Apr 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Key Role:
• 🔹 As a Strategic Hiring Partner, collaborated closely with business leaders to craft tailored hiring strategies, resulting in optimized recruitment efforts for tech engineering and product-based roles spanning entry to leadership levels.
• 🔹 Orchestrated seamless end-to-end recruitment processes, ensuring impeccable quality and efficiency from job posting to offer acceptance.
• 🔹 Implemented robust metrics and reporting systems to track and analyze recruitment KPIs, including time-to-hire, cost-per-hire, candidate experience, and diversity statistics, providing valuable insights to stakeholders.
• 🔹 Provided strong leadership to a team of junior members, offering mentorship and coaching to enhance their skills and productivity, thereby contributing significantly to overall team success.
• 🔹 Managed vendor relationships with external recruitment firms, fostering effective collaboration and ensuring successful placements for specific positions.
• 🔹 Successfully executed and managed Campus and Internship hiring initiatives across tier 1 engineering colleges such as IITs (IITA, Roorkee), MNIT, ISI Bangalore, and IISc, facilitating the acquisition of top talent.
• 🏆 Key Achievement: Spearheaded the scaling of a startup's headcount by 65% within a year, overseeing the hiring of 52 new team members.

Apr 2020 – Mar 2021 · 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

• 📈 Key Role
• 🔹 Spearheaded end-to-end resource acquisition for technical and lateral roles at India Development centers, ensuring on-time and within-budget delivery while maintaining superior quality standards.
• 🔹 Collaborated closely with IDC leadership to drive alignment initiatives, fostering a cohesive and agile work environment.
• 🔹 Conducted meticulous behavioral interviews to ensure cultural fit and enhance team synergy.
• 🔹 Solely managed hiring initiatives through Campus Placements, establishing partnerships with premier institutes including IITs (BHU, Roorkee, Ropar), Delhi, DCE, MNIT, and others.
• 🔹 Led employment branding and recruitment strategy development, leveraging data-driven insights to enhance processes and attract top talent

Sep 2018 – May 2019 · 8 mos · Gurgaon

• 📈 Key Achievements:
• 🔹 Directed the entire recruitment life cycle, including contract negotiations, benefit packages, and salary discussions, while conducting position-specific interviews and sourcing top-tier talent.
• 🔹 Excelled in stakeholder management, serving as a trusted business partner to employees, addressing queries, resolving issues, and incorporating suggestions throughout the employee lifecycle.
• 🔹 Held accountability for people dashboards and MIS reporting, consistently monitoring key metrics (Hiring, Attrition, and Performance) to evaluate strategies and enhance overall efficiency. Provided comprehensive briefings to senior leadership on a quarterly basis.
• 🔹 Played a pivotal role in Employee Engagement, Employer Branding, Employee Grievance resolution, Diversity and Talent projects, Recognition & Reward programs, and Policy document management, contributing significantly to organizational culture and employee satisfaction.

Aug 2016 – Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon

• 🔹Leadership and Mentorship: Trained, mentored, and led a team of 12 regional recruiters and coordinators, ensuring the successful delivery of the Global Graduate/Intern/Vacation program across APAC, EMEA, and AMERICAS regions.
• 🔹Stakeholder Management: Developed high-level relationships with regional and global stakeholders, including Heads of Businesses, campus teams, external vendors (CEB), and divisional HR, to drive effective recruitment strategies.
• 🔹Sourcing and Pipeline Management: Utilized social media, job boards, third-party vendors, open house events, referrals, marketing materials, university recruitment, information sessions, and virtual events to source applicants and build a robust candidate pipeline.
• 🔹Campus Engagement: Attended on-campus presentations, target events, and interviews as needed to engage with potential candidates.
• 🔹Data Management and Reporting: Accountable for data management and MIS. Created and monitored key metrics (e.g., time to hire, candidate funnel) to evaluate strategies and improve hiring efficiency. Briefed senior leadership weekly on the status of all vacancies.
• 🔹Pipeline Management: Effectively managed the intern/scholarship talent pipeline to maximize conversion into full-time graduate roles.
• 🔹Process Improvement: Partnered with the Area of Excellence (AOE) team to streamline recruitment processes, reducing hiring timeframes by 2 months and improving the offer acceptance ratio by 15%.

