Deblina Hait

As part of a two-person global recruiting team at Awesome Motive, I focused on end-to-end talent acquisition, streamlining processes, and enhancing the candidate experience.

• Global Talent Headhunting & Market Mapping: Identified top talent across regions, aligning sourcing strategies with market trends to drive efficient hiring.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborated with over 30 hiring managers across more than 20 products, understanding role requirements, devising hiring strategies, and delivering quality hires within timelines.
• Standardized Hiring Workflows: Streamlined recruitment by creating SOPs, documented intake notes, assignments, and job descriptions, ensuring consistency.
• Offer Negotiation: Drove competitive offer discussions to secure top talent.
• Enhancing Recruitment Technology & Processes
  Identifying and implementing process improvements to use the ATS (Workable) to maximize efficiency and track complete candidate footprints.
• Boosting Hiring Efficiency: Optimized recruitment workflows, reducing the average time to hire by 15%.
• Transforming the Referral Process: Designed a referral policy, increasing referrals via ATS by 800% (70 to 600+), leading to a 500% rise in referral hires.
• Inbound Sourcing Champion: Led and managed all incoming applications, ensuring swift screening and structured evaluation.
• Optimized Interview Coordination: Improved scheduling and candidate tracking, enhancing visibility and efficiency.
• Interview Scheduling Efficiency: Reduced interview turnaround time by 96% (from 92 to just 3 days).
• Talent Pool Management: Built a structured database of high-potential candidates, ensuring a strong pipeline for future hiring.
• Elevating Candidate Experience: Acted as a brand ambassador, ensuring a seamless and engaging hiring journey.
• AI-Driven Productivity and Efficiency: Leveraged AI tools like Magical, Loom, Scribe, Grammarly, LanguageTool, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Tactiq to automate tasks and optimize workflows.

• Being a full lifecycle recruiter at LinkedIn, the role spans across hosting intake meetings with hiring managers to understand their requirements, market mapping, building sourcing strategies, ensuring the conducting of interviews seamlessly, scheduling debrief meetings, drafting the offers, and post-offer engagement until the candidate joins.
• Building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders and hiring managers to understand their current and future hiring needs and educating them about the market and the talent available for various roles with the help of Linkedin Talent Insights and sourcing efforts.
• Proactively building talent pool by fetching quality candidates against the open/ expected positions.
• Developing action plans/recruiting strategies to identify qualified candidates through various job portals and networking websites.
• Efficiently conducting salary negotiations to close on selected candidates and working closely with the Compensation and Benefits team to make the best offers to candidates.
• Sharing weekly reports with business leaders showcasing the pipeline, blockers, and overall progress.
• Completing and coordinating the necessary pre-employment processes including reference checks and background.
• Overseeing new hire orientations and training programs to ensure that new hires are able to perform their job duties.
• Actively contributed to planning and executing events like WiSE (Women in Site Engineering), TechCon for attracting and hiring diversity talent and external branding of various engineering teams at LinkedIn.
• Played a part in an internal hack event called Hack dia to boost innovation within Engineering teams.
• Heavily collaborating with other recruiters in repurposing candidates from one team to other which reduced the time to fill and gives great candidate experience.
• Conducted Back to Basics Training for the team which was a series of sessions conducted to refresh basics of business processes with respect to Talent acquisition that helps in hiring more effectively.
• Actively participated in multiple projects like level[in], prep[in], STZ helping in process improvement and knowing the market better.
• Bagged in some bravo awards for collaboration and intelligent risk taking.
• During hiring downtime, I grasped the opportunity to take up a Site Operations Engineer role in the SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) Team that helped me in honing my understanding in networking fundamentals to hire better for Site & Network engineering roles.

• Responsible for sourcing the most relevant profiles to close roles within given TAT. Proficient is using- Linkedin Recruiter| Instahyre| Naukri.
• Led and presented weekly hiring review with respective hiring managers along with the team.
• Built relationships with business leaders to offer the thought on talent acquisition and people-related strategy and execution.
• Provided expertise in the area of talent acquisition, compensation and rewards, on-boarding and retention, salary negotiation, etc.
• Developed, implemented, and executed hiring strategies for multiple tech requisitions across the Tech & Product space.
• Worked closely with other Recruiters to develop and run effective sourcing strategies geared towards attracting top talent.
• Served as a point-of-contact for candidates and interview teams regarding interview schedules, changes, and problem-solving when last-minute changes occur.
• Participated in and provided analytical support in the design, development, and implementation of recruitment projects and programs.
• Took the initiative to conduct coding contests on HackerEarth for internships and full-time roles.
• Maintained a healthy offer to joining ratio of around 79.2%.
• Saved outsourcing costs by taking more roles and ownership to close roles on the basis of priorities.
• Set up the employee referral policy and process from the scratch and worked on Talent Branding- Tracking NPS (Net Promoter Score) and improved the same.
• Collaborated with Masai school & scaler academy for placing their students at ShareChat.

• Involved in end-to-end recruitment, strategizing & planning, compensation negotiations, sourcing and managing employee referrals single-handedly.
• Responsible for advertising, networking, searching, headhunting, short listing, coordinating interviews and proactive pre-onboarding engagement.
• Performed extensive internet-based research, data mining, cold calling to get the right profiles from the target list of companies.
• Prepared candidates for interviewing by providing complete, accurate information to candidates about the company, designation and the interview process.
• Sourced CVs from different job portals like Naukri.com, IIM Jobs, Hirist, Linkedin, Instahyre, Angellist, crewkarma, behance.
• Efficiently used ATS-Recruiterbox to channel the applications from all the portals.
• Maintained the employee referral workflow and also shared payroll inputs for the same.
• Coordinated Campus Placement and conducted Drives for Junior Level role.
• Roles hired for: Frontend Developers| Backend Developers| Graphic Designers| Creative Lead | Content Writers | Marketing Communication Specialist | Business Analysts | Accounts Executives| Customer Support Associates | Sales Executives | Operations Associates | Senior Operations Managers | Operations Managers | Procurement Manager| P&L Managers | Community Managers | Interior Designers | Site supervisors | Payroll Specialist | Compliance Specialist | Product Managers | Frontend Developers | Talent Acquisition Managers | TA Associates | Associate- CSO Office | Associate- CEO Office | Project Managers | Business Development Executives | BD Head.
• HR Operations: Timely follow-up with the Generalist team for dispersal of letters of appointment and status of BGV of candidates.
• Pre-on boarding engagement.
• Took care of travel and accommodation of candidates of the roles hired for maintaining HR Expenses.