Lead TA

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

The role is a mid-management role, reporting Head HR, and requires high level of ownership & accountability in ensuring recruitment & retention of high quality talent across the business functions.
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.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design and update job descriptions

• Source potential candidates from various online channels (e.g. social media and other platforms like Naukri, Indeed, Shine, etc)

• Craft recruiting emails to attract passive candidates
• Screen incoming resumes and application forms

• Conduct a telephonic interview of candidates

• Advertise job openings on the company’s careers page, social media, job boards, etc

• Provide shortlists of qualified candidates to the manager.

Requirements and skills

• Proven work experience as an HR Recruiter or similar role
• Familiarity with Applicant Tracking Systems and resume databases

• Experience with sourcing techniques

• Solid verbal and written communication skills

Handling End to End Recruitment.
Handling job portals.
Posting job portal on (monster, Naukri, Linkedin, indeed, etc. )
Making a job description.
Screening candidates from job portals.
Updating daily work report.
Pitching candidates for available vacancies, scheduling interviews.
Taking follow-ups from time to time.
Coordinate with candidates at the end of joining.
Maintaining database of the candidates in excel sheet.
Maintaining the pipeline of candidates and convincing them.

  Write and post technical job descriptions 

  Parse specialized skills and qualifications to screen IT resumes 

  Perform pre-screening calls to analyze applicants’ 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 

  Participate in tech conferences and meetups to network with IT professionals 

  Compose job offer letters 

  Onboard new hires  

What you will do:

• 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

What you need to have:

• 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    

 

Job Responsibilities:

• 2+ years of experience in Technical recruitment
• Design and implement overall recruiting strategy 
• Develop and update job descriptions and job specifications 
• Perform job and task analysis to document job requirements and objectives 
• Source and recruit candidates by using databases, social media etc 
• Screen candidates resumes and job applications 
• Conduct interviews using various reliable recruiting and selection tools/methods to filter candidates within schedule 
• Assess applicants’ https://resources.workable.com/tutorial/recruiting-skills-training" target="_blank">relevant knowledge, skills, soft skills, experience and aptitudes 
• Onboard new employees in order to become fully integrated 
• Monitor and apply HR recruiting best practices 
• Provide analytical and well documented recruiting reports to the rest of the team 
• Act as a point of contact and build influential candidate relationships during the selection process 

 

Primary responsibilities :

Screening / Conducting interviews with engineering talent to :

1. Assess English communication skills (verbal and written)

2. Negotiating rates

3. Assess resumes, ensuring they meet Turing's standards

4. Keep a tight communication loop with software engineering candidates and maintaining

relationships with high-quality engineering talent.

5. Keeping candidates- info updated in Turing's platform.

6. Providing feedback and following up with candidates.

7. Monitor, audit, and grow Turing's engineering pipeline.

8. Working with the Vetting Operations team to refine Turing's outreach strategy and vetting process.

9. Identify, reach-out, and attract relevant professionals to drive the strategic growth of Turing's

engineering pipeline by working closely with engineering, sales, and matching teams to prioritize

sourcing strategy.

Experience:

Must have:

1. Experience in talent support roles is essential

2. Customer service experience and or HR experience.

3. Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, as well as perfect grammar and command of the English language.

4. Hungry for career growth

Hours : Must be willing to work i n South Asian time zones. Most of our engineers are from South

America, Europe, Africa, and South Asia. In order to get on calls with them, they'd need to be able to work between UTC-5 to UTC+5. Calls usually happen between 3:30 PM - 00:30 am in Indian

Timings.

Nice to have:

1. At l east 2 years of experience sourcing or recruiting technical talent with a proven track record of success. Knowledge and experience of the recruiting cycle.

2. Engineering Degree preferred

3. Previous remote working experience

4. An eye for talent and a strong understanding of the differences i n knowledge and expertise

between highly-skilled developers and average talent.

5. Formal or informal experience teaching English preferred

Key qualities:

1. Great English speaker :

- The ability to assess other peoples English communications skills

- Grammar

- Vocabulary

- Accent

- Diction

- The ability to express and communicate complex information clearly and effectively.

- The person would get on a video call, onboarding engineers to the platform.

2. Persuasive and empathetic :

- Some engineers aren't completely sold on joining Turing yet, and so this person would need to

explain the benefits of joining the Turing platform.

- This person would need to provide developer support over emails.

- Conflict resolution

- Create an inviting atmosphere, make the developer feel comfortable.

3. Can negotiate :

- If the engineer's salary ask is too high, the engineer would not be hired by us or our clients.

Therefore, this person would need to set the right expectations for a win-win solution here.

- We have a negotiation script that recommends how much each person should be paid based on

location, and the person can use this to negotiate.

4. Team Work :

- Ability to work under pressure and adhere to tight deadlines while keeping quality.

- Ability to communicate clearly and constantly with teams via Slack and other collaboration tools.

5. Process-driven/methodical :

- Strong attention to detail.

- Problem solver and can easily identify areas of improvement

 

Our team will be in touch if your qualifications match our needs for this role. Thanks again for considering us in your career.

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.