Sowmya V

• Partner with business leaders to understand hiring needs and build effective hiring strategies aligned with organizational goals.
• Oversee full-cycle recruitment across departments ensuring timely closures and quality hires.
• Lead and mentor a team of recruiters; define performance metrics, provide coaching, and drive a high-performing recruiting culture.
• Serve as a consultative partner to senior stakeholders, offering market insights, talent mapping, and influencing hiring decisions.
• Drive sourcing innovation using multiple channels including LinkedIn, job boards, referrals, and internal mobility.
• Monitor key recruitment metrics (TAT, source mix, diversity) and prepare hiring dashboards.
• Implement and manage ATS and other hiring tools; optimize hiring processes for scalability and compliance.
• Manage recruitment partners and external vendors

Company Overview: It is a US Based E-Learning/Interview coaching company, IK helps candidates to nail the toughest tech interviews. It takes candidates’ through an intense 2months preparation course to make them completely ready to crack the toughest interviews.

• Was responsible for End-to-End recruitment of multiple departments

• Handling End to End Recruitment activities, understanding the hiring requirement, Preparing job descriptions
• Sourcing and Screening active & passive candidates using various job portals i,e Naukri, IIM Jobs, LinkedIn and through Internal Job Posting Applications and through Employee referral programs.
• Close collaboration with the Recruitment Operations and onboarding team to ensure process compliance and Onboard a candidate with good new hire experience. Also, well-versed with Recruitment Tool ATS (Taleo)
• Regular interaction with stakeholders to understand the business requirements, providing them real time updates on hiring status and Ensuring Good candidate experience.
• Worked on mid to senior level positions across different lines of business.

• Understanding the requirements of the BU
• Sourcing potential candidates through various modes like Job-portals, Head-hunting and through Employee Referral
• End to End recruitment process
• Vendor Management
• Achievements:
• Closed 300+ positions with a monthly average of 35 joiners
• Received CEO level appreciation for closing the critical business hiring within given time frame
• Increased the referral contribution from 5% to 40% with various employee referral campaigns and engagements

• Understanding & capturing client requirements on daily basis
• Sourcing potential candidates through various modes like Job postings, portals, references & headhunting
• Map the skill sets for the open roles
• Scheduling and coordinating interviews of candidates with various clients
• Follow up with the candidates constantly from interview schedule till joining
• Achievements:
• Have been a consistent performer in the organization by delivering the given target promptly

• Managing large amount of inbound calls in a timely manner
• Seize opportunities to upsell products when they arise
• Assisting new agents on floor
• Handling Level-2 Escalations and thereby pacifying and retaining aggravated customers
• Achievements:
• Quarterly Saturn Topper – Customer CSAT Analysis
• Got promoted as a Team Coach/QA in a span of 6 months