Smitha C R

Talent Acquisition Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • 12+ years in Talent Acquisition across diverse industries
  • Increased diversity hiring from 17% to 30%
  • Led successful boomerang hiring project
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition expert in the Semiconductor and IT industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionHr Analytics

Other Skills

Boolean wizard for recruitmentX-ray SearchGitHubStack OverflowGenerative AI (ChatGPT)MIS ReportingStakeholder ManagementLinkedIn RecruiterLinkedIn recruitingTeam ManagementEnd to end recruitmentTeam handlingCandidate experience managementFull cycle of recruitmentSourcing

About

II Human resource II Talent Acquisition Manager II HR Analytics from IIM II Enthusiast II Proven ability to achieve the task II Results-driven HR/Talent Acquisition professional with 12 + years of experience in Semiconductor, VLSI, Embedded & IT industries. Proven expertise in strategic talent acquisition, team leadership, stakeholder management, and recruitment process optimization. Track record of delivering hiring goals with high reliability and building teams across diverse technical domains. Generated recruitment MIS reports on TAT, pipeline, source effectiveness, and hiring outcomes. Increased diversity hiring from 17% to 30% Through targeted initiatives Led boomerang hiring project To re-engage high-performing former employees. Awards: Star Excellence (Nov 2024), Spot Award (Q2), Annual Award for Nische skill hiring (Q4),Star Excellence award for Diversity Hiring (Q3),Top Gun (2021, 2020, 2017), Hall of Fame (Feb 2020), Star Performer (multiple years: 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016), Whiz Kid (Q1 2019), Top Performer (2019, 2017)

Experience

12 yrs
Total Experience
2 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Coreel technologies

Talent Acquisition Manager

Dec 2022Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

  • Headed TA business units, including campus strategies and a 30+ vendor portfolio.
  • Track record of delivering hiring goals with high reliability and building teams across diverse technical domains. Generated recruitment MIS reports on TAT, pipeline, source effectiveness, and hiring outcome
  • Manage Pan-India campus hiring and coordinate weekly TA meetings with all BUs and leadership
  • Actively involved in HR round post technical discussion
  • Oversee sourcing and TA Ops teams, tracking onboarding and post-offer engagement programs
  • Execute leadership and fellow-level hiring across multiple technical domains
  • Providing necessary recruitment training to the teams/Interns/Freshers
  • Managed end-to-end bonus programs, including recruitment, referral, retention, and relocation & Involved in Audit. Prepare and present TA data to internal and external Audit
  • Technical Skills
  • Boolean wizard for recruitment • X-ray Search • GitHub • Stack Overflow • LinkedIn recruiting • Company Mapping• Generative AI (ChatGPT).
  • Tools:Success Factor • ATS Greenhouse • Taleo • Workline •
  • Zing HR. AI & Automation Tools: HireEZ (Hiretual),
  • SeekOut, LinkedIn Recruiter (AI search), Fetcher.ai,
  • ChatGPT, AI-based resume screening & ATS optimization
  • Technical Domains: RF, Design verification • SOC & IP • ASIC/RTL Design • Finance • Software • Emulation • Circuit design • Thermal • C++ Embedded • UVM • PCB • Quality • Testing • Web • Performance modeling • CPU Architecture • Program/Project Management
Boolean wizard for recruitmentX-ray SearchGitHubStack OverflowGenerative AI (ChatGPT)Talent Acquisition+4

Amd

Talent Acquisition

Jul 2021Nov 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · Hybrid

  • Executed talent acquisition strategies for semiconductor industry roles
  • Extensive experience in internal hiring & handled multiple business units (RTG, SOC, CPU)
  • Led regular hiring manager intake sessions to manage open roles and long-term hiring forecasts.
  • Organizing weekly meetings with Hiring managers and Involving weekly meetings with Leadership team
  • Taking care of HR discussion post tech rounds and Handled sourcing and TA Ops team
  • Interaction with TA Ops team to track the schedules and on onboarding Process & Involving in post offer program
  • Technical SkillsBoolean wizard for recruitment • X-ray Search • GitHub •
  • Stack Overflow • LinkedIn recruiting • Company
  • Mapping
  • Tools
  • Success Factor & ATS optimization
  • Technical Domains: Physical design • DFT • Design verification • SOC & IP • ASIC/RTL Design • Finance • Software • Emulation •
  • Circuit design • Thermal • C++ Embedded • UVM • PCB • Quality • Testing • Web • Performance modeling • CPU Architecture •
  • Program/Project Management
Boolean wizard for recruitmentX-ray SearchGitHubStack OverflowLinkedIn recruitingTalent Acquisition

Encora inc.

Talent Acquisition Lead

Dec 2015Jul 2021 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Experience in handling TA audits with both internal & external audits.
  • Experience in market strategy, forecasting and stake holder management.
  • Experience in managing team of Talent Acquisition resources.
  • Planning hiring activities according to yearly and quarterly projections
  • Provide leadership and market strategy plan to recruit 'Right Fit' employees in a cost effective & timely manner to meet business critical initiatives / goals.
  • Stake holder management
  • End to end recruitments from senior and mid management levels.
  • Extensive experience in internal hiring.
  • Vendor management.
  • Team Management.
  • Encora is a leader in the large and rapidly growing outsourced product development market. Encora has 20+ offices and innovation labs in 12 countries across 4 continents. With a team of 4000+ professionals Encora serves more than 300 global clients. Encora is certified as a Great Place to Work
Talent AcquisitionStakeholder ManagementTeam Management

Primus global services

Sr. Associate -Technical recruiter

Aug 2015Nov 2015 · 3 mos · Bangalore

  • Worked as Senior Associate - HR
  • End to end recruitment.
  • Team handling & giving training.
  • Interacting with top management, holding discussion with department, understanding the specifications in retrospect to candidate’s profile, job description, salary payable, start date and mode of interview
  • Screening the profiles form various portals, linked in, referral programs, social media etc., short listing them based on the requirement, and candidates experience, skills etc. & selecting candidates in preliminary HR validation, Scheduling, Negotiation, Releasing Offers.
  • Pleasant candidate experience throughout the process and Continuous engagement with the offered candidates.
End to end recruitmentTeam handlingCandidate experience managementTalent Acquisition

Sapwood ventures pvt ltd

Sr. Consultant-HR

Jan 2013Jan 2015 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

  • Worked as a Senior Consultant- Recruitment- Client & Relationship
  • Responsible for full cycle of recruitment sourcing, screening, short-listing candidates, giving coding test, tele-screening, personal interviewing and presenting short listed candidates.
  • Handled team size of 6.
  • Primary responsibility included candidate solicitation and qualification for contract and permanent opportunities for various commercial accounts and recruited for a wide array of IT professionals.
  • Sapwood is organized into specific practices by industry segments with teams focusing on the recruitment needs of each of these verticals.
  • This organization structure brings a high degree of specialization, industry domain knowledge and expertise to focus on each requirement need handled by us. Based on the nature of the need, various recruitment consultants are pulled from the organization team to form a project team. Each of our consultants have access to latest trends and developments about an industry segment thereby translating into a deep understanding of markets, people and opportunities, which enables them to fully engage with both our business and that of our clients.
Full cycle of recruitmentSourcingScreeningTalent Acquisition

Education

Indian Institute of Management Rohtak

Certification in HR Analytics

Adichunchanagiri institute of college

B.E — Computers

University of Mysore

PUC — Science

Indian Institute of Management Rohtak

HR Analytics

Indian Institute of Management Rohtak

HR Analytics

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