Apr 2022 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Handled End To End Recruitment as an Individual contributor & Managed a team of 2 recruiters.
• Recruited for startups, SaaS firms, and GCCs, hiring across roles from junior to leadership in niche tech
• stacks.
• Leveraged LinkedIn, Naukri, career pages, Indeed, referrals, and other channels for efficient talent
• sourcing & Head hunting.
• Recruited for mid to leadership-level hiring needs across Apoyar’s Development, IT, QA, HR, and Sales &
• Marketing teams.
• Focused on quality-driven hiring while maintaining TAT, cost efficiency, and optimal budget allocation.
• Revamped the recruitment process and introduced modern hiring practices.
• Engaged with leadership team and stakeholders across India, the UK, and Czech Republic, ensuring
• seamless collaboration for recruitment excellence.
• Reduced offer rejections and significantly improved hiring speed.
• Managed vendor selection, engagement, and workforce planning.
• Conducted screenings, HR interviews, documentation checks, salary negotiations, and issued
• offer/relieving letters.
• Handled appraisals, compensation benchmarking and approval workflows.
• Focused on strengthening employer branding in the technology space through various strategies.
• Collaborated with HR Ops to ensure a smooth onboarding for new hires.
• Managed client acquisition, relationships, and tech staffing needs.
• Prepared and shared weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports on internal recruitment and staffing.
• Conducted periodic salary benchmarking to stay competitive in the industry.
• Establish clear and accessible channels for employee communication and feedback and address
• concerns.
• Promoted a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Identified employee training needs through performance reviews and skills gap analyses.

Jan 2021 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Handled high-volume, strategic, and quality End To End hiring across all levels, from entry-level to
• Managerial positions.
• Managed a team of 3 juniors (Direct reporting) daily.
• Engaged with hiring managers, panel members.
• Planned, approved, budgeted, and conducted multiple hiring drives and mega drives (50 to 350 walkins).
• Conducted assessments using HackerRank (technical) tools.
• Managed offer negotiations, document follow-ups, and candidate onboarding.
• Prepared salary breakups, offer letters, and appointment letters.
• Led inductions and orientation sessions for new hires.

Feb 2020 – Jan 2021 · 11 mos · Pune Area, India

• Led end-to-end strategic, high-volume hiring for mid to senior leadership roles for the Payments domain.
• Managed a team of 5 to 6 recruiters.
• Collaborated with Indian and US-based business leaders, hiring managers and panels.
• Handled GCC hiring for junior to leadership roles across niche tech stack such as Cloud & DevOps,
• Cybersecurity, Data Engineering, .Net, SDET etc.
• Managed offer negotiations, documentation, onboarding, and issuance of salary breakups and
• appointment letters.

Apr 2019 – Dec 2019 · 8 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Handled end-to-end IT recruitment for enterprise clients, from sourcing to offer rollout.
• Travelled to branches to collaborate, share, and implement recruitment strategies.
• Managed tech hiring for mid-senior, senior, Lead and project manager roles.
• Handled salary negotiations and offer letter rollouts, post joining follow ups.

Jun 2016 – Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Worked as an Individual Contributor & Team Lead, managed a team of two Junior Recruiters.
• Oversaw end-to-end recruitment, including job parsing, sourcing, screening, interviewing, and ensuring
• onboardings in given TAT.
• Hired for roles across all levels, from Junior to Director (Senior, Lead, Manager, Architect).
• Handled client interactions and recruitment needs.
• Pre-screened candidates to match client/internal requirements.
• Coordinated interviews with top management and technical panels.
• Followed up with clients and candidates to ensure smooth hirings.
• Managed compensation agreements, offer rollouts, and candidate responses.
• Maintained a database of active and pipeline candidates for future opportunities.

Jul 2014 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos · Pune Area, India

• Recruited for contractual junior Software QA roles, managing job postings, sourcing, and screening.
• Managed bulk interview drives at college campuses and on-premise for freshers.
• Coordinated with clients to understand hiring needs and shared suitable candidates.
• Maintained college and client relationships for seamless placements.