Apr 2024 – Oct 2024 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• ● Developed and executed strategic talent management initiatives, achieving a 90% fulfillment rate with 50+ hires in an average 21-day time-to-hire
• ● By building a robust talent pipeline, successfully reduced external agency dependency by 50%.
• ● Led the team to ensure exceptional candidate experiences while maintaining a candidate NPS of 9.
• ● Drove employee growth and succession planning, and implement employee happiness strategies that significantly reduced employee turnover by 20%.
• ● Continuously monitor key performance metrics to foster ongoing improvement and align talent strategies with broader organisational goals

Nov 2020 – Mar 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India · Remote

• ● Built strategic partnerships and streamlined recruitment processes to support rapid growth in 15+ startups and mid-sized companies.
• ● Built and led a team of 7 recruiters from the ground up, driving 400% revenue growth and successfully closing over 150 key roles for various clients within 36 months.
• ● Maintained an 85% Offer-to-Joiner ratio with strategic engagement and talent branding initiatives.
• ● Key hires comprised the CISO, AVPs, Directors, Architects, and other senior leadership positions across various functions, contributing to year-over-year business growth.

Oct 2019 – Mar 2020 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• ● Spearheaded hiring and retention programs for Technology, Product, Marketing and Customer Success teams.
• ● Reduced time-to-hire from 45 to 25 days while improving overall candidate NPS by 17%.
• ● Onboarded 32 hires in 5 months with an average 80% offer-to-joiner ratio.
• ● Implemented an ATS, streamlining and improving overall process transparency and efficiency.
• ● Built and led the HR & TA function of 4 members, reducing org level employee turnover by 15% and vendor costs by 35%.

Jul 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• ● Solely restructured and lead the Talent Acquisition function
• ● Partnered with all the BU's and respective Business heads to understand their hiring needs, counsel and guided them on the best hiring practices across industry
• ● Managed end-to-end recruitment life-cycle, including initial assessments, interviews, job offers, negotiations and on-boarding.
• ● Counsel the potential candidates on compensation, benefits, organizational culture and policies.
• ● Planned, evaluated & enforced internal and external source mix, ensuring the maximum utilization of resources
• ● Planned and built sustainable strategies for consistent hiring.
• ● Designed, planned and executed employer branding activities
• ● Encouraged and supported employees to be the "Ambassadors"
• ● Planned and executed "Employee Referral Programs"
• ● Part of the forecast and budget planning for hiring across functions.
• ● Lead, overseen and supervised "Performance improvement and Management Programs"
• ● Hired across levels : Campus/off-campus, lateral and leadership

Oct 2016 – May 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• ● Being the first member in the team, solely planned and built the entire talent management model along with the team from scratch.
• ● Lead & managed cross-functional hiring.
• ● SPoC for all the internal stakeholders and external partners for hiring.
• ● Worked closely with the cross-functional stakeholders
• ● Spearheaded the HR policies implementations and adherence
• ● Worked closely with BU heads to structure and benchmark compensation.
• ● Actively worked towards encouraging social media as an innovative sourcing mechanism.
• ● Solely Managed onboarding, payroll, employee engagements, and employee grievances

Aug 2012 – Sep 2016 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• ● Responsible for strategic planning, prioritizing tasks, preparing plan of action & timely execution to ensure the highest success.
• ● Vetting and engaging the entire talent pool ensuring maximum organisational growth month on month.
• ● Contributed a remarkable growth of 23% in the annual revenue within an year.
• ● Sourcing, Resume Mapping, Interviews, pre & post offer follow ups.
• ● Worked as RPO representative with Flipkart, Komli Media & Hive (Lava International).
• ● Spearheaded the entire Non-IT hiring vertical.
• ● Client Interaction. Responsible for providing end to end hiring support to the clients
• ● Worked on positions like SDE I/II/III, SDET I/II/III, Tech Leads, Architects, Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Front-End Developers & Designers, Research Engineers, Data Scientists, Head – UXD, CTO
• ● Source resume from Job Portals, Social Media (LinkedIn, Quora, Coroflot, Behance etc.), Google Search, Blogs, personal website and Referrals
• ● Worked on the technical requirements like C/C++, Java, PHP, Python, RoR, Perl, Big Data, Analytics, Quality Assurance, Machine Lerning, Data Mining, Data Warehousing, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Data Structures & Algorithms

Mar 2011 – Aug 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• ● Involved in gathering requirements from the clients,
• ● Sourcing,screening & identifying the most suitable candidates for our clients' requirements.
• ● Scrutinizing profiles & Interacting with candidates about their skill sets & competencies.
• ● Sharing the best suitable profiles with the clients, maintaining internal database,
• ● Following up with the candidates for their interviews or events.
• ● Maintaining internal database for convenience in the future.
• ● Coordinating end-to-end recruitment process.
• ● Collecting the documents from the selected candidates
• ● Follow up with the candidate till their joining.