MARGARET SOFIA PRIYADARSHINI
Chennai
Summary
Results-driven Talent Acquisition Professional with 13 years of experience in end-to-end recruitment, talent strategy, and stakeholder management. Proven expertise in hiring for technical, leadership, and niche roles while partnering with business leaders to meet organizational goals. Skilled in talent sourcing, recruitment process optimization, and building strong talent pipelines. Recognized for delivering quality hires, enhancing candidate experience, and driving recruitment excellence in fast-paced environments.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Talent Acquisition Consultant
NATWEST GROUP (Royal Bank of Scotland)
Chennai
10.2019 - 07.2026
- Responsible for Technology hiring in the bank. Hiring across all business units for the Executive & Leadership positions.
- Responsible for high volume and ramp up capability hiring, developing recruitment strategies for the large manpower requirements projected across domain.
- Understand the job description and source right candidates, from internal employee referrals or Buddy program by sending mails, posting jobs on available job portals like Naukri, professional networking sites, company’s database, and outsourcing agencies.
- Screen and shortlist candidates, based on mapping with the requirement, projects they have worked upon, their education, company's background, and conduct written/online tests, wherever required.
- Follow-up the candidate for HR round, document verification, salary negotiation etc.
- Working with cross functional teams on New Process implementation, Stake holder’s trainings, Transformations and Global TA Projects and delivering customer experience.
- Partnering with Business Leaders, HRBP, and TA teams to design and enable the diversity & inclusion strategy by bringing innovative ideas that propel our DEI work forward with long term results in mind. Experience in building effective multi year DE&I strategies, including full life cycle plans in the areas of recruitment, talent management, learning and engagement.
Executive - HR
GMR GROUP
Bangalore
03.2015 - 04.2018
- Worked on complete end to end technical and non-technical recruitment life cycle, from on-boarding at all- entry, mid and senior level position for Energy, Airport & Infrastructure sector.
- Requirement gathering from Project Managers & Delivery Heads of various departments.
- Understand the job description and source right candidates, from internal employee referrals or Buddy program by sending mails, posting jobs on available job portals like Naukri, IIMJobs, professional networking sites, company’s database and outsourcing agencies.
- Screen and shortlist candidates, based on mapping with the requirement, projects they have worked upon, their education, company's background and conduct written/online tests, wherever required.
- Follow-up the candidate for HR round, document verification, salary negotiation etc.
- Initiate the Background verification & Medical Check up of the selected candidate
- Assisting the new joinee by scheduling and arranging all his training sessions, quickly motivating him to become a productive team member.
- Maintain EOD/weekly reports and monthly Recruitment Status reports, including joining and follow up reports.
- Generating, maintaining and presenting quarterly HR Report on behalf of the entire HR Team
- Maintain reports of offered candidates/joinees and also those of declines. Documentation and file management.
- Worked as a mentor for juniors and handled the team in absence of team lead, when required
HR Executive – Recruitment
TRANS CONTINENTAL TRADERS, CHENNAI
Chennai
02.2012 - 01.2015
- Hands on Experience in Recruiting Higher Level , Middle Level and Lower Level Candidates, such as Categories in STAFF i.e. General Managers , Managers, Head of the Dept., Engineers, Supervisors, Superintendents. For Lower level categories Skilled , Semi Skilled and Unskilled categories.
- Hands on Experiences in Recruiting to Multi – Disciplined Industries (Core NON – IT ) industries like Oil & Gas, Petrochemical & Refineries , Power, MEP Projects, Ship Building, Ship Repairs, Marine, Building , Roads and Infrastructure , Drilling and Rigs, Oil Exploration, Civil Construction, Maintenance, Manufacturing etc.
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - HRM & Finance
Department of Business Administration
BhubaneswarHSE - Science
Zinc Smelter Senior Secondary School
VizagSSC -
Kendriya Vidyalay
DhenkanalSkills
- Talent Acquisition & Recruitment
- End-to-End Recruitment
- Stakeholder Management
- Strategic Hiring
- Talent Sourcing
- Candidate Screening & Interviewing
- Recruitment Strategy
- Executive & Leadership Hiring
- Diversity & Inclusion Hiring
- Offer Negotiation
- Candidate Experience Management
Timeline
Talent Acquisition Consultant
NATWEST GROUP (Royal Bank of Scotland)
10.2019 - 07.2026
Executive - HR
GMR GROUP
03.2015 - 04.2018
HR Executive – Recruitment
TRANS CONTINENTAL TRADERS, CHENNAI
02.2012 - 01.2015
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - HRM & Finance
Department of Business Administration
HSE - Science
Zinc Smelter Senior Secondary School
SSC -
Kendriya Vidyalay