Human Resources (HR) Executive

• 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

About Qrata:

Qrata is a talent search firm that partners with top VC firms such as Accel, Matrix, Sequoia, Lightspeed & more to help scale their portfolio teams globally. We have expertise in Engineering, growth, Design and product roles and the teams are divided by function to be able to have an in-depth view of these functions. We have a specialized mapping team that supports our talent partners with a more targeted search. 95% of our profiles make shortlists and hence our hiring is speedier. We work with late-stage companies such as Nykka, dream 11, pharmeasy, Jiosaavn, Marico etc. Our strength is in hiring for early-stage startups which is actually more challenging but have been able to get past all the challenges due to our structure in the process.

About the job:

Attention all aspiring HR professionals! If you've ever dreamed of transitioning into human resources but hesitated, now is your chance. We are committed to training you and ensuring your success in recruitment, helping you achieve your career aspirations.

Key responsibilities:

1. Candidate identification and engagement: Proactively seek out potential candidates for various job openings

2. Advanced sourcing techniques: Employ a variety of sourcing methods, including job boards, social media platforms, and databases, to locate resumes that align with the specific requirements of the role

3. Resume screening and initial interviews: Review resumes and conduct preliminary phone or video interviews to evaluate candidates' qualifications, availability, and interest

4. Interview coordination and candidate support: Manage the interview scheduling process and maintain communication with candidates throughout the hiring process, culminating in their successful onboarding

Responsible for performing full-cycle recruiting functions including but not limited to job understanding, candidate sourcing, social networking, phone screening, email communication, documentation, summary writing and presentation.

Identifying right candidates with the right skills to match the US clients’ requirements Regularly interacting with Account Manager to understand the requirements

Should understand the requirement in depth to ensure quality sourcing and recruiting

Should ensure to revert submit profiles with quick turnaround time for timely submissions to meet sharp deadlines for each requisition

Make use of effective resourcing strategies, such as head hunting, Internet sourcing, networking, employee referrals

Must have experience on full Life Cycle of Recruiting (screening resumes, interviewing, offer extension and post-placement care)

Ability to work as a good team player, Maintaining & building the candidate database

Requirements:

Minimum 2 Years of Full Cycle Recruiting experience particularly in pharmaceutical /scientific/life science domain for US staffing and recruiting industry.

Excellent English language skills including reading, writing and speaking.

Ability to communicate fluently with foreign nationals.

Self-motivated, passionate and energetic professionals.

Comfortable to work in night shift (6.30PM to 3.30AM IST)

Key Responsibilities:

• Write creative JDs and post/advertise them on various job portals.
• Review and understand technical job requirement and screen the candidates accordingly
• Review applicants to verify if position requirements are met
• Source potential candidates on niche platforms.
• Research new technologies
• Perform pre-screening calls to analyze applicant's’ abilities
• Interview candidates combining various methods (e.g. structured interviews, technical assessments and behavioral questions)
• Coordinate with IT team leaders to forecast department goals and hiring needs
• Craft and send personalized recruiting emails with current job openings to passive candidates
• Keep up-to-date with new technological trends and products
• Follow up with candidates

Skills and Experience:

• Proven work experience as a Technical Recruiter or Recruiter (3+yrs)
• Knowledge on the technical know how, to screen the candidate initially.
• Hands-on experience with various interview formats (e.g. phone, Skype and structured)
• Technical expertise with an ability to understand and explain job requirements for IT roles
• Solid knowledge of sourcing techniques (e.g. social media recruiting and Boolean search)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to build strong relationships
• Self-confidence and self starter
• Logical and analytical approach to problem solving.
• Has passion to constantly exceed own quality benchmarks.