Mar 2023 – Aug 2023 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Recruitment and Candidate Experience - Greenhouse | Calendly | Prelude | Slack
• Recruitment and Candidate experience Lead:
• One of the first hires in the team at Wayfair; helped scale the organization to 200 hires within six months in partnership with a team of 11 recruiters.
• Initially supported the hiring globally for both tech and non-tech roles. After the revamp, was part of the India tech hiring team.
• Worked on technical roles like Backend, Fullstack, Product and Program Managers.
• Partnered with other recruiters, department leads and administrative professionals to effectively manage the full-life-cycle hiring and onboarding process.
• Weekly and monthly reporting by tracking each role’s pipeline and partnering with recruiting coordinators to drive accurate data reporting.
• Helped identify the regular panel defaulters and also onboard newer interviewers.
• Onboarded and mentored full-time employees and interns within the recruiting team.
• Initiated the onboarding and offboarding process for all the employees in Paylocity, BambooHR, Sterling, KnowB4, and Bonusly.
• Built and documented key SOPs on Confluence to standardize and streamline hiring and onboarding processes.

May 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos · Remote

• Recruitment Coordination and Candidate Customer Support - Skyvine | Salesforce | GHire | GSchedule | Schedule TNG
• Initially supported scheduling and coordination for the APAC region for Cloud and Tech and EMEA region for GBOP. After the revamp, was part of the Global GBOP queue for a few months and then moved to Global Tech. Good experience in working on both tech as well as non-tech candidates globally.
• Supported numerous batch days for Customer Success Acceleration (CSA), Measurement Implementation Expert (MIE) and Search Specialist (SS) on a weekly recurring basis for the APAC region.
• Was one of the subject matter experts (SME) for the EMEA GBOP queue and also held regular office hours for the new joiners in the team to help with training and 1:1 doubt clarifications.
• Worked and delivered training on best practices to reduce rework for the APAC region.
• Created content for rework training and took up initiatives to help other RCs understand and therefore reduce the rework rate.
• Overachieved my targets every week and month with the least target achieved percentage being 174% and highest being 777%.
• Conducted a weekly India Staffing Ops weekly meeting with DEI activities and Fun Fridays.
• Supported the APAC GBOP queue as the Queue Operational Specialist where in the role essentially involved monitoring the GBO queue and helping keep it moving when there is a backlog and ensuring the urgents get picked up straight away. Also worked on initiatives to implement that helped keep the morale up during slow months like December.
• Supported the Candidate Interviewer Chat Support and the Candidate Interviewer Email Support team in times of crunch due to the holiday season.
• Received the Quantity Star Award during the RC APAC Regional Team Meeting 3/3 times so far.

May 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos · Remote

• Campus Hiring and Coordination:
• Was an integral part of the One Day Offer (ODO) Allies 2021-22 with the biggest ODO event that ever took place at Google with participation from 45+ campuses for both Interns and FTEs.

Apr 2020 – May 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka · Remote

• Recruitment and Candidate Experience - Lever | Slack
• Worked with a team of three senior recruiters to drive tech hiring across six business units - Chat Platform, Engineering Platform, Mobile Platform, GoSend, Transport and Automation.
• Recruited for roles like Backend, Frontend, iOS, Android, QA and DevOps engineers.
• Undertook complete ownership of candidate experience by being the first point of contact for all the candidates and directing them to the right POC as and when necessary.
• Worked and managed a combination of external and internal stakeholders. Externally, managed candidates from entry-senior level and ensured timely communication. Internally, stakeholders included hiring managers, the interview panels and people operations.
• Managed and reported the hiring data on a weekly and quarterly basis.
• Worked on a post-offer engagement plan and drove the post-offer engagement for various business units.
• Took initiative to work on projects that could help bridge the gaps in processes and improve quality.
• Partnered with the content manager to improve and update all the communication templates on Lever and Confluence.
• Worked on multiple hiring drives for positions like backend and iOS engineers.
• Helped in streamlining the QA interview process.
• Improved employer branding by partnering with hiring managers and leading the team to create job-specific interview prep documents to be shared with every candidate who applies for the QA engineer role at Gojek.
• Created a Do’s and Don’t guide in Confluence for all interviewers to eliminate unconscious bias and prevent repetitive questions in different rounds of interviews.

