Dec 2023 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Expertise in the full recruitment life cycle
• Developing and implementing recruitment strategies aligned with the company’s goals and objectives. - - This involves understanding the current and future staffing needs of the organization and devising plans to attract and retain talent.
• Oversee the entire recruitment process, from sourcing to onboarding. This includes utilizing various channels such as job boards, social media, professional networks & recruitment agencies.
• Involved in candidate screening and selection process, reviewing resumes and assessing candidates skills, qualifications and culture fit

Jul 2023 – Nov 2023 · 4 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Jan 2022 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · Hybrid

• Designing and executing recruiting strategies for attracting, evaluating and hiring qualified candidates,
• Engaging with Recruitment vendors to work on the mandates- Proactively identifying and addressing company's hiring needs
• Evaluating and refining procedures for sourcing, interviewing and selection- Ensuring proper recruitment and training of newly hired employees- Managing and monitoring the team of Recruiters and also providing assistance to them
• Researching and recommending latest sourcing tools and recruiting software (e.g. ATS)- Participating in the strategic planning of our company in regards to employee engagement and development
• Organizing recruitment events for the purpose of establishing a sound employer brand- Maintaining talent pipelines with past applicants as well as potential candidates for future hiring needs
• Overseeing and improving the overall candidate experience
• Promoting diversity by ensuring that our recruitment strategies attract candidates from diverse backgrounds Requirement:
• Experience with sourcing, interviewing, recruitment and development of candidates
• Ability to take quick decisions while working in a fast-paced environment
• Strong verbal as well as non-verbal communication skills- Exceptional time-management and organizational skills

Nov 2020 – Oct 2021 · 11 mos

Dec 2019 – Oct 2020 · 10 mos

• Responsible for the front-ending of the Stake Holders, setting the high level meeting, discussing the quarterly targets and chalking a plan to close the numbers.
• Managing Hiring Managers, Leadership team & candidates
• Responsible for Non -Tech leadership hiring like Mid - C level hiring.
• Actively involved in Market Intelligence projects for TA team.
• Involved in leadership approach for setting up process.
• Training TA team on multiple sourcing techniques, strategies and process/compliance.
• Key contributor for some of the hiring needs.
• Bringing team's level up by providing opportunity for them to grow in the professional career.
• Effective team player
• Program management:
• Running multiple programs along with the team around Employee Engagement, Employee Referrals, Candidate engagement, Data Analysis, Social recruiting and training.

Jun 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

• End to end Recruitment for Tech & Non tech Business units.
• Handling a team of recruiters, involved in mentoring, taking care of their SLA's and deliverables.
• Sourcing, screening and shortlisting resumes through Job boards, Careersite, Linkedln, Nakuri, Instahyre, belong & IIM-jobs.
• Interacting with Hiring managers to discuss on the open positions
• Regular Updates to Candidates on timely feedback and engaging them from screening till
• onboarding
• Interacting with Internal Employees to Generate Referrals
• Extensive knowledge in Workday application tracking system
• Scheduling the shortlisted candidates for telephonic and Onsite discussions
• Communicating the employment status to the applied candidates
• Involved in preparing offer letters, Post offer Engagement, Negotiation.
• Campus Hiring
• Involved in training for new recruiters and new interviewers and staffing initiatives.
• Partnered with business leaders for TA projects.

Aug 2017 – Jun 2018 · 10 mos · Bangalore

• Recruitment & Post recruitment activities (onboarding/ negotiating/ offer letter preparation & Data management )
• Work closely with the hiring managers to identify key hiring needs & utilizing the recruitment strategies to attract top talent
• Manage the entire recruitment life cycle from sourcing & screening, salary negotiations along with other pre-joining & post joining formalities.
• Handling leadership/Lateral & Junior level recruitment.
• Taking care of all following letters and complete documentation for the same & to be handed over to the employees at the time of their joining.
• Coordinating with and stake holders understanding their requirements defining job positions.
• Screening and shortlisting profiles through various job portals, social media (Linkedin/Twitter/Google X-ray search) or promoting internal referrals
• Shortlisting the resumes based on desired skills and experience.
• Advertising vacancies, screening and shortlisting resumes.
• Conducting telephonic & personal interviews in coordination with head.
• Getting the right profiles matching the requirements in the given time frame.

