Puja Thakur
Pune
Summary
Recruiter with 4.1 years of experience in filling technical roles by working closely with internal teams, companies, and candidates. Skilled in screening resumes, checking candidate eligibility, and assessing technical skills. Experienced in technical and techno-functional interviews, scheduling, coordination, vendor management, and reporting. Strong communication and organizational abilities with a focus on finding the best-fit candidates quickly and effectively
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Talent Account Lead
DEXIAN India Pvt Ltd
Pune, Maharashtra, India
08.2022 - Current
- Conduct screening and delivery check calls for all candidates, and attend monthly and quarterly client review meetings to discuss performance, explore business opportunities, and plan proactively
- Ensure that new employees feel welcomed and have the resources they need to succeed.
- Offer regular feedback and check-ins on the employee's performance, helping them navigate challenges or any performance gaps.
- Encourage self-reflection and personal growth for employees at various stages of their career.
- Serve as the main point of contact for internal clients (e.g., hiring managers, department heads) to understand their hiring needs.
- Provide regular updates to leadership on recruitment progress, challenges, and key metrics
- Develop and implement talent acquisition strategies tailored to the company's needs and growth plans.
- Identify workforce gaps and proactively build recruitment pipelines for hard-to-fill roles.
- Manage the recruitment team to ensure they are sourcing, interviewing, and screening candidates effectively.
- Ensure a smooth and positive candidate experience throughout the hiring process.
- Build relationships with potential candidates for future recruitment needs, focusing on diversity and inclusion.
- Oversee the interview process, ensuring that hiring managers and interview panels are following consistent and effective assessment practices.
- Ensure that the best-fit candidates are identified based on both technical skills and cultural fit
IT Recruiter
Magneto
12.2021 - 08.2022
- Recruited candidates from entry level to senior position in IT
- Recruited candidates for 4 clients
- Sourcing profiles as per requirements on Naukri and LinkedIn
- Shortlisting candidates with lead and keep follow up candidate's status
- Maintaining inner database up to date with conclusive assessments.
- Upload shortlisted candidates on client ATS
- Conducted Video interviews of shortlisted candidates
- Kept follow up on candidates until they join.
- Honored with 12 awards in 3 years for outstanding performance and contribution.
- Employee of the Year (Pan-India level recognition)
- 3× Account Cracking Awards for acquiring and managing premium clients.
- 2× Performer of the Quarter for consistent excellence.
- 5× Performer of the Month for top performance and delivery.
- Runner-up Award for exceptional contribution in a competitive category.
Senior Talent Advisor
DEXIAN India Pvt Ltd
- Senior Talent Advisor with a proven track record of success in building and maintaining relationships with clients, understanding their needs, and finding the best candidates for open positions.
- Handling Mastercard client in terms of all IT requirements.
- Experience working with a diverse range of clients, including Mastercard, BNY Mellon, CITI, Fiserv, Intuit, Amazon.
- Responsible for the entire requirement life-cycle stage from requirement qualifications & distribution, requirement reconciliation, candidate sourcing, recruiter interview, submission, technical interview, on-boarding and consultant/employee and pipeline maintenance.
- Developed, drove and executed comprehensive search strategies to recruit senior and niche profiles.
- Reviewing the submission reports of the recruiters and updating to the Superiors.
- Develop strong, strategic relationships with Clients.
- Ensure the timely and successful delivery of our solutions according to customer needs and objectives.
Talent Advisor
DEXIAN India Pvt Ltd
- Collaborate closely with client SPOC to align recruitment efforts with hiring needs and business objectives.
- Maintain clear and consistent communication with candidates, ensuring positive candidate experience throughout the recruitment process.
- Act as the point of contact for SPOCs, maintaining clear communication and understanding of open requisitions.
- Engage in regular discussions with client representatives to assess ongoing hiring needs, status updates, and upcoming requirements.
- Provide regular reports and updates on recruitment progress, candidate pipelines, and fulfilment of open positions.
