Nov 2020 – Mar 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Internal Recruitment:
• Led lateral hiring across Tech, Product, Design, Sales, and Delivery functions.
• Drove campus hiring efforts to strengthen early talent pipeline.
• Streamlined interview processes and conducted panel calibrations to ensure structured and unbiased assessments.
• Performed in-depth feedback analysis to optimize recruitment strategies and candidate experience.
• Talent Analytics (Talent Insight Projects):
• Proficient in Talent Intelligence, data analysis, and leveraging HR technology for strategic insights.
• Executed high-impact analytics projects on talent readiness, benchmarking, skills taxonomy, and skill prevalence.
• Managed a team focused on sourcing, AI-driven talent mapping, and client engagement analytics.
• Position Calibration (Auditing & Platform Optimization):
• Calibrated the Eightfold Talent Exchange Platform for global clients (US & Europe), ensuring job-role alignment and delivery excellence.
• Participated in the Calibration Quality Check Process to maintain platform integrity.
• Delivered product training and onboarded new joiners through structured mentoring.
• Shared detailed weekly reports with clients to drive transparency and continuous feedback.
• AI Product Development:
• Actively contributed to the AI development team to design and enhance Talent Acquisition (TA) products.
• Collaborated on feature development, user experience improvements, and AI-driven recruitment solutions to meet evolving business needs.

Jan 2017 – Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• 1. Strategic Talent Acquisition & Leadership Hiring
• Spearheaded recruitment for 100+ roles annually across business-critical functions, including IT, Digital Marketing, Franchise Management, Operations, and Human Resources.
• Successfully closed 190 offers with a 70% joining rate, optimizing sourcing and selection pipelines.
• Closed multiple senior-level mandates within tight SLAs, including roles such as Regional Sales Manager (Bangalore), Digital Marketing Head, Head of IT, and HR Head, often requiring candidates from premier institutions (IIT/IIM).
• 2. Branch Expansion & Talent Deployment
• Played a pivotal role in setting up the Pune and Coimbatore branches by identifying, onboarding, and deploying high-potential candidates (sales counselors, marketers, and operations support).
• Partnered with functional heads to define role structures, KRAs, and onboarding workflows, ensuring talent readiness pre-launch.
• 3. HR Business Partnering (HRBP)
• Managed the full employee lifecycle across 5 major cities including Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, and Mumbai: Recruitment & onboarding, Induction & orientation, Performance management, Transfers, exits, and grievance resolution.
• Acted as a key liaison between business units and leadership, ensuring alignment on talent needs and workforce planning.
• 4. Employee Engagement & Culture Building
• Conceptualized and executed employee engagement initiatives across all branches, boosting morale and informal engagement metrics.
• Led quarterly team-building activities, festival celebrations, and town halls, creating a cohesive cross-location culture.
• Conducted skip-level meetings to gather feedback and proactively mitigate attrition risks.

Mar 2016 – Dec 2016 · 9 mos

• Handling end to end In-house recruitment (IT) for Senior & Critical level Position across functions and Business.
• Identifying candidates in the market via Job Portals (location specific) walk-ins; conducting a well-defined multi-stage recruitment process and hiring to the satisfaction of operational leaders.
• Conducting preliminary HR Interview for screening as per role directory parameters and cardinal principals of recruitment as identified by corporate HR.
• Salary negotiation with selected candidates before making a final offer.
• Pre- employment document verification supporting candidate's credentials before release of offer.
• Providing the resource to the Business within specified SLA.
• Involved into Joining formalities, Documentation etc.

