Shweta Desai

Head of Talent

Hyderabad, Telangana, India19 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

15+ years in global talent acquisition leadership.
Implemented AI-powered sourcing and ATS automation.
Led recruitment programs hiring over 15,000 students.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Leader with expertise in data-driven recruitment and employer branding.

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Skills

Core Skills

Global Talent AcquisitionRecruitingTalent SourcingIt RecruitmentPerformance ManagementEmployee EngagementCollege RecruitingTechnical Recruiting

Other Skills

SourcingNiche Talent AcquisitionLeadershipNegotiationEmployee Rewards Programsfresher hiringcampus hiringStakeholder ManagementAdministrationAvayaTeam ManagementPeople ManagementCustomer RelationsTeam LeadershipTeam Building

About

I am a Talent Acquisition Leader with 15+ years of experience transforming how organizations attract, engage, and retain talent across global markets. My career has been defined by building high‑performing teams, driving leadership hiring, and designing innovative recruitment strategies that balance data‑driven insights with human‑centered leadership. From spearheading large‑scale talent acquisition programs to leading niche leadership searches, I thrive on solving complex hiring challenges and enabling business growth. I’ve successfully implemented AI‑powered sourcing, predictive analytics, and ATS automation to improve quality of hire, reduce time‑to‑fill, and elevate the candidate experience. Beyond operations, I am passionate about employer branding, diversity and inclusion, and developing future‑ready talent pipelines. My journey includes leading graduate recruitment programs that hired 15,000+ students, mentoring TA teams of 50+, and partnering with executives to align talent strategy with organizational transformation goals. 🏆 Recognized as Best TA Leader 2025 – GCC Workplace Awards and honored as TA Leader – Triumph of Talent, Heroes of Hyderabad, I continue to champion innovation, agility, and excellence in talent acquisition.

Experience

Zelis

Associate Director Talent Acquisition

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

Ivy

Sr Manager Talent Acquisition

Aug 2022 – Aug 2024 · 2 yrs · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Global Talent AcquisitionSourcingNiche Talent AcquisitionRecruiting

Tata consultancy services

5 roles

Talent Sourcing Lead - CBO/ITIS (IT Infrastructure services) / Cloud Infra & Cyber Security.

Apr 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

India Sourcing Lead - Cyber Security & Enterprise Intelligent Automation

Jul 2018 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos

Cluster sourcing lead for Cyber security practice(CSP) and Enterprise Intelligent automation(EIA) for TCS India.
Major role includes Understanding the business unit strategies and develop recruitment solutions which will meet present and future needs and also Responsible for meeting the hiring numbers as per Business requirements.

HR Business Partner

Apr 2015 – Jun 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Responsible for facilitation of performance management, promotion and HR Policies. Involved in induction,culture sensitization,employee engagement initiatives and compliance of various policies and processes for one of the largest business units at Hyderabad.
Managing 1800+ employees as HR business partner in the following areas:
Performance Management
Employee Services & Counselling
Employee Orientation
Training & Development
Rewards & Recognition
Compensation & Benefits Administration
Grievance Handling & Redressal
Pulse Surveys
Attrition Analysis
Process Improvement
Organizational Health & Safety

Employee Rewards ProgramsEmployee EngagementPerformance Management

Head - Talent Sourcing

Promoted

Feb 2011 – Aug 2022 · 11 yrs 6 mos

LeadershipTalent SourcingNiche Talent AcquisitionIT RecruitmentRecruitingNegotiation

Campus Recruitment Lead - AP & TS

Feb 2011 – Apr 2015 · 4 yrs 2 mos

Recruitment, Stakeholder Management (Internal/External)

fresher hiringCollege Recruitingcampus hiringTechnical Recruiting

Avaya

Sr. Support Specialist

Jun 2008 – Feb 2011 · 2 yrs 8 mos

At Avaya, my role was of a Customer Specialist (Customer Relationship Management) supporting its worldwide infrastructure service remotely from Hyderabad
Monitor and work on the CCMS inbox which has User level Administration work requests like Add, Modify or change on the CM that come Via emails and we are responsible to create an incident and route the ticket to the appropriate CCMS group which is the level2 support
Work on the Mac’s (Move , Add and Change) requests for the enterprise messaging team customers like Rohm & Haas, EDS Xerox etc, MAC work involves , Adding, Deleting and Modifying Agents on a Voicemail system like modular Messaging, Intuity Audix etc, via remote Login
Being a part of the AOK Admin team am responsible to manage and update any folder in the AOK websites, this website has documents that have job aids and Customer information that the CFT team refers to for their daily job on a day to day basis.
Being a part of Audio Conference team need to monitor the Conference Bridged for Avaya and JPMC and provide any technical assistance needed on the Avaya Audio conference product

Sitel

Subject Matter Expert

Nov 2006 – Jun 2008 · 1 yr 7 mos

(SITEL is a global Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) leader.
Technical Support Troubleshooting, hardware/software support, Internet support, PC/server support. An ISP provider for the US Based company called EarthLink
Giving individual attention to each consultant so that he/she can improve their performance and also the Team’s performance thus enhancing the performance of the Organization.
Internal training for the representatives to help them meet and exceed the metrics.
Taking real time Escalations and making sure the customers query is resolved to his satisfaction and making sure a FCR is always provided.
Root cause analysis of the different metrics to help the reps. perform better