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Akanksh Gupta

Noida,UP

Summary

Talent Acquisition Lead successfully builds future leadership by elevating talent. Experienced in full cycle recruiting to source, select and hire top talent. Establishes and maintains effective recruitment metrics, processes, systems and tools to deliver five star candidate experiences and contribute to company employment brand.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Talent Acquisition Lead

JK Tech
05.2023 - Current
  • Handling Lateral hiring, Strategic/Digital hiring, and leadership/senior level positions for different BU’s/line of business and corporate functions.
  • Closely working with TA Head to estimate and plan the project specific hiring needs, effectively ensuring fulfilment of open positions within the given timeline, Market Research and Company Mapping, etc.
  • Collaborating with stakeholders/HM's and manage expectations and communications throughout the process.
  • Liaison with internal stakeholders and business delivery leaders to develop hiring plan, job description, sourcing strategy while clarifying the specifications and requirements of open positions and keeping them updated on hiring.
  • Developed communication and marketing plan and leveraged talent acquisition tools, resources, and campaigns to source and attract top talent.
  • Handling Full Life Cycle of Recruitment (sourcing, screening, interview planning, salary negotiations, offer processing, pre and post offer candidate engagement till on-boarding)
  • Responsible for Vendor Management, opening requirements to vendors, tracking vendor candidates, and regularly providing feedbacks.

Talent Acquisition/HR Manager

TrueFan
12.2022 - 04.2023
  • Plan, develop, organize, implement, evaluate and manage talent acquisition function.
  • Responsible for organizing and implementing strategic hiring patterns and techniques to attract the most qualified candidates in multiple fields.
  • Coordinating with the teams to understand their hiring needs and set up the hiring timeline to get faster results.
  • Led the recruitment cycle end-to-end across verticals (technical, non-technical, etc.) and closely working with the founders to understand the business need.
  • Responsible for setting up the HR processes, employee experience surveys, onboarding of new joiners, conducting induction program, etc.
  • Handle offer discussions, negotiations, offer process and onboarding of the new joiners.
  • Closely worked with Finance team for payroll processing using Razorpay.

Talent Acquisition Manager

BarRaiser
12.2020 - 12.2022
  • Responsible for hiring across Engineering, Product and Sales functions.
  • Designed and implemented strategic hiring patterns, led recruitment cycle end-to-end.
  • 0 to 1 experience in setting up the entire team of engineers, sales and marketing from scratch.
  • Given successful closures in niche roles like Lead Data Scientist, Lead Frontend Developer, Product Manager.
  • Scaled the team from 7 to 70 people and grew the Interview Experts community from 60 to 500 people single handedly and took this number to 1000+ with team.
  • Involved in building a payment structure for Experts and providing training on BarRaiser tools and platform.
  • Lead a team of 4 recruiters by assigning and approving requisitions loads and mentoring on the best recruitment strategies.
  • Handled offer discussions, negotiations, rolling out an offer, and joinings, mentoring on the best recruitment strategies.
  • Closely worked with CTO and Co-Founders to close engineering positions and understand the business needs.
  • Worked on internal ATS BarRaiser.

Lead Talent Acquisition

InterviewBit (Now Scaler Academy)
04.2018 - 12.2020
  • Responsible for end-to-end recruitment with deep expertise in Sourcing, Screening Resumes, Stakeholder Management and Interviewing until onboarding.
  • Full involvement in Product Development hiring for top IT companies like Uber, Flipkart, PhonePe, Amazon, and early-stage startups.
  • Hunting the best talent for Leadership roles, Software Developers, Android/ iOS, etc. through the InterviewBit platform, LinkedIn, and other job portals.
  • Coordinating directly with Hiring Managers to understand and fulfill the requirement within the given time. Uploading candidates on ATS Greenhouse, Lever, scheduling and tracking end to end interview process, and InterviewBit for internal tracking.
  • Lead a team of 4 recruiters direct reportee, and training them on various recruiting strategies, sourcing, etc.

Senior Technical Recruiter

Mount Talent Consulting
06.2015 - 04.2018
  • Managed end-to-end tech hiring process for across Level for 20+ IT product companies like leading HFT firms (Tower Research Capital, Graviton, etc.), top Product Companies (D.E. Shaw, Arcesium, Airtel, Sprinklr, Shuttl, Wynk, etc.) and Startups.
  • Responsible for full life cycle recruitment from Sourcing resumes to joining.
  • Expertise with sourcing portals like Naukri.com, IIM Jobs, Hirist, Social Networking sites like LinkedIn.com, and also through Job Postings, Referencing, Professional Databases, etc. and used multiple ATS for the clients like Greenhouse and Lever for tracking the progress of interview processes.
  • Follow up with the candidates till the offer letter and joining the organization, and build long-term relationships with them.

Education

B.Tech - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Maharishi Markandeshwar Engineering College
Ambala, India
06.2015

Skills

  • Technical Recruitment
  • Talent Management
  • Candidate sourcing
  • Screening Resumes
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Applicant tracking systems
  • Relationship Building
  • Time Management
  • End to End Recruitment
  • Client Management
  • Market research
  • Communication
  • Employee referral programs

LANGUAGES

Hindi
English

Hobbies and Interests

Driving, Table Tennis, Traveling, Trekking

Timeline

Talent Acquisition Lead

JK Tech
05.2023 - Current

Talent Acquisition/HR Manager

TrueFan
12.2022 - 04.2023

Talent Acquisition Manager

BarRaiser
12.2020 - 12.2022

Lead Talent Acquisition

InterviewBit (Now Scaler Academy)
04.2018 - 12.2020

Senior Technical Recruiter

Mount Talent Consulting
06.2015 - 04.2018

B.Tech - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Maharishi Markandeshwar Engineering College

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