Jul 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• KEY ATTAINMENTS:
• Responsible for managing a team of recruiters.
• Responsible for providing staffing services to customers in their recruiting and personnel needs.
• Ensuring the quick turnaround time (TAT) with the quality submissions.
• Responsible to attend hot calls with the Hiring Managers on hot positions, Prepare MOM and assigned those requirements to recruiters in order to cover them on urgent basis.
• Responsible for Team Management & taking care of Team's monthly and Quarterly Targets.
• Make new recruitment strategies, and apply within the team for better result.
• Coordinate with the hiring managers and Coordinators through emails, phones to get the feedback for the ongoing submittals and interviews.
• Delegate requirements among the team members and make sure that the delivery is done as per client SLA (Service-level Agreement) and within TAT.
• Responsible of full life- cycle IT Recruiting; Sourcing, Screening, Qualifying, Salary negotiation and Closing.
• Maintained weekly status reports of all activities along with the weekly job requisitions, requisitions, Submissions, Interviews, PO's, Submission-Interview ratio, Interview-PO's ratio etc.
• Appraisals and Leave approval of team members.
• Interviews for new hiring for the team.
• Maintain Discipline and direction of team members.
• Responsible for mentoring the team keeps them motivated and project their goals to the right direction.
• Maintaining proper MIS.
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Mar 2013 – May 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Designation: Assistant Consultant M4 (AM)
• Talent Acquisition – IT Domain
• I. Handled In-house recruitment and catering to Clients as well.
• II. Managed end to end Clients account.
• III. Managed the complete recruitment cycle-
• Understanding and analyzing the client's manpower requirements in different skill set categories.
• Formulation and Implementation of Recruitment/Sourcing strategies.
• Posting of job on the job portals, websites, blogs and other discussion forums.
• Using sourcing strategies like Referral generation, Direct Sourcing, Networking, Mass Mailing so as to reach out to a maximum qualified pool of candidates.
• Using Online Database (Job Portals) & Offline Database to find out technically fit resources.
• Done niche-skill and specific resource-search through Headhunting & Mapping Techniques.
• Telephonic Screening of the profiles checking for Technical Fitment, Behavioral Fitment, Stability etc.
• Conducting preliminary interviews as specified by client.
• Scheduling of Interviews of the candidates in close co-ordination with client HR.
• Ensuring proper co-ordination between Clients and Candidates.
• Maintaining and developing candidate database and trackers.
• Responsible for articulating and negotiating job offers with candidates and clearly communicating all aspects of the offer including the salary, benefits, bonuses, relocations, etc
• Follow-up with candidates for Post Employment Reference Checks, Notice Period Negotiations, etc till joining.
• Achieving the assigned target as per the role.
• Technologies Handled:
• Java J2ee (Java, JSP, MVC Pattern, Framework- {Hibernate, Struts, Spring}, Database- {Oracle, Sql Server}), DOT NET (Asp.net, C#, Web services- {Rest , Soap} ) , User Interface, SQL Database, ILE RPG – AS 400 , SAP (FICO,BW, MM)
• Recruited for -
• Global Head, Technical Architects, Team Lead, Project Managers, Sr. Software Engineers, Software Engineer

Aug 2012 – Feb 2013 · 6 mos · New Delhi

• Talent Acquisition
• Handled end to end In-house recruitment for Senior & Critical level Position across functions and Business.
• Identifying candidates in the market via Job Portals (location specific) walk-ins; conducting a well-defined multi-stage recruitment process and hiring to the satisfaction of operational leaders.
• Conducting preliminary HR Interview for screening as per role directory parameters and cardinal principals of recruitment as identified by corporate HR.
• Salary negotiation with selected candidates before making a final offer.
• Pre- employment document verification supporting candidate's credentials before release of offer.
• Providing the resource to the Business within specified SLA
• Drafting and issuance of Appointment letters.
• Induction & Joining Formalities
• Talent Management
• Vendor Management
• MIS / Reporting
• Employee Engagement and Change Management
• Employee relations & Grievance Handling

Dec 2010 – Aug 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos

• IT Recruitment
• I. Handling clients.
• II. Managing the complete recruitment cycle - from understanding job descriptions to final placement of candidates with various clients.
•  Indentify right candidates by using multiple recruiting sources such as Times Job, Naukri, Monster, Linked-in, Headhunting, Candidate References , etc and execute various recruiting strategies.
•  Source, screen, evaluate and select candidates through a structured recruitment process.
•  Interaction with candidates via telephony, Skype, personal meetings, etc to shortlist the right candidates for different roles.
•  Submission of short listed CVs to the client.
•  Scheduling and organizing the interviews as per client requirements.
•  Coordinate interviews of the shortlisted candidates with the clients.
•  After selection process, follow up with candidates to ensure timely joining.