Banking Industry

Allegis Global Solutions – RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing)
07.2016 - 08.2018

GRO Consultant

Team Lease- RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing)
12.2014 - 03.2016

Bachelor of Arts English Honours -

Shobhit University- School of Distance Learning
01.2013 - 05.2014

Recruiter (Mid-level and Senior Level Niche Hiring)

Numax technology
06.2012 - 11.2014

XII - CBSE -

Greenway Modern School
03.2005 - 03.2006

X - CBSE -

Greenway Modern School
03.2003 - 03.2006

Assistant Manager, Talent Attraction & Acquisition

Ernst & Young GDS
8 2022 - 12.2023

Projects

Modification in Background checks Online capturing of Employee Information Optimising backend team activities Reduction of Documentation

Projects

Modification in Background checks Online capturing of Employee Information Optimising backend team activities Reduction of Documentation
VASU CHONATalent Acquisition Specialist