Puja Singh
Bangalore
Summary
Experienced Talent Acquisition Specialist with over 10 years of expertise in IT and 1 years of non-IT recruitment, driving hiring success through strategic sourcing and stakeholder collaboration. Proven ability to manage end-to-end recruitment processes across contract, contract-to-hire, and full-time roles. Experienced in employer branding initiatives, recruitment drives, talent mapping, market intelligence, and headhunting for niche and leadership positions. Adept at understanding business requirements, assessing technical and cultural fit, negotiating offers, and ensuring a seamless candidate experience throughout the hiring lifecycle. Strong expertise in ATS management, recruitment analytics, workforce planning, and driving hiring efficiency through innovative sourcing and engagement strategies.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Specialist - Talent Acquisition Partner
Lorhan IT Service
Bangalore
08.2021 - 04.2023
- Responsible for End-to-End IT Recruitment.
- Involved in sourcing, screening, document verification, and onboarding process.
- Responsible for end-to-end recruitment for both permanent and Contract-to-Hire (C2H) positions, managing the complete hiring lifecycle from sourcing to onboarding.
- Hired for leadership roles such as Solution Architect, Project Manager, Technical Leads, etc.
- Sourced candidates through job portals like Naukri, LinkedIn, referrals, X-Ray Search and internal databases.
- Handled hiring for various positions ranging from low to mid-level to senior-level technology roles across multiple domain.
- Work closely with account managers to identify hiring needs, develop workforce planning strategies, and execute search assignments effectively.
- Manage high volume search workload via direct sourcing, employee referrals, and search partner relationships, as well as ongoing pipelining.
- Maintain an extremely high level of daily activity to fill all qualified job orders with urgency.
- Frequent reporting on open requisitions and full-time conversions to management and participating in weekly review meetings.
- Developing expertise in understanding the client's business operations and staffing needs.
- Maintain an accurate database for tracking all qualified candidates, interview processes, feedback, and open tasks for full visibility to the recruitment and hiring teams.
- Responsible for setting up phone and face-to-face interviews, negotiating compensation, extending employment offers, and starting the on-boarding process.
- Consistently achieved 5–6 closures per month by managing end-to-end recruitment for SAP, ERP(SAP FICO , SAP SD, SAP MM , ABAP , SAP HR, SAP ABAP) and other IT technologies across permanent and contract hiring.
- Industry support-Dairy, Electricity and water, Hospitality, Airline, Fintech.
Account Manager
Shell Infotech
12.2020 - 05.2021
- Handling a team of 3 people.
- Client handling.
- Responsible for Permanent staffing & Contract staffing, client servicing & first-level screening before serving the respected client.
- Responsible for delivering services to existing clients as well. responsible for investigating the finance part like 'set commercials with the client'.
- Clients- IBM, SAP LAB, Deloitte.
Sr. Talent Acquisition Partner
Softtek India Private Limited
05.2015 - 06.2020
- Coupled with Specialties: Sourcing, Screening, Scheduling, Coordinating, and Negotiations, I involved in End-to-End Recruitment's.
- Sourcing profiles in different ways like (Job Portals/Database/Referrals/Networking).
- Generated 80%–90% of hires through proactive sourcing strategies, including targeted outreach, market mapping, networking, and passive candidate engagement.
- Successfully reduced reliance on inbound applications and shortened time-to-hire by 30% while maintaining high-quality hiring outcomes.
- Led a team of 4 recruiters responsible for end-to-end talent acquisition across diverse IT functions.
- Enhanced team productivity by 25% and accelerated hiring velocity by 20% by implementing sourcing best practices, optimizing recruitment workflows, and fostering strong partnerships with hiring managers and business leaders.
- Expertise in using ATS platforms to manage candidate records, track recruitment activities, maintain talent pipelines, generate reports, and ensure a smooth end-to-end hiring process.
- Collaborate with business leaders and hiring managers to understand workforce requirements and develop effective hiring plans.
- Building strong candidate pipelines to support business growth and achieve hiring targets.
- Create recruitment strategies for critical and high-volume hiring requirements.
- A well experienced in organizing weekend drives, scheduled drives and walk-in interviews.
- Preparing Daily and Weekly reports for the result evaluation.
- Vendor Management, BGC follow up, Offer roll out.
- Managed complete recruitment lifecycle and consistently closed 7–8 positions per month for SAP, ERP, and other IT technology requirements in both permanent and contract hiring.
- Involved in hiring for below skills: SAP HR, SD,MM,PP,PS, FI,CO, PM,QM,CRM, SRM,SCM, SAP NetWeaver, ABAP (EP, Web Dynpro) BASIS, BW/BI/BOBJ, BPC, IS-RETAIL, IS-UTILITIES, IS-OIL, EHS ,Oracle Functional/Technical-Oracle Apps, Oracle Financials, Oracle DBA, ODI,OBIEE, Peoplesoft, Hyperion, Informatica, Tableau, QlikView, Hadoop, Bigdata, Java, Exchange Admin, VMware Admin, Tivoli admin ,Web method, Java . dot Net.
SAP Recruiter
Trysol Private Limited
03.2014 - 05.2015
- End to End Recruitment i.e. Sourcing, Screening, Scheduling, Coordinating, and Negotiations, hiring consultants & trainers for SAP skills.
- Stake holder management in India and in respective countries mentioned below.
- Involved in hiring for different Countries like Saudi, Qatar, Oman, Egypt, US, India.
BPO Hiring
CQUENT
01.2013 - 02.2014
- Handled End to End recruitments for ITES – IT and Non-IT.
- Responsible for junior, Middle and Senior Level recruitment across Pan India.
- Sourcing profiles from various sources - job portal, social networking sites and references.
- Interaction with the Clients/Stake holder management to understand the requirements and thus accordingly source right people.
- Coordinating between clients and candidates for scheduling the interview of shortlisted candidates.
- Negotiating candidates’ salary per experience & standards set by the clients.
- Follow up with candidates (Pre/Post Joining).
- Maintaining and updating databases and trackers daily.
- Key Account Manager for two clients - HSBC Global and IBM.
Education
Human resources and Analytics -
IIM-K
MBA - Marketing and HR
IIBM
Bachelor of Arts -
Lingaraj College
Skills
- Candidate Sourcing
- Interview Co-ordination
- Stakeholders Management
- Offer Negotiation
- Talent Acquisition
- BGV
- Strategies
- Job Portals Employer Branding
- Social Media Sourcing
- Employee Referral Programs
- Internal Database
- Recruitment Drives & Walk-ins
- Networking & Headhunting
- Workforce Planning
- Xray Hiring
Timeline
Specialist - Talent Acquisition Partner
Lorhan IT Service
08.2021 - 04.2023
Account Manager
Shell Infotech
12.2020 - 05.2021
Sr. Talent Acquisition Partner
Softtek India Private Limited
05.2015 - 06.2020
SAP Recruiter
Trysol Private Limited
03.2014 - 05.2015
BPO Hiring
CQUENT
01.2013 - 02.2014
Human resources and Analytics -
IIM-K
MBA - Marketing and HR
IIBM
Bachelor of Arts -
Lingaraj College