Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr · Remote · Remote

Feb 2022 – May 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Remote

• Lead full cycle recruitment for 15+ positions simultaneously for UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Poland, Romania, Germany, and Ukraine
• Managed the recruitment process to ensure it runs smoothly by mediating between candidates and hiring managers
• Built and customized screening questionnaires for technical roles to assess potential candidates at initial screening stage to reduce TIME-TO-FILL
• Explore different sourcing methods such as job sites, social media, virtual hiring events, and direct outreach campaigns to build a diverse candidate pipeline
• Developed sourcing strategies in consultation with hiring managers to attract top talent in the above countries and built strong candidate pipeline overtime
• Refined job descriptions to promote DEI hiring practices and ensured diversity in candidate pipeline
• Headhunted through LinkedIn, GitHub, social forums, communities, networking sites
• Experimented with new approaches to finding talent, track effectiveness of sourcing channels and make decisions about their use
• Created weekly/monthly reports to track recruitment efforts
• Executed and optimized employee lifecycle processes including onboarding, logistics, payroll, benefits enrolment, leave management and off-boarding for EMEA region
• Designed and implemented effective onboarding plans for employees
• Created employment contracts for new hires and prepared necessary HR documentation for cases related to relocation, transfer, internal mobility, contract renewal, terminations and addendums to existing contracts as needed in consultation with internal legal team for UK, Ireland, Spain, Germany and with external partners for France, Poland, Romania and Serbia
• Collaborated with the Finance team on monthly payroll tasks to ensure accurate employee movements (new hires, leavers, salary changes, special payments, benefits plan change, etc.) are recorded and processed on time
• Handled Offboarding, Exit Interviews and other HR administrative tasks

Feb 2021 – Jun 2021 · 4 mos · Remote

• Lead full cycle recruitment for more than 10+ cybersecurity positions simultaneously
• Head Hunted through LinkedIn, Indeed and other databases for critical positions
• Represented RSI as the face of HR in virtual hiring events
• Collaborated with hiring manager to refine sourcing strategy and hire best talent remotely
• Liaised with hiring team/interviewers to build screening questionnaire for technical roles
• Created templates for screening questionnaires, Interview feedback forms, candidate email communication and other day-to-day HR documents to build best practices
• Organized and conducted Virtual hiring events in targeted geographies/universities/colleges
• Represented RSI in Virtual Career Fairs to improve RSI's marketplace and build pipeline
• Ran background and reference checks
• Administer pre-employment assessments for top candidates and used their results to refine interview process
• Updated candidate records and files updated in ATS, HR systems and shared drive
• Created weekly reports to track recruitment metrics and refine strategies accordingly

Dec 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr · Remote

• Lead end-to-end recruitment process to hire remote technical talent during covid times
• Directly managed 2 technical recruiters and mentored their recruitment efforts
• Managed and coordinated the workload of the recruitment team & prioritized tasks
• Provided consistent training and best practices to the recruiting team via 1:1s
• Researched, identified, experimented different sourcing strategies to attract best talent for remote technical roles in India and US
• Spearheaded virtual recruitment operations to engage candidates throughout the changing interview processes
• Monitored interview pipeline for all crisis/high priority positions and took actions to ensure virtual interviewing processes are run smoothly
• Partnered with hiring managers to identify gaps in sourcing efforts
• Built candidate pipeline through extensive Head Hunting, Boolean/ X-Ray Search
• Delivered excellent candidate Experience while answering candidate queries in a virtual environment
• Managed Offer Letters, New Hire Paperwork and virtual Onboarding process
• Coordinated with other HR departments to contribute towards employee engagement, onboarding, background verification and pre-joining formalities
• Created weekly/monthly report to track recruitment efforts and used them to take necessary actions to improvise the process

Feb 2019 – Jun 2019 · 4 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India · On-site

• Served as Lead Recruiter for Africa-based start-up clients to fill C level roles
• Extensively Head-Hunted through LinkedIn, Executive forums/communities to build a pipeline of CXOs for non tech positions like Country Manager, COO, CEO, Art Director, and few Accounting and Finance roles
• Administered New Hire Paperwork
• Ran background verification and reference checks
• Coordinated with client’s HR team to arrange visa and travel for all new hires

Apr 2018 – Nov 2018 · 7 mos · Dallas/Fort Worth Area · On-site

• Supported the lead recruiter to schedule complex interviews across multiple client sites
• Managed candidate records in Workday & owned correspondence through phone & email
• Scheduled complex interviews (at least 5-6 rounds) with 8-9 interviewers located in different time zones & through different modes (phone, video, in-person)
• Coordinated candidate travel through air on a very short notice
• Delivered positive candidate experience by working closely with the hiring team (9-10 members) to ensure all Face-To-Face interviews are confirmed & conducted smoothly
• Followed up with interviewers to ensure interview feedback is submitted on time
• Documented, tracked, and maintained applicant records and status of engagements in the applicant tracking system always
• Provided support with market research for target recruitment activities
• Contributed to process improvement meetings to refine tools for recurring HR requests and achieve efficiencies
• Participated in the automation of interview feedback collection process to expediate candidate communication

