Raju Raveendran

About Raju Raveendran

Highly accomplished Talent Acquisition professional with significant experience of over 19 yesrs in strategic Talent acquisition, Talent Management, Leadership Hiring, consulting TA process automation and system development, large start up project hiring and Organisation structural construct from the scratch. Extremely good knowledge in hiring domains like IT (s/w&h/w), Telecom and Retail, and have successfully handled large teams for mission critical hiring assignments. Relentless record of driving high performing Teams, achieving hiring deadlines, increasing candidate experience, leading bottom line results and establishing connections cross functionally to secure support in TA delivery on time.

Experience

1. Senior Manager - Talent Acquisition

   Cognizant

   Sep 2021 — Present · Kochi, IN

   In this role I am leading Talent Acquisition for one of the largest BU at Cognizant. Managing a 40 member team for driving high velocity hiring engine across all the service line under this BU, also my role extends to provide strategic TA solutions for all the Accounts in this BU. I work very closely with the BU global leadership team for external offshore TA delivery. While I manage business I am also accountable for all TA process compliance and delivery.

Education

• Calicut University

  BA, English

  1999 — 2002

• Madurai Kamaraj University

  MBA, Human Resources

  2003 — 2005

Skills

• Recruitments
• Team Management
• Screening Resumes
• Employee Relations
• Benefits Negotiation
• Talent Acquisition
• Internet Recruiting
• Screening
• Management
• Performance Management
• Hris
• Technical Recruiting
• IT Recruitment
• Sourcing
• Talent Management
• Mis
• Employee Engagement
• Human Resources
• Recruiting
• Vendor Management
• Temporary Placement