- Employ various sourcing techniques to identify and attract qualified candidates, including leveraging job boards, social media, networking, and referrals.
- Screen resumes, conduct initial assessments, and interview candidates to determine their suitability for open positions, submit qualified candidates to clients, providing comprehensive candidate profiles and highlighting key skills and experiences.
- Facilitate and coordinate video call interviews between candidates and hiring teams, ensuring a seamless virtual as well as f2f interview experience.
- Manage the end-to-end interview coordination process, scheduling interviews between candidates and client hiring managers while ensuring a positive candidate experience.
- Collect and consolidate feedback from client SPOC providing timely updates to candidates and internal teams.
- Act as a liaison between candidates and hiring managers, addressing any concerns or follow-up requirements.
- Utilize Beeline and Fieldglass systems for candidate tracking, vendor management, and compliance with hiring protocols and contractual obligations.
- Manage candidate information, contracts, and compliance documentation within Beeline and Fieldglass and magnit ensuring accuracy and adherence to client/vendor requirements.
- Organize and participate in calibration calls with client stakeholders and hiring managers to align on candidate profiles, skills, and qualifications.
- Facilitate discussions to ensure consistency and clarity in the evaluation and selection process across different teams or departments.
- Oversee the onboarding process for selected candidates, ensuring a smooth transition from offer acceptance to integration into the client's organization.
- Utilize Beeline and Fieldglass systems for vendor management, tracking contractor and contingent worker information, contracts, and compliance.
Talent Acquisition Specialist
DEXIAN India Pvt Ltd
- Owned full recruitment cycle collecting requirements, studying, analysing, sourcing, screening, shortlisting, scheduling & closing positions for assigned requisitions.
- Sourcing candidates from different job portals. Review applicants to verify if position requirements are met.
- Communicating with the candidates regarding job role, Company profile, ctc & notice period.
- Shortlisting the cv's based on the desired skills, experience, salary, expectations & notice period.
- Sharing job description with the candidate, screened profiles are sent to delivery manager for further shortlisting.
- Coordinating with the interview panel and scheduling interviews. Follow up with candidates throughout the hiring process.
- Following up with the candidates till they complete the rounds of interview.
- End to End follow up with the candidates (pre and post offer release).
- Maintaining database & excel sheet tracker for sourcing profiles, status of the candidates and other activities.
Education
MBA - Human Resource Management
AISSMS College
Pune01.2021
BBA - Human Resource Management
Pune University
01.2019
Skills
- End to end recruitment life cycle
- Sourcing and Screening
- Interview Coordination
- SPOC and Client Management
- Vendor management-systems like Beeline, Fieldglass, Magnit, Zoho
- Offer negotiation
- IT market understanding
- Benefits and compensation
- Video and audio conferencing (Zoom and MS Teams Meeting)
- MS Office (Excel, Power Point, outlook)
- Talent acquisition
- Candidate sourcing
- Recruitment strategies
- Performance management
- Communication skills
- Team leadership
- Client relationship management
- Negotiation skills
Websites
Accomplishments
- Honored with 12 awards in 3 years for outstanding performance and contribution.
- Employee of the Year (Pan-India level recognition)
- 3× Account Cracking Awards for acquiring and managing premium clients.
- 2× Performer of the Quarter for consistent excellence.
- 5× Performer of the Month for top performance and delivery.
- Runner-up Award for exceptional contribution in a competitive category.
Languages
English
Advanced (C1)
C1
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
C2
Timeline
Talent Account Lead
DEXIAN India Pvt Ltd
08.2022 - Current
IT Recruiter
Magneto
12.2021 - 08.2022
Senior Talent Advisor
DEXIAN India Pvt Ltd
Talent Advisor
DEXIAN India Pvt Ltd
Talent Acquisition Specialist
DEXIAN India Pvt Ltd
MBA - Human Resource Management
AISSMS College
BBA - Human Resource Management
Pune University