SUCHITA GODHIA
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HUMAN RESOURCES PROFESSIONAL WITH MBA AND PHR
A PHR certified result-oriented Human Resources professional with strong business judgment who provides solid
HR knowledge through rich experience in the HR Generalist and Recruitment domain.
SUMMARY
• 6 years of experience in Human Resources field with focus and expertise in Recruitment, Employee
Relations, Business Partnerships and Talent Management.
• Gained strong domain expertise through exposure to various sectors including- Finance, IT, Hospitality,
Social Services, Education and Healthcare industry
• Extensive background in executing the role of HR Business Partner and recruitment activities including
experience in entire employee recruitment cycle, retention, employee development, mediation, conflict
resolution, benefits and compensation, HR administrative tasks, HR policies development and legal
compliance.
HR SKILLS
• Employment Law
• Employee Relations
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• Orientation & On-Boarding
FMLA/ADA/EEO/WC
• Alternative Dispute
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• HRIS Technologies
Mediation & Advocacy
Resolution (ADR)
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• Training & Development
HR Policies & Procedures
• Benefits Administration
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• Performance Management
Staff Recruitment & Retention
• HR Program/Project
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• Talent Planning
Sourcing, screening, Interviewing
Management
candidates
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
TemPositions- Healthcare, New York City, New York
Corporate Recruiter, 08/2012 to present
My specialty is niche skill set and senior level recruitment in competitive and challenging economic conditions.
Expert experience with successfully creating and building client relationships to fulfill their requirements based on
the job description by executing the full cycle recruitment process to help fill various orders for temporary, direct
hire and temporary to permanent staffing requirements.
Recruiting responsibilities
• Create and implement Employment Marketing Strategies to attract passive job seekers.
• Identify and leverage the most effective methods for sourcing, including Career Builder, Monster, Indeed,
LinkedIn, campus recruitment and domain specific publications and job portals.
• Track and report key metrics designed to measure and predict staffing activity.
• Conduct telephonic screening and face to face interview.
• Conduct reference checks and extend employment offers after negotiating final terms.
Think Tree Technologies, Edison, NJ
Technical Recruiter, 05/2012- 07/2012
Think Tree Technologies specializes in SAP Consulting and SAP Recruitments.
Recruiting responsibilities
• Own full-cycle recruitment process: to screen, interview, negotiate offer to fill open requisitions for all SAP
positions for multiple client companies across all states in the US coordinated the interview process. checked
references, negotiated terms and rates for each project,
• Partnered with internal hiring managers to drive staffing solutions that met the needs of the business.
• Maintained up-to-date knowledge of SAP Functional Area and specialized in recruitment of SAP FICO,SAP
CRM, SAP BI/BO, SAP SD, SAP MM/WM and business analyst requirements
• Effectively recruited IT Professionals in a time-sensitive environment.
Marketing Responsibilities
• Build connections with current vendors and create new relationship with end clients
• Attend ASUG chapter meet and other professional meetings to understand SAP subject knowledge and
network with SAP consultants and companies that create and provide SAP solutions.
Bank of America
HR Generalist, 2009-2011
Managed a span of 550 employees and handled a full spectrum of HR operations, systems and programs. Worked
with senior management as a strategic consultant to create HR policies and procedures; recruited employees; created
and delivered orientation, training and development programs; maintained personnel records; administered benefits
programs and enrolment; and handled HR generalist workplace issues.
Key Results
• Been a strategic consultant with multiple stakeholders and leadership to drive processes and changes.
• Created policy drafts; managed recruitment; training and activities of the entire employee life cycle.
• Coached and counseled management regarding employee relations and performance management.
• Played a key role in ensuring the successful launch of new-employee orientation for the region operations.
• Launched “Onboarding philosophy” and “Onboarding Survey” to create positive new hire experience
• Completed process improvement projects using Six Sigma techniques
Recruitments
• Developed and implemented strategic initiatives for recruiting diverse talent in a multi-site organization.
• Partnered with Corporate Business Leaders to forecast and develop plans for key staffing initiatives.
• Created and modified job descriptions; sourced- through job portals, social media, campus recruitment, referrals
and also conducted interviews to meet fitment and retention
• Managed complete cycle of internal recruitments
• Ensured 100% of employees are redeployed post ramp-down in current process
• Created and participated in the execution of an assessment center to help groom vintage individual contributors
for people management roles.
On-Boarding
• Created an On-boarding structure and solely met all requirements of new hires.
• Played a strategic role with Retention Management Council to reduce 0-90 day attritions
Employee relations and engagement activities/communications
• Effectively created awareness about policies, processes and corporate messages using innovative branding
mediums (example: posters, standees, e-mail, all-hand meetings).
• Manage regular ‘connects’ with manager and senior leadership team to understand various people issues and
share the key take-away from the meeting to all stakeholders involved and track progress on those items before
next periodic ‘connect’
• Constantly strived for employee satisfaction by connecting with employees and people managers to help
address their concerns and people related challenges.
• Periodically created, administered and analyzed survey results to achieve employee satisfaction and
engagement. Leveraged Sharepoint as a medium for conducting surveys, getting reports and for analysis.
• Had retention conversation with employees who have resigned and proactively used the Early Warning Sign
System to identify disengaged resources to help address their concerns to prevent the attrition.
Performance and Talent Management
• Consulted senior business leaders to ensure timely execution of the competency based performance
management bi-annual cycle, quarterly reward system, promotion cycle and talent planning process by
communicating timelines and providing structure to identify, groom and develop talent.
• Training needs analysis was conducted for entry to senior level employees to help create and launch trainings.
• Launched a training - “Conducting Effective 1*1” for people managers.
Compliance
• Handled grievance and disciplinary cases of breach of conduct.(example- absconding cases, performance and
integrity issues)
• Ensured exit formalities were done in a timely manner.
• Maintained up-to-date Employee Database and 100% compliance as per the Labour Laws.
INTERNSHIPS
• UST Global, Corporate HR Team 04/2008- 06/2008
Project Title: “Re-structuring the Lateral Recruitment Process to include the UST Handprint”- Created an
assessment, scoring and interpretation guide to evaluate candidate’s performance during the selection stages based
on the competency model.
• The Taj Mahal Palace and Towers, Personnel dept. 05/2006- 05/2007 & 04/2005-06/2005
HR Administration: Assistant
• Assisted in Recruitment activities like sourcing resumes, scheduling interviews, maintaining applicant
documentation
• Maintained files, documentation and data entry for new hires and employee changes
• Updated periodic HR/staffing reports, and ensuring notification of employment changes to Payroll and
other appropriate departments
• Participated in administrative and compliance duties as needed
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION
• Gained PHR Certification
• Post Graduate Degree (MBA) in HUMAN RESOURCES
• Graduate Degree in PSYCHOLOGY with honors in Psychology and Sociology
• Completed a dissertation report, “Cultural Analysis of Beauty Salon Industry: A Case Study”
OF NOTE
Professional Development
• Completed ongoing training in the areas of Project Management, Six Sigma Training and Management
trainings
Computer Skills
• HRIS applications (Oracle, Taleo, SharePoint, LMS and ATS)
• MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)