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Shikha Sharad

Recruiter

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 15 years of experience in Talent Acquisition
  • Expertise in Leadership & Strategic hiring
  • Strong background in technology startups
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition expert in the Fintech and Technology sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionRecruitingLeadership Hiring

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesBenefits NegotiationBusiness AnalysisContract RecruitmentCore JavaEmployee EngagementEmployer BrandingExecutive SearchHiringHuman ResourcesHuman Resources (HR)IT RecruitmentInternet RecruitingInterviewingInterviews

About

Performance-oriented Talent Acquisition Lead with 15 years of experience working with fast-paced technology startups and expertise in Leadership & Strategic hiring across Big Data Analytics, AI ML, E-commerce, Cloud Computing, FinTech and Management Consulting domain. Hands-on in recruiting critical, niche & high impact Leadership positions in Engineering, Product, Data Science and Design. Sourcing talent for GM to SVP level through Market Research, Market Mapping and Skill Analysis. Collaborating with Business Leaders & Hiring Managers on the workforce planning & prioritizing talent need, building recruiting strategies, market mapping, managing talent attraction, talent engagement & employer branding. Extensive sourcing through unconventional channels & social media platforms and managing end-to-end University hiring. Actively working on D&I initiatives, running Hackathons, organizing events like GHCI, IEEE, TechTalks, Meet-ups, Hiring Campaigns, Conferences etc.

Experience

Visa

Consultant, Talent Acquisition

Sep 2021Present · 4 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company's dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device, and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.
  • FinTech is dependent on innovation; looking for creative and imaginative individuals who will help drive new ideas and solutions and architect high performance & scalable systems :
  • 1. Chief Architect (Java, Payment domain)
  • 2. Staff Software Engineer (Java, Microservices)
  • 3. Sr. Data Engineer
  • 4. SRE
Talent AcquisitionRecruitingSourcingMarket ResearchMarket Mapping

Jio

5 roles

DGM Talent Acquisition at Jio Platforms Ltd.

Apr 2021Sep 2021 · 5 mos

  • Driving TA Strategy for 2 major product-engineering groups at Jio: AI CoE and Jio Health Hub across Bangalore, Hyderabad & Mumbai location.

Sr. Manager Talent Acquisition at Jio Platforms Ltd.

Mar 2020Mar 2021 · 1 yr

  • India is the world’s second largest population of 1.2 billion. India is a young nation with 63% of its population under the age of 35 years. It has a fast-growing digital audience with 800 million mobile connections and over 350 million internet users. Reliance thoroughly believes in India’s potential to lead the world with its capabilities in innovation. Towards that end, Reliance envisages creation of a digital revolution in India.
  • I am responsible for hiring top-notch talent across AI CoE, Jio Health Hub, Jio Analytics and JioMart verticals across Bangalore, Hyderabad & Mumbai location. With a team of recruiters & sourcers, I focus on closing all the Leadership hiring end to end, building recruiting strategies, managing talent attraction, talent management & talent engagement.
  • 1. Leadership Hiring in Engineering & Product.
  • 2. Back-end technology - Java, Spring boot, Micro services, Kafka
  • 3. Front-end technology - ReactJS, Redux, JavaScript
  • 4. Big Data Engineering – Java, Hadoop, Spark , Hive, NiFi
  • 5. Data Scientist - AI/ML, NLP, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Speech Understanding, Recommendation system, Operations Research, Knowledge Graph
  • 6. Big Data Architect / Staff Engineers
  • 7. Principal Data Scientist
  • 8. Technical Architect
Leadership HiringRecruitingTalent ManagementTalent EngagementTalent Acquisition

Sr. Manager Talent Acquisition - Jio Platforms Ltd. / AJIO

Jun 2019Mar 2020 · 9 mos

  • Having embarked into Phase 3 of Jio, our leadership team now has its sights set on transforming the retail market with a specific focus on fashion & lifestyle - a category where we have built substantial physical distribution and an edge in private label.
  • Our approach to retail is not limited to brick and mortar stores or e-commerce. Nor is it a hitherto seen narrow view of omni-channel marketing.
  • Hired at Leadership level, UI/UX, Product Manager, Engineering Manager, Mobile technology, Back-end & Front-end technology stack.

