Neeraja Murlidhar

neeraja.murlidhar@gmail.com
Mobile: +919845409092
Summary
Human Resource professional with 12 + years of experience as a HR. Specialist across the
gamut of the HR roles. Worked across different industries like consulting, technology & Retail.
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Core Competencies:
Resource Management & Operations
Recruitment & Staffing
Performance Management
Employee Relations
Team coaching & Mentoring
Campus recruitment
Onboarding & Orientation & Exit .
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Professional Experience:
Currently employed at Tesco HSC India as Recruitment Manager
Recruitment & Staffing & University relations .

Strategy & Planning for fulfillment of resources

Manage Business units & hiring for Retail Sector & IT & also manage university
relations for India .
Structured interaction with Stake holders.
Interface with External Vendors on contracts & fulfillment.
Contract Staffing

CA Technologies as Manager- India Talent Acquisition from Sep 2013 - Apr -2014
Recruitment & Staffing & Process Management (both Technology & Support function hiring)
Strategy & Planning for the Fulfillment of the resources for Bangalore Location
Developed and implemented high impact of the pre-screening templates.
Adherence to Process compliance.
Handled a team of back office team.
Interface with external vendors for requirements & contract renewal.
Planning and execution of Campus hiring
People, Organization & Employee relations:
Handled a team of Recruiters & provided guidance in optimizing recruitment
Structured interaction with Stakeholders
Overseeing the on-boarding & exit of Employees
Employee engagement activities
Metrics & Market Mapping:

Publish weekly dashboards & critical staffing metrics to the business

Provide market mapping to the business & presenting them on the skills & Pool
Available in the market.
Monthly Report to be published wrt to the Source Mix to the staffing head

Capgemini Sep 2004 to Aug 2013- Talent Acquisition Lead- ( Senior Consultant )
Recruitment & Staffing :
Managed COE & Lateral for BI Service line and SAP Business Unit
Conduct HR interviews & Salary mapping & Fitment of Positions
Recruitment through channel mix hires ( Job portal, Social Media Hiring )
Improvement in the process of the recruitment tool .
Drive Employee Referral Events
Plan & Execute Campus events for South India
Handled a team of Recruiters
Vendor management
Client Relationship & Performance management & employee engagement
Liasoning directly with Business Line for requirement gathering and fulfillment of
positions.
Organisation re-structuring and handled end to end lifecycle
Transition of full project (End to End), from understanding the need, sourcing the right
profile, organizing interviews, short listing candidates, releasing offer, following up for
joining till getting the resource on boarded and allocated to the project.
Have been a core member in restructuring the team. Have been involved in grade
mapping and finalizing the compensation.
Handled Grievances of employee, have been a part of performance management cycle
during the yearly appraisal from planning, executing and evaluating the performance
with the business
Operations & Resource Management
Planning and executing the plan targeted recruitment numbers for the team, this includes
planning the number needed with Management, distributing the numbers within the team
and structuring the sourcing, interview and offer plans.
Forecasting: Keeping track of employees who are in the verge of changing / moving out
projects.View of Promoted candidates. Forecast of each Vertical and Service lines.
Planning of up skilling people, Work with Talent Acquisition, verticals, internal
stakeholders. People on Bench: skill upgradation and cross skill training.
Managed utilization of resources.
Metrics
Preparing Monthly & Quarterly Recruitment Plan for Project-based & Skill-based
recruitment and getting the buy-in from business
Publish Weekly reports Demand and Supply Status to all the Business Stakeholders &
also the source Mix of hires.
Key Achievements:

Recipient of Project star award for surpassing the expectations set on targets well before
the set SLAs.
Key member of the 4 people group who were responsible for re-badging 175 Associates
(transition) in a remarkable time.
Awarded as Best Negotiator for hiring candidates with right experience & Skill in
optimum salary band which was beneficial both the Organization and the candidate.
Maintained utilization to more than 90%.
Closed some critical positions through Employee Referral

Organization initiative:
Participated in SAP techEd event conducted.
Organized events as a part of Diversity Initiative.
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Previous Employement and Experience:
Sep 03 to Aug 04 Accenture, Bangalore Recruiter
Sept 02 till July 03. - Wipro Technologies, Bangalore- Scheduler/ Sourcing
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Trainings and Certifications:

Thomas Profiling Training and Certification

Six Sigma Yellow Belt certified.

Education Qualification:
Graduate in Bachelors Degree from Pondicherry University- (Full Time)
Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications (Full time )
Executive Program in Human Resource Management from IIM-C
Languages Known: English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Telugu