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Vijayalakshmi Muthu

Chennai

Summary

16 years experienced in Talent Acquisition, Goal-driven individual who has achieved success in a variety of roles with increasing levels of responsibility. An effective communicator and team builder with strong analytical, management and organizational skills. Expertise in sourcing, high-volume recruiting, Executive search. Core-expertise on designing and benchmarking best practices in recruitment function.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Manager- Recruitment

Virtusa
Chennai
04.2022 - Current
  • Managing a team of 10 recruiters and dealing with Account & Delivery leads, TAG Leadership, Onsite counterpart for Healthcare, Insurance, Lifesciences, and Banking clients.
  • Driving process compliance, due diligence, maintaining average account margin across segments.
  • Budget reporting - Assist in the reporting and monitoring of budgets within the TAG function. Assist in the budgeting process by examining and discovering opportunities to save costs, and implementing consistent workflow monitoring procedures that help to increase year-over-year growth.
  • Formulate strategies for Employee Referral branding and effective utilization of ER resume.
  • Conduct regular reviews with the Delivery team to ensure effective circulation of external resources, and ensure the staffing request is fulfilled with external hiring.
  • Lay out the plan of execution and end to end recruitment from sourcing to joining for weekend and weekday drives, for ramping up major projects
  • Responsible for conceptualization, implementation of Internal Recruitment System, and process adherence with Application Tracking System.
  • Conduct weekly TA reviews with the team, Global Workforce Management, and Account Managers to analyze fulfillment against the target.
  • Publish Dashboards to the respective Vertical Head on a weekly basis, on the progress of TA, number of hires on the major accounts.

Senior Consultant -Tech Lead

Capgemini
Chennai
02.2020 - 04.2022
  • Led the team on Recruitment Strategy Planning for ADM Practice across technologies and collaborating with Business stakeholders and HR Leaders to create strategies and plans to support the overall business goal, entailing Talent acquisition.
  • Spearheading the Talent Acquisition across India locations – Interviewing, Salary Negotiations, offer releasing, and initiating on-boarding.
  • Assisting and mentoring the Talent Delivery, Talent Acquisition.
  • Measuring the team's performance across metrics like Aging, Source mix, and TA Process adherence.
  • Front-ending and collaborating with a staffing partner to validate demands and plan for the fulfillment of demands.
  • Promote diversity in the workplace and ensure recruiting strategies attract diverse candidates.
  • Weekly MIS to key stakeholders, BU head, Practice head for all accounts handled in ADM.

Executive

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai
02.2013 - 02.2020
  • Worked closely with the business to identify live vacancies and create a workforce plan for executive positions and technology hiring.
  • Worked in the Netherlands for a few months at the client's end as a business need.
  • Specialized in Executive Hiring (Director, SD, AVP, VP, SVP, CTO) across all verticals & Horizontals.
  • Strong hands on in Technology Hiring (Cloud technologies, Java, Big Data, Mainframe, SAP, Salesforce, Sitecore, Siebel CRM - Developers, Testers & Architects) for India & Europe Market.
  • Source candidates from job boards, internal database, referrals, headhunting, and forums.
  • Effectively maintaining internal database, Taleo.
  • Took care of end-to-end recruitment and selection process including posting jobs, screening resumes and interview support, creating offers & contracts, Initiating BGV process, Mobility check (work permit approval) Employee ID creation & on boarding process.

Executive-Resource Management Group

Maples ESM Technologies
Chennai
04.2011 - 02.2013
  • Involved in End to End Recruitment - IT (Contract, Permanent, Internal) and handled a team of 2 members.
  • Strong experience in recruiting for mainframe technologies and infrastructure management.
  • Good experience in hiring professionals for niche skills.
  • Strong experience in hiring professionals across various tier levels, including Tech Leads, Architects, and leadership hiring, such as Project Manager, Regional Managers, Business Development managers, etc.

Executive -HR

Firstware Software solutions
Chennai
12.2009 - 02.2011
  • Involved in complete life cycle of the recruitment process and negotiating the salary packages.

Business Process Executive

Sutherland Global Services
12.2008 - 11.2009
  • Involved in business process for few US clients like Intuit, PHH, Merrill Lynch.

Education

Master of Business Administration -

Anna University
06.2011

Bachelors of Engineering -

Anna University
06.2008

Skills

  • Recruiting and selection techniques
  • Employee Referral
  • Diversity hiring
  • Social Media Recruitment/Head hunting
  • Employer brand recognition
  • Online recruitment marketing campaigns

Certification

  • Certified LinkedIn Recruiter & LinkedIn Manager
  • Completed Six Sigma training
  • Blue belt certification (Sourcing Ninja)-Social Talent
  • Black belt certification in Internet recruitment- Social Talent

Hobbies and Interests

  • Baking
  • Craft works like quilling, handmade greeting cards, Painting
  • Cooking

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Manager- Recruitment

Virtusa
04.2022 - Current

Senior Consultant -Tech Lead

Capgemini
02.2020 - 04.2022

Executive

Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2013 - 02.2020

Executive-Resource Management Group

Maples ESM Technologies
04.2011 - 02.2013

Executive -HR

Firstware Software solutions
12.2009 - 02.2011

Business Process Executive

Sutherland Global Services
12.2008 - 11.2009

Master of Business Administration -

Anna University

Bachelors of Engineering -

Anna University

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