Training Management

Padmavathy Gokulnath

Queens Blvd, New York

770-***-**** (Mobile)

248-***-**** (Home)

E-mail: *******@*****.***

SKILLS SUMMARY

More than 5 years experience in the HR field with IT/ITES industry. Highly experienced in IT Recruitment, Talent Planning, Goal based Performance Management, Training & Development, Comp & Ben and HR Metrics & Analysis. Committed to high work ethics and to attainment of management goals and objectives. Possesses the skills to build, strengthen, and maintain people relationships.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DOT COM INFOWAY Ltd (DCI) March 2007 – Dec 2009

ROLE: HR MANAGER

Responsibilities:

Talent Planning & Recruitment

• Forecasted the man-power needs of the organization and discussed with management and project managers.

• Provided realistic staffing projections for budget purposes.

• Slashed the last minute hiring costs like huge notice buy-outs while ensuring the quality of hire.

• Developed appropriate recruitment strategy and hired the best talent right in time as per the project needs.

• Determined pay for new hires within appropriate and defined pay structures and with consideration of existing work group compensation.

• Reduced the CPH (cost per hire) phenomenally by negotiating with the candidate and also reduced the time to fill any position.

Compensation & Benefits

• Framed the organization’s HR capital structure.

• Incorporated performance based incentive component (PLVB) to the compensation structure across the organization.

• Introduced employee friendly benefits that impacted the employee satisfaction level greatly.

• Ensured that departments/sub units have documented procedures for determining pay increases, consistent with organization policy.

Organizational Training & development

• Identified the training needs of all employees and created the training plan to cater to the needs as well as meet the budget needs of the organization for Training.

• Created a comprehensive New Employee Orientation Program and Employee Handbook.

• Conducted training programs as per the plan without any deviation and achieved the set target level of training man-hours for the year and came out successful in all external Training audits for the department.

• Measured the cost per training, training effectiveness, re-training costs if any and provided the management useful insight for Budget planning.

HR Dashboard and Scorecard

• Defined HR metrics for the organization and linked it to the organization’s goals adding value to the HR capital.

• Measured the critical factors at different stages of employee life cycle and presented it periodically to the management.

• Framed the balanced Scorecard including the most relevant metrics like Recruitment TAT (Turn-around-Time), Cost-per-hire, Attrition rate, Training man-hours, Training Cost.

SUNDARAM BUSINESS SERVICES April 2005 – Nov 2006

Role: HR Officer

Responsibilities:

• Training Need Identification, Design annual training plan & Budget, Organize/ coordinate training programs. Training effectiveness Evaluation

• Facilitation for implementation of Performance Management System: Periodical Reviews, Rewards & Recognition.

• Internal Training Resource for conducting in-house training programs.

• Employee Engagement Program - Conducted many Fun@ Work programs.

• Facilitated mass recruitment drives – Campus Recruitment, Job Fairs…

• Conducted Exit Interviews and evaluate the same.

• Coordinated with the Top management & Business Heads.

EDUCATION

Maharishi University of Management – Fairfield, Iowa

MBA in Human Resources, 2003 – 2005

Madras University – Chennai, India

B.E in Computer Science, 1999 - 2003.

Additional Certification:

Thomas Profiling Certification - Psychometric Profiling.

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