Ishita Thakur
Bangalore
Summary
Seasoned recruitment professional with a comprehensive track record in talent acquisition, research, sourcing, event planning and insightful data analysis. Adept at analyzing market trends, competitor practices, and industry benchmarks to drive effective recruitment strategies and optimize talent acquisition outcomes.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Recruiting Specialist
Google
3 2021 - Current
- Executive Talent Sourcing - Creating effective talent sourcing and engagement strategies to proactively identify and outreach best talent in tech industry and build a healthy representative pipeline for senior roles.
- Candidate Experience and Assessment – Initiating initial interview phase and strategically positioning candidates for success through personalized coaching, leveraging preparatory resources, mock interviews, and facilitating champion calls. Proficient in strategic offer negotiations.
- Stakeholder Management - Acting as a thought partner, influencing hiring managers on hiring strategy, advocating for candidates and matching them with the right teams.
- Data Analysis - Interpreting and analyzing staffing data and hiring trends and coming up with actionable recommendations and strategies to improve metrics such as pass-through rates and turnaround time.
Talent Research Analyst
McKinsey & Company
11.2017 - 03.2021
- Market Mapping and Competitive Intelligence – Provided valuable insights for recruiters and hiring team and recommended hiring strategies based on current market trends and talent availability in APAC and Americas for executive level candidates.
- Leadership Sourcing – Led sourcing efforts for various functions such as engineering, data analytics, business consulting and digital transformation within tech, energy and healthcare industries across senior levels. Also conducted weekly sourcing jams for critical and niche roles globally.
- Project Lead - Globally spearheaded the pilot project of an application screening hub, which involved forming a blueprint of the process and leading a team of 6 on various projects ranging from talent research, sourcing and application screening. The resounding success of the project resulted in the establishment of a permanent global model.
- Diversity & Inclusion - Pioneered research on women specific associations across Asia and secured partnerships with key diversity vendors like JobsForHer. Recommended recruitment strategies to mitigate under-representation of women in the workplace and conducted unconscious bias trainings for the recruiters. Also organized and led various in-house diversity events such as Women In Tech and Next Generation Women Leaders along with representing the firm in public events like Gracehopper.
HR Associate
EY
04.2016 - 11.2017
- Leadership Hiring - Led the recruitment process of Partner level candidates, collaborating with external executive search firms like Spencer Stuart and ABC Consultants along with being the first point of contact of the company to the candidates.
- Talent Sourcing and Recruiting- Managed the recruitment lifecycle from candidate identification till offer stage for various service lines such as taxation, audit, finance, tech, HR, operations.
- Social Media Analysis - Analyzed recruitment branding trends across competing firms and generated valuable insights to propose enhancements for our presence on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube
- Referral Helpdesk – Exclusively managed the Referral Helpdesk, a mail-based platform dedicated to addressing employee inquiries related to their referrals like referral status and referral bonus
- MIS Reporting - Created and published bi-monthly hiring reports of recruiters PAN India. Was also in charge of hiring source audits, reconciliations and reporting.
Education
Master of Arts - Industrial Psychology
IGNOU
New Delhi, India 07.2017 - 07.2019
PGDM - Management
Indian School of Business And Finance (ISBF)
New Delhi 06.2015 - 04.2016
Bachelor of Arts - Sociology
Jesus And Mary College, Delhi University
New Delhi 06.2012 - 06.2015
Skills
Leadership and Organizational Initiatives
- Hosted the onsite ‘Rewards and Recognition’ townhall for 100+ colleagues at Google.
- Super User for Asia for an ATS (Applicant Tracking System) – Avature, in McKinsey & Company.
- Led the first ever episode of the McKinsey flagship event in Asia- Next Generation Women Leaders.
- Sports Captain for a team of 30 employees in McKinsey & Company’s Sports Day event, won 1st position.
- Worked as a Senior Manager for LEAD (Leadership Development) in a non- profit organization- AIESEC (Delhi IIT). Worked on interviewing, leadership coaching, marketing, conducting surveys and delivering workshops.
- Extensive knowledge of various Application Tracking Systems such as gHire, Avature, Greenhouse, Reach and Taleo.
- Expertise in sourcing and research platforms such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Naukri.com, etc.
Certification
Intermediate Python, Datacamp
Timeline
Talent Research Analyst
McKinsey & Company
11.2017 - 03.2021
Master of Arts - Industrial Psychology
IGNOU
07.2017 - 07.2019
HR Associate
EY
04.2016 - 11.2017
PGDM - Management
Indian School of Business And Finance (ISBF)
06.2015 - 04.2016
Bachelor of Arts - Sociology
Jesus And Mary College, Delhi University
06.2012 - 06.2015
Recruiting Specialist
Google
3 2021 - Current
Intermediate Python, Datacamp
B1 Level French, Alliance Francaise
Project Management, Google
Behavioural Design, Irrational Labs
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