Oct 2016 – Aug 2017 · 10 mos · Bangalore

• Shotang is a B2B ecommerce marketplace for retailers, distributors and manufacturers to discover, transact and manage their business online.
• Our ambition is to enable millions of retailers across emerging economies to order for and make payments for their inventory online, eventually leading to higher profitability for them. Our open marketplace model also helps distributors and manufacturers rationalize their costs and improve productivity of processes significantly.
• Positions handling
• SDE 1, 2, 3
• SE, SSE
• UI Developer
• Automation Lead/ QA Engineer
• Visual Designer
• Product Manager
• For exploring career opportunities share your profile to : veena@shotang.com
• www.shotang.com

Jul 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

• I have been associated with the India’s Leading Executive Search Firm - Wenger&Watson Pvt. Ltd.. I have been working extensively with Start-ups/early stage/Product/IT Services Clients.
• Responsibilities:
• Actively Involved in Leadership Hiring.
• Actively involved in active & passive sourcing through Cold Calling, Head Hunting, Reference generation via LinkedIn, Boolean / X-Ray / googling / Social Networking Via LinkedIn and more...
• Working for Early Stage Research, Product Development Companies. Also Working for few IT Services clients in Product Engineering Services domain.
• Currently working for Enterprise Product / e-commerce / Online start-ups / early stage companies.
• Positions handled:-
• UI front end/ back end developers
• Data Engineers
• Data Scientist
• Product Managers/ CPO
• EM/ VP Engineering/CTO
• Ux Head
• Core Java Expert / Java/J2EE Specialists
• VP-Sales & Marketing
• CMO/ CBO
• Inside Sales
• SDE's and more

Jul 2014 – Jun 2015 · 11 mos · Bangalore

• Responsibilities @ Client Place OLA CABS
• Handling end-to-end recruitment process at all levels within defined timelines.
• Responsible for all functions of recruitment from sourcing of candidates till on-boarding.
• Collaborating with hiring managers to understand all the requirements better and close the same within defined time limits.
• Sourcing appropriate profiles from various sources like job portals (Monster India, Naukri), referrals.
• Handling first round of HR interview in order to judge the candidate w.r.t suitability, attitude, academic & professional qualifications, experience, and communication skills before putting it forward to the next round of interview.
• Scheduling and coordinating the entire interview process of the shortlisted candidates with Technical Panels & Managers
• Following up with the candidates in all the stages and passing on the relevant information on a timely basis.
• Maintaining accurate data and documentation relating to candidates.
• Assisting in walk-ins, drives for various positions.
• Maintaining accurate data and documentation.

Jul 2011 – Jul 2014 · 3 yrs · Bangalore

• I am here handling the Complete Recruitment Life Cycle, Understanding the client’s requirement and processing the requirement within a stipulated time frame and converting requirement into revenues stream. Maintain internal database for Management’s review, Follow up with the candidate after the offer is made till they join & handling the full lifecycle of recruitment process.
• Exposed in the entire hiring process from sourcing, searching, screening, target hunting for recruiting candidates for various Non IT requirements.

Mar 2009 – Apr 2010 · 1 yr 1 mo

May 2004 – Mar 2009 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

• 1) Handling the walk-in/telephonic inquiries and Cold calling.
• 2) Giving information about the courses running by the institute
• 3) Counseling the students for various programs.Convince and convert the inquiries into admissions.
• 4) Regular follow up of walk-in and telephonic enquires for Enrollment.
• 5) Managing Centre activities like fee collection, team Management, Maintaining of Administration block.
• 6) Build, maintain and nurture relationships with students to generate referrals.
• 7) Had a flair of Counseling over the phone.
• 8) with excellent communication and convincing skills.