Bhargavi Gopalakrishna

• A Talent Practitioner - Orchestrated in executing End – End talent management strategies for business such as Sourcing Strategy, Hiring Practices, Process Excellence & technology adoption, Salary Benchmark, Talent Mapping, Leadership & Technology Hiring for Critical Projects. • Business Partnering - Involved in appraisal, work-load balance, reporting, recruiting matrices, and looking into their conflict resolutions. • Recruitment Pipelining – Own Talent Pipelining process for India to assess current and future hiring needs, develop clear strategies to forecast & meet upcoming needs and develop talent, build a diverse candidate pipeline for the future in Workday HRIS. • Global Core Competency - Played a pivotal role in rolling out New Core Values and Core Competencies by designing the people outreach program which included Stakeholder Messaging, Orientation, Communication, Training, Team Assimilation

• Senior Level & Leadership hiring – Steered Campus Recruitment, Hiring Strategy, Sourcing Channel, Stakeholder Management, Team Management, Salary Benchmarking and Offer Negotiation, Headhunting, Vendor Management, Hiring for critical business Ramp Up and Pilot Projects. • Business Consulting - Leading the US-based engineering recruitment team; identify and incorporate best practices and process improvements to ensure optimization of resources and function. Developing and managing specialized recruitment strategies for key business initiatives and areas. • Financial Insights- Performing research and fetching new methods that can help in achieving desired outputs in limited funds and resources without affecting the quality of the program. • Compliance - Highly resourceful in providing direction & structure in the development of policies, strategic plans, Business Evaluation strategy by adhering to statutory security compliances.

• Actively involved with Café Java’s Restaurant in all the HR-Operations, handling 10 outlets across Kampala, Uganda and Nairobi, Kenya. • Company culture was key, as part of this process. Significant experience with volume employee integration. • Introducing systems, overseeing policies and leading a team across Training, recruitment, payroll, Orientation, Employee engagement, Grievance handling etc. • Reduced time to hire while creating “interesting” hiring experiences for candidates and internal teams. Reducing cost per hire at all levels. • Developing, designing and integrating different training programs across various levels. Providing strategic and operational support to the Cafe Javas F&B Business, leading a team of 8 focusing on branding,designing & implementing all HR Process & Procedures • Talent Acquisition & Retention • HR Operations & HR Business Partnering • HR Analytics and MIS • Performance Management • Compensation & Benefits • Policy designing and Corporate communications • Training & Development • Managing a Team of 8 Staff including the Admin Dept. • Managing a Head count of 1200 Staff in 12+ Flagship outlets in African Region

• Proven skills in managing teams to work in sync with the corporate set parameters & motivating them for achieving business and individual goals. • Talent Management Strategy, Full Life Cycle Recruitment, Creative Sourcing, Project Management, Human Resources, Relationship Building and Account Management. • Handled multiple assignments, and successfully managed multiple projects and clients. Demonstrated exceptional communication skills in consulting with key decision makers, delivering powerful presentations, persuasively negotiating major transactions, managing high profile accounts and delivering comprehensive training programs. • Leadership, management and mentorship with Enterprise level staffing departments and teams with items such as: Interview Training, Search process, Referral Process, Job Description Training, Utilizing References, Cross-Training within Recruitment and HR teams, Diversity Metrics, Contact Management Tool, Tracking external postings (such as expiring, etc.), Automated Systems or Processes to help screen certain positions, Skills testing, Incorporating New Hire Feedback, incorporation and utilizing organized internal documents for Recruitment Resources. • Acting as an escalation gate to resolve critical issues of the team members. • Demonstrated abilities in cementing healthy relationship with the clients for generating business and leading workforce towards accomplishing business and corporate goals. • Executing service standards and guidelines that serve as benchmark for excellent service delivery thereby, contributing towards ameliorated service revenue generation.

Handled the entire branch consisting of IT division, Non-IT division & ITES division. • Maintaining the existing clientele’. Creating more business by bringing in new clients. • Managing the database of resumes in a proper format. Negotiating and signing up with vendors for portal access. • Managing a team of 30 members in IT, Non-IT and ITES division respectively. • Handling the Joining formalities & Induction programs. Preparation of Offer letters, Appraisals & Relieving letters for all the employees. • Vendor Management, Designing Job descriptions. • Liaoning with vendors on a day-to-day basis for operational issues. • Handled bulk recruitments like college campus, adds walk-in, referrals walk-ins, direct walk-ins etc. Travelled across various locations for campus recruitment and coordinated in the event. • Guiding and motivating the resource team to meet the recruitment targets and deadlines

• Planning, strategizing, implementing and managing recruitment plans and processes for hiring needs. Organizing walk-in for mass hiring. • Business development activities such as getting in more clients from abroad countries such as South Africa, UAE etc • Collecting, researching and documenting Market Intelligence Data to maximize efficiencies, Establish accountabilities, and enable predictability. • Strategizing and sourcing passive candidates through networking, cold calling, head hunting, Internet searches and research. • Actively involved in daily screening, scheduling, coordinating technical interviews and scientific reporting. • Handling Non-IT, IT/ITES & BPO hiring Across Levels. (Niche & Bulk) • Assigning work among team members & handling a team of recruiters. • Handling Bench Management, Resource allocation, Campus hiring, Mass Hiring & Manpower Planning. • Sourcing CVs from different job portals, Employee referrals, vendors and Social Networks like Linked-in, Orkut, Face book, Yahoo etc... & mapping them according to the requirement. • Extensive experience in organizing & conducting walk-ins and handling the entire recruitment activities. • Hardcore experience in Mass Hiring, head hunting, referencing, handling vendors and Internet based tools, Internal Databases, Personal references. • Sourcing, scheduling, follow up, convincing, negotiating on salary and notice period etc... • Conducting final level HR discussions for salary negotiation & joining etc.

Worked for Exilant Consulting (P) Ltd., as HR Consultant since June 2007 – May 2008. Then got appraised & confirmed as HR- Executive in the Organization. • Assigning work among team members & handling a team of recruiters. • Handling Bench Management, Resource allocation, Campus hiring, Mass Hiring & Manpower Planning. • Sourcing CVs from different job portals, Employee referrals, vendors and Social Networks like Linked-in, Orkut, Facebook, Yahoo etc... & mapping them according to the requirement. • Extensive experience in organizing & conducting walk-ins and handling the entire recruitment activities. • Hardcore experience in Mass Hiring, head hunting, referencing, handling vendors and Internet based tools, Internal Databases, Personal references. • Sourcing, scheduling, follow up, convincing, negotiating on salary and notice period etc... • Conducting final level HR discussions for salary negotiation & joining etc. • Identifying and Gathering staffing requirement details. • Publish the requirements in the internal reference portal and update the employee reference and schedule interview for the same. • Screening, short listing and scheduling the interviews for India requirements. • Coordinate with Tech Lead, Project Manager and LOB’s on interview. • Conducting campus and walk in interviews. • Responsible for preparing and sending the offer letters, negotiate the salary, joining date and follow up the candidates on their joining. • Overseeing HR responsibilities of Bangalore branch. • Compensation & Benefits • Entire Recruitment Process and Business Development • Joining & induction formalities and training coordination • Maintaining employees personal files • Coordinating on the bank account opening • Coordinating on the confirmation of the employee • Employee exit formalities, conducting exit interviews • Handling employee grievances/ conflict handling/ retention • Conducting Cultural fest and other events