Recruitment Specialist
Resume:
KARTHIKA PILLAI
Phone: 647-***-**** E-mail: ***************@*****.***
RECRUITMENT PROFESSIONAL
Motivated recruiter with over 4 years of experience in end to end recruitment with exposure to all major facets of talent acquisition such as: Talent Mapping, Sourcing & screening, crafting & maintaining a strong employer brand, candidate experience and Talent pipelining. Averaged 14+ open requisitions at a time with a high level of complexity.
RECRUITMENT SKILLS
• Talent Assessment & Acquisition
• High-volume staffing
• Creating Requisition
• Offer Negotiations
• Applicant Tracking System
• Placement & Onboarding
• Candidate Sourcing & Screening
• Social Media Recruiting Tools
• Interview Management
• Client Relationship Management
WORK EXPERIENCE
Recruitment Specialist Intern Dec 2018 – Till Date
Great Connections Employment Services, Toronto
Key Responsibilities:
Assist in the recruiting process, including pre-screening/interviewing candidates for select clients, complete pre-screen checks, reference & background checks, and assist with orientation documents to ensure staffing needs are met at client level.
Manage applicant tracking system (ATS) ensuring system is regularly updated including applicant status throughout the process.
Utilize a variety of sourcing methods to create candidate pipeline to meet frontline hiring needs.
Present fully-screened/qualified candidates to hiring managers with summary of pertinent candidate information.
Educate candidates about Ontario Health & Safety regulations and safety related policies, provide guidance to complete proper paper works.
Respond to telephone and written enquiries from applicants, candidates and the general public regarding personnel matters.
Senior Executive – Talent Acquisition Dec 2016 – Mar 2018
V-Guard Industries Ltd.
Major electrical appliances manufacturer with annual turnover of $400M (CAD).
Primary Task: Hire New Grads to Senior Management profiles (Sales & Marketing, Customer Service, Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, Digital Marketing, Logistics, Finance & Accounts, QA/QC Engineer).
Key Responsibilities:
Deliver recruitment solutions for hundreds of vacancies across all organizational levels and an array of job functions for all branches & factory locations.
Leverage job portals, Boolean searches, ATS, other social media sites, and personal network to target, attract, and develop a pipeline of qualified diverse candidates.
Recruiting Management: Matched 105 right candidates to the right job within first 3 months of hire, winning commendations from Hiring Manager and VP for recruiting quality workers. Interviewed and hired over 540 employees during my tenure.
Time Management: Reduce days to fill for open requisitions from 45 to 23 days, exceeding the goal of 28 days.
Trained more than 100 hiring managers and peer interviewers in behavioral techniques, positively impacting first-year attrition rate (improved from 12% to 8%).
Prepare reports on hiring practices and other recruitment data such as recruitment report, new hire cost report & documents tracker.
Focal point for queries related to recruitment from external agencies, universities, & prospective candidates.
Coordinate induction programs for on-boarded candidates, train project trainees & interns on recruitment.
Team Lead – Talent Acquisition Feb 2016 – Dec 2016
Regal Consulting
Leading staffing firm in India focusing on IT, Financial Service, Automobile, Manufacturing Industries (Goods & Durables).
Primary Task: Hire all levels of candidates from Developers to Project Managers in IT Spectrum.
Other Responsibilities:
Distinguished as one of the top-grossing recruiters and promoted to Team Lead position.
Lead a team of 5 associates - prepare work schedules, assess performance, train new employees on systems, search strategies, and other crucial functions.
Recruiter of the month from February 2016 until December 2016.
Foster lasting client relationship as a trusted hiring partner with a 97% job-fulfillment rate and one of the lowest fall-off rates throughout tenure.
Prepare daily workloads for team members & coordinate the daily allocation of work.
Arrange and chair weekly team meetings, focusing on targets & achievements.
Senior Executive – Talent Acquisition Nov 2014 – Jan 2016
Regal Consulting
Outstanding recruitment skills were recognized with a promotion to senior after one year of employment. Recruited, interviewed and ultimately hired over 340 employees.
In addition to the responsibilities as Executive, following roles were held.
Introduced social media as recruiting tool and expanded hiring via social media from 7% in 2014 to 25% in 2015.
Responsible for the full lifecycle of recruitment of all level staffs.
Recruiting Management: Cold calling daily over 80 calls, perform full cycle recruiting on 35-40 job requisitions, averaging 25-30 hires per month.
Perform detailed reference checks and/or reference analysis on selected candidates and reviews results with clients.
Maintain daily/weekly/monthly reports such as interview status reports, closure reports & feedback reports.
Executive – Talent Acquisition Oct 2013 – Oct 2014
Regal Consulting
Key Responsibilities:
Source & interview qualified candidates to fulfil current and forecasted requirements.
Brought in 5 new clients as a part of company sales effort.
Post jobs on various portals to increase the pool of candidates.
Coordinate with clients to create and maintain recruiting & interviewing plans.
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Volunteer at CESBA Conference 2018
CESBA (The Ontario Association of Adult and Continuing Education School Board Administrators) is a provincial non-profit professional association that represents, advocates for and supports adult and continuing education (A&CE) program for staff working in nearly 60 school boards across Ontario.
Greet conference guests, provide information, answer questions and guide conference guests to registration desk or session rooms.
Work with session facilitator to help ensure the session stay on time and contact relevant support person if there is a problem.
PROJECTS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Coordinated & conducted activities for Big Idea Contest for leading MNC proposing business plans for growth, leadership and differentiation among students from B-Schools & Engineering colleges across India.
Winner of Young Manager’s Contest 2018 - HR digitization project for creating apps (DigiDesk & Peopledesk) - Corporate body with innovative HRM practices by National Institute of Personnel Management, India.
EDUCATION
CALC Co-operative Education – City Adult Learning Centre, TDSB, 2018-2019.
Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism & Mass Communication, 2012.
Bachelor of Arts - Journalism & Mass Communication, 2011.
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