Dynamic Talent Acquisition Manager with a proven track record in devising innovative recruitment strategies and streamlining processes to enhance sourcing and recruiting campaigns. Expertise in identifying and screening top-tier candidates, along with developing comprehensive corporate policies for talent benchmarking, assessment, and interviewing. Committed to leading strategic initiatives that attract and select a high-caliber, diverse workforce aligned with organizational culture and goals. Passionate about fostering an inclusive environment that drives business success through exceptional talent acquisition.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages
Work History
Global Talent Acquisition Manager
Athena Global Technologies
08.2024 - 07.2025
Spearheaded an end-to-end recruitment strategy, ensuring closures within defined timelines; developed multiple sourcing channels, including consultants, institutes, and campus hiring.
Built and nurtured strong client relationships by partnering with Client Managers, ensuring timely delivery of quality candidates, while meeting TAT commitments.
Drove promotional and employer branding activities by designing job advertisements, brochures, and innovative hiring campaigns to address challenging requirements.
Managed, trained, and mentored a team of recruiters and back-end staff; successfully improved productivity, and achieved team hiring targets consistently.
Monitored and analyzed recruitment data through MIS and trackers, and presented insights to Zonal/National Managers for strategic decision-making.
Conducted training sessions for staff, enhancing recruitment skills, talent nurturing, and overall team efficiency.
Implemented innovative sourcing techniques to identify passive candidates and expand talent pipelines for hard-to-fill roles.
Mentored junior recruiters in best practices for efficient candidate sourcing, interviewing techniques, and relationship building with hiring managers.
Collaborated with HR team members to ensure a seamless onboarding experience for new hires through effective communication and coordination of orientation programs.
Developed strong relationships with hiring managers to better understand their needs, resulting in improved candidate selection.
Enhanced the efficiency of talent acquisition processes by implementing data-driven strategies and streamlining workflows.
Increased the quality of new hires by refining job descriptions, setting clear expectations, and establishing performance metrics for success.
Managed all aspects of the interview process including scheduling, conducting interviews, providing feedback, and negotiating offers with candidates.
Analyzed recruiting metrics to share reports and recommendations with stakeholders.
Managed a high-performing talent acquisition team, fostering professional development opportunities, setting performance goals, and providing continuous support for success.
Assistance Manager Talent Acquisition
Data Mark Pvt Ltd
07.2023 - 08.2024
Develops, implements, and manages a recruitment strategy and process to identify and hire top talent for Faculty Support Specialist and other faculty administrative support roles.
On-boarding process from joining formalities to verification of documents & reference checks. Also creating offer letters and appointment letters.
Develop talent acquisition strategies and hiring plans.
Lead employment branding initiatives.
Take steps to ensure positive candidate experience.
Assist in employee retention and development.
Supervise recruiting personnel.
Organize and/or attend career fairs, assessment centers or other events.
Use metrics to create reports and identify areas of improvement.
Submission of periodic MIS to the concerned.
Maintains a pipeline of prospective candidates. Develops a recruitment website and recruitment materials to attract candidates.
Determines recruiting strategies including varied recruiting avenues such as college recruitment, posting positions to online resources, and other targeted outreach and identifies ways to expand candidate pools.
Plans and executes a strategy to attract candidates with diverse and underrepresented backgrounds.
Builds and manages relationships with internal and external constituents to create awareness of opportunities and foster new leads.
Facilitates the recruitment process for faculty supervisors and candidates to ensure excellent customer service and effective assignment planning.
Manages the requisition process. Screens resume and cover letters; coordinates interview schedules conduct phone screens and participates in group interviews; conducts candidate skills assessment. Checks candidate references.
Works closely with the organization's HR partners to prepare candidate offers and offer letters; works with the Associate Director to set compensation for new hires.
Maintains awareness of compensation levels and equity across the company, and the broader job market, and recommends appropriate compensation for hires and existing staff.
Tracks recruitment metrics, helping to assess the effectiveness of the recruitment efforts. Develops strategies to forecast needs and suggests process improvements to increase effectiveness.
Vendor management Monitoring internal HR systems and databases.
Reviewing and approving or modifying budgets.
Adherence to Branch compliance.
Responsible for exit management.
Conduct Exit Interview and perform attrition analysis and create action plans to achieve desired results based on presented feedback with findings to management.
Company Overview: Headquartered in Uttar Pradesh, Kalpvriksh provides Manpower Services pan India where kalpvriksh provide Outsourcing & offering Staffing Solutions and Payroll Outsourcing services to bank corporate etc.
Managing the complete Human Resources function for the zone.
Forecasting the manpower, training and engagement requirement of the zone.
Identifying your zone’s manpower needs and work to create and implement an efficient talent acquisition strategy to ensure timely and cost-effective recruitment.
Manage the complete Human Resources cycle of the employees in the zone.
Develop recruitment strategy. This may include job posting optimization, recruiting marketing channel development, digital and non-digital employment marketing, comprehensive recruitment campaign planning, talent planning, etc.
Travel extensively within the zone for recruiting, training and recognizing employees.
Complete the recruitment in a timely and a cost - effective measure.
Plan and coordinate the employee induction and documentation with the central team.
