Karan R Sukhija
Faridabad
Summary
Talent Acquisition Professional with over 15 years of experience in recruiting and client management. Expertise in Middle Management, Leadership, and Executive Search across diverse industries including Real Estate and E-commerce. Proficient in full-cycle recruitment, utilizing innovative sourcing strategies and social media platforms to attract top talent. Proven track record in managing P&L, leading teams, and enhancing recruitment processes to achieve key performance metrics.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Human Resources
AdHook Media
03.2022 - Current
- Company Overview: At AdHook Media, a leading Digital Marketing Agency, our team is a vibrant mix of passionate marketers, designers, and analysts driven by a shared goal of delivering results. We combine creativity with data-driven insights to create effective marketing campaigns. Our “left-brain” thinkers design compelling brand stories and visuals, while our “right-brain” strategists optimize campaigns to ensure measurable success. This collaboration allows us to craft innovative marketing solutions that inspire and perform, helping your brand stand out in today’s competitive digital landscape.
- Talent Acquisition & Workforce Planning: Led end-to-end hiring efforts, focusing on roles in digital marketing, affiliate marketing, tech, and operations. Partnered with leadership to align recruitment strategies with business goals and built a strong talent pipeline.
- Shaping HR Policies & Processes: Designed and implemented HR policies and processes tailored to a smaller organization, ensuring compliance and supporting business growth.
- Employee Engagement & Retention: Drove initiatives to create a positive workplace culture, improve employee engagement, and retain top talent by addressing growth and development needs.
- Compensation & Benefits: Managed competitive salary benchmarking and employee benefits programs to attract and retain the best talent.
- Performance Management: Established effective frameworks for regular feedback and employee development, collaborating with managers to address training and upskilling needs.
- HR Operations & Employer Branding: Oversaw daily HR operations, from payroll to compliance, while also building the company’s reputation as an employer of choice on platforms like LinkedIn.
- Fostering Collaboration: Worked closely with leadership and teams to offer guidance on people management, team structure, and organizational strategy, ensuring smooth operations in a lean setup.
Recruitment Head
Consult Pro
01.2018 - 02.2022
- Company Overview: Consult Pro has built strong partnerships with numerous organizations, helping them achieve their recruitment goals. We specialize in finding top talent across various sectors, including Real Estate, Media, Digital Marketing, Tech, and Corporate roles. Our expertise extends to both mid-level and senior-level hiring, including executive search.
- Leadership Talent Acquisition: Spearheaded end-to-end hiring for diverse industries including Real Estate, Banking & Financial Services, IT, and Outsourcing, aligning recruitment strategies with business objectives.
- P&L and Delivery Ownership: Managed P&L for talent acquisition mandates, ensuring profitability while delivering customized solutions to meet client needs.
- Team Management: Led and mentored a team of 8 associates, fostering growth and consistently exceeding delivery benchmarks.
- Key Metrics Optimization: Improved Quality of Hire, minimized Dropout %, reduced Turnaround Time (TAT), and achieved Cost-to-Hire efficiency through innovative strategies and process enhancements.
- Strategic Hiring Solutions: Designed delivery strategies for high-volume and niche roles, leveraging data-driven insights and market trends to drive recruitment success.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Built strong relationships with CXOs and HR leaders to ensure alignment of talent acquisition with long-term business goals.
- Process Efficiency & Technology: Streamlined recruitment workflows by implementing automation tools and data analytics, driving operational excellence.
- Employer Branding & Market Insights: Strengthened employer branding and advised clients on hiring strategies by leveraging deep market research and competitor analysis.
Sr. Manager – Talent Acquisition
Skope Consultants
01.2014 - 12.2017
- Company Overview: SKOPE – Recruitment & Retention Services, was founded in 2010 and since then it has been successfully partnering Recruitment with number of organizations. With specialization in Hiring Sales & Operations teams and Head-Hunting middle senior positions.
