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Vikas Sawant

Mumbai,karnataka

Summary

Vikas Sawant is a seasoned Talent Acquisition expert with over 9+ years of experience in building high-performing technology teams. As a Lead Recruiter at CommerceIQ, he specializes in full-cycle recruitment, from campus to leadership roles. He has a proven record of collaborating with key decision-makers to build core teams, with expertise in strategic sourcing, talent mapping, and aligning talent acquisition with business goals and culture.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Talent Acquisition

CommerceIQ
04.2023 - Current
  • I Currently lead the Technology Hiring efforts for India Site and work closely with Leadership team in India to hire strategic roles.
  • Hiring for senior leadership roles such as Architects, VP of engineering, Directors, Data science, ML Engineers etc
  • Managed Campus hiring initiative's across the board.
  • Worked with Multi-regional team spread across India, US and London.
  • Used ATS tools such as greenhouse, Ashby.
  • Worked on revamping Interview process.
  • Consistently maintained joining ratio of 85 % and more.
  • Mentoring and Managing team of 3 recruiters.
  • Reduced time-to-fill critical roles from 25 days to 9 days, through strategic sourcing and efficient scheduling.


Talent Partner

CRED
10.2021 - 10.2022
  • Built backend engineering teams for multiple pods within CRED.
  • Partnering with stakeholders to engage talents on platforms like Code chef, Hackerrank and communities such as Kong, Swift.
  • Worked on RCA's for offer declines/Detractors to improve the efficiency.
  • Used ATS Lever to make effective hiring decisions.
  • Stakeholder management: presented weekly, monthly and quarterly hiring updates and strategic planning.
  • Built tech team for product such as CRED cash, garage, Bill desk etc.

Associate recruiter to Senior Director recruitment

Anzy Global
12.2015 - 09.2021
  • Started journey from role of associate recruiter and grew to leadership roles during this tenure.
  • Managed and scaled high performing team of 18 people (recruiter, leads, IC's).
  • Hands on sourcing on multiple platforms such as LinkedIn, Behance, Dribble, github, Kaggle etc.
  • Hiring for leadership roles Such as CTO's, VP engineering, Architects, Directors, Head of Data sciences.
  • Worked closely with Founders, Site Leads and TA leaders to build early technology teams in India.
  • Experienced journey with companies from early series till they became unicorn players.
  • Played role of catalyst in hiring journey for various product companies.

Associate recruiter

Careernet Technologies
10.2014 - 02.2015
  • Worked with Careernet for Campus hiring team involved in hiring for Tech and Non-Tech roles both for Fresher's and lateral roles.
  • Experience in hiring freshers from Tier 1/Tier 2 colleges of India.
  • Managed campus hiring for National Instruments for west coast region of India.
  • Was part of Hiring for early start-ups in India such as Ola, Savari.com, Frankly.me, Flipkart and Amazon.

Education

MBA - Human Resources Management

BANGALORE UNIVERSITY
Bengaluru, India
08-2013

Bachelor of Business Management - Finance

BANGALORE UNIVERSITY
Bangalore
01.2011

Skills

  • Stakeholders Management
  • Diversity hiring
  • Offer Negotiation
  • Head hunting
  • Hiring forecasting
  • Data Analysis and decision making
  • Networking
  • Travelling
  • Planting and social work
  • Parenting

Hobbies and Interests

  • Travelling
  • Planting and social work
  • Parenting

Timeline

Senior Talent Acquisition

CommerceIQ
04.2023 - Current

Talent Partner

CRED
10.2021 - 10.2022

Associate recruiter to Senior Director recruitment

Anzy Global
12.2015 - 09.2021

Associate recruiter

Careernet Technologies
10.2014 - 02.2015

MBA - Human Resources Management

BANGALORE UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Business Management - Finance

BANGALORE UNIVERSITY

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