As the People Practice Leader, I take a strategic and holistic approach to managing and developing the most valuable asset of any organization—its people. My efforts are directed towards attracting culturally fit talent, employee development, performance management, and culture-building initiatives, fostering an environment where employees are empowered to thrive.In addition to overseeing people practices, I coordinate across both onsite and other offshore global offices, ensuring seamless collaboration and alignment with the company's global objectives and core values. By integrating people practices with organizational goals, I aim to contribute to and drive the long-term success and sustainability of the business.

• Directly managing a team of 12 professionals across 5 different centers within the city.• Coordinating and helping other multiple centers of the organization at Pan India level and exchanging the hiring trends and ideas.• Responsible for managing complete recruitment cycle starting from sourcing, interviewing, coordinating with clients for client-rounds of interview, offer negotiations to onboarding of the candidate. • Reviewing the hiring requirements and aligning resources to accomplish the requirements for different LOBs.• Working towards generating foot-fall (walk-ins) through activities like peer-peer promotions, employee-referrals, advertisements, social media campaigns, campus, pamphlet distribution bulk-messaging, IJP promotions, Graduate hiring program, Vendor Drives, Campus Recruitment Program at large scale. • Formulating strategies to accomplish requirements for the newly added businesses without impacting the hiring for on-going processes. • Making sure that there is diversity in hiring. • Aggressively worked towards increasing the hiring from govt. sector / schemes.• Majorly focused on budget hiring while not compromising on the quality and quantity of recruitment. Worked towards reducing the cost per hire.• Successfully delivered 2 ramp ups in the duration that have been a part of with the organization. (Ramp up count 1200 and 1500 resources)• Co-coordinating with recruitment partners/consultants and ensuring clearance of their payments.• Making sure that all the administrative tasks related to hiring are completed on time and without any deviation (Rolling out Offer letter, Onboarding, Induction planning, documentation and BGV).• Visiting production floors, meeting employees, listening to their concerns and addressing them, conducting skip sessions to ensure E-Satisfaction.• Managing reports and reviewing the performance to strategize as per future business requirement.

US and UAE technical Recruitment process owner for Parkar Labs & Consulting. Recruiting for niche positions for clients through Parkar Consulting & Labs. Liaison with different client(s) for open and new positions. Headhunt IT and Engineering professionals in the Banking, Pharmaceutical, Retail, Financial, and other industries.Actively involved in Vendor Management and Client Engagement.Perform full-cycle recruiting for a variety of specialized careers in the engineering and IT fields, including Software Engineers, Developers, Project/Test Engineers, etc.Reach out to an average of 100 candidates a day through cold-calling, social media networking, and through hunting on JobDiva, LinkedIn, CareerBuilder, Monster, Dice, and Indeed.Generate and actively recruit referrals from current and former contract employees, and contact former contract employees not currently on assignment. Phone screen potential applicants. Interview qualified applicants and test appropriate specialties. Perform reference check on new hires and assisted back office and end-clients in completing background checks.Screen applications for qualifications and cultural fit.Innovate and constantly improve how to attract the right people.Research recruiting trends and emerging social media opportunities for recruiting.Build and maintain a quality pipeline of candidates for contract, contract to hire, and direct hire placements through fostering long-term relationships with candidates.Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to post new requisitions weekly.Strong experience of using various Applicant Tracking System, MS Outlook, MS Word and MS Excel.

Primarily hired for setting up Human resource and administration department and setting up policies and procedures.Another major responsibility was to hire and procure right kind of administrative, managerial and work force.Major responsibilities included to recruit and manage the work force along with deciding upon their salary structure and responsibilities.Making all documents ready and in proper order to be presented in government departments for obtaining various permissions, approvals etc…Liaison with different vendors and consultants with updated man power requirement and making sure right talent is brought on board.

Responsible for handling direct client requirements that use to come in from the company's major clients. Handled requirements of various nature such as C2C, C2H, W2, 1099 and Full Time. Worked on requirements on varying technologies starting from most common to few of the most niche technologies available in the market at that time. Actively involved in review and preparation of MSA and WO for new partnership association and all selected candidates.

Appointed as Management Representative for ISO implementation. Developed policies and procedures along with forms for all the departments together with department heads and the ISO consultant. Highly proficient with procedures and legalities of DMCC, JAFZA and Dubai Labor Department. Managed and headed the Recruitment and Selection process. Sourcing cost effective and coordinating with the agencies to recruit for open positions based on the company Structure and Requirements using multiple sources such as Job portals, Recruitment Agencies, References and Advertisements. Effectively design, evaluate and implement HR Policies and Systems, employee benefits and welfare policies, ensuring programs are current, competitive and in compliance with legal requirements. Formulated HR Manual and policy guidelines (handbook) in line with International and UAE labor lawWorked hands in hand with IT Department to implement EPMS (Enterprise project/performance Management System) and with it managed HRMS (Human Resource Management System) to implement real time attendance and leave management system. Maintaining Master data base (MIS) for Al Masah and its sister concern group of companies. Enhanced the Employee Engagement levels. By accomplishing various in house training and external training for Team development and performance enhancement. Regularly conducting surveys for understanding the training needs of the employees. Maintained a system for Performance Evaluation whereby, single handedly organized and successfully completed the performance appraisal for complete team of 87 professionals. Responsible for employee relations and counseling and actively involved in grievance solving towards cultural development of the company.Responsible and single handedly managing payrolls for 3 companies at the same time and maintaining real time attendance system.

Involved in full life cycle of recruitment covering all aspects like sourcing, screening, short listing, salary negotiations, coordinating technical rounds, making offers / work orders, MSA, Time sheet verifications, handholding the candidates and follow up with them till the time they join. Short-listing of candidates for various profiles and projects, on various criterions. Scheduling and coordination of interviews with the consultants, panelists and candidates. Joining formalities and documentation of New Hires. Extensive experience using job boards like Monster, Dice, Hot Jobs, Career Builder etc. Understand the job requirement and scope of the role so that right profile can be searched and submitted. Issue of deputation letters for employees going On-Site. Issue of other documentation such as address proof, employment certificate, etc.

Responsible for end to end recruitment encompassing hunting best fits / resources, preliminary screening, negotiating compensations, releasing offers, following up with resources ensuring their joining with special impetus on deadlines. Accountable for out-station hiring, have handled back to back out station vendor drives as well as direct walk-ins. Responsible for diverse and volume hiring. Handled big walk-ins and recruitment drives for bulk hiring. Completing joining formalities and coordinating induction for new joiners. Headhunted resources for targeting niche skills. Liaised with resource allocation team to understand bench movement. Maintain “Daily Sheet” for all interviews.