Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
References
Timeline
AssistantManager

CHANDRA GOSWAMI

Greater Noida West

Summary

Talent Acquisition professional with extensive experience at NovoNordisk, specializing in strategic sourcing and recruitment optimization. Utilized advanced Boolean search techniques to reduce time-to-hire by 25% while improving candidate experience. Skilled in stakeholder management, providing actionable market insights to enhance hiring strategies.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Assistant Manager

NovoNordisk
Bangalore
07.2022 - Current
  • Led end-to-end recruitment: Across IT, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and corporate functions, ensuring timely fulfilment of niche and lateral roles.
  • Implemented Sourcing Techniques:(Advanced Boolean, X-Ray, social recruiting, referrals) to target both passive and niche candidates.
  • Optimized recruitment processes to reduce time-to-hire, and cost-per-hire by improving quality of hire & improving end-to-end candidate experience.
  • Talent Market Mapping: Presented actionable market insights and trends to stakeholders, enabling informed decisions on availability, distribution, and movement of talent for critical positions within the market.
  • Job Advertisement: Crafted engaging and compliant job advertisements using AI-powered tools like JAWA to attract diverse and qualified talent.
  • Diversity & Inclusion: Designed and implemented targeted D&I initiatives—such as inclusive job descriptions, diverse sourcing channels to boost the gender diversity ratio among candidates considered and hired.
  • Data-Driven Recruitment: Prepared recruitment dashboards for Weekly Business Reviews.
  • Managed stakeholder relationships: Leveraged standardized processes, regular updates, and centralized collaboration to align expectations and proactively resolve challenges enabling seamless coordination and execution of hiring projects.
  • Built succession-ready pipelines for critical roles to support long-term business continuity.

Asst. Manager- Talent Acquisition

Abishar Technologies
Noida
01.2020 - 06.2022
  • Talent Acquisition & Recruitment Strategy: Partnered with Hiring Managers across IT (Software, Data Engineering, Product, Cloud, Analytics) and Corporate Functions (Finance, Support, Project Management) to align recruitment goals with business objectives; successfully executed end-to-end recruitment (sourcing, screening, interviewing, headhunting, salary negotiations, and closures), achieving a 25% reduction in time-to-hire, 30% improvement in candidate quality, and 90% offer-to-acceptance ratio.
  • Managed full-cycle recruitment (in-house & client) for IT, Non-IT, SaaS, and corporate functions, driving successful hires for clients (Syngenta, Optum, Availity).
  • Optimized recruitment processes: Enhanced recruitment operations to deliver superior candidate experience while reducing time-to-hire and cost-per-hire by implementing tailored engagement programs for offered candidates.
  • Planned and executed interview drives for critical hires across levels, improving time-to-fill and reducing offer dropouts.
  • Built strong partnerships with leadership (CHRO, CMO, Business Heads): Partnered with senior leadership to align on critical HR and hiring initiatives, strengthening stakeholder collaboration and increasing recruitment funnel conversion by 25%.
  • Provided market intelligence reports to hiring managers on talent availability, salary benchmarking, and competitive landscape.

Associate Recruiter

FCS Software Solutions Ltd
Noida
07.2018 - 06.2019
  • Successfully managed full recruitment cycle independently including resource requirement gathering, sourcing relevant profiles through head hunting, job portal and social networking sites, pre and post interview follow-ups, negotiation and closures.
  • Supported client hiring goals by delivering top talent & enhanced end-to-end candidate experience, while providing strategic recommendations to HR Business Partner & hiring managers and candidates to ensure successful closures.
  • Prepared weekly recruitment analytics (time-to-hire, source efficiency, offer-to-join ratio) for across positions, enabling data-driven decisions that improved closure rates.
  • Form strong relationships with past applicants and passive candidates for future opportunities.

Senior Consultant- Talent Acquisition

Enworld.in
New Delhi
08.2015 - 07.2017
  • Working on Executive Talent Needs from Mid-Level to Leadership for reputed clients across various Industry Verticals.
  • Worked for IT & Non-IT Hiring for Bharti Airtel & Ericsson.
  • Work as an individual contributor to source, screening, Interview coordination, executing interviews, maintaining candidate/client communication tracker.
  • Participating in weekly management & Client meetings to discuss on hiring priorities & discuss the plans to meet the hiring targets.
  • Worked for different verticals: Telecom & IT (Vendors/Infrastructure /Operators), networking, finance, Procurement & Techno- Functional requirements.
  • Deputed to Bharti Airtel (via EnWorld), Gurugram between June,2016- September,2016 for achieving Hiring Target of 80 roles across verticals for Nxtra Project.

Education

Master’s Degree - Business Administration

Fakir Mohan University
Odisha, India
01.2015

Skills

  • Recruitment assessment and acquisition
  • Strategic sourcing and screening
  • Advanced Boolean search methods
  • Expertise in SuccessFactors
  • Proficient in LinkedIn Recruiter
  • Knowledge of Naukri platform
  • Familiarity with Avature software
  • Experience with HireCraft tools
  • Lateral and niche recruitment strategies
  • High-volume staffing solutions
  • Leadership recruitment expertise
  • Headhunting capabilities
  • Management of stakeholders
  • Tools for social media recruiting
  • Techniques for talent mapping
  • Analysis of market intelligence
  • Management of client relationships

Accomplishments

  • Received Star Recruiter Award, 04/01/24, AMS
  • Received appreciation as Top Performer of the month, 04/01/24, AMS
  • Advanced from Senior Associate to Assistant Manager – RMG, 06/01/20, Abishar Technologies
  • Received appreciation from Bharti Airtel for spearheading high-volume hiring drives, 09/01/16, EnWorld
  • Successfully onboarded 35+ hires in Bharti Airtel & Ericsson, 06/01/16, Bharti Airtel & Ericsson
  • Closed senior and leadership roles through targeted sourcing and market mapping, Ongoing, Various
  • Consistently achieved hiring targets across IT, Non-IT, and niche domains, Ongoing, Various

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Assistant Manager

NovoNordisk
07.2022 - Current

Asst. Manager- Talent Acquisition

Abishar Technologies
01.2020 - 06.2022

Associate Recruiter

FCS Software Solutions Ltd
07.2018 - 06.2019

Senior Consultant- Talent Acquisition

Enworld.in
08.2015 - 07.2017

Master’s Degree - Business Administration

Fakir Mohan University
CHANDRA GOSWAMI