Sougata Kundu

Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Strategic Hiring aligned to business

1) Lead the talent acquisition team in diverse hiring processes including lateral, campus, contractual, and trained resource hiring. Develop and implement recruitment strategies to attract top tier talent. 2) Manage the full recruitment lifecycle, from job requisition to offer negotiation and onboarding and mapping all stages through ATS. 3) Manpower Planning. 4) Analyze recruitment metrics to assess the effectiveness of hiring strategies. 5) Relationship building with vendors, training institutes, and colleges. 6) New Initiatives – Product training, standardizing and documenting various processes, onboarding and offboarding through ticketing system (Freshservice), Monthly company meeting & newsletter. 8) HR operations – Onboarding & Offboarding, Documentation, BGV, Induction, maintain various databases, payroll, maintaining HRMS.

Hiring for some of the leading CMMI level V organizations PAN India.

1) RPO project execution. Project setup, requirement gathering from HM, market intelligence, setting different parameters for project delivery, reporting structure, resource mobilization, delivery management, stakeholder management, maintaining TAT. Monthly & Weekly report generation for review calls with internal & external Stakeholders. 2) Executed strategic sourcing techniques to include a variety of resources such as internet, advertising, employment agencies, internal and external databases, employee referrals, direct sourcing. 3) Handled big ticket RPO projects like GAP Inc (HDC), AWS, Dow Dupont, John Deere, Timken

1) Recruitment in IT & Non-IT domain. 2) Utilizing different mediums - job boards (Naukri, Monster), referral programs, external vendors, social media for recruitment. Consolidating and synchronizing the data to the tracker for effective co-ordination & follow-up on hiring process. 3) Client Handling. Ensure TAT is maintained for open mandates.

1) Online marketing and sale of physical books and e-books through various e-commerce platforms. 2) Working for Higher Education Division – working closely with university dean, board of study members and HODs of different departments for promotion of books to be adopted in curriculum. 3) Area wise development of bookseller/distributor network. 4) Product development of ‘Digitest’ (online test preparation platform for JEE-Main) from ground up.

Assisting the unit manager in running the unit effectively and efficiently as per company SOP.