Track the performance of new joinees.
Joinees and identify employees that need assistance.
Complete the recruitment in a timely and a cost - effective measure.
Plan and coordinate the employee induction and documentation with the central team.
Track the performance of new Joinees.2 and identify employees that need assistance.
Hr Recruiter
Saffron Staffing & Recruitment
02.2014 - 07.2016
Undertake the various stages of the recruitment process, as required by the client, to the company’s quality standards.
Handling multiple clients and recruiting as per the requirements.
To manage team target from each recruiter & monthly costing behind recruitment.
Maintaining time frames and commitments, Offer and billing follow up.
Generating new business on proper intervals and negotiation on the Terms and Conditions.
Establish and sustains way for team member to complete their task use multiple problem-solving methods: data analysis.
Manage effectively all employee relations situations, making sure that the processes are followed and relevant paperwork completed.
Responsible for preparing different MIS Reports, Calling the candidates for interview (initial screening)
Fixing up interviews for the candidates with the operation department.
Negotiating salary with the candidates according to their experience wise and preparing the Offer letter.
Bulk Hiring Candidate for Sales Officer, Banking, Auto Motors, Retails like Sales Executive, CounterSales Executive & KPO,etc
Resume Screening.
Take an interview as per process Required.
Taken reference from candidate and using portals Like Monster, Shine & Naukri.
Responsible for recruitment activities, which includes from identification, screening, scheduling interviews, process adherence, coordination etc.
Profile/Phone screening, interviewing, scheduling, and processing of candidates. Conducting Preliminary Interviews and Coordinating with managers for further Interviews.
Maintaining complete Recruitment Database including inflow by augmenting relevant resumes on a periodic basis by various sources i.e. manpower consultants, advertisements, internal references.
Education
M.B.A -
Calorx Ahmadabad University
01.2018
B.com -
Mumbai University
Indian
01.2015
HSC -
Mumbai
Indian
01.2012
SSC - undefined
01.2010
Skills
References
Would be provided on request
Interests
Listening to music and watching movies
Accomplishments
Promoted Assistant Manager to Location Head in Kalpvriksh Staffing
Got a special recognition for the excellent coordination for the Recruitments.
Awarded as Best Team Leader Recruitment in kalpvriksh staffing & recruitment in the Year 2017.
Awarded as Best Recruiter Pan India in kalpvriksh staffing & recruitment in the Year 2018.
Awarded as Best hiring company from shree ram collage in the Year 2018.
Awarded as Best Business closer for Pan India in kalpvriksh staffing & recruitment in the Year 2019.
Disclaimer
I am confident of my ability to work in a team and I hereby declare that the information furnished above is true to the best of my Knowledge. Date: Place: Mumbai (Ilyas Mohammad shaikh)
Key Job Responsibilities
Talent Acquisition & Vendor Management
Managing Recruitment for Banking, Bpo,Kpo, Mnc,Corporate ,logistic, retail, etc, and other Verticals.
Building various low cost sourcing channels or creating systems for stakeholder engagement.
Creating a pipeline (Talent Pooling) for seamless functioning of sourcing strategies to cover for urgent requirements.
Involved ininitial and on-going stages of planning and execution of hiring strategy with the Management.
Sourcing candidates through search engines, referrals, networking, career fairs, social networking tools, campus recruitment programs and other avenues.
Reviewing approving & modifying budgets as per business needs .
Managing recruitment, training and advertising vendors, scrutinizing and negotiating terms of the contract in favor of the organization to meet its objectives.
Tie up with new vendors, negotiating and closing the best deal.
Designed, executed & Driven ‘Employee Referral Schemes’. Ensured timely payment of the bonus to the deserving staff in line with the policy.
HR Operations
Handling a Team of 20 people and 2 Assistant Manager.
Taking care of the joining formalities, Coordinating with Banks for Bank kits, Collecting documents and making sure that the documents are properly filed.
Manage timely execution and compliance for all internal processes that impact an employee’s life cycle – Transfers, Promotions, Appraisals, Confirmation.
Ensure credibility and success of HR by institutionalizing rigorous ‘Background Verifications Checks’.
Managing the employee data creation for new hires and Personal File Management.
Issuance of offer, appointment & increment letter, I-cards.
Examining various HR metrics, tracking personnel movement, head count, Staffing analysis, assisting promotion processes, maintaining the employee data base.
Ensuring 100% documentation, compliance and on boarding formalities of the selected.
HR Operations, employee grievance, Data Management conflict resolution, attendance management, benefits and compensation.
Coordinating with the Training Team to monitor training throughput and attrition analysis.
Recognizing productivity-limiting gaps of employees, taking corrective action schedule.
Establish Weekly review of the team members.
Monitoring internal HR systems and databases.
Reviewing and approving or modifying budgets.
Adherence to Branch compliance.
Responsible for exit management.
Conduct Exit Interview and perform attrition analysis and create action plans to achieve desired results based on presented feedback with findings to management.
Client Management
Responsible for handling few of the premium clients exclusively.
Regular communications with clients to maintain long & fruitful business partnership.
Travelling in West zone to meeting with Business to solve their complication.