Bharath C.

Recruiter

India12 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over a decade of experience in global recruitment.
  • Led strategic talent acquisition initiatives at Meta and Google.
  • Achieved significant improvements in diversity and referral hiring.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition expert with extensive experience in technology and automotive sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionTeam ManagementEmployer BrandingData AnalysisTechnical RecruitingStrategic HiringUniversity HiringLeadershipHiring

Other Skills

AnalyticsApplicant Tracking SystemsBenefits NegotiationCRMCandidate ExperienceChange ManagementCoachingConsultingDashboard CreationData-driven Decision MakingDiversity HiringEmployee EngagementEmployee RelationsExecutive SearchHR Policies

About

With over a decade of experience in recruiting at companies like Meta, Google and more and across the globe, excited to share the learnings to guide people in making the right career choices and help understand the nuances of hiring in big tech and startups by providing the correct information to help make informed decisions. Strategic Recruitment Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead strategic talent acquisition initiatives at scale, driving recruitment strategies aligned with organisational goals and growth objectives. Team Management and Development: Proven track record of effectively managing and developing high-performing talent acquisition teams, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Full-Cycle Recruitment Expertise: Extensive experience in full-cycle recruitment processes from sourcing and candidate engagement to offer negotiation and onboarding, ensuring a seamless and positive candidate experience. Technology Recruitment Specialisation: Expertise in recruiting top talent across various technology domains, including software engineering, data science, product management, and design, with a deep understanding of industry trends and talent landscapes.

Experience

12 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 8 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 9 mos
Current Experience

Ultraviolette automotive

Senior Manager Talent Acquisition

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • All Things Talent
  • Heading the Talent Acquisition function for the R&D and the assembly plant
  • Managing a team of recruiters to ensure all the engineering and non engineering open roles are closed within the agreed TAT
  • Working directly with Executive Leadership Team (ELT) including Founders and help bring talented people to the company
  • 30+% reduction in interviewing hours by introducing structured interviewing process
  • 20% increase in diversity hires in less than a year by consciously targeting diverse candidates at the top of the funnel reach outs
  • 30% increase in referral hires in less than 6 months by introducing a revamped Referral Program
  • Improved the employer branding by providing better candidate experience which resulted in significant increase in Glassdoor (3.6 to 4.4 out of 5) and AmbitionBox ratings (3.7 to 4.1 out of 5)
  • Built several business critical dashboards to track the performance of TA function and update the ELTs on a regular basis
  • Implemented Zoho Recruit ATS and moved the entire TA process to the platform
  • Owner of the audit process for TA as a function
Talent AcquisitionTeam ManagementEmployer BrandingData AnalysisOnboarding

Meta

Lead Talent Acquisition

Apr 2020Feb 2024 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Germany

  • Recruited for Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Reality Labs) across EMEA and
  • APAC international offices (London, Zurich, Ireland, Spain, France, Italy, Netherlands, Germany,
  • Poland, Sweden, Tel Aviv, Singapore)
  • Led and managed the effort to launch the PM Bootcamp for international locations, resulting in the
  • onboarding of 25 PMs in 4 months
  • Driven HM partnership as SPOC (15+ HMs) with high priority areas: ML, Instagram & RL across
  • locations
  • Strategised and implemented optimised recruitment processes to close open positions end-to-end,
  • resulting in 25% reduction in time to hire and 50% increase in call to offer ratio
  • Acted as SME for machine learning and cross-border remote recruitment for the PM/pTPM team
  • (35+ team)
  • Planned and executed team strategy, including strategising top of funnel, supporting team with weekly
  • meetings to provide direction, and coaching individuals in 1:1s, resulting in 30% improvement in
  • team conversion rates and other key metrics
  • Strategised and delivered bespoke weekly training sessions for the whole team, resulting in a 50%
  • increase in weekly team recruitment activity
  • Onboarded and mentored 20+ peers (15 PM team, 5+ across PXFN)
  • Created strategic partnerships across PXFN by leading attraction initiatives as part of employer
  • branding efforts
  • Responsible for publishing key hiring metrics that measure quality, efficiency and various other
  • metrics
Technical RecruitingTeam ManagementEmployer BrandingHiring Metrics

