Pooja Bhattad Ph: +1-503-***-****

Portland, OR – 97229

Email: acxkg2@r.postjobfree.com

WORK EXPERIENCE: SUMMARY 13+ years

High degree of personal maturity and professional well-roundedness in addition to the basic functional knowledge inherent in the H.R. functions including:

Workforce Planning & Talent Acquisition: Visioning & planning workforce with the leadership team across business units and track it monthly to match variances if any. Planning strategies to maintain an ideal source mix (Internal & external) by sourcing through job boards, social media, employee referral and Universities. Solely responsible for cradle – grave of talent Acquisition Centre of Excellence . Expert knowledge of Taleo.

University Relations: Leading the recruitment drive for India office for campus recruiting across premier institutes. Work involves being the single point of contact between campus and hiring managers to plan and execute year long campus activities including multipe recruiting, internship and mentorship events including “day zero” campus interviews

New Hire Orientation: Responsible for induction of a new hire from Day 1 to Day 180 of his/ her joining. Ensuring “Wow” factor for hires at all levels, through a structured induction program and handover to business partners after the quality of new hire survey is completed.

Policy review & Management : Managing internal job boards and promoting internal movement campaigns within the organization. Responsible for revising the employee referral benefits and bringing out bonanza referral benefits during seasonal hiring .

HR Budget & Metrics: Solely responsible to the annual budget exercise of the Centre of excellence (CoE) for staffing & training in HR. Implemented & driven various staffing metrics including ageing of requisitions, Cost mix, source mix, quality of hire, quality of orientation, Performance of hire, retention of hire and many other data point to provide business intelligence to leadership team with respect to staffing strategies.

Allegis Group Services, as Manager Feb, 2016 – June 2016

(Headquartered in Hanover, Maryland, in the United States, is one of the largest privately held staffing and recruitment services companies in the world)

Managing Team Size of 16 members . Heading centre of excellence for Talent Acquisition

Textron India Private Limited, as Team Lead –Hr Mar 2012- Jan 2016

(The company is a US based MNC, multi-industry corporation with powerful brands like Bell Helicopter, Cessna Aircraft, EZGO, Kautex, Greenlee etc. Ranked 237 in Fortune 500 companies. India has around 500 employees)

Key achievements include the following:

Workforce Planning Talent Acquisition University Relations New Hire Orientation / Induction Employee Relations Performance Management Budget & Metrics Policy Review & Management Stakeholder Management Continuous Improvement

Single handedly managed Cessna Aircraft & Bell Helicopters ramp up in headcount in 2013 involving hiring at all levels including some key leadership positions.

Implemented Taleo, global applicant tracking system to manage applications across sources.

Zero Agency hiring during the years 2013-14 only by executing strategic recruitment plans.

Responsible for Succession Planning, Employee relations, employee engagement, Performance management ( SuccessFactor), Training & Development.

Implemented & driven various staffing metrics including TAT’s for offer, joining, Cost mix, source mix, Quality of hire, quality of orientation, Performance of hire (PoH), retention of hire ( RoH) and many other data point to provide business intelligence to leadership team with respect to staffing strategies.

Brought in global training programs like developing leadership skills, six sigma green belt at India campus for the first time.

Responsibilities include reviewing all the policies related to HR and recommend suggestions to the leadership team based on learnings from employee interaction and organization strategies. Trainings & Certifications :

- Six Sigma Green Belt Certified .

- One day training on “Effective Interviewing Skills” ( On Behavioural & Situational Interviewing) conducted by IHRD

- One day workshop on “New Employee Induction” conducted by IHRD

- One day workshop on “Competency Mapping Assessments & Development” by IHRD

- Career Conversations – 1 day classroom session conducted by Textron University

- 5 day workshop of Textron Leadership Essentials – conducted by Textron University.

- Various soft skills trainings like Time & priority, Managing Conflicts, Negotiation Skills, culture Sensitization etc.

Rewards & Recognitions :

Received the prestigious Quarterly Excellence award thrice for implementing Taleo, for bringing in quality of hire metrics, revamping the onboarding process, and establishing university relations and not limiting the same to hiring alone.

Scalene Works LLP, as Associate Manager August 2011- Mar 2012 Program Managed the entire RPO set up at client, HCL Technologies for both Captive as well as non-captive hiring for the BFSI Sector.

Naukri.com (Info Edge India Limited) As Manager Apr- 2003 – Dec- 2005 July, 2007 - Jan 2011

Managing staffing requirements for major key accounts of the company like Fidelity Investments, HSBC Bank, Himalaya Healthcare, BIAL etc. majorly involving all processes of recruitment on behalf of the client. Managing hiring campaigns & events to hire even lateral positions by conducting mass hiring events / jobfairs and ensure the company’s hiring targets are met .

Hello Chennai Water Private Limted, As Admin Executive October, 2001 - Mar 2003

EDUCATION

BA (Corporate Secretaryship) : Year 2000

Institute : The Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai (University of Madras) Work Permit : L2 VISA . Sponsorship Not Required

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