Ben John

About Ben John

Human Resources professional with strong aptitude for quick learning within new environments. Involved in end-to-end recruitments for CMM Level 5 companies. Broad based experience in Training and Development, HR Supervision, Employee Relations, and Compensation. Pre-screening candidates, arranging and conducting interviews, extending and closing employment offers. Skillful in interpersonal relations and capable of communicating effectively with all levels of management, both oral and written. Specialties: • On-line job boards/ Google /user groups/Internet navigation • Candidate networking/true corporate headhunting • News Grouper (Newsgroup email spidering) • Mail Sender (mass emailing) • Tarantula (Internet email spidering) • Art of Resume writing • Account Management.

Experience

1. Manager - Talent Acquisition

   AXA

   Jan 2016 — Present

   AXA is one of the world leading insurance and asset management groups, serving 103 million clients, individuals and business, in 59 countries, with employees and distributors. AXA is the No. 1 ranked Global Insurance Brand for 7 successive years, with over €92 billion in revenues and €5 billion net income. AXA Business Services (AXA BS) is a 100% owned AXA Group subsidiary based in India. We are the shared services center for the AXA Group, and we build centralized capabilities to be leveraged across the AXA Group. Currently managing hiring for Actuarial and Data Science team. The team has grown to 80+ people and provides Actuarial and Data Science services to 15+ AXA Entities across the globe. Providing recruitment support to cater to requirements across various segments in 1) Actuarial (Life Insurance, P&C Insurance, Health Insurance): Pricing, Reserving / Valuation, Corporate Actuarial and Reporting, or Advanced Analytics ) 2) Data Science: Hiring for Data Innovation Lab (DIL). DIL’s key mission is to help AXA entities become data-driven companies by contributing to build technological platforms, acting as a technological hub that explores technological opportunities for the insurance business. Hiring people with below expertise (a) Data processing (e.g. data mining, social network analysis, text mining)(b) Database access (SQL; optionally Pig and Hive)(c) Practice of machine learning, including libraries (e.g. scikit-learn, Spark MLlib, R packages)(d) Programming skills (ideally Python or similar; appreciated: R, Java / Scala, Javascript / AngularJS / Meteor / React)(e) Data visualization (eg. Matplotlib, plot.ly, C3.js, Dataiku, Tableau, Highcharts, etc.)(f) Statistical Modeling

Education

• Bhopal School Of Social Sciences

  Bachelor’s Degree, Management

  2004 — 2007

• IBMR, Bangalore

  MBA, HR & Marketing

  2007 — 2009