Mar 2022 – Jan 2023 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Accountable for managing the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer negotiation, and onboarding, ensuring timely and high-quality talent delivery across business functions.
• Thoroughly analyzed job descriptions and collaborated with hiring managers to understand specific talent needs, role objectives, and team dynamics, aligning recruitment efforts with organizational goals.
• Built and nurtured strategic partnerships with business leaders, hiring managers, and internal stakeholders to develop proactive hiring plans and provide consultative talent acquisition support.
• Proven expertise in lateral hiring, effectively leveraging a mix of sourcing strategies including job portals (Naukri, Monster), professional networks (LinkedIn), internal databases, employee referrals, and social media platforms.
• Conducted targeted searches to identify and attract high-caliber candidates through Boolean search techniques, advanced filters, and personalized outreach strategies.
• Managed third-party vendor relationships, ensuring timely delivery of quality profiles, compliance with hiring standards, and alignment with hiring goals.
• Ensured a superior candidate experience by providing clear communication, managing expectations, and facilitating smooth transitions throughout the recruitment process.
• Collaborated cross-functionally with HR operations and business teams to support onboarding, documentation, and pre-joining engagement initiatives.

Jul 2021 – Feb 2022 · 7 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Spearheading end-to-end IT recruitment operations, overseeing the full recruitment life cycle including talent sourcing, candidate engagement, screening, interview coordination, offer negotiation, and onboarding.
• Accountable for full-cycle recruiting across a range of IT roles (entry to leadership level), ensuring alignment with business objectives and time-to-fill targets.
• Partnering with hiring managers and technical stakeholders to gain a deep understanding of position requirements, team dynamics, and project demands, enabling targeted and effective talent acquisition strategies.
• Utilizing a blend of sourcing techniques—including job boards (Naukri, Monster), LinkedIn, social platforms, Boolean search, internal databases, and employee referrals—to build high-quality candidate pipelines.
• Conducting preliminary telephonic and video screenings to evaluate technical competencies, cultural fit, communication skills, and job readiness.
• Managing the entire interview process, including scheduling, coordination, candidate follow-up, and real-time communication with both candidates and hiring teams.
• Performing resume screening, skill-level evaluation, compensation benchmarking, reference checks, and preparing detailed candidate summaries for stakeholder review.
• Driving salary negotiation and offer management, ensuring competitive and compliant packages while maintaining alignment with internal parity and budgetary constraints.
• Proactively managing and nurturing vendor relationships, ensuring accountability for SLAs, quality submissions, and escalations when needed.
• Successfully planned and executed recruitment drives (onsite and virtual), including walk-ins, weekend drives, hackathons, and targeted sourcing campaigns to meet high-volume hiring demands.
• Maintained accurate and up-to-date recruitment reports, dashboards, and candidate status trackers to provide actionable insights to leadership and continuously improve recruitment outcomes.

Mar 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Trivandrum, Kerala, India

• Responsible for managing the full life cycle of recruitment, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, evaluating, and offer management across various roles and levels.
• Sourced candidates using diverse channels such as job portals (e.g., Naukri, Monster), internal databases, LinkedIn, and employee referral programs to build quality talent pipelines.
• Successfully handled high-volume hiring, bulk recruitment drives, and challenging mandates for hard-to-fill and niche skill positions across multiple domains.
• Collaborated with hiring managers to create clear, role-specific job descriptions and develop tailored sourcing and candidate marketing strategies.
• Conducted detailed profile screening and shortlisting based on parameters such as relevant experience, compensation (current and expected CTC), educational background, job stability, and skill alignment.
• Actively participated in daily stand-up meetings with recruitment leads to discuss hiring status, address bottlenecks, and share insights into current market challenges and candidate behavior trends.

May 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Accountable for managing the complete recruitment life cycle, including requirement gathering, sourcing, screening, interviewing, candidate evaluation, salary negotiation, offer rollout, and onboarding coordination.
• Maintained an up-to-date tracker for all open positions, ensuring visibility, prioritization, and alignment with organizational hiring goals across functions and geographies.
• Proactively sourced candidates through multiple sourcing channels, including job portals (Naukri, Monster), LinkedIn, internal databases, and employee referrals—ensuring a steady flow of high-quality talent across various domains.
• Led and supported bulk and niche hiring efforts, successfully managing high-volume recruitment for multiple verticals and conducting targeted weekend drives to meet aggressive hiring targets.
• Actively partnered with hiring managers and business leaders to define job requirements, develop talent strategies, and ensure timely closures while maintaining a positive candidate experience.
• Regularly analyzed market trends and shared insights during recruitment sync-ups to address sourcing challenges, talent availability, and competitor benchmarking.
• Service Lines & Technical Hiring Expertise:
• GRCS (Governance, Risk & Compliance Services) – South Region
• AAS (Accounting Advisory Services) – South Region
• Forensic Investigations – South Region
• FRM (Financial Risk Management) – Bangalore
• ITA (IT Advisory) – Bangalore & Chennai
• Trade Surveillance – Forensic FTech
• Data & Analytics Roles: Big Data, Hadoop, Data Engineers
• Cybersecurity & IT Skill Hiring:
• Collaborated with technical panels and functional heads to understand role nuances, ensuring better profile-to-requirement alignment and a reduced cycle time.
• Provided regular dashboards and hiring reports to leadership, enabling data-driven decisions and forecasting support.

Oct 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Have wide exposure in IT and Non IT recruitment process.
• Screening and shortlisting profiles based on the criteria which includes relevant experience, salary (current CTC and expectation), educational background, stability etc.
• Taking part in business calls and making MI (Market intelligence) for the skill sets.
• Active participation in daily meetings with leads and communicating the challenges facing in current market.
• Updating day to day recruitment activities in the database
• Engage in providing training new joiners

May 2014 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Have wide exposure in IT and Non IT recruitment process.
• Sourcing candidates from Job portals