Manager Talent Acquisition : Jio Financial Services

May 2017Apr 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Associated with Jio Financial Innovation Group (FIG) - which is a part of the Jio Family that covers Telcom, Media and Financial Services. FIG designs and develops financial products that aims to add value to the lives of millions of Indians. Some of the products we have built contribute to Jio Payments Bank, JioMoney and a range of offerings for small merchants.
  • Hired best of tech talents on following skills for Bangalore location:
  • 1. Javascript, ReactJS developers
  • 2. Data Scientist (Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence enthusiasts)
  • 3. Big Data Engineers (Hadoop, spark, scala etc. )
  • 4. Java back-end developers.
HiringRecruitingTalent Acquisition

Manager Talent Acquisition - Public Cloud Computing

Mar 2016Apr 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Jio Cloud Services is a team of highly motivated and accomplished individuals working as One Team to launch India’s first home grown Public Cloud Computing platform. We believe Make in India cannot succeed unless we start developing the most fundamental IT services as a Product in India – Software as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service.
  • Was responsible for hiring the top talent for the team across all 3 locations (Bangalore, Gurgaon & Mumbai) with relevant domain expertise (cloud background, technology stack etc.), vendor management, HRBP role, team management, devising recruiting strategies etc.
  • Hired India's top talent (from premier institutes) with expertise in C, C++, Java, storage domain, IAM, networking domain, Machine Learning, AI, Big Data technology, Payment Network etc. across levels.
HiringRecruitingVendor ManagementTalent Acquisition

Essex lake group

Recruitment Manager

Sep 2014Mar 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • At Essex Lake Group, we focus on capturing significant profits & benefits early in the implementation cycle such that the project can pay for itself. Our solution architecture combines cutting edge specialists aided by Essex Customizable solution components to solve client's business problems and implement the solution.
  • Our Industry Experts, with decades of experience in C-suite and functional management positions, work with client leadership to develop a set of measurable objectives for the delivery of customized solutions. These experts utilize their prior C-suite experiences in the problem solving process and help implement the solution.
  •  Hired executives ranging from Directors to C-level across all disciplines and functions.
  •  Designed and implemented company-wide Talent Acquisition strategy covering policy, process, technology & employer branding and managed global recruiting team.
  •  Collaborated & influenced stakeholders on headcount planning, talent attraction planning, creation of JDs, tracking hiring budget, talent engagement and introducing the ATS.
  •  Lead University engagement strategy in line with hiring requirements for business from premiere colleges of India - IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, DSE, IIT Chennai and IIMs.
HiringRecruitingVendor ManagementTalent Acquisition

Guavus network system

Asst. Manager - Talent Acquisition

Nov 2011May 2014 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Guavus is a software company located in San Mateo, California. It produces an operational intelligence platform that analyzes streaming data and data at rest.
  • It built real-time data-science directly into decisioning applications enabling one to gain a holistic view of their entire business.
  • Started my journey at Guavus when we had 70 talents on-board. Resourceful in building the headcount from 70 - 300, across different technologies and different experience level. Responsible for sourcing and hiring the best engineering talent (from Tier- 1/Tier-2 engineering colleges) for the Engineering & Data Science team.
  •  Responsible for sourcing and hiring the best engineering talent (from Tier- 1/Tier-2 engineering colleges) for the Engineering & Data Science team. Hired top IITians with AIR 7, 25, 80, 125 and so on for the Platform team.
  •  Contributed to creating, measuring and scaling the right recruitment workflow.
  •  Develop and drive recruiting strategy for Technology, Product & Design across business units.
Talent AcquisitionRecruitingStrategy

Globallogic india pvt. ltd.

Sr. Associate - Talent Acquisition

Nov 2007Sep 2010 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Handled IT & Telecom recruitment. Worked on niche skill hiring on telecom & mobile domain.
  •  Proven success in full cycle recruitment in a technical recruiting capacity and experience recruiting technology talent in-house.
  •  Demonstrated experience and comfort partnering with and influencing senior executives.
  •  Created and drive best-in-class experiences that delight candidates and hiring team members.
Talent AcquisitionRecruiting

Alcatel-lucent india ltd

HR Executive

May 2007Oct 2007 · 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Handling business unit end-to-end. Lead the offer process in collaboration with internal stakeholders; negotiate and close executive candidates.
  • Proven success in full cycle recruitment in a technical recruiting capacity and experience recruiting technology talent in-house.
Recruiting

Netedge computing

HR Executive

Jun 2006May 2007 · 11 mos

  • Looked after IT Recruitment, staffing...

Sdi

HR Executive

Jun 2005Jun 2006 · 1 yr

  • Looked after IT recruitment for various IT giants.

Education

Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya

Master of Business Administration - MBA — Manangement (HR)

Jan 2003Jan 2005

Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya

Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA

Jan 2000Jan 2003

BIV

12th

Jan 1992Jan 1999

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