Pragya Sharma

I led end-to-end recruitment for a fast-scaling EdTech company, successfully hiring over 800 professionals over two years to support rapid expansion across non-academic and business functions. By streamlining processes, improving offer-to-join ratios, and reducing average TAT, I ensured a cost-efficient and high-quality hiring engine. I leveraged platforms like Naukri, LinkedIn, and internal ATS—DarwinBox—to maintain hiring agility, while ensuring a strong candidate experience and stakeholder alignment, helping to build a people-first narrative for our IPO journey.

• Handled end-to-end recruitment (non-IT) - from manpower planning, job posting, sourcing, and screening to interviewing, offer negotiation, documentation, pre-joining engagement, and onboarding - ensuring a streamlined and high-quality hiring experience.
• Partnering with stakeholders to align hiring strategies with business objectives.
• Managing and mentoring recruitment teams, enhancing team efficiency, and performance.
• Designed recruitment strategies to improve talent quality and hiring speed, while elevating the candidate experience through transparent communication, timely feedback, and seamless onboarding.
• Drove employer branding strategies to enhance talent visibility and attract top-tier candidates in a competitive hiring landscape.
• Partnered with HRBP, Onboarding, and Exit teams to deliver a seamless new hire experience, strengthening brand perception, and employee engagement from the start.
• Engaged in proactive stakeholder management by conducting regular meetings with hiring managers and department leads to deeply understand their HR requirements, align on expectations, and deliver tailored recruitment solutions.
• Led campus hiring initiatives across premier B-schools, including IIM Rohtak, IIM Visakhapatnam, and IIM Ranchi, representing the employer brand through Pre-Placement Talks (PPTs), group discussions, and interviews. Successfully identified and onboarded 20 high-potential, like-minded future leaders from the Indian Institutes of Management to drive the company’s next wave of growth.
• Led PAN-India hiring for key leadership positions, such as Regional, Business, and Centre Heads, to strengthen senior management capacity.

• Led full-cycle recruitment for IT and non-IT positions, successfully closing key roles across multiple industries.cting and hiring.
• Developing strategies to close key hires for in-demand IT and non-IT positions.
• Partnering with the client for the requirements, posting the urgent requirements on Naukri and LinkedIn, sourcing candidates through job postings, mail blasts, cold calling, and references, etc.
• Coordinating with clients while making hiring decisions, and maintaining a high level of communication throughout the recruitment process.
• Worked on in-house hiring, such as sending offer letters to the candidates, onboarding them, training, and handling interns and junior recruiters.
• Extensive recruitment experience in technical hiring, non-IT hiring, support/lateral hiring, and leadership hiring from executive to senior level.
• Used outstanding communication and networking abilities to develop and maintain key industry partnerships.

• Assisted in IT and Non-IT hiring, sourcing candidates via Naukri, Shine, and LinkedIn.
• Coordinated interviews and onboarding, maintaining candidate databases and recruitment trackers.
• Created job descriptions and managed job postings across multiple platforms.