An extended period of Maternity leave to bring up my son until he was old enough to start school. During this period, I started my own venture into Sustainable Reusable Handmade Home Products (Craftivity) & was a Swimming Coach for Kids and Adults.

Recruitment – Hiring across all grades using sources such as job portals, careers page, IJPs, External Consultants etc. Use of Predictive Index Tool to analyse fitment of candidates. Compensation fitment, negotiation and offer to candidates and ensuring smooth on boarding and settling down of candidates.Performance Management – Data preparation prior to appraisal, sessions for employees on evaluation method, moderation and bell curve fitment.Talent Review – Midyear activity for classification of employees into “Categories of talent” and identifying “Performance and Potential” – identifying functional and behavioural action points for each employee.Reward and Recognition – Conducting quarterly function for individual and team categories starting from employee nomination, discussion with Business Head on their performance and selecting the award winners.Attrition Analysis and Retention – Analysing attrition trends and reasons through Focussed group discussions, exit interviews, individual counselling, IJP movements etc. Fish bone analysis for reasons of exit. Designing action plan with Business Heads and CFO for reducing the attrition level.Employee Engagement – Fun Activities, off-sites, monthly engagement activities, value mailers and online engagement activities.

Compensation Benchmarking – Compensation fitment of selected candidates as per market standards. Performance Management – Implementing the newly introduced Performance Evaluation Method based on “Coaching”. End to end activities performed to ensure smooth, timely and effective execution of the PMS.Workforce Planning – Cost Analysis on a monthly basis.Employee Connect – Smooth employee transition post onboarding, employee visit on client locations. Taking initiatives to action on Gallup People Survey to enable higher employee engagement. Implementation of change, initiatives around flexibility, connectivity and communication.Reward and Recognition – Monitoring effectiveness of reward nominee and facilitating rewards.

Employee Engagement – Execution of employee engagement activities and analysing the effect of the same on quality and productivity parameters. Internal Recruitment – through IJPsAttrition Management and Grievance Handling– through awareness on benefits and entitlement/organizing policy clinics, RAG analysis, Manager Empowerment sessions, skip level meetings/open house session. Conducting exit interview and retention. Reward and Recognition – Timely and smooth execution of R&R activities.Performance Management – Ensuring Performance report sharing by supervisors through sign offs and bell curve fitment.

• Analysis of Organizational Change in the past 10 years and its subsequent impact on HR strategies and practices.• Suggested changes for better synergy between HR practices and strategies of the company.

• Developed an HR system for Technical Competency Mapping of employees based on skill and knowledge gap between their existing and required level of competency.o The system implementation started in Wire and Rod Mill and G-Blast furnace with roll out plans to other departments over the next one year.• Carried out an Employee Satisfaction Survey in the training department to find out the factor that contributes most towards satisfaction of employees and suggested subsequent areas of improvement.