Swetha Chavan
Summary
Experienced with talent acquisition and candidate sourcing. Utilizes strategic methods to identify and attract qualified candidates. Track record of building strong networks and maintaining excellent relationships with clients and candidates alike.
Positive, upbeat, and adaptable with strong interpersonal and communication skills, ideal for connecting with diverse global talent. Knowledge of global talent acquisition and HR practices, coupled with proficiency in candidate sourcing and interview coordination. Capable of fostering impactful relationships and driving successful talent acquisition initiatives.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Talent Acquisition
Credit Agricole
04.2022 - Current
- Engage line managers in understanding their hiring needs, including job and task analysis to document job requirements and objectives
- Employ effective sourcing strategies and techniques to identify suitable candidates
- Recruitment from sourcing,screening,interviewing, Offer to on-boarding
- Supported talent acquisition efforts by collaborating with HR teams to develop and implement robust orientation programs for new hires.
- Continuously monitored and reported on key recruitment metrics to executive leadership, driving data-based improvements in Talent Acquisition strategies.
- Streamlined talent acquisition process for faster candidate placement and improved retention rates.
- Enhanced talent acquisition efforts through targeted recruitment campaigns and job postings.
- Reduced recruitment costs by optimizing talent acquisition strategies and utilizing cost-effective sourcing methods.
- Handle logistics including candidate interviews, reference checks, salary negotiation, offer processing
- Manage needs of prospective candidates through effective communication
- Report on regular basis to stakeholders about candidate pipelining, talent mapping and effectiveness of recruitment plans
- Support assignments or projects (as required) to enhance the effectiveness of the talent acquisition team
Talent Acquisition Manager
Accenture Services
09.2010 - 03.2016
- Company Overview: India RPO Program Manager
- Extensive experience with high-volume recruiting responsibilities within corporate environments
- Responsible for hands-on recruiting efforts and using software for ensuring compliance with Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Programs
- Participate in recruitment, interview and selection of candidates for various levels of position openings and promote a work environment that openly embraces individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences
- Meet established hiring targets and maintains compliance with established reporting structure
- Partner with hiring managers to understand the skills and background required for each opportunity and provide expert advice and coaching to hiring managers throughout the recruitment process
- Develop strong client and candidate relationships and maintain communication with both
- Source, screen, evaluate and select candidates through a structured recruitment process designed to obtain the best candidates
- Inform applicants of job duties and responsibilities, compensation and benefits, work schedules and working conditions, company policies, promotional opportunities and other related information
- Utilize knowledge of multiple recruiting sources such as Jobstreet, Monster, Naukri, 3rd party vendors, Independent consultants and execute various recruiting strategies
- Conduct employment advertising campaigns and programs by developing and managing a network of recruitment and referral resources including but not limited to networking with schools, colleges, minority organizations, state employment services, other employers and professional associations
- Generate qualified candidates through cost-effective efforts (i.e., alternative sourcing)
- Utilize a resume database for sourcing and tracking of all candidates
- Proficiency with employment interviewing techniques and applicant appraisal
- High level of proficiency with MS Outlook, Office, MS Word and Excel software
- Familiarity with Internet navigation and on-line recruiting technology/tools
- Demonstrated oral presentation and written communication skills
- Excellent relationship management skills to develop successful networks within senior management, staffing teams and HR Partners
- Ability to handle volume recruiting in a fast paced, (un) structured environment, adhering to strict deadlines
- India RPO Program Manager
Recruitment Delivery Lead
Accenture Services
09.2010 - 03.2016
- Company Overview: India Recruitment Delivery Lead
- Perform end-to-end recruitment in line with client requirements, liaising with hiring managers, HR and business to fill approved open positions in alignment with business objectives
- Source and prequalify candidates that match client requirements, primarily by leveraging technology, including the Internet
- Plan, design, manage and measure the success of global recruiting projects and build a collaborative relationship and partner closely with each GU Recruiting lead, thus enabling operational efficiencies in recruitment delivery and lead high-impact, multi-country recruiting initiatives
