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Sheetika Rodrigues

Melbourne,Australia

Summary

I am a dedicated and ambitious Talent Acquisition professional with thirteen years of comprehensive experience in HR Projects, HR Operations, and full-cycle recruitment. My expertise covers sourcing, screening, interviewing, and hiring candidates across a diverse range of roles, including technical, corporate, mid-management, and senior management positions. I have successfully recruited top talent across various regions, including Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and currently Australia. Throughout my career, I have held pivotal roles across multiple industries, such as Education, IT, Retail, and Engineering. This diverse background has equipped me with a well-rounded understanding of recruitment needs in varied sectors. I am a proactive leader with strong interpersonal, communication, and problem-solving skills, committed to enhancing the employee experience at every stage of the talent lifecycle.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Reflex Technology Group
03.2022 - Current
  • Led end-to-end recruitment processes, enhancing efficiency by creating comprehensive job descriptions, job briefs, and strategic advertising campaigns
  • Successfully streamlined candidate screening, interviewing, and assessment facilitation, ensuring high-quality hires
  • Proactively identified and engaged passive candidates, building robust talent pipelines for both current and future roles
  • Designed and implemented innovative sourcing strategies that elevated RTG’s employment brand in the education industry
  • Partnered with Marketing to target top talent, increasing visibility and attraction to educational professionals
  • Developed and led tailored strategies for graduates, trainees, and interns, focusing on youth engagement through partnerships with universities, training organisations, and Monash Pathways
  • Established a social media communication strategy for diverse job profiles and organisational functions, boosting RTG’s digital presence and engagement among education-focused candidates
  • Oversaw the induction process for new recruits, implementing structured support mechanisms and conducting follow-ups at the end of week one
  • Spearheaded the integration of our applicant tracking system (Job Adder) with LinkedIn, optimising the recruitment workflow
  • Acted as a strategic business partner, leveraging industry knowledge to provide insights on skills, trends, and market dynamics
  • Delivered targeted coaching and training for first-time interviewers, enhancing the interview competency of hiring managers
  • Evaluated resumes, interviewed, and presented qualified candidates to hiring managers and solicited feedback to refine recruiting strategy.
  • Collaborated with hiring managers to determine job requirements and understand departmental needs.
  • Conducted telephone and in-person interviews to assess candidate experience and qualifications.
  • Developed and maintained applicant tracking system, tracking all job openings, applicants and interviewing activity.

Talent Acquisition Partner

UNIQLO
08.2021 - 02.2022
  • Create and maintain an annual recruitment plan
  • Meeting with key stakeholders to develop requisitions for new roles or replacement headcount
  • Manage and run end-to-end regular and seasonal recruitment across NSW & Perth
  • Seek approval through appropriate channels and processes for roles where required from global and local departments in a timely manner
  • Managing applications in a timely manner – screening, shortlisting, booking interviews, notifying candidates of their application outcomes
  • Liaising with hiring managers to schedule interviews at appropriate times
  • Conducting reference checks for all full-time associates, graduate and ad hoc head office candidates
  • Working with local HR Advisors to generate new hire paperwork through Workday
  • Working with local HR Advisors to ensure all paperwork is returned before employment has commenced
  • Liaise with relevant parties to arrange induction training
  • Manage the biannual graduate program campaigns
  • Assist the Human Resources Manager in reviewing the annual recruitment budget
  • Achieved 100% KPI in terms of the number of hires and quality of candidates for Corporate roles and Sales roles for Sydney and Perth
  • Proposed and got approvals for the new Organisational structure for the TA team of Melbourne
  • Successfully implemented the employee referral program for our Uniqlo stores in Perth and NSW

Talent Acquisition Advisor

ARUMA
05.2021 - 08.2021
  • Reporting to the People Partner, I supported the front-line managers in recruiting and delivering high quality Disability Support Workers and Supervisors within our Support Services team in a timely manner
  • Managed recruitment assignments for a diverse range of stakeholders across Victoria
  • Ensured the accuracy of the vacancies and weekly Recruitment reports through LiveHire
  • Conducting and following up on employment-related background checking including NDIS Worker Screening, VEVO Checks, Working with Children Checks and reference checks
  • Proactively built internal/external talent pools for the business, delivering quality candidate care
  • Writing and posting ads on various job boards including the internal job board
  • Successfully exceeded the hiring targets for Gippsland and recruited for all Team Manager (Supervisory) roles within 1.5 months of joining apart from the Disability support roles
  • Initiated the process improvements plans for new hiring strategies and got the Seek talent search function approved for the full TA team

Recruitment Resourcer

Drake International Australia
10.2019 - 05.2021
  • Effective screening of candidates through proper assessment and selection process using Drake Personality assessment test (P3)
  • Source talent on social media through head hunting LinkedIn recruiter, Seek talent Search, Indeed and Jora
  • Developed recruitment strategies to continually develop and improve recruitment processes
  • Head hunted candidates for Executive roles for various clients across Australia and successfully placed IT professionals in various Councils across Victoria

