Ritu Singh Rajput

• Product hiring - Responsible for building the product team at all levels from Product Intern to Director, Product Management. Hired around 20 people into product at different domains like Learning Apps, Social Learning, Analytics, Content
• Critical Roles - Worked on closures of some critical non technical and important roles like Chief of Staff, Total Rewards Manager, People Success Partner
• Team Management - Mentored sourcers, coordinators and junior recruiters for effective output. Built talent pipelines of good applicants using tailored coaching and education to support efficient and effective hiring.
• OKR - Responsible to create effective OKR's into recruitment like de-brief process, hiring manager survey, talent branding etc.
• Developed and maintained strong working relationships with executives, HR and team and hiring managers to foster partnerships that produced consistent results.
• Evaluated resumes, interviewed and presented qualified candidates to hiring managers and solicited feedback to refine recruiting strategy.
• Negotiated contracts and managed budget for recruiting expenses.
• Studied talent assessment data to determine best fit for positions across businesses.

• Responsible for the end to end recruitment cycle right from searching/sourcing, screening resumes to short‐listing candidates, coordinating, & conducting interviews and closure.
• Identify, evaluate, and hire top talent through various channels (LinkedIn, Employee Referrals, Candidate References, Job Portals, etc).
• Developed effective strategies for hiring, sourcing plans, market intelligence, mapping & onboarding.
• Worked closely with business leaders on role clarity, providing updates on hiring SLA's, Programs to attract the best talent.
• Develop and cultivate strong relationship within partners, Technical Managers, Technical interviewers, and Candidates for facilitating smooth recruiting.
• Mentoring new/junior team members, helping them drive strong Business and Candidate engagement.

Owned complete recruitment life cycle from sourcing the best talent across diverse sources based on strategic annual hiring plans.

- Managed, educated and mentored new hires in the recruitment team.

- Evaluated resumes, Interviewed & Qualified candidates data and solicited feedback to refine recruiting strategy.
- Leveraged employee referrals, direct sourcing, social‐media, inbound applications and vendors to source candidates for various positions.
- Executed recruitment assignments across multiple leadership roles i.e. Solution Architects andTechnical Leads.

Determined staffing needs, developed talent acquisition strategies, hiring plans to produce forecasts
Lead Employer branding initiatives such as Tech‐Talks, Tech‐fests, Hackathon, etc
Responsible for end‐end hiring requirements, right from sourcing to closure.
Managed campus hiring regularly for both Engineering and Management campuses.
Experience with HRMS systems like Taleo to track applicants and the entire recruitment process.
Solely responsible for managing vendors through the hiring process to invoicing.
Played an instrumental role in setting up hiring operations at Bangalore.

• Responsible for sourcing high‐value resources on various niche skills from different channels like job portals, Linkedin, other social media channels, referrals, internal database, etc.
• Ability to perform in a highly dynamic environment under high‐pressure led to setting benchmarks for the team.
• Achieved various accolades and recognition for setting up a 20 people team consisting of Sales & Support for a new business unit within 2 months.
• Awarded Highest On‐boards (Hiring) 2015.
• Ensured the compliance of entire recruitment process to set quality standards as applicable.
• Participated in weekly/monthly/quarterly reviews with senior management on recruiting, resourcing
  and operations front.

• Interaction with Tech Leads and the hiring manager on a regular basis to understand the specific requirements and plan how to meet those requirements.
• Conducting the preliminary telephonic interview to understand the applicant’s interest in the job, technical skills, qualification, etc, and making them understand their roles & responsibilities
• Sourcing of profiles, coordinating with tech panel for scheduling and communicating the outcome to the candidate
• Handling the joining formalities to the offered candidates