Jul 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · Remote

Jul 2021 – Jul 2023 · 2 yrs · Remote

Feb 2019 – Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Remote

• Worked as a Technical Recruitment Consultant for some of the most interesting YC (Y Combinator) companies. To name a few, I worked with fantastic founders at ModernLoop (YC W21), Clerky (YC S11), Sourceress (YC S17), and Rain (YC W19) and helped them build their Engineering teams.

Jun 2018 – Jan 2019 · 7 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Launched in 2013, OYO is India’s largest hospitality company. Its network currently spans over 200 Indian cities including all major metros, regional commercial hubs, leisure destinations, and key pilgrimage towns. It also has an international presence with hotels in Malaysia and Nepal. The company’s vision is to become the most preferred and trusted hotel brand in the world.

Jul 2015 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Employed widely available Tech platforms to bring in passive job aspirants
• Implemented tools for maintenance of End to End Employee Human Resource cycle (using HR tools; Greenhouse, NamelyHR, ADP, Slack, Google Drive, Trello)
• Comprehensive usage of social media for company brand development (Linkedin, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Stackoverflow)
• Devised and executed strategic recruitment plans and succession planning to align with the company’s recruitment strategy
• Handled 100+ Employees single-handedly
• Salary benchmarking
• Built Career ladders
• Policy formulation and documentation in Wiki
• Facilitated full-cycle recruitment process across all business lines and sourced candidates through proven recruitment channels
• Coordination with Teams across the Globe (India, UK (headquarters), Ukraine, Poland, Philippines, USA, and Canada)
• Managed and spearheaded initiatives like the Kintern (Kayako Intern) Program to facilitate the hiring of fresh graduates from colleges into organization
• Increased retention rates by working with executive leadership to identify and reward top performers
• Developed and implemented improved recruitment metrics to enhance metrics reporting

Jul 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr

• As a Campus recruiter at Kayako, strive to scout the best talent from the Tier 1 colleges PAN India to row the Kayako boat and reach the zenith of success.
• My key roles and responsibilities include:
• Understanding various Business Requirements
• Job Specification for respective job openings.
• Forecasting talent requirements by working in liaison with the Business heads
• Identifying avenues for Branding and industry-academia initiatives
• Holding Tech Talks, Technology workshops, Hackathons, Quizzes, and Sponsored projects on the selected campuses
• Building a strong rapport with colleges across all departments at the top IIM’s, top B-Schools, Tier1 Engineering Colleges / 3-year program colleges
• Driving the whole hiring initiative from Contacting placement heads/coordinators to getting drive dates to holding pre-placement talks to conducting the campus drive
• Preparing Aptitude tests for different levels of colleges
• Preparing the prims and fancies for taking the HR interviews
• Building relationships with the candidates before the interview, post-interview, and post-offer
• Settling arrangements for onboarding and training of new joiners
• Taking follow-up and feedback sessions for new joiners
• Domains that I hire for:
• Engineering (Product Engineers, Platform Engineers, Frontend Engineer, and Backend Engineers)
• Sales (Inside sales managers, Account development managers)
• Software Support (Software support engineers)
• Linux Support (Linux Support Specialists)
• Campuses visited so far:
• IIM- Indore
• IIT- Kharagpur
• IIT- Ropar
• IIT- Roorkee
• IIT- Kanpur
• IIT- Jodhpur
• PEC- Chandigarh
• NIT- Jalandhar
• IMT- Ghaziabad
• BIMTECH- Greater Noida
• UBS- Chandigarh
• Panjab University- Chandigarh
• Amity University- Noida
• Punjabi University- Patiala
• UIET- Chandigarh
• Chitkara University- Chandigarh
• CGC- Landran
• DTU- Delhi
• PTU- Kapurthala
• APJ institute of Management- Jalandhar
• Lovely Professional University- Jalandhar
• Baddi University

Jul 2012 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs

• Kayako; a startup, not by the number of years since it's inception, but the way we think and breathe here. We are as good as a startup when it comes to getting new opportunities and wallowing in the creative innovations at work.
• With the kind of culture we carry and wish to breed further, acquiring the best fit becomes a little tougher than challenging. With the intent of a hockey stick growth, we are heading towards hiring the future rock-stars.
• I, as a Trainer at Kayako, delve into the training and HR needs. I interview candidates to gauge their written and verbal communication, probable fitment into the culture. Thereafter, training them as per the business needs; constitutes my job role. It ranges from building content to delivering training sessions right from Induction to preparing a candidate able to perform on the work floor.

Apr 2010 – Jun 2012 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Chandigarh Area, India

Apr 2009 – Apr 2010 · 1 yr · Bangalore

May 2008 – Apr 2009 · 11 mos · Jalandhar Area, India