Varun Kapadia

Recruiter

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 7 mos experience
AI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • 8+ years in Talent Acquisition expertise.
  • Advocate for AI-driven recruitment strategies.
  • Proven track record in building high-performing teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Tech Recruitment Specialist with a strong focus on AI-driven hiring solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

End To End RecruitingTechnical RecruitingStakeholder ManagementRecruitingTalent PipeliningSourcing

Other Skills

Salary NegotiationsReporting & AnalysisStrategic PlanningVendor ManagementNegotiationSkillateBoolean SearchingInterviewingScreeningLinkedIn RecruiterAI Driven RecruitmentRecruitment MarketingEmployer BrandingTeam ManagementManagement

About

🎯 Tech Recruitment Specialist | 8+ Yrs in Talent Acquisition | AI-Driven Recruitment Advocate With 8+ years in Talent Acquisition and currently leading end-to-end tech hiring at Warner Bros. Discovery, I specialise in building high-performing teams through data-driven, full-cycle recruitment. 🚀 Core Strengths: ✔️ Full-cycle tech hiring ✔️ Talent sourcing & stakeholder collaboration ✔️ Candidate experience strategy ✔️ AI & automation in recruitment 💡 Certified in ChatGPT for HR (Great Learning & Growth School), I blend innovation with strategy to deliver impactful hiring solutions. 🌟 Passionate About: 🔹 AI in Recruitment 🔹 Inclusive hiring & diversity sourcing 🔹 HR tech trends & future-ready teams 🤝 Let’s connect to share ideas and shape the future of hiring. #TechHiring #TalentAcquisition #AIinRecruitment #CandidateExperience #DiversityHiring

Experience

9 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 1 mo
Average Tenure
5 mos
Current Experience

Jpmorganchase

Associate Recruiting

Dec 2025Present · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Warner bros. discovery

Sr. Tech Recruiter

May 2025Nov 2025 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

End to End RecruitingTechnical RecruitingStakeholder ManagementSourcing

Career break

Layoff/position eliminated

Feb 2025Apr 2025 · 2 mos

Checkmate

Assistant Manager - Talent Acquisition

Nov 2023Feb 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos · Remote

End to End RecruitingSalary NegotiationsStakeholder ManagementReporting & AnalysisStrategic Planning

Career break

Layoff/position eliminated

Jul 2023Oct 2023 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Livspace

Lead - Recruitment Specialist

Aug 2021Jul 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Vendor ManagementNegotiationRecruitingSkillateTalent PipeliningSourcing+2

Paypal

Talent Sourcing Partner

Nov 2020Jun 2021 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Spearheading the Sourcing function for SRCE and DPX business units.
  • Responsible for building a robust and a high quality talent pipeline for mid senior to senior level positions.
  • Efficiently catering to around 40 open job requisitions.
  • Leveraging sourcing tools like LinkedIn Recruiter, Naukri, Instahyre and Workday in order to build the talent pipeline
  • Acting as a Talent Advisor to hiring managers in order to provide them with valuable Talent Insights.
  • Nominated as a 1st Level Interview panel for hiring Sourcer at PayPal.
InterviewingTalent PipeliningSourcingStrategic PlanningBoolean SearchingScreening

Capgemini

Sourcing Specialist (I&D)

Jun 2018Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • 🏆🏆🏆times Diversity Spotlight Award winner.
  • 🥇Sept 2018 - Top Sourcer Award🥇
  • Responsible for building a robust talent pool for the following skills:
  • 0 Spark
  • 0 PySpark
  • 0 Kafka
  • 0 ETL - Datastage, Informatica
  • 0 Cloud - AWS, Azure, Snowflake
  • 0 Data Science - ML, Deep Learning, AI
  • 0 Documentum
  • Avg. of 15 offers every month.
Talent PipeliningSourcingBoolean SearchingScreening

Target hr

Senior Consultant - TA

Nov 2016Jun 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Key Skills & Accountibilities:
  • To get connected to as many active / passive candidates there is in the market.
  • To identify the key pointers of the job requirement and map it to a various Social Media sites.
  • Apart from using the regular job portals like Monster, Naukri we do also use Angelist, Indeed, Instahyre and many more to broaden our candidate database.
  • Along with the above portals we do also use Social Media sites like LinkedIn, Slideshare, Twitter, Google+ and Facebook.
  • Have exposure in connecting with potential candidates in various Technical sites like Stackexchange, Stack Overflow, Github and HackerEarth
  • Expert in running complex Boolean and X Ray Searches on multiple search engines Google search and Bing.
  • Specialist in startup hiring both early startup and mid sized companies.
  • Experience in engaging with passive candidates.
  • Hiring for candidates for Associate, Senior, Lead, Architect level.
  • Using multiple extensions for recruiters in Google chrome like Prophet, Pipl.com, 360 Social, Intelligence Search etc. to maximise the use of social media recruitment.
  • Analyzing the techniques of getting candidates on other tertiary social networks like Meetup.com to optimize the candidate database.
  • Ranked consistently among the Top 2 recruiters in Target HR.
  • IT skills worked on: Frontend, Fullstack, Backend, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineer, .Net, Java, Data Scientist, Big Data, Data Analyst (Python, R, Qlikview, Tableau)
RecruitingTalent PipeliningSourcingScreening

Simplify3x software private limited

Assistant Manager | Talent Development & Acquisition

Mar 2016Nov 2016 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • 8 Months ago, Simplify3x started out with just 2 people on board and at present the head count of this company stands at 40. This itself gives us an outline of the phenomenal growth that Simplify3x has.
  • Simplify 3x is a company that develops testing tools (Automation Testing, Performance Testing, Mobile App Testing and security testing) for our clients with the sole purpose of expediting 3 times on their end to end testing process.
  • For more information about our company, please log on to the website http://www.simplify3x.com/
  • Roles & Responsibilities at a glance:
  • Recruitment (Both IT & Non IT)
  • HR Operations (Employee Relation, Joining formalities, Payroll generation, Interviewing)
  • Training & Development
  • Vendor Management
  • Team Management (Team Size -2)
  • Client Servicing / Interaction
RecruitingTalent PipeliningSourcingScreening

The park hotels

Summer Intern - Human Resources Management(HRM)

May 2015Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Responsible for taking the initial round of the interview of new candidates
  • Responsible for filing resumes, offer letters and other documents precisely
  • Learnt how to operate SAP HR module
  • Learnt how to create PF & ESI for a new employee.
  • Coordinated with other department managers to gain information about manpower requirements
  • Helped in organizing activities such as Annual Day Event and Carom competition
  • Learnt how to calculate the absences and leaves with the help of SAP HR in order to generate the payroll of employees
  • Collected feedback cards from all departments and helped Training Manager to calculate customer satisfaction index

Education

XLRI - VIL Programs

HR Analytics — Human Resources

Jan 2021Jan 2022

ISBR Business School

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Jan 2014Jan 2016

Groupe ESC Troyes

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Jan 2015Jan 2015

SYMBIOSIS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

BSc — Economics

Jan 2008Jan 2011

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