Grace Diana Paulraj
Frisco,Texas
Summary
Dynamic HR professional with over 6 years of experience in staffing delivery, business partnering, and bench management. Expertise in aligning and deploying bench employees to projects by effectively matching skills and career aspirations with business demands and project criticality. Committed to creating positive employee experiences while fostering a culture of engagement and high performance. Proven track record in sourcing, attracting, and hiring top talent across diverse roles, ensuring an exceptional candidate experience that drives organizational success.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
High School Substitute Teacher
Educational Staffing Services
09.2024 - Current
Global Staffing Delivery
Cognizant Technology Solutions
09.2012 - 08.2014
- Staffing Delivery - Global
- End to end servicing of Staffing requirements right from demand forecast & analysis, demand clean-up, flashing internal job postings, mobilization of internal resources, scheduling interviews, obtaining technical feedback and ensure timely allocation.
- Coordinating with the external recruitment team to ensure that the critical demands are fulfilled from lateral market on priority for niche skills to avoid revenue loss situations.
- Meeting up with the business on a regular basis on the demand forecast and there by maintaining a clean demand.
- Keeping track of the pipeline releases to maintain quick staffing TAT.
- Reports and Analysis
- Publishing Staffing Status Report to the leadership team on a weekly basis providing updates on the status of the open requirements.
- Visa Tracking
- Identifying associates with valid visa and working closely with their managers to have a clear travel plan in place and ensure adherence.
- Mapping visa ready associates with no travel plans in the current project against internal demand at onsite thereby ensuring optimal visa utilization.
- Publishing Travel Ready Internal Availability report on a weekly basis to all the delivery managers
- Trainee Forecast & Deployment
- Gathering forecast from the business on the trainee requirements and sharing with the Campus Recruitment team
- Inducting the trainees into Consumer Goods business unit post the Academy training.
- Working with the business to ensure fulfillment as per projection.
- Publishing the excess trainee details to the leadership team
- Working with Academy on cross training programs for trainees to ensure deployment within the stipulated timeline.
Corporate Deployable Pool | Bench Management
Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2011 - 08.2012
- Bench Redeployment
- Effectively managed the Corporate Deployable Pool(CDP) - Chennai up to Manager level across Java & Dot Net
- Focused on smooth transition of CDP associates (from release to redeployment) - CDP associates were deployed within the TAT while ensuring that the associate aspirations were aligned with the business goals
- Played a vital role in planning & organizing CDP internal placement drives specific to Java, .Net & Mainframe skills for Chennai associates
- Effectively engaged with the Talent Management Team to counsel the associates to be flexible on their constraints to make sure that the critical business requirements are closed on priority
- Ensured that the required data and metrics were well maintained and updated periodically
- WFM SPOC for CDP Leave Project
- To educate the associates on the leave policy & procedure and address leave related queries
- Worked closely with the Talent Management Team to obtain necessary approvals
- Ensured timely movement of associates out of the leave assignment once they report back to work
HR Associate
Sutherland Global Services
09.2008 - 10.2010
- Pre Recruitment
- Post Recruitment
- Resume search from employee referrals, Job Portal, through consultants etc.
- Getting short listed from functional head and arranging one to one, Telephonic & VC interview schedules for junior to middle level.
- Reassignment of employees in bench.
- Post Hiring
- Closure of the position after reference check, salary fitment.
- Preparation & issuing of offer Letters/ Appointment Letter
- Joining formalities & Employee id Creation -Updating offer tracker and joining tracker.
- Validation of documents- Ensuring the submission of the credentials of the new joiners in their personal files.
- Coordinating & scheduling the candidates for induction and other training programs.
- Reference check, background verification
- Developing and maintaining of database on the basis for immediate and future requirements.
- Handling MIS and Attendance sheet leave management, and other official work like appointment letters, mails etc.
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Human Resources & Systems
Karunya School of Management (Karunya University)
Coimbatore01.2008
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics
Nirmala College (Bharatiyar University)
Coimbatore01.2006
Higher Secondary Examination - undefined
Avila Convent Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Coimbatore01.2003
Secondary Examination - undefined
Avila Convent Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Coimbatore01.2001
Skills
- Pre Recruitment & Post Recruitment
- Offer Processing
- Onboarding
- New Hire Orientation
- Resource Deployment
- HR Documentation
- Background Verification
Accomplishments
- Received The Rising Star award for performance excellence at Cognizant Technology Solutions.
- Received BRAVO CHAMPION award at Sutherland Global Services in 2009
- Received awards and accolades from the executive leadership for having successfully completed a Business Process Improvement project at Cognizant Technology Solutions
- Won the Second prize in district level Value Education examination.
Certification
- Generative AI, Recruiting & Talent Acquisition
- Professional in Human Resources (PHR)
- Creating a Great Onboarding Experience
- Understanding HR Systems - Features & Benefits (HRIS)
Timeline
High School Substitute Teacher
Educational Staffing Services
09.2024 - Current
Global Staffing Delivery
Cognizant Technology Solutions
09.2012 - 08.2014
Corporate Deployable Pool | Bench Management
Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2011 - 08.2012
HR Associate
Sutherland Global Services
09.2008 - 10.2010
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics
Nirmala College (Bharatiyar University)
Higher Secondary Examination - undefined
Avila Convent Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Secondary Examination - undefined
Avila Convent Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Human Resources & Systems
Karunya School of Management (Karunya University)
INTERNSHIPS
- Employee -Job Satisfaction at Roots Auto Products Private Ltd - Coimbatore, Duration: May 2007 - Jun 2007
- A Study on the Work-Life Balance at Sara Elgi Arteriors Limited, Coimbatore, Duration: Dec 2007 - Feb 2008