Sep 2015 – Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Virginia, United States · On-site

• Partnered with client’s hiring team to gather job requirements
• Led full-cycle recruitment – Source, Screen, Shortlist, Interview, Negotiate, Hire
• Created and posted job postings on internal and external job boards to attract talent
• Scheduled interviews – phone, video, Face-to-Face
• Identified methods to reduce hiring time and improvise candidate selection
• Juggled between 15-20 positions simultaneously
• Liaised with cross-functional teams to carry out day-to-day HR generalist tasks
• Provided support to employees/candidates on general HR questions
• Built candidates-pipeline to meet the hiring deadlines
• Facilitated H1-B transfer process, OPT transfers and other visa-related paperwork
• Worked with Payroll team to process timely billing of contractors using approved timesheets
• Filed New Hire paperwork such as I-9 (Identification), W-9 (Taxpayer Identification), W-4 (Tax Withholding)
• Gained US Benefits (401k, Dental, Vision and Health Insurance) knowledge to communicate with W2 employees
• Checked C2C Paperwork and Work Orders created for third party staffing vendors
• Reviewed and updated HR records in ATS and HRIS
• Ran background checks and scheduled drug test for New Hire

Jun 2014 – Apr 2015 · 10 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra

• Conduct extensive research on key accounts, read and understand SEC filing or other financial statements and create presentation of the research findings
• Conduct research on different markets and prepare a customized study including market size, major players, trends, drivers, innovations, challenges, barriers, etc.
• Browse company websites, industry sites, case studies, key interviews, webinars, etc. to gather data
• Co-ordinate with clients and other team members to ensure timely completion of a project
• Provide administrative support to various project leads to track project progress
• Maintain project tracking database and compile project metrics to prepare weekly, monthly or adhoc reports
• Build surveys and questionnaire as a part of primary research
• Schedule team meetings and prepare MoMs (Minutes of meeting)
• Manage email campaigns and data related to leads and target accounts
• Supported clients across different geographies including US, Europe, Asia

Oct 2012 – May 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

• Prepare market study inclusive of market size, geographic segmentation, market drivers, challenges, latest market trends, competitive landscape, competitive intelligence, and profiling of key vendors in the market.
• Timely completion of many challenging market research projects on short notice.
• Conduct micro level research and perform data mining to collect information
• Administer different projects and ensure their timely completion
• Manage project database
• Assist in planning and resourcing for the projects
• Hiring and building my team

Sep 2011 – Oct 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mumbai, Maharashtra

• Provide administrative support to GMI (Global Markets International) clients for compiling project data
• Collation of research data and summarize the findings in a presentation
• Understand and extract data from databases like Factiva, Advisen, Lexis, Hoovers, and LinkedIn etc.
• Carrying out competitive analysis among similar entities across various industries
• Create weekly newsletters and handle other GMI related adhoc research requests

Dec 2010 – Jun 2011 · 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra

• Conduct core research in different areas & domains as requested by client on target accounts and industry
• Gather micro level data to get company’s IT landscape, IT budget, IT plans Strategy, etc
• Coordinate with different teams for timely completion of projects

Feb 2009 – Nov 2010 · 1 yr 9 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra

• Research and Analysis on different domains and areas of all the verticals and horizontals of Wipro Technologies
• Administrative support to BDMs and Field Force Team across geographies
• Perform research, evaluate the data and create point of view on companies, industries & competitors
• Frame analysis from research, identify insights and synthesize how these insights are beneficial
• Provide satisfactory client service and timely follow-up with managers to ensure project deadlines are met
• Populating information in complex spreadsheets through research
• Coordinate and communicate with internal/external customers via phone and emails
• Prepare competitive profiles and use third party reports like Forrester, Gartner, Everest, Bloomberg, Deloitte, IDC

Sep 2006 – Jan 2009 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

• Monitor production system and solve or direct issues to appropriate team for further actions
• Resolve /Transfer problems from Manage Now Application to the Fusion Tool
• Analyze technical issues and provide resolution & support
• Batch Job Scheduling/Job Monitoring/Invoice Printing
• Generate daily & weekly reports
• Create SOPs and other project related documents
• Proficiently used Fusion Tool, SAP R/3 & BW Systems, Manage Now Application, WEBI Intelligence for Reports.