Description

Qualification:

BA/BS degree in business, communications, human resources or related discipline and/or equivalent work

• experience.

Responsibility:

Business Partnering:

*To further strengthen the connection, recruiters should seek to attend weekly team meetings to align their efforts with the business and actively engage hiring managers through meetings

• * Connect with other support groups like TSC, Business Operations for the demand view.

• * Endtoend recruiting support for business unit in identifying, selecting and hiring the right fit talent.

• * Serves the current open requirements and provides regular updates to the BU on the progress.

• *Under guidance of Recruitment Lead, regularly communicates with Hiring Managers on status updates, challenges & market trends.

• *Manages conflicts & subsequent resolution with Hiring Managers.

• *Provide support, as appropriate, related to recruiting content for RFPs.

Partner with Sourcing Team:

* Work closely with Sourcing Partner to ensure he/she understands the role, has a proper reach out strategy for candidates, and knows how to manage candidates effectively throughout process

• * Continuously develop and maintain a fit for purpose talent pool.

• *Develop a network through industry contacts, association memberships, trade groups, and hiring team to help identify and source qualified candidates.

• *Leverage the internet, including social and professional networking sites, to identify and source candidates.

Candidate Experience:

*Understands candidate drivers & respond/resolve queries through the entire recruiting cycle

• *Keeps the candidate engaged through constant communication.

• * Works with other internal stakeholders (sourcing, onboarding, BU teams) to improve candidate experience.

• * Brings in innovative approaches to enhance candidate experience.

• Employer Branding: Provides a positive candidate experience.

• effectively represents and markets the Cognizant employment brand, the organization's business objectives and career options to potential candidates.

Planning/Organizing:

*Breaks hiring plan to milestones/events to achieve the targets

• *Plans weekend events effectively & ensures success around candidate & panel participation.

• *Judiciously uses channels / techniques to optimize cost.

• *Escalates issues timely.

• *Recognizes risks & proposes timely solutions to mitigate the same.

Quality of Hiring:

*Follows a consistent process and best practices for selecting highest quality candidates

• *Effectively represent Market landscape and stack rank skill.

• *Summarizes the candidate's strengths, weaknesses and anticipates needs.

Offer & Onboard:

*Provides appropriate support, sets right expectations with the candidate (like total rewards, internal growth, development, salary reviews, travel etc) & is professional throughout the offer process

• *Demonstrates indepth knowledge of employment regulations and articulates/extends offers accordingly.

• *Articulates offers to selected candidates under the guidance of Leads and within the Cognizant Offer guidelines and appropriate approvals.

• *Addresses candidates queries and concerns related to the offer.

• *Candidate followup for the onboarding process & interact with POFU team.

• *Generate and Maintain reports on No of Offers & Prospective Joiners Month on Month.

• *Works closely with the Onboarding Team to ensure smooth onboarding experience.

• *Manages Offer Comparisons if any (Cognizant's offer to an alternate offer).

• *Builds solid and longterm candidate relationships.

• *Negotiates complex offers with requisite approval & guidance from Recruitment Leads.

Compliance & Process Adherence:
• Constantly monitor the team to adhere compliance norms and procedures

Cost per Hire Ratio:

*Follow the BU Hiring Grids

• *Ensures the fitments are based on the recommended percentile value.

• *Resources, as a priority, via low cost / direct channels / Referrals.

• *Adherence to hiring policies & the reflection of the same in candidate, stakeholder conversations.

• * Negotiates in difficult situations & seek guidance as the need be.

Networking:

*Inculcates personal networks internal, and external to organization to achieve results

*Participates in networking opportunities to expand horizons (eg:

MeetUps, Stakeholder Tech Connects, Webinars)

• *Leverages various opportunities to build the Cognizant Brand.

• *Brings in innovative thinking to enhance existing networking practices.

Hiring Tools/techniques:

*Is able to identify any gaps in the tool, flag to leads

• *Coaches teams/individuals on the usage of the tools.

Market Intelligence:

*Possesses good understanding of market trends and competitors

• *Applies Market Intelligence to achieve desired results.

• *Has good knowledge about market conditions, compensation, competition, M&As.

• *Is able to study the market through varied sources & share findings on talent market, market trends to advise business.

Mentoring:

*Guides and mentors other recruiters

• *Actively participates in special recruitment wide initiatives.

• *Manage multiple special projects simultaneously, while also working on recruiting or hiring initiatives.