Jun 2023 – Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Founded in 2019, apna.co is India’s largest jobs and professional networking platform dedicated to helping India’s rising workforce unlock unique professional networking and skilling opportunities.
• Having secured more than $190 million from marquee investors such as Tiger Global, Owl Ventures,
• Insight Partners, Lightspeed India, Sequoia Capital India, Maverick Ventures, GSV Ventures, Greenoaks Capital and Rocketship. vc apna is on a mission to enable livelihoods for billions in India.
• What I do here.
• Team:
• Lead a team of 9 Team Leaders and 100+ recruiters within the Consultancy vertical, overseeing all recruitment operations. Ensure the team meets the dynamic hiring needs of the business while maintaining high standards of performance and engagement.
• Client Management & Service Delivery:
• Manage recruitment for 43 clients across various industries, ensuring timely and quality hires that align with each client’s specific needs. Serve as the primary point of contact for clients, addressing recruitment challenges and enhancing service delivery through streamlined processes.
• Internal Hiring at Apna:
• Oversee the internal recruitment for Apna, collaborating with senior leadership and department heads to fulfill staffing needs across the company. Develop tailored recruitment strategies for different functions, ensuring that the company attracts and retains top talent.
• Building Sales Recruitment Verticals:
• Successfully built the recruitment strategy for Apna’s Enterprise and SMB Sales verticals. Worked closely with business leaders to define and implement recruitment processes that aligned with business growth, enabling the verticals to scale rapidly.
• Process Optimization & Strategic Recruitment:
• Continuously improve recruitment processes to enhance efficiency and reduce time-to-hire. Developed data-driven recruitment strategies, leveraging analytics and performance metrics to ensure cost-effective hiring solutions that meet business demands.

May 2022 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Founded in 2019, the apna.co is India’s largest jobs and professional networking platform dedicated to
• helping India’s rising workforce to unlock unique professional networking, and skilling opportunities.
• Having secured more than $190 million from marquee investors such as Tiger Global, Owl Ventures,
• Insight Partners, Lightspeed India, Sequoia Capital India, Maverick Ventures, GSV Ventures, Greenoaks
• Capital and Rocketship.vc apna is on a mission to enable livelihoods for billions in India.
• With over 25mn users, present in 70+ cities and counting, 3,00,000+ employers that trust the platform,
• 9mn monthly job applications and around 22mn peer-to-peer professional conversations - India has a
• new destination to discover relevant opportunities.

May 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr

Jul 2020 – May 2021 · 10 mos

Feb 2019 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Feb 2018 – Jan 2019 · 11 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Aug 2015 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos · Delhi Area, India

• Responsible for End to End Recruitment.
• Delivering Numbers as Per Client Requirement.
• Understanding client requirements, making and execution of sourcing plans.
• Maintaining sufficient candidate pipeline to cater urgent client requirements.
• Business Development, generating new client leads and contract closures.
• Liaison with Concerned Companies for closures.
• Maintaining daily reports.
• Conducting daily meetings, target allocation and achievement of the targets by the team.
• Assisting the team in shortlisting the candidates and first level screening.
• Maximizing the revenue generation of the company by making execution and adherence to the monthly, quarterly and biannually target vs closure plans.

Dec 2012 – Aug 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Noida Area, India

• Managing End to end recruitment of Front line resources to Mid-Level Management.
• Engage with the stake holders to identify Candidates traits to qualify Right Fit candidates.
• Generating Employee Referrals, SPOC for Employee Referrals for Delhi NCR.
• Create position dependent sourcing plan, discuss with Manager and timely execute the plan. Closely monitor the implementation.
• Facilitate candidates’ selection process to ensure smooth candidate experience.
• Negotiate & successfully close Candidates compensation acceptance.
• Facilitate candidates offer approval & release.
• Maintain strong candidate engagement during pre-boarding to minimize pre-join attrition.
• Deliver high Quality new hires in the desired Quantity within pre-determined timelines to meet pre-defined organizational recruitment productivity parameters.
• Co-partner with Delivery Manager as trusted Advisor.
• Maintaining daily trackers concerning open, closed and current status Service Requests.
• PWD hiring Champion & Diversity Champion