Shruti Rana
Talent Acquisition Manager
Gurgaon
Summary
A passionate, process driven, result oriented, self-motivated HR professional with 12+ years of relevant experience in Management of Talent Acquisition & Human Resources in various domains includes IT, IT/ES, Information/Cyber Security, Risk Advisory, Tax etc. Proficient in creating insightful recruitment dashboards and reports, with a strategic approach to planning, forecasting, and executing impactful recruitment initiatives. Energetic, dedicated, and seasoned professional committed to attracting and retaining top talent in competitive corporate and staffing environments.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
4010
4010
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages
Work History
Manager – Talent Acquisition
Grant Thornton Bharat
04.2023 - Current
- Develop and execute talent acquisition strategies aligned with organizational goals and workforce forecasts. Partner with leadership to identify future talent needs, workforce trends, and succession planning initiatives.
- Oversee the entire recruitment lifecycle, including sourcing, interviewing, selection, and onboarding. Implement structured hiring processes to ensure consistency, compliance, and candidate quality.
- Enhance the organization's reputation as an employer of choice through branding campaigns and partnerships. Drive initiatives to improve the candidate journey, ensuring timely communication and a seamless hiring experience.
- Lead and mentor recruitment teams, managing performance and building capability across sourcing and hiring functions. Collaborate with department heads, HR, and external partners to align hiring priorities and streamline processes.
- Analyze recruitment data to monitor KPIs like time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, and quality-of-hire. Conduct market research to stay ahead of industry trends and adapt sourcing strategies accordingly.
- Ensure recruitment practices comply with legal and organizational standards. Continuously assess and improve recruitment tools, systems, and vendor partnerships for greater efficiency.
- Built high-performing teams through effective recruitment, onboarding, and talent development initiatives.
Senior Analyst - Business Support (GCC Hiring)
NTT Data
12.2021 - 04.2023
- Develop and implement recruiting strategies across locations in India for captives/GCC/GIC clients. Client engagement with their cross functional teams (Business, TA and procurement) for maximum selection and deployment of the resources.
- Concentrate on effective networking methods to reach the greatest number of potential candidates through Internet Sourcing, Direct Mailing, cold calling using the existing database and internal TA & VMG teams.
- Handle the entire staff augmentation cycle - candidates' attraction, sourcing, intake meetings with internal & External panels (Clients), after identifying, conducting pre-interview counselling, and briefing sessions for candidates, ensuring Effective execution of Interview Process until issuance of appointment letter releasing till deployment of the resource.
- Manage negotiations with candidates and with third party vendors to ensure optimum utilization from cost perspective.
Senior Associate
PwC India
06.2021 - 09.2021
- Lead recruitment delivery and operations for Cyber Security as a SPOC, across all locations in India.
- Develop the recruitment strategy to ensure we are able to grow and defend our position in the market.
- Work closely with all the internal stakeholders and vendors to fulfill the requirements, worked on 25+ positions at any given time and closed them successfully within the timeline.
- Ensure Effective execution of Interview Process until issuance of appointment letter, i.e., scrutinizing resume, scheduling interviews, salary negotiation, offer letter releasing etc.
- Close follow-up with the resources till they get onboarded and swift hand over to the delivery team.
Senior Associate - Talent Acquisition
Coforge Ltd.
11.2020 - 06.2021
- Lead the complete off- shore IT and Cyber Security hiring across locations. Working with the Head - Cyber Security for making road map of the quarterly hiring numbers in Cyber team as SPOC from hiring team.
- Manage the entire Recruitment cycle for other IT technologies starting from Demand to Closure -Screening, sourcing, scheduling interviews with technical & final panels, follow up with candidates, solving queries, compensation negotiations, offer generation etc.
- Successfully met the avg. of 50 roles month on month for multiple IT business functions inclusive of leadership capacity. Hands on expertise in utilizing in-house recruitment ATS tools to map open roles and track candidate's status.
- Skillfully orchestrated Monthly and Quarterly Business Reviews to foster transparency, track progress and align objectives. These presentations synthesize key performance indicators, project updates, and strategic insights and maintaining alignment with our business objectives.
Manager - Talent Acquisition
ACPL Systems Pvt. Ltd.
01.2018 - 10.2020
- Spearhead the entire Talent Acquisition function across locations along with 2 other software verticals (Klassify & Attackfense) from junior to Senior level technology roles.
- Establish and develop effective working relationships with business leaders, partnering with Managers to understand immediate and future requirements in Business units to regulate direction of efforts.
- Experience in hiring on various technologies –taking care of all business requirements from stake holders and meeting targets on time and to manage recruitment budgets.
- Conduct a talent interview with business leads to understand the role and skills required. Accordingly build Job Descriptions and specifications.
- Maintain a healthy source mix by leveraging various cost-effective hiring channels, referrals, job portals and social media.
Manager - Talent Solutions
Skill Cube Pvt. Ltd.
10.2013 - 04.2017
- Client Engagement – End to End: - Responsible for fresh to lateral hiring for specifically Information/Cyber Security domain. - Leading the Talent Solutions practice, SPOC for all the accounts (approx. 14) & managing a team of recruiters. Interact with Clients for obtaining manpower requirements & associated job specifications.
- Identify prospective candidates according to the skills required for varied requirements for clients. Sourcing candidate profiles through own database, Social Networking Sites different job portals like, Free/Paid Job Portals like Naukri, Monster, LinkedIn and employee's referrals to close positions within stipulated deadlines.
- Clients Managed: PwC, Deloitte, EY, Aujas, Indusface, BDO, CMS - IT, NSE - IT, the Happiest Minds, Wipro, IBM, Accenture to name a few.
HR Executive
Instant Tech Solutions Systems (ITSS)
04.2012 - 09.2013
- Conduct first round of Interviews, Initial screening in recruitment processes for bulk.
- Maintenance of employee database and updating Leave/attendance records.
- Conduct various welfare activities, community initiatives programs – organizing & participation.
- Prepare and submit all relevant HR letters/documents/certificates as per the requirement of employees in consultation with the management.
- Conduct exit interviews for employees and record them accordingly.
- Stimulated employee engagement, loyalty, and commitment to values and culture of company, resulting in 27% retention rate increase.
Education
MBA - Human Resources
Shobhit University
Meerut 01.2007 - 01.2009
BA -
R.G. Degree College
Meerut 01.2003 - 01.2006
Higher Secondary -
SMSAK Inter College
Meerut06.2003
High School -
SMSAK Inter College
Meerut06.2001
Skills
- Recruitment Planning
- Employer Branding
- Diversity Hiring
- Cost Optimization
- Leadership Hiring
- Niche Skill Hiring
- Process Excellence
- Offer Issuance
- Decision-making
- Team leadership
- Vendor Management
- Diversity hiring
Timeline
Manager – Talent Acquisition
Grant Thornton Bharat
04.2023 - Current
Senior Analyst - Business Support (GCC Hiring)
NTT Data
12.2021 - 04.2023
Senior Associate
PwC India
06.2021 - 09.2021
Senior Associate - Talent Acquisition
Coforge Ltd.
11.2020 - 06.2021
Manager - Talent Acquisition
ACPL Systems Pvt. Ltd.
01.2018 - 10.2020
Manager - Talent Solutions
Skill Cube Pvt. Ltd.
10.2013 - 04.2017
HR Executive
Instant Tech Solutions Systems (ITSS)
04.2012 - 09.2013
MBA - Human Resources
Shobhit University
01.2007 - 01.2009
BA -
R.G. Degree College
01.2003 - 01.2006
Higher Secondary -
SMSAK Inter College
High School -
SMSAK Inter College
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