About

Lavakumar Ashokan is a seasoned HR professional with 6 years of experience in Talent Acquisition and Talent Engagement across the IT sector. He has a strong record of accomplishment leading various Talent acquisition activities team management, while ensuring alignment of business goals and facilitating end-to-end Talent Acquisition needs. Lavakumar has expertise in Recruiting for various domains like BFS, Insurance, Digital Engineering, Telecom, Technology & Business Consulting. Lavakumar's strengths & core competencies include experience in End to End Recruitment life cycle, collaborating with stakeholders to understand the skills and background required for each opportunity, and providing expert advice and coaching to hiring managers throughout the recruitment process. He has the ability to source, screen, evaluate and select candidates through a structured recruitment process and generate qualified candidates through cost-effective efforts. Lavakumar is experienced in handling volume recruiting in a fast-paced, structured environment, adhering to strict deadlines & conducting weekend drives. He has expertise in generic, niche & super niche skill hiring, and healthy negotiation skills par competitive pay standards. He develops strong client and candidate relationships and maintains communication with both. Lavakumar is familiar with Recruiting Tools like Applicant tracking systems (ATS, Taleo, Ciepal) and CMS. Currently, Lavakumar Ashokan is working as an Executive - Talent Acquisition at Cognizant. He manages the complete recruitment life cycle, has excellent Tech Screening Skills, and is responsible for the detailed evaluation of candidates against specific IT requirements. Lavakumar works closely with stakeholders & hiring managers to develop a position profile and understand overall needs and requirements. He sources profiles from various channels like Naukri, Monster, LinkedIn, Carrier Site, Employee Referral & internal Database. Lavakumar is efficient in vendor management and following up with them for strong support. He creates a comprehensive job description based on hiring manager specifications to be used to present to candidates and to post to job boards and internal gateways. He schedules interviews and serves as the first point of contact for all the candidates. Lavakumar manages the entire recruitment process for both generic and niche skill requirements. He gathers the current, expected Salary and explains the benefits package of the candidates and does the parity check and recommends the best possible offer. Lavakumar ensures all pre-recruitment documentation checks are completed before the offer release. He gathers the required documents from the candidates for extending an offer after doing a proper reference check. Lavakumar initiates BGV with appropriate documents and follows