- Managed the complete recruitment process and business development across Media, Property Management, Hospitality, and Insurance sectors.
- Client Relationship Management: Engaged regularly with HR Managers, HR Heads, and Line Managers to provide recruitment support, ensure on-time delivery, resolve complaints, and maintain high customer satisfaction.
- Owned the full recruitment lifecycle, with responsibility for staffing across Media, Property Management, and Insurance.
- Led a team of 7 direct and 22 indirect recruiters, providing training, mentorship, and coaching to meet management expectations.
- Submitted weekly recruitment reports to senior management and actively participated in salary negotiations with candidates.
- Collaborated with the Director to fulfill real-time staffing needs and managed reference checks before candidate onboarding.
- Built and maintained client relationships for current and future hiring needs, while networking with consultants via LinkedIn and other platforms.
- Acted as the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for clients, providing updates on hiring status in coordination with the recruitment team.
- Delivered cultural, behavioral, and geographical training to recruiters, fostering continuous personal and professional development.
- Joined as Manager – Talent Acquisition in Jan 2014 and got promoted as Sr. Manager in Oct 2015.
- Became a Partner in the Firm in Apr 2016.
Asst. Manager – Recruitment & BD
Nexus Manpower Solutions
10.2010 - 12.2013
- Company Overview: Nexus Manpower Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Specializes in providing world class placement related services to various industries such as Supply Chain & Integrated Logistics Industry, Freight & Shipping Industry, Travel & Tourism Industry, Retail / FMCG Industry, BFSI Industry. Our various HR related services include Manpower Recruitment, Head Hunting and Executive Search.
- Handling entire recruitment process management from the scratch such as sourcing, screening, selection, hiring, negotiations, post offer follow up, DOJ, invoicing, payment and full life cycle recruiting.
- Hiring for Non-Tech & Product functions across middle and senior level roles.
- Proactively manage multiple client accounts for start-ups, mid and big.
- Build, mentor, and lead a team of 3 recruitment specialists.
- Source, Lead and manage the candidates’ interview, offer and on boarding process with administrative support from clients.
- Manage candidate engagement process post selection.
- Regular client interaction with HR Managers/ HR Heads / Line Managers of multiple clients for hiring support.
- Maximising customer satisfaction level by on time delivery, monitoring customer complaints, providing efficient services. Handling customer grievances and resolving issues.
- Joined as Consultant and promoted as Sr. Consultant within 6 months of Joining.
Sr. Talent Acquisition Executive
Amazing Job.com
07.2009 - 10.2010
- Company Overview: Amazing Job.com is recruitment firm based in North Delhi, specializes in Insurance, FMCG and Media Clients.
- Hands on experience in handling finance, marketing, strategy, legal and IT Positions.
- Involved in end-to-end recruitments for some of the leading Media, Consumer Durable, Advertising and FMCG clients.
- Sourcing of resumes through different channels like job portal, professional networking sites and extensive head hunting.
- Involved in doing reference checks for different clients and maintaining MIS.
- Well versed with different job portals like Naukri.com, Monster.com and Timesjobs.com.
HR Executive
Acreaty Management
11.2008 - 07.2009
- Company Overview: Acreaty Management is HR Outsourcing and Recruitment firms based in Delhi and have presence in multiple countries.
- Managed recruitments for FMCG clients.
- Sourcing of resumes through different channels like job portal and professional networking sites.
Accomplishments
Awarded as Leader of the Year for the year 2014-2015.
Timeline
Human Resources - AdHook Media
03.2022 - Current
Recruitment Head - Consult Pro
01.2018 - 02.2022
Sr. Manager – Talent Acquisition - Skope Consultants
01.2014 - 12.2017
Asst. Manager – Recruitment & BD - Nexus Manpower Solutions
10.2010 - 12.2013
Sr. Talent Acquisition Executive - Amazing Job.com
07.2009 - 10.2010
HR Executive - Acreaty Management
11.2008 - 07.2009
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