Driving Key Projects: - AugMentor- Boomerang- Back to work- Internalship - Diversity hiring- Talent Nurture Program13+ years of experience in Talent Acquisition, Talent engagement & Talent Management.- The wealth of expertise covers executing best practices to deliver solutions to clients- Expertise in hiring for teams like Engineering, Infrastructure, operations, financial shared services etc.- Strong at team management, stakeholder management, networking, building & maintaining relationships across the organization.- Proficient in Industry Mapping, Competitor Analysis, Design, and Improvement.- A good planner and organizer with strategic approach who can leverage and drive the company processes to help an organization to meet its vision.- Have Strong initiative skills with a proactive approach and assertive nature to cope up with the impending change in the corporate world.

ShoreTel is one of the largest providers of cloud, premises-based and hybrid business telephony and unified communications (UC) solutions. Our award-winning, brilliantly simple communications offerings lead the industry in customer satisfaction and lowest total cost of ownership. Our innovative business phones, application integration, collaboration tools, mobility, and contact center applications empower organizations and employees to collaborate, connect and work no matter time, place or device.

I was heading Talent Acquisition for IMS, India and part of global Talent Acquisition –COE.As a trusted advisor, provided strategic consultation on the best recruitment practices to the senior leadership and hiring managers in Workforce Planning, developing sourcing strategies, building talent pipelines and aligning hiring processes across the business.Plethora of experience in gathering market intelligence to enable leadership team to make right hiring decision. Served as a subject matter expert in devising a Talent Acquisition strategy and attracted the best talents through multiple sourcing channels like networking, advertising, social network, database searches, targeted groups, employee referrals, internal transfers and agencies; promoted the company brand to candidates.Experience in designing robust Recruitment Processes to ensure overall efficiency of the Recruitment engine.I was instrumental in designing referral policies within IMS. Increased the credibility on the HR function by proactively identified recruiting challenges faced and delivered solutions in a cost effective and timely manner.Responsible for running weekly allocations meetings with the Hiring Managers and monthly projection meetings with VP(India) to determine resource needs.Evaluated the panel of vendors, managed the selection process, created a Preferred Supplier List across each function, ensured cost effective and good quality of service delivery, formulated the agency and hiring manager operating guidelines, advocated the adherence of the hiring process to all stakeholders.Managing timesheets, invoices, leaves, SoWs and extensions for the contractors. Supervising a team of recruiters - Planning and assigning work, setting standards, evaluating performance, and identifying training needs.  Publish weekly reports and ensure stake holders are aware about the hiring status of their respective positions.

Responsible for:Sourcing relevantprofiles matching to the requirement specificationCoordination of interviews and skill mapping. Active headhunting and meet the recruitment numbers as assigned by Manager / Assistant Manager-Recruitment while ensuring cost effective recruitment. Meeting deadline assigned to him/her, well within the time frame. Being involved in end to end coordination from sourcing the profile to closing the offer to post offer follow up till the candidate comes on board. Ensuring 0% deviation from the set salary band width. Religiously following process established by the organization.Applies company policies and procedures to resolve routine issues. Expected to learn on the job towards developing domain knowledge along with functional/ proprietary skills and market trends.Applies and adheres to company policies and procedures.