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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
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Femy Shah

Femy Shah

Mumbai

Summary

Dynamic and driven Full cycle recruiter specializing into Global Talent Acquisition, with close to 4 years of experience into building, implementing and executing strategic talent acquisition processes.

Adept at hiring top talent for an organization across various industries like Advertising & Marketing (Agency exp.), IT/Tech, Pharma (clinical + commercial roles), Healthcare (US + India), BFSI, Manufacturing, Logistics, Supply Chain, Consultancies, etc., driving successful recruitment delivery output.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Associate Recruiter - IRPO

Korn Ferry
Mumbai
07.2024 - Current
  • Accountable for end-to-end recruitment (FLCR).
  • Collaborating and managing global stakeholders (external - client side + internal) across regions within India, APAC, EMEA markets.
  • Use market research and intel, market mapping, and industry knowledge across the Indian market for the relevant roles, and present it to the business stakeholders and hiring managers to onboard the best talent.
  • Regular calibration, briefing, intake calls with HM, follow-ups, and weekly meetings to track progress on the assigned roles, limiting any barriers at any stage of hiring, along with effective escalation management.
  • Managing high-volume lateral + contractual hiring across job levels (15-20+ requisitions simultaneously).
  • Meeting KRA/KPIs/SLAs/Targets by tracking performance metrics (conversion ratio - CV review to interview, interview to offer select, offer decline and back out rates, TAT adherence, diversity ratio, backups, etc.), talent pipelining, source mix - job boards (LinkedIn RPS, Naukri, Indeed, IIM Jobs, Monster, Work India, and Apna Jobs - blue collar/plant hiring), AI recruitment (assisted searches, using Copilot, ChatGPT), IJPs, career portal/ATS, employee referrals, external candidate referrals, headhunting (passive), social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp), Lusha (niche + leadership hiring), recruitment drives (virtual + walk-ins), personal network, etc.), and employer branding.
  • Building and implementing a formal process for the regular processing of referrals.
  • Collaborate and coordinate with other business teams (marketing, IT, Operations & onboarding, Payroll, etc.) for overall successful delivery and output.

HR Intern (9 Months), HR Executive - TA

Dentsu International
Mumbai
07.2022 - 07.2024
  • Developed full-funnel recruitment strategies and implementing it, in alignment with the overall business strategy.
  • Responsible for end-to-end recruitment and operations (for L25 to L45) , maintaining the highest level of data integrity alongside candidate experience management.
  • Global stakeholder management (across India and greater APAC) for the Media SL at Dentsu and Merkle Sokrati.
  • Maintaining various recruitment metrics on a real-time basis to track performance, and curating TA-specific reports.
  • Market analysis and research to industry knowledge - Advertising & Media.

HR Intern (July, 2021), Promoted- Asst. HR Manager

GAO Tek Inc.
Virtual
04.2021 - 10.2021
  • Responsibilities included end-to-end recruitment and onboarding on internal platform - Bitrix24, issuing certificates, and LORs, drafting offer letters, and handling different workgroups across verticals.
  • Managing a team of 11+ interns for Canada and the USA.
  • Held company-wide town hall meetings to convey updates and maintain open lines of communication within the internal teams and business stakeholders.

Education

Master of Industrial Psychology (Specialization - HR) -

Mithibai College (Affiliated To Mumbai University)
Mumbai, India
01.2022

Skills

  • End-to-end, Full life cycle recruitment
  • Global Stakeholder Management (PAN India, APAC, EMEA, US)
  • Candidate experience management (including POFU)
  • Tech/IT recruitment (Software Developers (Frontend, Backend, Fullstack), QA, Cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) DevOps, Infrastructure, Data scientist, Cybersecurity, GenAI, AI/ML, etc)
  • Non-tech/IT recruitment (Sales - B2B & B2C (Frontline, Channel, Field, Digital, Inside, etc), Marketing (Traditional (Mainline), Integrated, Digital), E-Quick Commerce, F&A, HR, Corporate functions, Legal & Compliance, Supply chain, Plant, Admin & Operations, etc
  • Lateral, C2H & Bulk hiring
  • High volume hiring
  • Market/Industry mapping, research & analysis
  • ATS management (Workday, SmartRecruiters, Oleeo)
  • Performance tracking - Reporting & Data analysis
  • Proficiency in Microsoft suite
  • Vendor management - Ref checks, BGV process handling
  • Psychometric assessment (Job fitment - Jombay & KF4D)
  • Sourcing techniques - Boolean, Keyword, Headhunting, X-ray search, GitHub extensions
  • Employee engagement (Hiring Feedback, post joining half yearly follow up)
  • Interpersonal skills (effective negotiation and communication skills & team player)
  • Process & detail oriented

Accomplishments

  • Received the 'Best Associate recruiter' award within four months of joining KF (Q3).
  • Got Client + internal hiring manager appreciation & recognition for closure efforts highlighting the 'quality of hires' with quick turn around time.
  • Recognized for seamlessly transitioning from a back-end sourcing specialist to a FLCR within 3 months of joining.

Certification

"KF certified Recruiter" (June, 2025 - via Credly)

"KF certified Associate Recruiter" (December 2024 via Credly)

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Associate Recruiter - IRPO

Korn Ferry
07.2024 - Current

HR Intern (9 Months), HR Executive - TA

Dentsu International
07.2022 - 07.2024

HR Intern (July, 2021), Promoted- Asst. HR Manager

GAO Tek Inc.
04.2021 - 10.2021

Master of Industrial Psychology (Specialization - HR) -

Mithibai College (Affiliated To Mumbai University)
Femy Shah