- Work with the Resource Forecasting Lead and Resource Pool Leads to understand short and long-term talent objectives and hiring forecasts; create and implement short-term tactical plans to meet SLA performance metrics and financial targets through the efficient use of human resources, technology and maximization of workforce
- Oversee the achievement of the Global Recruiting Metric Targets, Drive cost optimization by employing appropriate channel mix strategies
- Act as the global SME for hiring and partner with local recruitment teams to identify key challenges and work towards implementable solution
- Provide a forum for sharing best practices and highlight key global strategic initiatives in talent acquisition and drive the entity recruitment teams to achieve the entity's recruitment targets
- Define and develop assessment recommendations for all businesses and levels
- Engage with HR and Business leadership in addressing key recruitment challenges, develop and prioritize recruiting and sourcing strategies and key recruiting initiatives
- Work with Marketing and Communications team on external branding and candidate experience, collaborate with business, HR and Recruitment leadership to drive supply demand planning to meet overall business objectives
- Develop approach for recruitment systems initiatives, critical components and timeline, ensuring scope is clearly defined and expectations are articulated to all team members and key stakeholders involved
- Responsible for developing the strategic approach to support all Recruitment and HR initiatives required by the business, establish critical components and timeline, ensuring scope is clearly defined and expectations are articulated to all team members and key stakeholders involved
- Ensure one Accenture face to the market and maintain up to date market knowledge and expertise in various geographical recruitment trends and practices, providing guidance and support as needed to Entity Recruiting Leads
- Act as key point of contact for HR, Finance and Recruitment Marketing leadership in regards to cross-geography issues
- May also be responsible for the development, implementation and functionality enhancement for recruitment system and functional components, i.e
- General usage, content and reporting
- Oversee GU recruitment budget, balance resources across entities and responsible for Recruitment audit and compliance
- India Recruitment Delivery Lead
Fulfilment & Staffing Manager
IBM Global Service
06.2004 - 08.2010
- Company Overview: India Fulfilment & Staffing Manager
- Responsibility as a Resource Deployment Manager to ensure we meet Organizational goals
- Database Management
- Report Management (Fill rate, fulfilment, Demand, Utilization and Bench)
- New joiners on boarding
- Deployment of Graduate Hires for the sector
- People Management
- Proactive planning according to the resource demand and hiring
- Efficient resource fulfilment (with Zero or less overdue slots)
- Effective utilization / retention of resources
- Maintain utilisation %age
- Manage Bench within 5% of total headcount
- Work effectively within RDM team across the country to mobilize resources for various project staffing
- Work closely with PM's and resources to meet all fulfilment requirements
- Regular communication with PMs & Account Head's on status of staffing for various accounts
- Constant interaction with Supply Managers to ensure there is sufficient recruitment done for lateral Resources
- Interact with vendors for fulfilment through Subcontracting
- Interact with the SSP Ops team for raising PO's and manage the utilization
- Share fulfilment plan with the Account on Ramp up's and abide to the commitment
- Manage roll off resources and ramp down efficiently so that the utilization is not hit
- Plan on opportunities beforehand so that neither competency nor the account suffers
- Interact with employees and ensure they are content with their job & role and motivate them and counsel them if required
- Manage Inter-location and onsite fulfilments
- Initiate trainings for the employees on constrain skill
- Involved extensively in Conflict and problem solving in Fulfilment
- In charge of resource allocations
- Identify skills required for each project and allocate resources including consulting engineers at client locations on-site and offshore
- India Fulfilment & Staffing Manager
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
VTU
Bangalore, IndiaSkills
- Candidate sourcing
- Interviewing techniques
- Database management
- Talent mapping
- Salary negotiation
- Communication skills
- Relationship management
- Stakeholder reporting
- Recruitment strategies
- Onboarding processes
- Diversity hiring
- Talent acquisition
- Recruitment and talent acquisition
- Talent pipeline building
Accomplishments
- Supervised team of 8 staff members.
- Conducted Interviewer workshop for all Hiring Managers & empanelled Interviewers
- Received "Dream Team" Award in Accenture
- "Panel Choice" & "Rock star Award" in Accenture
- "Bravo" Award in IBM Services
Certification
Recently completed Linked Training on "Recruiter Assessment"
Timeline
Talent Acquisition
Credit Agricole
04.2022 - Current
Talent Acquisition Manager
Accenture Services
09.2010 - 03.2016
Recruitment Delivery Lead
Accenture Services
09.2010 - 03.2016
Fulfilment & Staffing Manager
IBM Global Service
06.2004 - 08.2010
Master of Science - Computer Science
VTU
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