
Director - Talent Acquisition for Bangalore based EdTech start-up
at It is a re-imagining skill-based EdTech start-up
Job Description
Our client is re-imagining skill-based education building the future of higher education. The platform educates young talent from remote India (tier - 2/3 cities/towns) on job-relevant skills and connects skilled graduates to jobs. With more than 200000+ users currently on the platform, it is growing exponentially. We are looking for the missionary talent to join us in the journey to transform higher education and build the university of the future.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Creating comprehensive talent sourcing and recruitment strategies, leveraging internal and external resources in order to hire the best talent in the market.
2. Lead the team of recruiters to screen candidates by reviewing resumes, and job applications, and performing initial level screening.
3. Maintaining relationships with the consultants/hiring partners and ensuring a robust candidate pipeline at all times.
4. Design and execute mass hiring/bulk-hiring for sales and customer success positions. Take ownership of the interview process and the candidate's experience.
5. Handling communication within the team and aiding in preparing schedules for recruitment activities and their execution.
Requirements:
1. Min 5+ years experience in recruitment, with hands-on experience in hiring.
2. Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
3. Familiar with a wide variety of sourcing avenues.
4. Excellent organizational and time management skills.
5. Comfortable making decisions independently.
6. Ability to prioritize, multitask and meet deadlines and targets

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The following are the responsibilities:
• Develop recruiting strategies as per the business requirements
• Create Job Descriptions in line with the business requirements.
• Identify the best mix of resources to source top tech talent using social media, job boards, advanced search techniques, referrals, and new age sourcing tools .
• Build and manage relationships with the recruiting agencies.
• Manage the entire recruitment life-cycle including sourcing, screening and qualifying candidates, interviews, maintaining candidate communication and negotiations.
• Hiring for all the verticals across all the levels, primarily non-tech
• Responsible for manpower planning, budget and forecast.
• Create SOP’s for recruitment and set up all hiring process.
• Lead employment branding initiatives and build and execute strategies to ensure very positive candidate experience
• Assist in employee retention and development
• Supervise, guide & train recruiting personnel
• Drive campus engagements, organize and/or attend career fairs and build brand for the company.
Qualities
1. Prefer people with experience of recruiting diverse profiles across business functions & levels.
2. Prefer people with FMCG & start-up exposure
3. Prefer people with exposure to both tech & non-tech hiring
4. Prefer people from Tier-1/Tier-2 colleges
5. Prefer people with very good communication skills, develop faster connect with internals &
externals and who have very strong selling skills.
- Manage end to end recruitment activities by sourcing the best talent from diverse sources and handle the entire Talent management right from joining to exit
- Strong network within product companies/startups
- Work with Marketing Team and execute ways to strengthen our brand awareness
- Review and benchmark the internal and external environment to improve HR/Talent Management
- Provide excellent candidate experience at each stage of the hiring process
- Provide Analytical and well-documented reports to the hiring managers.
- 3+ years experience in Product/Start-Up companies is a must
- Ability to network and strong interpersonal skills
- Worked on positions like Data Scientist, Engineering Manager, SDET, DevOps.
- Good track record of conversions
- Excellent Written Communication!
- An open-minded and positive attitude
- Adaptable and able to fit into the work environment of a fast-growing start-up
- Strong sense of ethical responsibility
- Skilled at spreading a good vibe
- Notice Period should be lesser than one month
good networking skills.
Responsibilities:
Work closely with managers to gain a comprehensive understanding of the positions, and
meet competitive hiring goals and expectations
Source and screen candidates by using databases/portals, social media, job applications etc.
Assess applicants' relevant knowledge and skills as per requirement
Provide shortlists of qualified candidates to hiring managers
Conduct interviews using various reliable personnel selection tools/methods to filter
candidates within schedule
Act as a point of contact and build influential candidate relationships during the selection
process
Experience:
Minimum 2 years in recruitment/ talent acquisition
Must have experience in ATS(applicant tracking system)
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Self-Driven and self-motivator
Good knowledge on MS excel
Market Research and Business development is an additional advantage
Bachelor’s degree in human resource management (or related field)
- Working closely with People Head, department leads and founders to gain a comprehensive understanding of the hiring needs for each position, and meeting competitive hiring goals and expectations.
- Planning, designing, creating and releasing job descriptions for various positions.
