GARIMA GEHLOT garimagehlot67@yahoo.

com
+91-9082619566/+91-9769577953 https://www.linkedin.com/in/garima-gehlot-3b792955/

CAREER OBJECTIVE
A Passionate & forward-thinking HR professional with 7 years of rich & varied experience in Talent Acquisition,
Talent Management, Change Management, Process improvement & partnering with senior leadership. Strong
educational background in Psychology & HR Digitization, looking to join a progressive organization as a HR
Manager to improve employee’s productivity in an innovative & cost effective measure.

KEY SKILLS
 Talent Acquisition & Succession Planning  Competency Framework & Job Analysis
 Psychometric Assessment  Performance Management
 HR Analytics  Business Partnering & Stakeholders Management
 Talent Management & Org Change  Technology & HR Automation – ATS (Talent Recruit,
Management Jobvite, Taleo, Successfactor), HRMIS (SAP, Adrenaline),
ESS Portal & MS Office

EDUCATION
YEAR EDUCATION UNIVERSITY/BOARD
2020-2021 People Analytics & Digital HR IIM, Indore
2012-2014 M Sc. – Psychology & HRDM Christ University, Bangalore
2009-2012 B.A. (Honors) in Economics & Psychology Maharani’s College (Rajasthan University)

EXPERIENCE
Reliance Brands Limited, Mumbai Corporate HRBP August, 2017 – Till date
Job Profile: As the HRBP, leading two members’ team for Talent Acquisition & life cycle management of 700+
employees in corporate office.
 Talent Acquisition & Strategy –
o Organizational wide Expert in hiring best & right quality candidates at junior to top management
roles across all departments, within TAT
o Manage End to End recruitment from identifying role requirements, sourcing, interviewing to offer
negotiation & on-boarding
o Manage optimized Source mix such as IJP, Job Portals (LinkedIn, Naukri, iimjobs), Careers page &
Database, Consultant, Campus, etc.
o Partner with Business Heads & Stakeholders for hiring right fit for each role through Structured
Interviewing & Assessment methods
o Innovative cost-effective recruitment strategies to meet organization’s hiring requirements at present
& future, like Head Hunting, Cold Pipeline for critical roles, Contingency hiring, Database enrichment,
Internal Job Posting, etc.
o Annual Manpower planning (AOP) & budgeting
o Developed Competency Based Interviewing Guide & implement Psychometric assessment tools
 o Implement Digitize transformation project (ATS-Talent Recruit, HOT, Successfactor, Jobvite, Taleo)
for candidate life-cycle
o Create TA analytics & metrics to regularly monitor TA effectiveness & publish dashboard to
Leadership
o Revamped Campus Placement process & partner with best institutes such as NIFT, BIMTECH, MICA,
NID, SIMS, etc.
o Plan strategies to enhance Candidate Experience through-out evaluation process on all sourcing
channels
 Strategic HRBP, Talent Management & Organization Change Catalyst –
o Partner with Business Leaders to plan & implement strategies to improve Organization effectiveness
o Identify & Create COE for each department to develop excellence in skills & partner with them to
plan Talent development strategies
o Conduct Job Analysis & KRA/KPI setting for all unique roles in Corporate
o Create Question Bank for Competency Based Interviewing for managerial/leadership roles as well as
campus hiring
o Developed Competency framework (Behavioural & Functional), basis which develop Succession
Plan for critical roles
o Develop Assessment & Development Centers to identify & up-skill Hi-potential employees
o Revamp Performance Management system based on KRA & KPI as per Competency Framework &
conduct quarterly reviews through Performance Diary
o Create & conduct Leadership Development Plans & Management Development Plans in
partnership with L&D team
o Research & benchmark compensation structures across industries to formulate best compensation
structure to motivate & retain employees. Monitoring Internal Pay Parity regularly with market
mapping
o Construct & conduct of Employee Engagement Survey by Kincentric (formerly Aon Hewitt) in 2019
& 2020 to identify key areas of organization change basis Psychological contract
o Calendarise & conduct monthly Employee connect & recognition events such as FGDs, Townhalls,
month-end gathering, Instant Gratification, etc. & yearlong events such as Family Day, Annual Party,
Townhall, team outings, etc.
o Create SOPs & Policies such as Internal Job Posting, Lights-out Policy, Smart Work from Home Policy,
delimited Attendance from Salary & Flexible Working Policy
o Conduct special Structured Mentoring programs for PIP serving employees basis skill gap analysis
o Collaborate with Payroll team to continuously improve payroll portal & data as well as day to day
operational tasks
o Face of HR to employees for queries & grievances related to Policies, Performance management,
payroll & attendance, separation, etc.
 HR Analytics –
o Manpower planning every Financial year with each Business & Function head
o Publish TA & TM Dashboard to the leadership team
o Regular evaluation of effectiveness of all HR initiatives implemented
 o Created, reviewed & revamped HR Policies & SOPs to smoothen talent acquisition, HR Operations
& Employee separation process
 Training & Induction –
o Re-created & Deliver Induction to all new joinees for Corporate roles
o Conduct monthly Trainings for HR team (47 members)
o Re-invented functional & corporate induction with delivery methods to increase effectiveness
o Partner with Training team to identify Need gaps & plan

