VIDUSHI SHUKLA

Strategic Talent Acquisition:

• Spearheading campus hiring strategy across 100+ premier engineering and B-school campuses, enabling scalable talent pipelines, and facilitating the onboarding of 300+ high-potential hires annually.
• Leading the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle for off-campus hiring drives, specializing in niche and high-impact roles across Cloud, AI, and Software Engineering domains.
• Partnered with leadership to execute executive hiring mandates for key strategic roles across functions, including Finance, ensuring that business-critical positions were filled with top-tier talent.

Competency Design and Interview Frameworks:

• Orchestrating the development of competency frameworks for 84+ roles across the "Create, Sell, and Enable" spectrum, aligning talent evaluation with evolving business capabilities.
• Designing structured interview kits and scorecards for 30+ roles under campus programs, enhancing hiring consistency, interviewer calibration, and candidate experience.

Candidate Assessment:

• Facilitated and assessed group discussions (GDs) for six distinct role clusters, focusing on behavioral and cognitive competencies like collaboration, critical thinking, and leadership.
• Conducted 'Solver Round' assessments for mid-senior hires, evaluating structured problem-solving, business logic, and lateral thinking, directly influencing final selection decisions.

Project: Implementation of the Apprentices Act, 1961, across all DB India entities. The project went live in June 2024.

Act Compliance and Implementation:

• Conducted a detailed study of Apprentices Act, 1961 in the context of its applicability to the banking sector
• Identified key bank areas for apprentice deployment: technology, credit risk, operations, and risk mgmt.
• Drafted docs. related to contractual arrangement between apprentice & organization ensuring compliance
• Designed process flow of the implementation plan to comply. Liaised with internal HR stakeholders & leadership

Vendor Analysis:

• Finalized INR 2.5-3Mn value contract. Screened, evaluated & identified vendors to support compliance

Cohort Selection & Benchmarking:

• Proposed cohort of 450 target apprentices. Analysed risks of tagging 200+ pipeline candidates as apprentices
• Gathered industry insights across 7 peer banks & NBFCs to understand their active processes for compliance