- Suggesting the hiring process for each role and setting evaluation parameters for assessment.
- Staying active with current job boards, social networks, and platforms to find talent.
- Building a pool of manpower sourcing vendors for potential hiring needs.
- Managing the end-to-end hiring lifecycle across levels and roles and target to hire, onboard and retain quality talent.
- Screening resumes and prospects, qualifying, interviewing, and managing candidates throughout the interview process from preparing before interviews to assisting with final offer negotiation.
- Growing and fostering high-touch relationships with a database of qualified active and passive talent.
- Utilizing knowledge of multiple recruiting sources and executing innovative recruiting strategies to find quality candidates and prospecting for new business.
- Continuously collaborating with hiring managers to design, refine, and implement innovative hiring strategies.
- Maintaining a database of candidate records, including active and passive prospects.
- Striving to bring automation in hiring through ATS, pre-boarding software etc.
- Identifying, analysing, presenting and keeping updated the hiring metrics and implementing initiatives to combat/ mitigate the challenges.
- Designing and updating policies related to hiring, onboarding, probation, referral, exit etc.
What you need to have:
- B.Tech ( Mandatory)
- Experience of working in hyper-growth start-up ( Mandatory)
- Technology Hiring ( Mandatory)
- Strong track record in sourcing qualified candidates, market intelligence, mapping, negotiating offers, and influencing management decision-making.
- 3-5 years of experience in engagement/ talent development role, out of which at least 1 year in independently driving end-to-end recruitment.
- Hands-on hiring experience on niche skills, volume hiring and leadership hiring.
- Deep knowledge of sourcing specifically for skills like tech, product, data science, customer experience, digital marketing, lending etc.
- Working knowledge of various social media recruiting channels and should be aware of current market trends.
- Good command over documentation and process flowcharting using tools.
- Passion for creating seamless and engaging candidate experience.
- Excellent organizational skills and an ability to multi-task across concurrent projects with strong attention to detail.
- Proven ability to drive assignments on metrics using technology.
- Strong analytic skills/ comfort in data analysis, including MS Excel modelling & data manipulation skills and ability to manage reports & dashboards.
- Curious about metrics, execution processes, people trends.
- Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality and work with sensitive data and information.
- Excellent communicator having the ability to influence and persuade others.
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders, both external and internal.
- Commitment to demonstrably improving team metrics.
- Positive, flexible, and proactive, hands-on with a can-do approach.
- Good competitive analysis skills & intelligence to work upon data.
- Ability to identify process inefficiencies and suggest improvements.
- Target driven, detail-oriented and approachable with the ability to prioritize and work well in an environment with competing demands.
- Proficiency in MS-Excel and PowerPoint.
- Good tech startup experience is mandatory
- For gender Diversity, inviting applications only from Girl/Lady candidates
- Act as a point of contact and build influential candidate relationships during the selection process.
- The candidate will be responsible to handle the entire cycle of recruitment and selection under the guidance of Head - HR inclusive of the following but not limiting to:.
- Source/ Screen candidates from job portals and other forums.
- Must have Good Communication Skills
- Freshers may apply
US IT Recruiter - JOB DESCRIPTION
Being involved in the end-to-end recruitment process, including sourcing, shortlisting, scheduling follow-up, and joining
Sourcing from job portals, databases, references, and other sources
Validating the resumes based on checklists
Communicating with the candidates with status updates, reference requirement, etc
Maintaining relationships with the candidates to get references and spread networking
Managing consultant relationships. Administering the selection process/procedure effectively in all recruitments, and working toward process improvement
Adhering to compliance procedures and internal/operational risk controls in accordance with any and all applicable regulatory standards, requirements, and policies
DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
Experience: - 3-6 years of relevant experience on IT recruitment.
Different work visas (CPT, OPT, EAD, GC, TN, E3 etc), tax terms (C2C, W2, 1099) and employment types & US geography and different time zone.
Good communication skills to coordinate
Ability to work as a team player, with excellent interpersonal skills
Should be self-motivated
Should be analytical and result oriented to complete tasks within timelines
Good presentation skills with strong willingness to take ownership
Excellent knowledge of MS Office
Excellent in numbers with good attention to detail
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to work under pressure to meet agreed deadlines
Organized, Passion, energy, and enthusiasm to drive results

