Talented HR leader with 8+year career overseeing Talent Acquisition, People operations including but not limited to hiring ,employee relations,retention,engagement,organizational structuring and policy development. Well-versed in benefits administration and legal compliance. Forward-thinking with superior problem-solving, conflict management and organizational skills.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
HR Manager (TA + People Partner)
Treint Business
Noida
10.2023 - Current
Developed and implemented recruitment strategies to attract qualified candidates from scratch.
End to end responsible for budgeting ( ELTV ) product wise team building and setting up IDPs.
Build the team from 0-24 in just 6 months.
Maintaining the TAT of 12 days, with joining within 15 days max.
Set up of entire cost center along with co-founders.
Set up both mobile and SaaS teams from scratch.
Maintained the employer branding and helped LinkedIn page analytics at peak. 2K followers in a month.
Completed set up of Glassdoor page, Wellfound, Investors dashboard, and JIRA workforce and performance management.
Managing manpower planning for India, US, and Kazakhstan. Set up the entire India office from 0.
Weekly JIRA reporting for performance metrics for Appraisals, and to take a closer look at Epics and tasks.
Created and pool of 10 freelance recruiters, trained them and managed the work flow from different geographies like ( Almaty, Dubai, US , South Korea )
Working on 0 expenditure on the recruitment process. Working with Pool of vendors ( free support ) for junior roles and University fresher and intern hiring.
Created dashboard along with co-founder to help raise seed funding ( took it from Pratilipi and other founders)
Writing for LinkedIn news and featured in various other ATS.
Conducted background checks and reference checks of prospective employees.
Developed and implemented recruitment and HR strategies to attract qualified candidates.
Maintaining offer-to-join ratio at 75%, with joining within 15 days of offer release.
Did setup of HR and its policies from scratch. Onboarded HRMS at just 50% of the cost. Built employee data.
Using Google analytics for market re search for new talents, trends, policies and creating dashboard every month for recruitment ( hiring ) their JIRA dashboards etc.
HR Specialist-People Ops (Contractual )
Pinelabs
Bangalore/Noida
05.2023 - 10.2023
Researched and identified potential candidates for open positions.
Responsible for handling full recruitment lifecycle for CEC (Customer experience centre)( 3000+8stakeholders PAN India)assigned requisitions as per the AOP( Sales,KAM,Strategic Alliances & Partnership,Content Writing,Legal,Operations).
Accountable for proactively building talent pools and pipelines for current and future recruitment needs across levels.
Driving the Compensation & Benchmarking exercise for the BU’s that I handle.
Drive the Employer Branding initiatives.Creating standard and ADHOC reports, templates, and metrics that drive insights.
Sharing data on a real time basis with all the stakeholders.
Handling IJP and internal movements.Design and drive employee referral programs.
Conduct regular follow-up meetings and calibrations with hiring managers to determine the effectiveness of recruiting plans and implementation.
Working on a talent mapping project and succession planning.
Identifying process gaps and utilizing data to improve processes and ensure implementation of process changes.
Developed and maintained relationships with hiring managers to understand their talent needs.
Assisted in the development of recruiting strategies to attract qualified applicants.
Coordinated interviews between hiring managers and prospective employees.
Maintained applicant tracking system records and updated candidate information as needed.
Prepared offer letters for successful candidates.
Advised management on legal compliance issues related to recruitment practices.
Provided guidance to new hires throughout onboarding process.
Created reports that tracked key recruiting metrics such as time-to-fill rates and cost per hire.
Collaborated with internal stakeholders to ensure a smooth transition of new hires into the organization.
Talent Acquisition Manager+HR Operations
Pratilipi ( E books -Audio ,LIVE streaming , E commerce )
Bangalore
01.2022 - 01.2023
End-to-end hiring for engineering roles and non-tech roles, managed a team of 4 recruiters.
TA head and Operations Head of 3 verticals FM, Comics, Platform.
Set up of each recruitment and HR process from created database of profiles, rejected profiles, shortlisted, and reasons for dropout for future hiring needs.