Regional Recruitment Officer

Trafalgar General Trading Co, Trafalgar Group
12.2015 - 06.2019
  • Leading the end to end internal recruitment process independently
  • Head hunt passive candidates and source for Kuwait, UAE, KSA & Bahrain
  • Partner with hiring managers to understand their talent requirements, business models and strategic priorities
  • To ensure that the right candidates are sourced for the open positions within the expected timelines and urgency of the profiles
  • To prepare offer letter and employment contract in line with the labour law
  • To propose cost-effective ways of recruitment through social media, company website, and job portals and initiate changes as and when required for the increased efficiency of the recruitment process
  • Created and implemented new recruitment, employee corporate Induction, and onboarding processes
  • Successfully recruited over 400 roles (Sales and Corporate) and established the new offices in UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia

Recruitment Officer

American University of the Middle East
04.2015 - 12.2015
  • Prescreening of CVs and shortlisting candidates through various sourcing channels (LinkedIn recruiter, Bayt, global agencies, and employee referral) as per the Semester targets
  • Plan, organise, and coordinate recruitment activities; meet with individuals, departments, and committees to define the position, selection criteria
  • Review employment files to verify minimum qualifications for the position are met
  • Compile, monitor, and track all recruitment statistics efficiently on the CRM software
  • Participate in conferences and events representing the College
  • Assist the personnel team in onboarding and induction of the faculty members

Senior Recruitment Officer

Yusuf A. Alghanim & Sons WLL
10.2014 - 04.2015
  • Monitor and Support the achievement of the recruitment targets for the Engineering group as per the approved manpower budget
  • Support in deciding on the priority recruitment channels in consultation with the various Business heads and HR Managers
  • Plan & execute the complete recruitment cycle of all mid-management hiring (shortlisting, scheduling, interview, selection, negotiation, Visa status follow up and offer acceptance and supervise the smooth onboarding, and orientation of the globally hired employees)
  • Ensure maintenance of all employee-related files and records and generation of employee numbers through SAP
  • Conducting preliminary interviews for various positions, maintenance of personnel files, and assisting the Government Services Officer with Visa requirements for overseas/ local hire
  • Advertise job openings on various Job Portals like LinkedIn, Gulf Talent, and Bayt
  • Develop and proactively manage a talent pool of candidates acquired through advertising, headhunting, walk in resumes, research, and business events

HR Coordinator

Landmark Group
01.2011 - 09.2014
  • Support the HR Manager in preparing the annual manpower acquisition plan and budget
  • Prepare a recruitment database for the Territory and feed into the central database
  • Assist in releasing recruitment advertisement, head hunting
  • Compile CVs for review by department managers/functional heads within territory
  • Coordinate with local recruitment agencies and other preferred recruitment channels
  • Conduct pre screening of submitted CVs and shortlist candidates
  • Type Employment Contracts & obtain candidate confirmation
  • Ensure induction training for all newly joined staff members
  • Assist the Senior HR Manager in key initiatives
  • Handled employee information in HRIS (ORACLE EBRS12)
  • OHS initiative implementation
  • Successfully exceeded KPI's and was promoted within the first year of joining to an HR Coordinator

Management Trainee

Raymond – Raymond Apparel Ltd
06.2007 - 09.2007
  • Coordinate with local recruitment agencies and other preferred recruitment channels
  • Assist the HR Manager in planning the recruitment strategies
  • Conduct pre screening of submitted CVs and shortlist candidates for the Retail stores across Mumbai
  • Independently handled the pilot project of the men's ready to wear garments launched in 2008

Education

Post Graduate Diploma - HR

XAVIER INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SERVICE

Bachelor's - Psychology

University of Delhi

Skills

  • Full-Cycle Recruitment
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Talent Acquisition Strategy
  • Data-Driven Decision Making
  • Behavioural Interviewing Techniques
  • Negotiation Skills
  • Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)

Accomplishments

  • Honoured with the 2022 Annual Employee Recognition Award at Reflex Technology Group for outstanding customer service and exceptional stakeholder management skills.
  • Achieved a $60,000 reduction in recruitment costs by directly hiring for all roles without the assistance of recruitment agencies within the first twelve months at RTG.
  • Successfully built the Talent Acquisition and HR team at Uniqlo in 2021, entirely without the use of recruitment agencies.
  • Successfully implemented the Seek Talent Search function for my Talent Acquisition team at Aruma and provided comprehensive training to teammates, enhancing their headhunting skills.

Timeline

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Reflex Technology Group
03.2022 - Current

Talent Acquisition Partner

UNIQLO
08.2021 - 02.2022

Talent Acquisition Advisor

ARUMA
05.2021 - 08.2021

Recruitment Resourcer

Drake International Australia
10.2019 - 05.2021

Regional Recruitment Officer

Trafalgar General Trading Co, Trafalgar Group
12.2015 - 06.2019

Recruitment Officer

American University of the Middle East
04.2015 - 12.2015

Senior Recruitment Officer

Yusuf A. Alghanim & Sons WLL
10.2014 - 04.2015

HR Coordinator

Landmark Group
01.2011 - 09.2014

Management Trainee

Raymond – Raymond Apparel Ltd
06.2007 - 09.2007

Bachelor's - Psychology

University of Delhi

Post Graduate Diploma - HR

XAVIER INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SERVICE

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