Jan 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• In her current role, Priyanka has the overall responsibility for designing and deploying Instabase’s Talent Acquisition Strategy across the universities to meet the talent growth needs for all businesses across India. Instabase hires from IVY league schools like MIT, Stanford, IITs (Delhi, Bombay. Madaras, Kanpur, Dhanbad, Kharagpur, and Roorkee), Tire-1 NITs, BITS, and more which constitutes ~30% of the overall yearly numbers for the firm.
• 30% of her current time and efforts are channelized towards Socio Advocacy:
• Building Employer Branding Framework to draw the attention of the top quartile talent from premier schools
• Developing interventions to continuously improve on the Brand Study results in order to position Instabase as an Employer of Choice
• Strengthening university Engagement to increase connection of the Instabase Brand with university students and leveraging the various platforms including social media to intensify the brand resonance
• Build and maintain relationships with university team Sponsors and Leaders to shape and develop Instabase presence on campus
• Foster strong relationships with senior university contacts whilst also supporting graduate team university relationships
• Managing external partners including campuses, assessment & knowledge partners, marketing agencies etc.
• About Instabase:
• Instabase is an operating system with toolkits and applications for companies to fundamentally change how people build and consume business apps.
• Funded by a16z, Greylock, NEA & Index Ventures.
• Click here - https://about.instabase.com/careers/ to join tribe Instabase.

Jun 2017 – Jan 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Pune Area, India

• ZS hires for as many as 16 roles from the campuses, which constitutes ~50% (absolute number of
• 800) of the overall yearly numbers for the firm.
• Orchestrating primary & secondary research to identify colleges that will be suitable for the various personas of hiring positions, encompassing engineering; non-engineering & B-Schools
• Generate insights to arrive at data-driven recos around hiring approach & schools
• Deciphering prioritized & phased out strategies to suit the hiring plan during the pandemic, in alignment with the firm’s forecasts
• Targeting colleges for I&D
• Partnering with principals and WFM to identify campus HC
• Ideating persona specific engagement strategies to win & transform mindshare of potential talent
• Constructing a virtual interviewing platform for pandemic by thinking through all the business rules
• Design-thinking an Intern lifecycle mgmt strategy suiting the firm’s purpose, again across multiple personas
• Effective handholding of all the joiners from the post-offer to pre-joining phases
• Hiring, immersing & being responsible for the deliverables & career progression of a team
• of six people
• Key-Value Adds:
• Building from the strong core, following are some salient transformations that Priyanka has introduced in her career so far. They have been a mix of digital and process effectiveness related interventions:
• State of the art cloud-based campus engagement platform – Campus Beats
• Recruiting mobile app, KeyZS for incumbents to take the assessment on their handheld
• and experience the office & culture through a 360-degree virtual office tour
• SaaS-based interviewer participation & interviewing tool - Jarvis
• Social Ambassadorship – Identifying a digital platform to augment the firm’s social footprints
• through its brand champs and their social media networks
• Evolution of AI driven assessments that use voice to text; body language & tonality APIs to predict the
• suitability of potentials

Oct 2015 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Pune Area, India

• Focused on Business Consulting, Business Technology, Business Operations & Enterprise based hiring
• SME for passive sourcing within the internal sourcing team
• Represented ZS as a Speaker/facilitator at TASCON 2017 | Subject: Sourcing beyond keywords
• 95% requisition closure rate
• Closed ~140 open requisitions over a span of close to two years
• Achieved 50% of the sourcing target set for a team of 6 alone, in terms of identifying and fulfilling requisite open needs
• About ZS:
• ZS is a global leader in sales and marketing consulting, outsourcing, technology and software. Our singular focus for more than 30 years has been to help global companies maximize their sales and marketing organizations’ performance and results. Together, we design and implement strategies that lead to greater market share, more competitive operations and better utilization of today’s latest technologies. From 21 offices around the world, ZS experts use analytics and deep expertise to help companies make smarter decisions quickly and cost effectively. We are particularly known for our strong presence in the pharmaceutical and health care sectors, yet work across a range of industries.
• ZS’ India Capability and Expertise Centers house more than 60% of ZS people across two locations based in Pune and Gurgaon. Our teams work in conjunction with onshore colleagues to deliver our sales and marketing projects to our clients. The Centers primarily support client projects based in North America, Europe and East Asia in the areas of Business Analysis, Business Operations and Business Technology.

Feb 2015 – Aug 2015 · 6 mos · Pune

• Lead US-based account for technical hiring with 90% result orientation to bring open requisitions to closure.
• Source high quality candidates using various Internet-based sourcing techniques: job boards, web crawlers, search engines, social networking tools, university alumni sites, blogs, local organizations websites, discussion groups, and public and proprietary resume databases.
• Search and short-list candidates from various job sites, social networks, and public and proprietary databases and also directly via search engines using different search techniques such as Boolean strings and AIRS.
• Work on various technical requirements and conduct primary sourcing. Sample job orders worked on: JAVA, C++, .NET, ORACLE, SQL, PL/SQL, PeopleSoft, SharePoint,Quality Analysis, Data Warehouse Architecture, Solutions/Network/Software Engineering etc.
• Work on non-technical requirements like PMO, BDM, Technical Writing, Business Analysis, Underwriting, Project Coordination, Process Development, etc.
• Thorough knowledge of sourcing process for different employment statuses like W2, Corp-to-Corp, 1099 and for U.S. Citizens, GC, H1B, TN-1, and EAD holders.
• Hands-on experience with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) like Bullhorn, CATS and Sendouts.
• Active Search: Resume search of active candidates from job boards such as Monster, CareerBuilder and Hot Jobs.
• Passive Search: Search for candidates on various sites such as LinkedIn, Jigsaw and social networking. Using advanced AIRS techniques also identify candidates through search engines.
• Quality check (QC) works carried out by sourcing associates and prioritize short-listed candidates, focusing on placeable candidates matching the job description.
• Add short-listed candidates into client databases such as CATS, Bullhorn, Sendouts, etc.
• Compile candidate submittal reports for each job order that include a ranking (Hot/Warm/Okay) for each candidate and a detailed reason for the ranking.

Jul 2014 – Jan 2015 · 6 mos · Pune

• Thorough knowledge of recruiting process from sourcing to recruiting for different employment types including W2, Corp-to-Corp, 1099 for U.S. Citizens, GC, H1-B, TN-1, and EAD holders.
• Hands-on experience with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) including Bullhorn and CATS.
• Active Search: Resume search of active candidates from job boards such as Monster, CareerBuilder, Dice, Job Diva and Hot Jobs.
• Passive Search: Search for candidates on various sites such as LinkedIn, Spoke, Jigsaw and social networking. Using advanced AIRS techniques also identify candidates through search engines.
• Add short-listed candidates into client databases such as CATS, Bullhorn etc.
• Search and short-list candidates from job boards, search engines using different search techniques such as Boolean strings.
• Work closely and assist senior team members.
• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to prepare concise and error free weekly reports.

Nov 2013 – Dec 2013 · 1 mo · Madhya Pradesh, India

• Aegis Telecommunications
• Aegis has extensive experience in the telecom industry with over 24,000 FTEs servicing customers from the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, India, and Sri Lanka. Aegis offers complete customer lifecycle management outsourcing solutions covering inbound customer service, retention, collection, welcome calling, complaint management, query resolution, etc. Aegis is today, India’s largest outsourcing support provider for domestic telecom companies.