Sonam Kushwah

Head of Talent

Gurgaon, Haryana, India11 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in end-to-end recruitment management.
  • Awarded multiple times for outstanding HR performance.
  • Expertise in managing diverse hiring processes across industries.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Specialist with extensive experience in IT, Real Estate, and Financial Services.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionStakeholder ManagementIt Recruitment

Other Skills

AuditBrand ManagementBusiness DevelopmentCandidate EngagementCommunicationCorporate CommunicationsCustomer ServiceDashboardsEmployee EngagementEvent ManagementHiring ForecastHuman ResourcesIntegrated MarketingInterpersonal CommunicationLeadership

About

Vast experience in managing end to end hiring for IT, Service firm, Real Estate, NBFC's & Product sectors for different level along with managing a team as well. Hands on expertise in end to end recruitment for Lateral hiring, Campus Recruitment, Mass hiring, Source Identification, Headhunting, Vendor Management, Hiring for Pilot Projects. Successfully organized and managed recruitment drives for critical and immediate positions. Doing background checks, CIBIL Checks, verifying the references, behavioral checks and work experience. For NBFC firm Collections (Early & Late), Risk profile (Fraud Investigation, Fraud Analyst, Credit expert, Underwriting experts and Process, strategy & quality: Mystery shopping). Real Estate firm- Bid Support hiring (Pre-sales, Bid management, RFP/ RFI), Corporate Finance, AutoCAD, IPSCoE. Experienced in hiring for IT profiles like; Python developer, PHP developers, Network admin, Graphic designers, Dot Net, UiPath/ Blue Prism, Java, Angular JS, Hadoop, Thunderhead etc. Also have experience in stakeholder management and data management. Taking initiatives on different HR based project like Employee Referral Schemes, Pitfall questions to avoid in interviews and Workday process training. 1. Responsible for managing different stages of recruitment- Screening, sourcing, shortlisting, interview, selection and closure. 2. Managing the end to end employee life cycle, starting from successful on-boarding of new employees to the exit process of the existing employees. 3. Responsible for Inductions, joining formalities, providing assets to the new joiner, updating employee database, I- card generation, attendance management. 4. Handling grievances and employee-employee, employer-employee, and employer-employer issues. 5. Managing HR related projects. 6. Revamping the career page for Mercer Mettl. Updating the policies and creating a new page along with marketing team. ## "STAR PERFORMER" for the month of November, 2014.(Home Credit India) ## Awarded with the “HR STAR” AWARD for the June-September quarter 2015 (Home Credit India) ## Awarded with SHIMMER AWARD in 2018 (Wipro) ## Awarded with SPOT AWARD in 2021 (Mercer Mettl) ## Awarded with BUSINESS ENABLER OF THE YEAR in 2022 (Mercer Mettl)

Experience

Mettl

4 roles

General Manager- Talent Acquisition

Promoted

Apr 2025Present · 11 mos

  • End to End Recruitment, Leadership Connects, Hiring forecasts & approvals, Maintaining Dashboards, Audits, Stakeholder Management, HR Projects, Team Management, Recruitment Training and Integration & implementation of new process or automation.
Stakeholder ManagementRecruitmentDashboardsAuditCandidate EngagementVendor Management+2

Senior Manager Talent Acquisition

Promoted

Apr 2023Apr 2025 · 2 yrs

IT RecruitmentRecruitment TrainingStakeholder ManagementLeadership

Manager Talent Acquisition

Promoted

Apr 2022Apr 2023 · 1 yr

Assistant Manager Talent Acquisition

Jan 2021Apr 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

Jll

Team Leader- Talent Acquisition

Jan 2020Jul 2020 · 6 mos · Gurgaon

  • Experience on handling HR Process related projects.
  • Stakeholder management of different business-like Client and Corporate Finance, Bid Support and IPS CoE business. With profiles hiring like AP, AR, GL, Financial Planning & Analysis, Occupancy Planning, AutoCAD, Valuation, Bid management and Proposal writers.
  • Data management and sourcing profiles from different job portals like Naukri.com and Workday data. Also, sourcing candidates through LinkedIn.
  • Vendor Management.
  • Training HR team of PAN India location on Workday Tool.

Wipro limited

Specialist- Talent Acquisition

Apr 2017Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Gurgaon

  • Experience in handling IT and Non-IT hiring for contractual employees for PAN India locations.
  • Handling different requirements of Finance and Accounts team, Analytics team and Client Servicing team hiring for Noida and Gurgaon location along with Stakeholder management.
  • Responsible for handling Contract conversion cases for both IT & Non-IT positions.
  • Data management and sourcing profiles from different job portals like Naukri.com. Also, sourcing candidates through LinkedIn.
  • Handling Campus hiring for Client servicing role.
  • Have also worked on Re-hire project for AON.
  • Vendor Management
  • Working on Candidate experience project
  • Experience on different tools: WORKDAY and SYNERGY
  • Received SHIMMER AWARD for Quarter 3 (Jul-Sept 2018)

Home credit india

Senior Executive- Talent Acquisition

Jul 2014Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana

  • Successfully organized and managed recruitment drives for critical and immediate positions. Responsible for overseeing complete recruitment in the PAN India Region.
  • Closely collaborate and work with the external vendors to close the open requirements.
  • Focus on developing the hiring strategy and evaluation process/ matrix.
  • Responsible for managing different stages of recruitment – Sourcing, Screening, Shortlisting, Interviewing, Selection and Closure.
  • Follow-up with the offered candidates for acceptance of the offers/resignation confirmation and for any issues/queries pertaining to the offer made and joining dates.
  • Doing background checks, CIBIL Checks, verifying the references, behavioural checks and work experience.
  • Managed a good network of candidates and virtual database.
  • Maintaining daily /weekly reports.
  • Maintain recruitment related documents such as-recruitment tracker, pipeline joinee status report for different verticals and sending infra request for new joinee to Infra team.
  • Explored different sources for non – profit organizations tie ups for our current requirements.
  • Specialize in Bulk hiring, mid level, Non mass level, Frontline, operations.
  • Managing the end to end employee lifecycle, starting from successful onboarding of new employees to the exit process of the existing employees.
  • Handled a team of 3 executives and 4 senior executives in Assistant Manager absense.
  • Responsible for making tracker like Pulse tracker, daily hiring tracker, MPR analysis and MPR Dashboard.
  • STAR PERFORMER for the month of November, 2014.
  • Awarded with the “HR STAR” AWARD for the June-September quarter 2015
  • Joined as an Executive and got internally promoted as a Senior Executive.

Eqs placement and consultancy

HR Executive

Dec 2013Jul 2014 · 7 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Working in main Recruitment process for different profiles for different A+ and A level companies.Hire for Voice and Non Voice process which includes technical sales, technical support and customer care executive profile. Apart from this was also hiring for ACCOUNTS PAYABLE, ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLES AND ORDER TO CASH Profiles.

Valvoline cummins ltd

Summer Intern

Jun 2012Aug 2012 · 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Worked on how to lower attrition rate and also worked on making strategies on retaining employees.
  • Also worked on Job portals.

Education

International School of Business & Media

PGDM — Human Resources and Industrial Relations

Jan 2011Jan 2013

IIMS

Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA

Jan 2006Jan 2009

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