Nikhila R

Head of Talent

India12 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Over a decade of experience in talent acquisition.
Achieved a 93% joining to offer ratio.
Recognized with multiple honors in recruitment excellence.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Specialist in the HR Tech industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionStrategic SourcingStrategic HiringProject ManagementScreeningTechnical Recruitment

Other Skills

Generative AIOffer ManagementBoolean SearchingAdvanced SourcingInterview CoachingAccount ManagementClient RelationsTechnical and Non-Technical RecruitmentMicrosoft PowerPointHiring manager TrainingInterview Team TrainingGenerative AI for RecruitingArtificial Intelligence (AI)Pre-screeningGlobal Sourcing

About

With over a decade of experience in talent acquisition, I currently serve as the AVP of Strategic Talent Sourcing and Management, Centre of Excellence ( CoE ) at HSBC. In this role as an individual contributor, I contribute to UK and Singapore hiring initiatives for Global Capacity Center, leveraging expertise in talent acquisition, advanced sourcing using Eightfold AI, LinkedIn hiring assistant, talent insights, interviewing, and stakeholder management. My focus is managing on-demand, volume and always-on requirements, interacting with leaders and fostering an exceptional candidate experience. My career journey includes impactful contributions at SonicWall, a cybersecurity organization, where I collaborated with global teams to manage end-to-end recruitment across diverse functions for primarily India and other APJ regions, while mentoring new team members, supporting global sourcing on need basis and advancing employer branding efforts. Certified in AI/Tech and Non-tech Recruitment, and Social Recruiting, I am committed to driving strategic hiring practices that align with organizational goals. My dedication to excellence has been recognized with multiple honors and spot awards in sales/engineering support and recruitment. ATS: Greenhouse, Success Factors

Experience

12 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

2 mos

Current Experience

Hsbc

Strategic Talent Sourcing and Management (AVP) - Global Talent Hub

Apr 2026 – Present · 2 mos · Bengaluru

Strategic SourcingTalent Acquisition

Sonicwall

2 roles

Talent Acquisition Lead/Advisor

Jan 2022 – Apr 2026 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Enhanced candidate and pre-hire experience, achieving a joining to offer ratio of around 93%.
Developed comprehensive interviewer and interviewee guidelines to further streamline processes.
Mentoring and coaching new TA members with processes, guidelines and best practices at org level.
Proactively owned Talent Acquisition projects, ensuring timely execution of recruitment initiatives.
Updated Recruiter Toolkit with updated processes and changes.
Led creation of Offer Checklist spreadsheet and worked along with peers to update the country specific information.
Created job templates in ATS to help ease the job creation process.
Leveraged LinkedIn AI and Copilot to further streamline sourcing and job descriptions.

Strategic HiringGenerative AITalent Acquisition

Senior Talent Acquisition Professional

Oct 2017 – Jan 2022 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Working with global teams and leading hiring efforts in India, also focused on hiring in other Asia Pacific countries across Engineering/R&D, Technical Support, Product Management, Sales, Pre-Sales, Account Management, HR, Finance, Administration and Marketing Departments.
Strengthen the company brand, expand the talent pool and enable better candidate experiences.
Manage the complete recruitment life-cycle for sourcing the best talent of manpower requirements through internal database, proactive sourcing, head hunting, job portals, job posting, job advertising, social networking and employee referrals.
Gather job specifications from hiring managers/stakeholders (Directors/Senior Managers/Executive Directors/VPs/Senior VPs...) with detailed job descriptions and skillset requirements. Discuss the profile, interview process and work as an advisor to help attract the right talent in the market
Analyze the requirements, map them with the current market scenario, formulate strategies to acquire the best fitment into a given role.
Build and maintain network of potential candidates through pro-active market research and on-going relationship management.
Negotiate potential offers and successfully close the requirements.
Conduct in-depth interviews of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high offer-to-interview and offer-to-joining ratios
Organize Walk-in Drives for Mass hiring and interview Fresh Grads for Entry Level positions across engineering and Technical Support verticals.
Working on TA Projects to further streamline the process and help in employer branding
Campus/ University Relations and working on ATS/HR Portals.
Initial 1 year on RPO via Flocareer.

Offer ManagementScreeningTalent Acquisition

Flocareer

Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant

Jun 2017 – Oct 2017 · 4 mos · Bangalore

Technical RecruitmentBoolean Searching

Trust works

2 roles

Recruiting Team Lead

Jan 2016 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

Technical Recruitment

Technical Recruiter

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs

Technical Recruitment

Microsoft

Senior Operations Specialist - Incident Manager

Jul 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Highlights:
Incident/Event Manager - Triaging High/Mid/Low Priority Outages
Attending War Rooms for New Product Launches
Mission Control - Connect Bridge between Microsoft Partners/Vendors/Stakeholders and the Technical Teams
Send Internal/External Notifications via CRM
Technical troubleshooting