Jun 2019 – Mar 2020 · 9 mos · On-site

• Vendor Management:
• Worked with several recruitment partners like vendors and campus officers as a POC.
• Worked with different vendors and engaged with them to increase the conversions. Continuously monitored their performance and weeded out poor performers accordingly.

May 2019 – Apr 2020 · 11 mos · On-site

• Recruitment and Coordination - Naukri ATS
• Led talent attraction for the India region and successfully sourced and onboarded 41 new hires from June 2019 - April 2020.
• Led a team of 3 to achieve a 94% offer acceptance rate for the sales division.
• Exceeded time to fill goals for Q3 2019 and Q1 2020, averaging 29 days from requisition approved to offer accepted for all the non-sales roles.
• Maintaining trackers for selected candidates and rolling out the offers to the new hires.
• Provided engagement strategies for leadership new hires and kept them warm until their first day.
• Managed recruitment drives on a daily basis for non-tech positions like sales and customer support.
• Worked with multiple stakeholders and hiring managers including the co-founder and provided strategic recruiting updates via monthly and quarterly business reviews.
• Worked with several recruitment partners like vendors and campus officers as a POC.
• Initiate the BGV process for all new full-time hires.
• Supported the operations and admin team with onboarding, offboarding, employee engagement and payroll.
• Worked with different vendors and engaged with them to increase conversions. Continuously monitored their performance and weeded out poor performers accordingly.
• Implemented a referral policy and an internal movement policy and helped drive them both.
• Owned building competitive compensation packages including base salary, annual and sign-on bonuses and equity for entry-level to senior-level candidates using market-driven data relative to company’s compensation philosophy.

Feb 2019 – May 2019 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Recruitment and Coordination - Darwinbox
• Supported a team of three senior recruiters and a recruiting manager with regards to coordination, one of who handled design hiring, the second handled tech hiring and the third handled operations.
• Managed multiple stakeholders and built an amazing rapport with them.
• Successfully partnered with multiple external help and consultancies and communicated with them as a SPOC on a daily basis.
• Handled multiple design drives on a monthly basis.
• Led the entire sales hiring process and conducted drives and walk-ins on a daily basis.
• Led a hiring event for tech freshers at the very beginning of my association with Homelane.
• Catered to generating and editing content for employee referrals.
• Came up with a new double referral program and internal transfer policy.

Jun 2018 – May 2019 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• An Associate on three accounts namely, TTK Prestige, Xpheno and Metro Bikes (now known as Bounce)
• Roles and responsibilities included but not limited to client relationship, media relations, content creation and press release.
• Responsible for tracking and updating relevant news and market scenarios to the client on a daily basis.
• Pitching to journalists about the trends in the sector with specification on clients.
• Arranging interaction sessions for clients with journalists, handling their press releases and media communication.
• Dealing with enquiries from the press media.
• Organising and attending promotional events such as press conferences.
• Providing clients with information about new promotional opportunities and current PR campaigns progress.
• Liaise on a daily basis with clients and the media, often via telephone and email.
• Built a strong relationship and network with the clients as well as the media.
• Monitored the media, including newspapers, magazines, journals, broadcasts, newswires, social media sites and blogs, for opportunities for clients on a daily basis.
• Collated, analyzed and evaluated the media coverage for the clients.
• Worked as a part of an account team to develop client proposals and implement the PR activity.
• Prepared regular client reports and attended client meetings.
• Researched, wrote and distributed press releases to the targeted media.
• Managed events, including press conferences and other promotional events.
• Attended and promoted client events to the media.
• Undertook research for new business proposals and present them to potential new clients.
• Managed the PR aspect of all possible crisis situations.

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• Pre-production and Creative team Intern worked on two major projects namely:
• NBA Hangout which was a TVFPlay web series aimed at spreading the awareness of basketball in this country.
• Harinder Singh’s biopic for the Discovery Channel which revolves around the life of Harinder Singh, the former international hockey player from India who then went on to becoming a coach.

Dec 2016 – Jan 2017 · 1 mo · Belagavi, Karnataka, India · On-site

• News Reporting and News Editing for the Belgaum region
• A news reporter on the field and news editor at desk.
• Wrote and edited my own stories, of which five got featured and received a byline for them all.
• Edited inbound stories on a daily basis to match the writing style of The New Indian Express.
• Interviewed and reported a story on Nagaratna Sunil Ramagouda, a woman battling AIDS who also runs an NGO for other women like herself.
• Covered an event that was dedicated to the soldiers who died during the freedom run of the country.