Freelance Recruiter

At Qrata, our people are our most important resource. We’re looking for a highly skilled recruiter to become one of them, and to help us find them. The ideal candidate will have prior experience in recruitment or human resources, with knowledge of screening, interviewing, and hiring practices. If you have a passion for finding untapped talent, driving company growth, and helping individuals find promising careers, we want to hear from you.

• Work closely with partners to gain a comprehensive understanding of the company’s hiring needs for each position, and meet competitive hiring goals and expectations
• Manage the full recruiting lifecycle across a variety of open roles helping management find, hire, and retain quality talent
• Grow and foster high-touch relationships with a database of qualified active and passive talent to pull from as new positions open up
• Continuously partner with recruiting team and senior managers to design, refine, and implement innovative recruiting strategies
• Stay active with current with job boards, social networks, and platforms to find talent, and plan, create, and release job descriptions and announcements

• 2 -5 years’ experience in recruitment (IT recruitment plus)
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and decision-making skills
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office, database management, and internet search
• Familiarity with job boards

Role Must Have's

• Startup Hiring Experience in both Tech and Non Tech domains
• 2 years + Experience
• Demonstrated experience in closing mid and senior roles at startups
• Demonstrated experience in using LinkedIn recruiter, GitHub, and social media channels for recruiting
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Nice to Have: Computer Science Academic Background

Responsibilities

• Build an effective candidate pipeline through Inbound/Outbound sourcing channels with minimal dependency
• Co-ordinate for interview panel, schedule interviews, and run debriefs efficiently
• Be able to recruit active/passive candidates for Tech roles
• Possess strong ability to pre-screen interview candidates
• Build and maintain a network of potential candidates through pro-active market research and ongoing relationship management
• Communicate well with the hiring manager and stakeholders to ensure an effective interview process.

Behaviors & Experiences

• Independently Driven
• Experience managing and prioritizing multiple searches, projects, and client relationships
• High Learning Agility
• Extraordinarily Conscientious

• Work closely with partners to gain a comprehensive understanding of the company’s hiring needs for each position, and meet competitive hiring goals and expectations
• Manage the full recruiting lifecycle across a variety of open roles helping management find, hire, and retain quality talent
• Grow and foster high-touch relationships with a database of qualified active and passive talent to pull from as new positions open up
• Continuously partner with recruiting team and senior managers to design, refine, and implement innovative recruiting strategies
• Stay active with current with job boards, social networks, and platforms to find talent, and plan, create, and release job descriptions and announcements.
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• 2 -5 years’ experience in recruitment (IT recruitment plus)
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and decision-making skills
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office, database management, and internet search
• Familiarity with job boards

• Handling end to end Technical Recruitment across various verticals.
• Stakeholder management, client and talent management
• Using Job portals like Naukri, CutShort, Angel List, Linkedin Recruiter, Hyrst, Instahyre, etc for recruitment.
• Preferred candidate:- BE / Btech / BCA / MCA / Mtech / MS or someone from a technical background

• Handling recruitment cycle for both technical as well as non-technical roles
• Understanding the hiring requirements from various hiring managers
• Sourcing potential candidates through various platforms, efficiently
• Screening the profiles based on the requirement specified
• Evaluating applications and screening candidates via calls or emails
• Scheduling interviews for shortlisted candidates with the concerned business units
• Following-up and ensuring that the offer letter/ appointment letter is released to the selected candidates on-time
• Following-up on collecting relevant and necessary documents from the candidates who are shortlisted
• Ensuring that the shortlisted candidates are on-boarded on-time and the hiring requirement is closed
• Acting as a point of contact for the shortlisted candidates and building professional candidate relationships during the selection process
• Working closely with internal stakeholders such as internal teams and external stakeholders such as vendors
• Maintaining and updating recruitment database and reporting the same to the management in regular intervals

Desired Candidate Profile

• Graduation is a must
• 2 – 4 years of relevant work experience in the entire recruitment cycle
• Knowledge and work experience in recruiting for both technical as well as non-technical roles
• Ability to multi-task and exceptional ability to source, screen and interview candidates
• Excellent communicating, listening and negotiating skills    

• Exceptional communication skills
• Strong sourcing skills
• Have 3+ years of direct experience in a high-growth, high-volume environment
• Have a demonstrated ability to manage multiple searches simultaneously
• Have experience in diversity sourcing, creating and implementing sourcing strategies, and training team members on sourcing techniques
• Are able to build rapport quickly with different stakeholders and communicate effectively within all levels of the organization

Pepper (http://www.pepper.org.in/">www.peppercontent.in) is building India’s largest content marketplace that brings companies and content creators together to scale up content creation processes across 10 content verticals and 150+ content categories, 40+ content verticals, and 40+ global languages. Over the past 3 years, we’ve worked with brands like Adobe, upGrad, Swiggy, Dunzo, BusinessWorld, Digit,  Shiksha.com, Rapido, BookMyShow, UrbanClap, Yatra, Bewakoof, YourStory, Bharat Matrimony, and 300+ other brands. We have over 30,000+ writers and graphic designers who have applied to Pepper so far, who form part of the ‘Pepper Cloud’.

We are on the path to building a global on-demand content marketplace platform that allows for collaboration, discovery, and upskilling for all our creators. Now we are in a rapid expansion phase to enter into more content service offerings, engage a wide spectrum of content creators and at the same time, scale up our existing services. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Oversight of recruitment delivery and operations. Partner closely with the business teams to ensure
• Sourcing and hiring strategies are aligned with People’s strategies.
• Use industry knowledge and experience to identify and attract the best talent in technical or business
• baseline.
• Determining current hiring needs and producing forecasts
• Develop a sustainable talent acquisition and hiring plans and strategies
• Create, organize, and implement new and enhanced recruiting and selection processes/tools to drive efficiency and improve the quality of hires
• Develop and oversee innovative sourcing strategies to attract talent from non-traditional and/or diverse talent pools
• Actively leverage a network/user group base to promote the brand and tap into potential talent.
• Plan procedures for improving the candidate experience
• Suggest measures for improving employee retention

The ideal candidate must -

• At least 4+ years of experience in Talent Acquisition or similar TA role - Experience in Tech hiring is a big plus.
• Experience in hiring for Start-ups is a must.
• In-depth knowledge of full-cycle recruiting and sourcing.
• Experience with HRIS, ATS, Sourcing and Recruitment Marketing tools
• Have excellent verbal, written communication, and presentation skills.
•  Have a willingness to be flexible: Works beyond what is described in the job description.

Hands on experience in sourcing through job portals and referrals.

Good experience in IT or Non IT recruitment .

Willingness & ability to handle end to end recruitment including internal recruitment.

Should be able to handle multiple requirements simultaneously.

Comfortable with niche hiring & critical search assignments.

Interaction with the candidates and briefing them about the requirement.

Experience in handling walk-in drives.

Interaction with the clients.

Maintain all recruitment-related reports and forms

Should have good working knowledge in Microsoft Excel

Excellent command in verbal and written English.