Collaborated with tech industry leaders to solve any ongoing problems in apps for free.
Closed all backlog hiring of 6 months in 35 days. TAT at 14 days.
Recruited and screened potential candidates for open positions.
Managed employer branding, wrote and featured for LinkedIn News, became part of Y Combinator.
Took organic followers from 8k to 17K on LinkedIn.
Developed job postings to attract qualified talent.
Conducted interviews, reference checks, background investigations, and other pre-employment activities.
Talent Acquisition Manager-All Things HR
Elo-elo (Live streaming and gaming )
Bangalore
06.2021 - 01.2022
Recruited and screened potential candidates for open positions Tech and non Tech. Junior-CXO level.
Hired from 0-41 member team. Hired all vertical heads and lead the organization to get its series A.
Had setup IDP ( Individual Development Program ) and benefited 30% people and retention was at 70%.
Set up of ATS , ESOPS, PF from scratch.
Helped gain 5K followers from 3-5k in 6 months without 0 cost.
Had setup competencies for each role, feedback system, glassdoor review etc.
Used X-RAY, Lusha, LinkedIn,Instahyre,Twitter,Reddit.
Set up Hiring and HR vertical on Confluence published every policies over Confluence.
Performance management with JIRA, worked as Admin for Google account and JIRA.
Maintained Employee records over HRMS.
Conducted interviews, reference checks, background investigations, and other pre-employment activities.
Developed and implemented a comprehensive recruitment strategy to identify, attract and hire top talent.
Hired for all Technical roles (Engineering)from Juniors to CXO Including (Backend engineers-SDE1,SDE2 ,SDE3 (Backend)CXO(includes CTO,CFO,CPO)
Hired for Non Tech roles like UX Lead, Sales Head , Marketing Lead etc.
Made sure the recruitment cost remained at 0 by sourcing via LinkedIn, Lusha, IIM Jobs , Twitter and X ray Search.
Made sure TAT remains at 15 days Offer to hire % at 65-70.Joining date was always at 30 days or below 30days.
Maintaining IT Recruitment funnel, pipeline, and candidate database management Evaluate candidates during resume review, screening & interview process and simultaneously Record, maintain and track all recruiting activities in the Applicant Tracking System.
Involved in Diversity and Inclusion Project.
Did performance management via JIRA,creating weekly reports,
Worked as an implant with Twin health ,Extramarks,Mile zero and American eagle.
Created job postings in various job boards, social media sites and professional networks like LinkedIn,Instahyre,Angellist(wellfound),IIMjobs,Naukri etc.
Organized and conducted interviews with potential candidates to evaluate their skills and qualifications.
Conducted BGV via reference checks , PAN ( checking TAX, last employer etc for all selected candidates.
Education
B .Pharmacy - Pharmaceutical Sciences
Galgotias University
G-Noida
MBA - HR And Operations
T.I.S.S
Mumbai
Diploma - I.P.R
WIPO
GENEVA
Skills
Leadership Hiring ( Tech&Non Tech)
Mid Senior Hiring (Tech&Non Tech)
HR Operations and People Management
Policy Enforcement
HRMS&ATS
Stakeholder Management
Employer Branding
Employee Benefits
Employee Relations
Employee Onboarding
Benefits Administration
Staff compensation
Performance Appraisal
Microsoft Office ( Advance Excel, PowerPoint , ChatGPT,JIRA
Talent mapping
Affiliations
Blogging
Learning about new technologies
Accomplishments
4 times employee of the month at E gurukul
Writing for LinkedIn news
20K connections on LinkedIn,20 M +views on Job post yearly on Instagram.
Timeline
HR Manager (TA + People Partner)
Treint Business
10.2023 - Current
HR Specialist-People Ops (Contractual )
Pinelabs
05.2023 - 10.2023
Talent Acquisition Manager+HR Operations
Pratilipi ( E books -Audio ,LIVE streaming , E commerce )
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