Jan 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Gurgaon

• 🔹Operational Excellence: Managed the onboarding of over 1,000 professionals, streamlining operations and enhancing team workflows for peak efficiency.
• 🔹Development and Coaching: Cultivated a culture of continuous improvement, mentoring staff and enhancing team capabilities in recruitment and onboarding.
• 🔹Process Optimization: Led initiatives for process automation and standardization, delivering substantial improvements in process efficiency and stakeholder satisfactio

Jul 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurgaon

• Rio Tinto-Recruitment Officer- July 2013 till Dec 2014
• Worked closely with the business leaders to understand talent needs and develop a comprehensive hiring approach to recruit 100+ professional, operator/maintainer, technical and apprentice roles across APAC Region
• Developed mastery of recruiting techniques and tools: LinkedIn, Boolean search, Seek, Indeed & other job aggregators and CRM tools to effectively source active and passive candidates
• Prepared multi-functional job descriptions and posted adverts across multiple sourcing channels
• Screened resumes, administered psychometric tests, conducted detailed phone assessments to evaluate candidates’ fitment & readiness, facilitated interviews and tracked candidate activity in the applicant tracking system
• Post offer process management that includes triggering pre-employment background verification checks and assisting with preboarding formalities for the candidates

Oct 2012 – Mar 2013 · 5 mos

• Leverage online recruiting resources and in-house recruitment efforts to identify and hire the very best candidates.
• Conducting phone or in person interviews to assess the candidates skill sets and matching them to the job requirement.
• Coordinating technical round of Interviews.
• Conducting walk in interviews and arranging for the various types of skill test.
• Work closely with head HR to coordinate planning activities regarding hiring, trends, needs and recruiting strategies.
• Maintain accurate and well-ordered documentation on all candidates.
• Planning and executing on-campus recruitment efforts.
• Serving as the primary point of contact for recruits throughout the interviewing process.
• Extending offers of employment to selected candidates under the direction of the hiring managers and within company guidelines.
• Preparing and collating monthly MIS reports, related to Recruitments.
• Identifying new placement agencies and negotiating on terms and conditions.

Jan 2012 – Sep 2012 · 8 mos · DELHI

• Responsible for Managerial hiring Pan India
• Handling Entry Level, Middle level and Senior Level recruitments for sales and marketing function Pan India.
• Sourcing profiles of active and passive candidates against requirements using job portal like, Naukri, Monster, iimjob and LinkedIn, Head Hunting etc., Employee Reference , cold calls.
• Initial screening of the profiles as per the requirement of the concerned unit head and shortlisting the candidates
• Generating referrals from the short listed candidates
• Drafting Offer letters and salary negotiation

Jul 2010 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurgaon

• Key Responsibilities include:
• Assisting in recruitment and employment activities for Managers, Non-Managers and outsourced employees by working closely with line managers and business heads to deliver recruitment needs.
• Identifying and utilizing different recruitment channels to effectively fill open position.
• Responsible for supporting the recruitment life cycle for Managerial, Non Managerial as well as contractual employees PAN India.
• Collecting market intelligence on competitor trends
• Salary positioning, offer negotiation & timely closure of positions involving aggressive follow up with head-hunters, line manager & candidates.
• Managing effective and smooth on boarding of new hires in coordination with post hiring HR team as per defined process.
• Design and develop recruitment trackers for business operations & periodic reviews; maintaining key hiring metrics for measuring efficiency of hiring at regular time intervals (TAT, Source: Hired, Cost of Hire).
• Helping the selected candidates in completing their pre-employment medical check up and arranging for the same.
• Managing employee personal files and records, Database management. Responsible for conducting timely internal HR audits on personnel files & documents.
• Responsible for various vendor and Client relationship management.
• Managing the entire HR Operations involving the hire to retire process for outsourced employees incoordination with the third party vendor.