Vijay Raghavan B L

A people's person passionate about developing self-motivated professionals who are aligned to the organization’s objectives. As a strategic HR partner, I have aligned business objectives with employee and management needs for organizations, acting as a champion, change agent, and culture steward.

• Planned and implemented recruitment strategies. Drive end to end Talent acquisition program for different levels of hiring.
• Hiring across levels - Executive , Mid levels and support staff.
• Demonstrated a high level of initiative and creativity while hiring for challenging roles.
• Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
• Demonstrated strong organizational and time management skills while managing multiple projects.
• Provided professional services and support in a dynamic work environment.
• Assisted with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with all team members.
• Worked well in a team setting, providing support and guidance.
• Organized and detail-oriented with a strong work ethic.
• Developed and implemented people processes including succession planning, talent development mechanisms, reward platforms, performance management, compensation and benefits.
• Experience in people engagement & employee benefits.
• Involved in driving diversity & inclusion campaigns & trainings at various level.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

· Manage end to end recruitment cycles for senior, middle and junior management employees.

· Work closely with top management on senior level executive hiring.

· Negotiation & finalization of salaries to selected candidates.

· Conduct periodic surveys & collate data to build market intelligence.

· Offer roll out and follow up with selected candidates to ensure no drop outs.

· Conduct orientation training and complete on-boarding formalities.

· Work closely with top management on inducting senior professionals to the team and ensuring a smooth operation.

• Evaluated and executed pan India hiring, retrenchments and promotions.
• Managed both volume and niche hiring.
• Introduced new policies and systems, HR tools, and processes to achieve challenging objectives.
• Brainstormed and developed talent acquisition strategies to achieve optimal sales teams

Major Deliverables:

· Support the management in delivering their annual business plan

· Advise and coach managers on people practices that assist business performance and improve their people management capability.

· Ensuring managers follow advice and issues are dealt with in a timely manner.

· Provide monthly reports to Director and Chairman as required

· Evaluate management procedures, processes, policies, and practices and work with management for changes, if any.

· Implement changes in appropriate policies and procedures.

Recruitment & Onboarding

· Understand headcount plans and work with the Recruitment Team to support their implementation.

· Manage vacancies and interview as required and ensure relevant selection processes are implemented to obtain right fit hires

· Advise managers in the production of Job Descriptions and person specifications

· Relevant job descriptions and non-discriminatory person specifications are used for recruitment

· Ensure recruitment policy and process are adhered to

· Advise managers on the process and check and approve offers made.

· Guide managers on induction & probation processes

· Ensure 100% adherence.

Led:

ACHIEVEMENTS:

· Joined Karle Group as a Recruitment Consultant and was absorbed as Assistant Manager – HR.

· Streamlined the entire recruitment process.

· Effectively reduced the average closure time by 40%.

· Was instrumental in building the core team for Karle Infra Projects (Real Estate) vertical.

· Conceptualized, designed and executed complete HRIS.

· Was promoted as Manager in a period of within a year.

· Manpower planning, Recruitment & Selection

· Creating and implementing company policies /procedures.

· Managing the corporate HR team consisting of 6 members.

· Implement and ensure compliance of QMS as per the ISO norms.

· Team management - Prioritize & ensure even distribution of workload of the team.

· Effectively managing the HR functions for 4 business verticals.

Responsibilities:

IT & Non – IT Recruitment, Client Management & servicing, Team Management, End to end recruitment, Search – Middle & Executive level positions, Business development.

· Setup the Non-IT recruitment vertical with a team. Engaged clients of diverse industries like, Real Estate, Manufacturing & Pharmaceuticals.

· Setup a training & development vertical to facilitate In-house and Corporate Trainings.

· Conducted in-house and corporate trainings – Soft skills and Behavioral trainings.

· Managed Accounts for recruitment intensive Clients such as TESCO, IBM Daksh, Oracle, Sobha Developers, Brigade Group to name a few.

· Understanding and delivery of end-to-end recruitment services.

· Handle escalations at HR SPOC and senior HR levels.

· Successfully engaged with new clients like iflex Solutions, Commerce Velocity, Onmobile.

· Identify qualified candidates, map the available role and cultural fitment analysis.

· Team Management & Delivery.

· Guiding the team in niche assignments.

Responsibilities: End to end recruitment, Campus recruitment, Sourcing – Lateral, Mid & Executive hiring, Client servicing, MIS

· End to end recruitment.

· Client Management.

· Solid knowledge of SDLC – Water fall, Agile.

· Have led a team to handle Ad-processing projects.

· Have independently handled volume hiring.

· MIS – report generation and analysis.

· Awarded the HPC(Hundred Percent Club) award (Target of 100% and more achievers club) for three consecutive years 2005, 2006 and 2007

· Awarded Star and Super Star Recruiter for Q1 and Q4 of the year 05 – 06, and Q3 and Q4 in 06 - 07

· Achieved 350% of billing target for the month of February 07.

· Achieved 200% of billing target for the month of March 07.

· Actively involved in Top Search assignments.

· Developed and implemented a Recruitment training package to train fresh recruiters.

Responsibilities:

Coordination, Support, MIS – Recruitment for Telecordia Project

· Data-mining candidates for various technical skills, sourcing candidates.

· Building a database consisting of profiles of active and inactive candidates.

· MIS preparation, updating and reporting

· Candidate interaction mails – Opportunity, Schedules, Interview feedbacks.

· Coordinating with technical panel and HR panel.

· Internal Ad posting on Synergy and Job Portals.