Akshima Arora

Head of Talent

Gurgaon, Haryana, India9 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Revamped recruitment SOPs, enhancing hiring efficiency.
  • Implemented ATS, reducing interview time significantly.
  • Achieved high candidate satisfaction scores.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Specialist with expertise in Fintech and HR analytics.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionHr Metrics

Other Skills

Compensation BenchmarkingCompetitive AnalysisData AnalysisEmployee EngagementEmployee RelationsHR AnalyticsHR Business PartneringHR PoliciesHRBPHuman ResourcesHuman Resources Information Systems (HRIS)InterviewingLeadershipLeadership hiringMarket Analysis

About

Responsible for attracting, hiring, and keeping top talent, crafting and executing end-to-end recruitment strategies, developing SOPs, compensation and benchmarking, industry mapping and using data-driven methods to enhance hiring results and gauge the effectiveness of the recruitment process. Worked across the Fintech, B2C, FMCG and Venture Capital landscape.

Experience

Deutsche telekom digital labs

2 roles

People Culture and Employer Branding

Promoted

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

Assistant Manager-Talent Acquisition

Nov 2023Jan 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

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2 roles

Recruitment Manager

Promoted

May 2022Jul 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Successfully revamped and established comprehensive recruitment SOPs to streamline and optimize the hiring process, resulting in improved efficiency, reduced time-to hire, and enhanced overall recruitment quality.
  • Identified and tracked monthly and quarterly key recruitment metrics monitor the effectiveness of
  • the new SOPs, thus ensuring continuous process improvement and enhanced candidate experience.
  • Spearheaded the implementation of a new ATS (Lever) to streamline the end-to-end recruitment
  • process.
  • Reduced the average time taken to complete interviews from 18 days to 7 days, the least being 3
  • days.
  • Improved the offer-to-join ratio from 40% to 75.35%.
  • Rolled out close to 145 offers and onboarded 110+ employees including 5 leaders over a
  • span of 10 months.
  • With expertise in candidate sourcing through various channels including LinkedIn, product
  • and tech cohorts, referrals, Naukri, Instahyre and more - reduced the percentage of roles closed by
  • consultants from 40% to 3% thereby cutting back the cost of hiring..
  • Improved the average candidate satisfaction score from 3.6 to 4.7/5.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders and leaders to develop effective recruitment strategies, resolve
  • challenges, map the market, benchmark salaries, and continuously improve interview processes.
  • Managed and led a team of 2 recruitment coordinators.
SOP DevelopmentHR MetricsTalent AcquisitionData AnalysisRecruitingEmployee Engagement

Senior Recruiter

Oct 2021Apr 2022 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Metamorph

Senior Talent Associate - Product and Technology

Aug 2018Oct 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Basil Advisors was acquired by Metamorph (talent wing of the venture capital firm - Blume Ventures). MetaMorph is a strategic services unit incubated by the venture capital firm Blume Ventures. The team aims to solve problems faced exclusively by Blume Ventures' portfolio startups early into their journey.
  • Passion Connect introduces founders to like-minded professionals through a unique array of networks, initiatives, and branding activities. With innovative solutions, we reinvent how founders hire talent, retain employees, and develop their unique brand to become the employer of choice. With this, Blume Ventures goes beyond investments to provide invaluable strategic guidance to its portfolio companies.
  • Worked on roles for Unacademy, Classplus, Exotel, Locus, Euler Motors, HealthifyMe, Slice, Instamojo, Milkbasket, Spinny, GreyOrange and other portfolio companies backed by Blume Venture Capital.

Basil advisors

Recruitment Consultant (Basil Advisors was acquired by Metamorph (talent wing of Blume Ventures)

Aug 2018Feb 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Basil Advisors (acquired by the talent wing of Blume Ventures, Passion Connect) was a top executive search firm for talent in the digital space.
  • Worked on roles for Udaan, Cure.fit, Hotstar, Airtel, Turtlemint and PopXo.
  • Roles and responsibilities:
  • Leadership hiring- sourcing, mapping, interview coordination, client interaction.
  • Initiated an array of sourcing activities through various channels i.e. job portals, personal references and networking, Mapping of target companies, creating a database to build a substantial pipeline of candidates to meet the existing & future demands of the client- Client SPOC for more than 2 projects.
  • Ensuring healthy pipeline of candidates on all the mandates- hired folks for 4 leadership roles under 5 months for India's only B2B Unicorn thereby generating a revenue of 20+Lakhs. This was a retainer for Udaan.com
  • Basil Advisors was acquired by Passion Connect in February 2020.

Various

Various HR Roles

Feb 2016Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Talent Acquisition - Novo (June 2023 - August 2023) - turns out, it wasn’t just the coffee that was bitter.
  • Recruitment Consultant - Iris Corporate Solutions (November 2017-August 2018)
  • Human Resource Generalist - Eshopbox (February 2016-April 2017)

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Certification — HR Analytics and Management

Jun 2021Dec 2021

ICFAI Business School, Gurgaon

Post Graduate Programme in Management

Jan 2014Jan 2016

University of Lucknow

Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.)

Jan 2011Jan 2014

La Martiniere Girls' College Lucknow

Jan 1997Jan 2011

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