Gaurav Malhotra

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• Acting as a location lead for all TA related tasks and collaborating with HRBP and other business areas

• Partner with the stakeholders to ensure an efficient and effective hiring process is maintained and business needs are understood clearly.

• Responsible for creating and driving sourcing and hiring strategies aligned to the Business.

• Managed India sourcing teams to develop TA/sourcing strategies and implementing them.

• Worked closely with executives, senior leadership and HRBP.

• Talent Pipelining and Succession Planning

• Participated in enterprise-wide recruitment and talent management initiatives, including internal mobility, new hire onboarding,

Positions hiring for Public, Consumer and Telecom Clients:
- Salesforce, Java Lead, Cloud Architect / Engineer, Devops Engineer, Project Managers, Mainframe Developer, TIBCO Admin / Developer, EDI Specialist, AS400 Developers, Front End Developers/Lead, Big Data / Hadoop, Test Automation roles, Scrum Masters, .Net, AEM (Backend and Front End)

Committees:
- Co-leading the Salesforce and Architects Taskforce
- Member of Java, Cloud, Devops
- Member of DE&I TA Taskforce
- Member of GTA DE&I Team

External Events participated:
- Refugee Hiring Event - Nov 2022
- IITAC Career Event - May 2023
- Collision Tech Conference - May 2023
- CGI X GEM Event - Nov 2023

Recruitment Lead: Leading 3 members team and Leading the successful fulfillments of open vacancies with relevant hiring managers and to be the first point of contact for their hiring needs.

• Talent Advisor: Communicating recruitment trends, market intelligence, and acting as a Talent Advisor to hiring managers for all technology roles.

• Mentoring: Providing recruitment guidance and advice to the Recruiters and Recruitment Coordinators.

Coaching candidates on how to prepare for selection stages.

• Risk & Compliance: Identifying and escalating risk or compliance issues. Managing requisitions through accurate documentation of all recruitment related data and information as per current recruitment legislation client process.

• Forecasting: Monitoring and analyzing recruitment activity of designated business areas for accurate

volume forecasting.

Achievement: Received some great feedback from Head HR, Business leaders and Head of Equities IT for building strong partnership with business leaders and hiring Managers.

Key search assignments:

Head of Digital-IT, Salesforce, Big Data, Technology Lead, Lead Data Mesh Engineer, Technology Service Owner, Senior Dev Ops, Java/J2EE Developer, Production Support Lead, Enterprise Architect, Capital Markets BA

• Independently managing end to end Technology Product Engineering Recruitment for business functions like,

Mobile Financial Services (Airtel Money), Architecture, Infrastructure, IT operations for Africa

Development Center.

• Collaborating and educating IT Engineering Heads/Managers to identify each position’s requirements in detail till its closure and providing positive candidate experience for applicants throughout the recruitment process.

• Managing vendors, sourcing & interacting with professionals on niche platforms, like Github, StackOverflowETC.

• Expertise in managing the full-life cycle of Product recruiting for all positions (Creating job descriptions, screening, pre-qualify, interview, assess, extend/negotiate offers).

• Developing hiring strategies, branding exercise, various TA related projects and metrics for the various Products- Business Functions.

• Recruiting for skills- Cloud- AWS platforms UI/UX, Angular, Backend, Android, DevOps, Salesforce, Product Engineers/Managers, and Architects.

• Successfully hired 70+ professionals specialized as Quality Engineers, Electrical Design Engineers, System Engineers, Project Managers, and Engineering managers with an acceptance rate of 93.4% and an average fill time of 57 days.

• Hired union employees under SPEEA, IFPTE Local 2001. The Society of Professional Engineering

Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), IFPTE Local 2001

• Successfully hired senior and management level professionals specializing in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Program Management, Customer Insight, Marketing, and Sales.

• Creatively sourced high caliber candidates by using social media networks, internal database, Job boards, and employee referrals and developed a diverse talent pool for critical engineering roles.

Achievements:

• Managed 50-60 Requisitions- Boeing 777, 737 Max program.

• Working closely with the Service Line/BU Heads and Business Partner in identifying competitive marketplace trends that impact workforce planning, developing proactive recruiting/sourcing strategies.

• Providing strong leadership to enhance team productivity and morale.

• Managing a team of 6 recruiters and recruitment projects including, metrics, calibration tasks for interviewing, campus and job fair and events.

• Conducting performance evaluations, compensations and hiring to maintain appropriate staffing requirements.

• Excellent sourcing, screening and data mining skills with expertise in LinkedIn Recruiter

• Managing Onboarding, TA polices, process and system integration starting from harmonizing and deadlines.

• Engaging on daily basis with Business Heads, CIO, VPs- Poland, Singapore and US to track overall status of open needs and ensuring that positions are closed within the prescribed TAT. • Leading weekly calls with US and European counterparts’

• Recruiting for skills- Data Science, Big data, Salesforce, Cloud- AWS platforms, UI/UX, Angular, Backend, Android,DevOps, Salesforce, Product Engineers/Managers, and Architects.

Achievements:

• Won best team award for recruiting 25 Data Analysts resources in Poland within 2 months of the joining.

• Partnered and influenced Global hiring managers at all levels

• Created and drove talent acquisition and job placement strategies to attract diverse candidates.
• Managed a team a team of 3 recruiters and sourcing specialist, Identified and created recruitment and administrative performance metrics and data to analyze trends, drive change, and assess progress.
• Analyzed recruiting metrics to share reports and recommendations with stakeholders.
• Optimized sourcing networks and used proactive methods to direct source candidates.
• Driving campus recruitments (Boot camps) when required.
• Creating Job descriptions, sourcing/screening/interviewing and conducting reference checks
• Developing short and long-term recruiting strategies.
• Creating an active pool of candidates on ongoing basis for positions with high turnover.

• Managed and motivated employees to be productive and engaged in work.
• Hands-on delivery of niche and critical recruitment for most of the software, Salesforce, digital, E-commerce and CMS packages and recruited almost all spheres.
• Screening and sourcing the best talent from diverse sources (Social Media Vendors, Portals, ER, and Networking.
• Working closely with VPs/Directors/Sr. Managers for leadership hiring to understand their needs & develop numerous strategies on sourcing/referral drives/rewards, salary expectations, aging etc.
• Requisition managing in Taleo (ATS), intake session, standard job description, interview process, approving offers, sharing best practices etc
• Successfully handled main accounts like, Loblaw, Marks and Spencer, Tesco, Target BB&B and monitoring candidate’s submissions in Taleo.
• Responsible in providing potential and high caliber candidates for various clients including major banks, retail and other private and public sector related projects
• Maintaining a constant flow of candidates through the pipeline for high turnover positions or constant re-occurring opportunities.

Achievements

• Awarded for building Endeca/WCS offshore team for Marks & Spencer, UK

• Awarded for hiring AEM, WCS, Endeca, Dev Ops Architect and Sr. Architects across locations.

• Awarded Best Recruiter of Q 3 2006, Q1, Q2 2007, Q1 2008, Q4 2010, 2012, Q2-2014, Q4, 2015.

• Cost effective and Just-in-time Fulfillment of demand.

• AIRS Certified Internet Recruiter 12.0 Global Score: 40/40, September 2015