Melba Kuriakose
Adelaide,SA
Summary
Motivated and skilled Social Work and Psychology graduate with a proven track record in research, talent assessment, and career development. Resourceful Talent Consultant focused on building successful education paths in support of career goals. Eager to leverage expertise in counselling, organizational behaviour, and client relations to provide exceptional support to UniSA students in achieving their career goals.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Consultant Talent Assessments
Mercer Mettl
08.2022 - 01.2024
- Working along with team in client discussions and managing talent consulting assignments for region of South
- Technical inputs to support sales team in requirement gathering, suggesting suitable approaches, facilitating tool creation, delivery and rolling out of psychometric assessments for clients from various industries such as FMCG, Manufacturing, Pharma, IT etc., catering from entry to leadership levels
- Solutioning and customizing existing assessment tools such as battery/VAC/ACDC/360 products, tailored to fit recruitment, L&D initiatives of the client in areas such as role fitment, capability development, Hi-Po identification, succession planning, training need identification, training effectiveness, culture fitment
- Addressing technical queries of sales team/Clients and acting as a subject matter expert for South Region.
Consultant Industrial/Organizational Psychologist
Impress.ai
03.2021 - 07.2022
- Identify/develop science behind impress.ai that is appealing to user
- Research on cognitive bias to deter & leverage client decisions
- Research about various buyer personas and incorporate theories & practice of rational vs emotional motives to the same
- Job family- soft skill mapping for various industries such as Banking, Finance, IT, HR and Pharmaceuticals
- Creation, validation & analysis of competency assessments (Situational Judgement questions) tailored to various companies
- Research how various assessments are presented across various platforms with major focus on UX - behavioral assessments.
Consultant Research Psychologist (I/O)
Perspectico Learning Private Limited
06.2020 - 02.2021
- Manage team of 5 I/O psychologists to facilitate scope of future employability through cognitive, socio emotional and behavioral skills
- Designing psychometric assessment tools pertaining to model
- Assist hiring managers and others involved in hiring process to assess soft skills in potential hires, making them important but elusive set of psychological competencies to look for
- Devising Career Interest Inventory (CII-6), comprehensive career assessment tool to estimate possible career paths along with personal attributes
- Developing situational questionnaires for children (ages 15-24) to assess various values such as self-esteem, self- concept and confidence.
Associate Consultant Psychologist
Zinnov Management Consultancy
07.2018 - 06.2020
- Designing scientific psychographic profiling tool that addresses challenges of sales executives during sales lifecycle, from prospection to post-sales
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) combined with psychological framework to build personality profile of buyer
- Develop and leveraged Human Centric UI/UX design in building ‘DraupBot'- a sales and talent platform
- Platform training for national and international clients such as Amazon and Microsoft through webinar
- Analyses of qualitative data like social media feed, news articles, personal quotes and objective data like previous education, work experience, publications to derive psychological frameworks.
Education
Master of Social Work - Social Work
University of South Australia
Adelaide, SA12.2025
Pg Diploma in Forensic Psychology - Psychology
Coventry University
Coventry, England06.2018
BSc. Psychology (Hon's) - Psychology
Central University of Karnataka
Karnataka, India04.2016
Skills
- Talent Management
- IBM SPSS
- Psychometrics
- Assessment Centre
- 360 degree survey Feedback
- Learning and Development
- Solution Selling
- Client Relations
- Consultative Approach
- Cross-functional Coordination
- Research skills
- Customer Relationship Management
Languages
English
Hindi
Malayalam
Tamil
Publications
- Attitudes towards Marital Rape: A Cross-Cultural Study between Young Adults in the United Kingdom and India, International Journal of Indian Psychology, 7, 1, 308-321, 10.25215/0701.036
- Recidivism: Effect of Incarnation Length on Offenders: A Review of Literature, International Journal of Indian Psychology, 7, 2, 433-440, 10.25215/0702.050
- Effective Interventions for Women Offenders: A Review of Literature, International Journal of Indian Psychology, 7, 2, 415-423, 10.25215/0702.050
Panellist
Panellist at Christ University, Bangalore for International Conference on New Work Order on 14th December 2019, for the topic Optimising Human Potential: Different perspectives (Recidivism and measures to bring back criminals to their potential level).
Training
- Graduate member status with the British Psychological Society (BPS) along with the Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership. [2020]
- Therapeutic Art Life Coach [2020]
- Post Graduate Certificate in Consumer Buyer Behavior [2019]
- Certified Practitioner of Hypnosis and Neuro Linguistic Program (NLP) [2015]
References
- Sonal Khaira, Global Director - T&S Global Wellness Research Leader, Teleperformance
- Shireen Bangera, UX Researcher, YouTube, Google
- Merin Koshy, Lead Executive (Psychometrics) I/O Psychologist, Behavioral Assessments, Mercer Mettl
Timeline
Consultant Talent Assessments
Mercer Mettl
08.2022 - 01.2024
Consultant Industrial/Organizational Psychologist
Impress.ai
03.2021 - 07.2022
Consultant Research Psychologist (I/O)
Perspectico Learning Private Limited
06.2020 - 02.2021
Associate Consultant Psychologist
Zinnov Management Consultancy
07.2018 - 06.2020
Master of Social Work - Social Work
University of South Australia
Pg Diploma in Forensic Psychology - Psychology
Coventry University
BSc. Psychology (Hon's) - Psychology
Central University of Karnataka
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