Iqbal Kaur — Recruiter

Hiring is my passion, and I am glad to be working in this domain of professional recruitment for 12 years now. Recruit, hire, and train a growing workforce, meeting business objectives and hiring needs. Identify, develop, and retain talent that fulfils strategic plans. Identify and evaluate training needs for all employees. Create a well-developed hiring strategy. About Highly motivated and strategic recruitment professional responsible for all aspects of global recruitments including manpower forecasting and planning, execution, team management, budgeting, sourcing techniques, campus, and diversity hiring. Currently, leading the Talent Acquisition for Technology function to build and hire the most diverse and innovative technical talent who develop and deliver world class Event & Hospitality software’s ( SaaS). I have built recruitment strategies that cater's to organizational growth and scale up to win the market. I have always been valued for my integrity, resourcefulness, ownership, business networking skills, and high level of professional ethics. I possess a real passion for technology recruiting. I have received multiple accolades for my work. Expertise: • Connecting with extraordinary talent and providing them with life-changing futuristic opportunities. • Building robust talent pipelines through creative networking and amazing relationships. • Executive search strategies and planning through continuous innovative tools and technique • Strategic Recruitment & Negotiation • Analytics: Reporting, Metric-Driven, Decision Driven Data, Compensation/market benchMarking • Training, Coaching, Staff Development • HRIS and ATS Implementation/Maintenance experience

Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic recruitment leader in the SaaS industry, specializing in technology talent acquisition.

Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Experience: 18 yrs 10 mos

Skills

Talent Acquisition
Hr Operations
Recruitment Delivery
Demand Planning

Career Highlights

12 years of experience in professional recruitment.
Expert in building diverse talent pipelines.
Recognized for integrity and resourcefulness in recruitment.

Work Experience

Birdeye

Senior Manager - Talent Acquisition (9 yrs 8 mos)

RateGain

Manager Talent Acquisition (2 yrs 3 mos)

JK Technosoft

Associate Manager (Talent Acquisition) (1 yr 3 mos)

Client - IBM, Teamlease

Account Lead (3 yrs 4 mos)

Astadia Pvt Ltd

HR Exe/ Technical Recruiter (2 yrs 4 mos)

Education

MBA at Indian School of Business Management (ISBM) Mumbai

B.A at Kalindi

Iqbal Kaur

Recruiter

Gurgaon, Haryana, India18 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

12 years of experience in professional recruitment.
Expert in building diverse talent pipelines.
Recognized for integrity and resourcefulness in recruitment.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic recruitment leader in the SaaS industry, specializing in technology talent acquisition.

Contact

iqbal.kaur@birdeye.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionHr OperationsRecruitment DeliveryDemand Planning

Other Skills

AnalyticsApplicant Tracking SystemsBenefits NegotiationBusinessBusiness DevelopmentCRMCareer CounselingCompensation BenchmarkingCustomer RelationsERPEmployee BenefitsEmployee EngagementEmployee RelationsEmployer BrandingExecutive Search

About

Experience

18 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

9 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Birdeye

Senior Manager - Talent Acquisition

Oct 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 8 mos · Gurgaon · On-site

Senior Manager - Talent Acquisition at BirdEye | India Development Centre
Strategic leader offering nearly 14 years of multi-cultural experience in spearheading entire HR Operations, Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, Staffing, HR Consulting, Assessment
Rich experience across start-ups and corporates; established a manpower of 200, starting from a team of 5; recruited people from mid-level to top-level
Experienced in compensation benchmarking, conducting Employee Engagement Initiatives and surveys across the organization including managerial satisfaction while formulating and implementing the HR system & processes and ensuring compliance
Recognised as Key resource with strong operations & business skills with excellence in developing tools for recruitment and assessment for analysing competencies and profiling; search on social networking (LinkedIn, Twitter, Bullhorns Reach, Sharp Hunt, Facebook, Naukri, Monster, Shine jobs)
Drove entire functions of talent acquisition, training & development, coordinating with HR & development team; introduced numerous talent retention initiations and Screening & short-listing profiles, preliminary interview & telephonic round for initial screening, Salary negotiation, Roll-out offer letters, Documentations.
Successfully managed direct & indirect teams simultaneously; set inspirational goals for the team, defined KPIs & metrics for the HR & Administration Team and ensured the achievement of the goals; collaborated with senior-level management team in Decision-making process; added value to the overall efforts of the organisation in driving organisational objectives
Role & responsibilities
Strategic Leadership:
Develop and execute innovative hiring strategies to attract top-tier talent in technology and data domains, including software engineering, data science, cloud computing, AI, and related fields.
Stakeholder Management:
Partner closely with senior leadership, department heads, and hiring managers to understand

Talent AcquisitionHR OperationsRecruitment StrategiesEmployee EngagementCompensation Benchmarking

Rategain

Manager Talent Acquisition

Jun 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Noida Area, India

Responsible for overall recruitment delivery for Hospitality Vertical.
Responsible to provide end-to-end solutions to manpower requirements right from demand planning and forecasting resource requirement.
Responsible for working with Business Leaders and hiring managers to forecast the demand and define recruiting plan quarterly/half yearly/yearly.
Driving recruitment metrics(Fulfillment, TAT, Cost per Hire ,Offer-Joinee ratio, source/channel mix, company tier mix, Diversity Mix)
Driving and implementing various Recruiting processes like demand forecasting & management, Sourcing strategy, negotiations, vendor management, candidate engagement processes, refinement of evaluation criteria, definition of service level metrics etc.
Collaborate with practice leadership to assess needs, develop strategy and implement work plans to meet the needs of various sectors & practice areas.

Recruitment DeliveryDemand PlanningRecruiting MetricsVendor Management