Achievements:
 Spearhead HR Automation & Digitization through implementing technology in various HR stages such
as TA, PMS, Analytics, etc.
 Awarded as Best Employee of the Month for 3 months consecutively in 2019 for highest closures with
ZERO dropouts
 Promoted every year
 Recognized as most Empathetic HR to approach for Employee grievances
 Reduced recruitment cost by 30% and improved TAT by recreating TA strategies & tracking systems
 Designed TA scorecard to manage team’s performance & TA Dashboards
 Developed HR Analytics & reporting system

Organization Role Achievements From To

 100+ Front-end to leadership hiring in a year
with a TAT of 15 to 30 days
Talent
 Developed a “Plug & Play” Induction Module August,
Pepperfry.com Acquisition & August, 2016
within 3 months 2017
Management
 Implementing new Performance Management
Model
Talent Acquisition – Hire for Sales, Technology &
Marketing roles for the state office
Employee Engagement
 Initiating & Conducting various activities & events
for Employee Engagement such as Engagement
calendar preparation, Monthly Birthday
celebration, Town hall, Team building activities,
festivals celebration, Award & recognition to
Employee
Exceptional performers, etc. September, March,
Reliance Jio Engagement  Constructing Employee Feedback Surveys for 2015 2016
Manager every department & organization for the state
 Design Employee Engagement initiatives and
increase Employee Engagement Ratio up from
0% to 15% in Raj. State
 Conducting Exit interviews & analyzing the
reports
 First SPOC for any grievance of employees for the
state
 Partner with Leadership of various companies to
conduct Organization performance improvement
strategies such as Employee Engagement Survey,
January
HR Anexi HR Consultant Assessment Centre & Development Centre, July, 2014
2015
Competency Framework creation, Leadership
Development through “Pit Stop Model”, “Why
Should Anyone be Led by You”, etc.

PERSONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

o Awarded “Employee of the Month” 3 times in consecutive months in 2019

o Constructed Psychometric test on Psychological Contract, Organizational Commitment,
Job Satisfaction, etc.
Awards/
o Certified Competency Based Interviewer by SHL
Certifications
o Awarded as “Most Promising Career Achiever & Student” in the First Alumni by
Secondary School
o Awarded for “Outperformance in all fields” by Jyotibha Phule Maali Sansthan, Jodhpur
Positions o President of Humanities Club in 2009
Held o Internship Coordinator in 2014
o Attended various Health & Safety workshops by SOLVE
Co-Curricular o Attended various HR summits by NHRDM in Bangalore, Jaipur & Mumbai
Activities o Won various tournaments at State level for individual & team events in Basketball,
Handball, Tae-Ku-Wando, Wu-Shu, etc. in School & University
Hobbies:
o My interests lies in experimenting with the application of psychology in organizational setup
o Get involved in Stress relieving activities such as Pool, driving, dance, sports, crafting, travelling, etc.