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MARLENE DA COSTA

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Contact @ aboqk6@r.postjobfree.com; 416-***-****

Knowledgeable and skilled HR Professional with a Masters in Industrial Psychology and 7 years of strategic HR experience in Workforce Planning, Performance Management,Talent Management and Retention, Organization Design Consultation, Career Development, Conflict Resolution, and Employee Engagement.

Human Resources Manager Univeris Corporation, Toronto

March 2011 – Present Provide strategic HR leadership to the business/client groups including business partner consulting in the areas of organization design, leadership development, recruitment, retention, performance management, organization effectiveness, employee engagement and cultureBusiness Owner of the new performance management system at Univeris: Responsibilities included identifying factors and competencies to be appraised, focus groups with the business leaders to present and customize the tool, organization wide roll-out of the tool, development and branding of the tool, creation of training programs and job aids for the team members and managers, tracking of completion, providing coaching to the managers and team members, creation of development and career development plans based on performance assessment Consult with functional leaders and departmental heads to identify solutions related to talent, process, tools or culture. This includes workforce planning, sourcing for candidates, talent assessment, on-boarding, coaching, information on best practices, process improvement, performance management, compliance related issues, health and safety, employee engagement

Key Achievements:Launch and end-to-end implementation of a new performance management tool at Univeris Leading and executing all Recruitment Efforts for Univeris including introducing a New Applicant Tracing System, formalizing screening criteria for every role, and on-boarding 27 new employees in 2011

Curriculum Development Researcher Tennessee Center for Child Welfare

(Part-time role while pursuing Masters) August 2008 – August 2010

Consultative work with the Department of Children's Services and Child Advocacy Center for designing training programs including training needs analysis, developing training content, customizing training programs, designing learning labs for each online training program

Campus Recruitment Lead Dow Chemical International

October 2007- July 2008 Campus Recruitment Lead for Dow India. Responsibilities included identifying strategic universities, Coaching Business Leaders on recruitment strategies across different campuses, Dow Branding at campuses, sourcing and placement of campus hires, on-boarding and career development of campus hires, budgeting and management of resources for the Dow Campus Program

Key Achievements: Introduced the Summer Internship Program at Dow India. This program involved the full cycle recruitment of the summer interns, on-boarding, career planning, and performance evaluation of the summer interns

Assistant HR Manager Tata Motors Limited

July 2005 – September 2007

HR Generalist for the "Finance & Corporate Affairs" Business UnitProviding HR expertise and guidance in the areas of recruitment, performance management, talent retention, career development, and talent management Working with functional leaders and departmental heads to identify gaps in skills, knowledge and abilities and fill those gaps with training, recruitment, and career development

Part of the Workforce Planning Team at Tata MotorsCampus recruitment for Tata Motors at MBA campuses, engineering campuses and other

UniversitiesHR Business Partner for the new campus hires at Tata Motors inclusive of on-boarding, project rotation, project assessments and final assessments of the new campus hiresBusiness Owner of the Internal Recruitment process for Tata Motors including branding internal advertisements, managing their release and the full cycle recruitment process

Key Achievements: Successful recruitment, on boarding, and final placements of all campus hires for Tata Motors Limited for the year 2006 ( 45 Campus Hires)New look and branding of Internal Recruitment within TML which was well appreciated by all employees, across locations

AREAS OF EXPERTISEOrganizational Design and HR ConsultingTalent Acquisition and RetentionCareer Planning and Development

SKILLS Exceptional ability to build relationships and business partnerships with all team members across levelsHighly pro-active and well-developed planning and organizational skills Positive attitude and an ability to influence Excellent written and oral communication skills

EDUCATIONMasters, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Middle Tennessee State University, August 2008- August 2010Masters, Industrial Psychology, University of Mumbai, June 2003- June 2005

LICENSES Joint Health & Safety Committee Certification, 2012Pursuing CHRP. Examination- October 2012Licensed Personnel Human Resources Practitioner (licensed by the Human Resource Certification Institute, USA, 12th June 2010- 30th June 2013)

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