Directi

Lead Talent Acquisition Specialist

Oct 2016Mar 2020 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • In this role, I worked with stakeholders based out of Bengaluru, Mumbai, Gurugram to find amazing talent for priority roles and to reduce future hiring risks in these markets. I hired for both tech and non-tech open roles.
  • Led the recruitment of mid-senior level engineering and product roles including Principal Engineers,
  • Tech Architects, Engineering Directors and more
  • Spearheaded an optimised recruitment process to close open positions end-to-end, resulting in a
  • 20% reduction in time to hire and a 30% increase in call to offer ratio
  • Worked directly with the executive team - CEO, CTO, Directors
  • Managed university recruitment, including visiting campuses to secure day 1 slots, resulting in over
  • 100 offers per year
  • Identified, evaluated and worked with recruitment agencies to close positions quickly
  • Led the roll-out of a new career progression plan across the organisation
  • Equipped and trained the team on social media and non-traditional recruitment strategies, with a
  • focus on proactive pipeline building and engagement
  • Worked with Lever ATS to manage the candidate pipeline
  • Led several employer branding initiatives to attract individuals to join the Directi Group
  • Recruited and managed two recruiters
Technical RecruitingStrategic HiringUniversity HiringEmployer Branding

Healthifyme

Senior Recruiter

Feb 2016Oct 2016 · 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • In this role, I worked with stakeholders based out of Bengaluru to find amazing talent for priority roles and to reduce future hiring risks in these markets. I hired for both tech and non-tech open roles.
  • Partnered with Founders to close high impact IC and leadership positions
  • Managed end to end hiring process by developing a deep understanding of business requirements
  • Worked closely with Tech and Non-tech teams on the development of strategies to attract a diverse pool of top-level talent for executive and senior-level leadership positions
  • Worked with Recruiterbox ATS to better manage candidate pipeline
  • Managed HR activities including Hiring, Payrolls, Onboarding, Operations, and Exit formalities
  • Created and managed the employee database (Beehive HRMS) including the administrative work
  • Prepared and presented weekly and monthly reports to the leadership team
  • Mentored new members of the team
Technical RecruitingLeadershipPayroll ProcessingHR Policies

Tellofy

Talent Acquisition

Dec 2015Feb 2016 · 2 mos

  • In this role, I worked directly with the CEO to find amazing talent for priority roles and to reduce future hiring risks in these markets. I mainly hired for Technology, Product, and Sales roles.
  • Managed all HR activities with a focus on Hiring, Payrolls, Onboarding and Operations
  • Hired across skills and levels, including core Technology and Sales team
  • Sourced, screened, and scheduled interviews. Managed the offer release and negotiations along with onboarding them as and when the candidates join
  • Created and managed the employee database including administrative work
  • Created market intelligence on competition, including finding the appropriate groups, gather information and present it in an easy to consume format
  • Created the database of HNI's, Angel and VC's for funding related activities, including prospective business partners and clients at StartUp India event
HiringTechnical RecruitingLeadershipPayroll Processing

Google

Channels Specialist/Researcher (From Cognizant)

Jan 2014Nov 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • In this role, I worked with stakeholders based out of the USA, EMEA, and APAC regions to find amazing talent for priority roles and to reduce future hiring risks in these markets. I mainly hired for Technology and Product roles.
  • Worked directly with multiple staffing partners (Recruiters/Hiring Managers) to close technical/non-technical positions across locations
  • Sourced candidates using complex Boolean searches, social networks, employee referrals, networking, internal databases, and tangent sourcing
  • Talent Mapping and Talent Mining of quality leads from Github, Stack Overflow, LinkedIn, Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter, Google search
  • Worked extensively in various sourcing events in partnership with the clients across the globe in hiring for niche roles
  • Managed the training program for the entire team. Planned, scheduled and coordinated training for new joiners and team members
  • Identified the skill gap to develop new training courses and programs
  • Implemented different dashboards to track the entire teams productivity
  • Worked towards process improvement using different quality improvement techniques, created new process documents, standardised different process by creating various templates

Mu sigma

Executive, Training and Development

Aug 2013Dec 2013 · 4 mos

  • Part of a three member team, working on 'Continuous Learning Program'
  • Responsible for managing "Decision Scientist Certification" of Mu Sigma which is offered through Mu Sigma University, the Training arm of Mu Sigma. This certification is considered an industry standard for Decision Science (Data Analytics) industry
  • Responsible for create, review, publish and maintain new content on various analytics based subjects like SQL, MySQL and more
  • Managed the entire Manager training program

Power research and development consultants

Engineering Intern

Jan 2011May 2011 · 4 mos · Bangalore

  • Part of a four member team
  • Responsible for completion of project from start to finish
  • Responsible for understanding Mi Power software and create simulated models of the actual Power station
  • Responsible for conducting different simulated tests for the SLD of the power station

Education

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Master of Business Administration (MBA) — Human Resources Management

Jan 2011Jan 2013

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Jan 2007Jan 2011

Karnataka State Open University, Mysore

PG Diploma — Marketing Management

Jan 2012Jan 2013

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