Swapna Kole

Head of Talent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building talent acquisition strategies.
  • Proven track record in onboarding large teams.
  • Passionate about community building and inclusion.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition leader with expertise in SaaS and consumer startups.

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Applicant Tracking SystemsBPOBackground ChecksBenefits NegotiationBusiness DevelopmentBusiness Process Outsourcing (BPO)CRMCold CallingCollege RecruitingConsultingContract RecruitmentCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Employee EngagementEmployee RelationsEmployer Branding

About

Talent Acquisition leader with diverse experience across the consumer and SaaS startups. A strong knack for building efficient talent and culture teams at scale and early stages. Having worked with 100+ stakeholders in the last decade across the engineering, product and design. Passionate about building offline community experiences across engineering, product, design, business and women inclusion at workplace.

Experience

18 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

C5i

Associate Vice President- Talent Acquisition

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Dunzo

Director Talent Acquisition

May 2022Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Leading the hiring efforts for the entire technology, product and design vertical with a team of recruiters
  • Onboarded ~150 of team members in the span of 3-4 months
  • Closely working with founders and leadership to lead central initiatives
  • Responsible for business transformation through Talent Acquisition Strategy & Talent transformation.
  • Ensure establishing a robust recruitment process, fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration within the recruitment team.
  • Dedicated to Talent Transformation, Alignment to Career Architecture, Talent enablement - capability & capacity building and Monitoring key parameters.
  • Focused on continuous improvement cycle of recruitment, tech transformation & automation (ATS implementation, upscaling team, cross pollination) for optimal results.
  • Keen focus on staying up to date with recruitment technology trends, compliance, industry best practices, talent branding & engagement and DEI initiatives to position our organization as an employer of choice.

Recruitment route

Community Builder

Apr 2022Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Recruiting adda

Community Builder

Mar 2022Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

Zeta suite

Senior Manager Talent Acquisition

Apr 2021May 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Led the hiring efforts for the entire technology, product and design vertical with a team of 12 recruiters
  • Onboarded ~ 250 of team members in a years span
  • Closely worked with founders and leadership to lead central initiatives

Myntra jabong

Senior Manager Talent Acquisition

Nov 2017Apr 2021 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Recruited for Data Science (India & US), DevOps, Engineering and Product verticals across various business
  • Initiated #TechMyngle a flagship program which was focused on building internal as well as external brand of Myntra as an organisation. Various User Based events, showcasing and attracting talent which not only gave the Myntraities to showcase their talent but also created a platform which gave opportunity to extend an invitation to various thought leaders across functions and solve for open source challenges.
  • Closed Partnered with LinkedIn team for various hiring efforts, talent strategy, training internal TA members

Belong.co

Principal Talent Consultant

Jan 2017Oct 2017 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • We map people with the opportunity that will develop individual's potential; we connect an opportunity with people that will help companies scale.
  • Changing the dimensions of recruiting with a targeted, candidate-focused approach that coordinates personalized talent acquisition and business efforts to hire people who succeed in your company.
  • Work closely with founders and TA heads to build hiring strategies, identified right fit talent etc

Practo

HR Specialist

Oct 2015Jan 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Led the hiring efforts for the entire technology, product and design vertical with a team of recruiters
  • Onboarded ~ 80 of team members across engineering & product
  • Closely worked with founders and leadership to lead central initiatives

Snapdeal

Recruitment

Nov 2014Oct 2015 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Recruited as early member of Snapdeal (Bangalore) where I onboarded ~100 members in engineering, product and design.
  • Closely worked with founders and leadership to lead central initiatives.

Boston financial advisory group

Recruitment & Brand

Dec 2012Nov 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • At BFAG my line of responsibility covers :
  • Involved in hiring process/policy formulation & creating best practices. Strategy, planning & budgeting for complete hiring process Responsible for end to end recruitment, sourcing candidates from various sources like job portals, social media.

Hexagon executive search

Search Consultant

Jan 2011Dec 2012 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • Hexagon’s professional search practices span across multiple domain and sectors including chief executive level recruitments. We are ranked amongst the leading recruitment firms of Pune. Clients include, Sybase, SAS, IBM, Cognos, BMC Software, Atos Origin, and Allscripts to name a few. As members of the Executive Recruiters Association (the Indian standard setting body of the recruitment industry), we adhere to the highest professional and ethical standards.
  • As a Search Consultant, I have worked on number of senior level mandates for some of the globally renowned and respected corporate houses in the IT and Engineering industry verticals. This experience comprises of various activities ranging from identifying and assessing suitable candidates based on the position specifications, coordination and follow-through upto closure. The process involves attracting, screening, and selecting qualified people for a job at an organization or firm. This includes understanding a requirement and client , reaching out to people through portals, referencing and passive sourcing through LinkedIn. Followed by interview co-ordination with candidates. Creating database and generating MIS. Handling the entire recruitment cycle from sourcing, screening, selection, and post offer follow up.
  • In addition to the execution responsibilities and as a part of the Business Development team, I have helped identify and sign-up clients from the Information Technology, Engineering and BPO industry.

Firstsource solutions limited

Development and Quality Coach, Belfast (UK)

May 2007Jul 2010 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Belfast Metropolitan Area

  • Key responsibility as a development coach was to support and guide grad bay teams.
  • Reporting to supervisors periodically on team and individual work accomplishments, problems,
  • progress in mastering tasks and other work processes and individual and team training needs.
  • On regular basis worked with team to amend the competency booklet.
  • Support the recruitment team in process of preparing questionnaire, conducting interviews and
  • finalizing the candidates.
  • In case of fatal error, which involves legal action, escalate those matters to the Operations managers for further action. In case of non fatal errors depending upon the error, provide the agents required soft skill.
  • Evaluate the calls as per the standard metrics set by the client and thereafter conduct a feedback session for each agent. While doing so, set action plans for each and every individual depending upon areas of improvement.
  • Conducting calibration session for different levels of management like Team Leaders, Operation
  • Managers and Learning & Development Center. Coordinating with different teams to set and develop new process of handling customer queries.

Education

Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies

Bachelor of Commerce (BCom)

Savitribai Phule Pune University

Master's degree — Human Resource

Savitribai Phule Pune University

Master of Commerce

Belfast Metropolitan College

Sage Computerized Payroll — Accounts management

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