Talent Acquisition Specialist

Temporary full time role

Job requirement - Sourcing and TA for top brand startups in India and around the world. 

Need experience and background in HR, TA & outbound search/sourcing
prior experience with tech hiring for startups is highly preferred.

We are seeking free-lance recruiters. Consequently, we provide flexible work arrangements which accomodates for multiple jobs.

Catalyst IQ is a new-age Recrutiment and Advisory startup which brings a ledership from international and local business exposure. We are trying to create an effective marketplace for free-lance recrutiers. We specialise in mandates for edtech, Agritech, Fintech (neo bank, DeFi and Accounting ERP), e-gamming and others. 

value proposition - Catalyst IQ provide the potential to for someone to earn a months salary that a typical HR recruiter with 0-4 years exp makes in a full-time role, by just working part-time for us. 

Connect with us to learn more.

Context:

Cutshort has launched Lightning, an Amazon-inspired recruitment agency service for tech hiring. It offers unprecedented relevance and speed to companies, at a dramatically lower price of just 6.33% of CTC.

This is powered by our massive technology advantage and is delivered by experts.

Good news- We are now looking for more professionals to join our team of experts!

What would you do?

As a Technical Recruitment Expert you would enable lightning-fast hiring for our clients using our AI-powered sol. You will be responsible for sourcing, attracting, and helping them recruit for various technical roles.

How is it different from working at conventional agencies?

• Unlike agencies that only source talent from generic databases like Naukri, you would use Cutshort's 3M+ talent pool.
• You would use our LLMs and Gen-AI based tools to find the candidates who actually have the skills the hiring managers want.
• As the name suggests, you would enable a Lightning fast delivery of interview-ready folks to the hiring managers.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience in recruiting for technical positions.
• Understand technical requirements and possess familiarity with the skills needed for different technical roles.
• Goal-oriented mindset with a track record of setting and achieving recruitment goals and targets.
• Strong organizational skills to manage multiple tasks and priorities effectively.
• Exceptional time management abilities to thrive in a fast-paced recruitment environment.
• Excellent communication skills to interact effectively with hiring managers, candidates, and other stakeholders.

The work culture at Cutshort:

We are a small team that believes in

• Working with a few, but only with the highest quality team members who want to become the very best in their fields.
• Having a flat organisational structure with a merit-first, no-politics environment
• Partnering with our employees to achieve their career goals and helping them grow professionally, financially and holistically.

Please read more here: https://medium.com/cutshort/should-you-work-at-cutshort-read-this-to-find-out-466d9086dec6

Read more about our Lightning service here: https://cutshort.io/lightning

Interested? You can apply and chat with us in the chat window.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Build talent pipelines for current and future job openings
• Lead all sourcing strategies
• Manage our external partnerships with colleges, job boards and HR software vendors
• Implement online and offline employer branding activities
• Prepare and review our annual recruitment budget
• Oversee all stages of candidate experience (including application, interviews and communication)
• Forecast hiring needs based on business growth plans
• Manage, train and evaluate our team of recruiters
• Participate in and host recruitment events to drive awareness of our company
• Develop a network of potential future hires (e.g. past applicants and referred candidates)
• Measure key recruitment metrics, like source of hire and time-to-hire

Desired Candidate Profile

• Proven work experience as a Talent Acquisition Specialist or similar role
• Demonstrable experience managing full-cycle recruiting and employer branding initiatives
• Solid understanding of sourcing techniques and tools (e.g. social networks)
• Hands-on experience with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATSs) and HR databases
• Good team-management abilities
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to foster long-term relationships (with internal teams, external partners and candidates)
• BSc/MSc in Human Resources Management or relevant field

• • facilitate and maintain relationships between  organization and vendors/partners
  • negotiating contracts, creating standards for the vendors, and finding the best available vendors
  • Good stakeholder management and 3-4 years of experience working in a similar set up where they have handled the Contract hiring piece
  • Prior experience in MIS, tracking of profiles, sourcing candidates, scheduling
  • Exp in Vendor management, assessing vendor performance, clearing PO’s, empanelment of vendors and creating SOP’s.
  • Establishing the process (create a flow chart on process and circulate to all businesses)
  • Maintaining vendor database and keeping resumes ready skill wise.
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Job Title : Talent Acquisition Sourcers

Roles and responsibilities:

• Sourcing candidates from various job portals.
• Conducting the initial screening rounds.
• Scheduling interviews with candidates and panel members.
• Job Posting for Portals, Social Media and External Sources.
• Preparing the Resource tracker Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly MIS.
• Conducting the Weekend Recruitment Drives.
• Worked on PPT and various ways of presenting data as a story/theme.
• Have managed high volume of data and MIS in past.

Requirement:

• MBA (HR) / Graduate
• Experience 2-6yrs into sourcing candidates from Job portals & have spent 70% doing IT recruitment & 30% non-it
• Location : Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai
• Ability to articulate confidently
• Excellent communication skills (written & verbal)
• Strong analytical skills
• Contract period : 1year

JD for HR Recruiter

• Partnering with  client to determine staffing needs
• Screening resumes
• Performing in-person and phone interviews with candidates
• Administering appropriate company assessments
• Performing reference and background checks
• Forwarding screened profiles to client  hiring managers
• Coordinating interviews with the clients
• Following up on the interview process status
• Maintaining relationships with both internal and external clients to ensure staffing goals are achieved
• Communicating employer information and benefits during screening process
• Serving as a liaison with area employment agencies, colleges, and industry associations
• Completing timely reports on employment activity
• Payment follow up with client after joining candidate

Purpose of the Job:

Will be the face of the organization in terms of attracting talent, the incumbent will be handling entire recruitment life cycle – sourcing, screening, interviewing, selecting, salary negotiation an on boarding. The goal is to understand the ongoing hiring mandates and strategically hire to ensure the business continuity. Flexible and versatile to diversified hiring.

Key Deliverables:

• Would be responsible to lead entire TnA cycle
• To identify prospective candidates using a variety of channels.
• Assessing candidate and their suitability in terms of the experience, technical knowledge and the organizations culture.
• Research and develop a sustainable strategy pertaining to diversity hiring.
• Research into competitors and market place
• Define job description and document specifications for business and corporate positions.
• Adhere to the company’s recruitment metrics, such as time-to-hire and cost-per-hire.
• Identify areas where there can be improvement and pitch in strategies that will help in making the recruitment process much more efficient.
• Follow-up references and check credits.
• Manage Recruitment Partners and maintain a healthy source mix.
• Will be responsible in monitoring hiring for centers PAN India

Skills / Competency required:

• 7+ years of experience in talent acquisition with excellent understanding of recruitment processes
• Excellent communication skills written and verbal in English, Tamil and Hindi
• Well versed with latest sourcing tools and good knowledge of candidate selection methods
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills.  
• Good interpersonal, presentation and communication skills
• Team player
• Good time-management skills
• Strong planning and execution skills
• Negotiation skills
• Strong in Head Hunting and Industry mapping.

• Need At least 2-year experience in fast paced staffing environment working on IT, Non-IT and Techno-Functional Requirement like Business Analyst, IT Project Manager, Marketing Manager, Digital Marketing, Program Manager, Software QA Engineer, Software Developer, Accountant, Accounting Manager etc.
• Good in communication and can work independently with minimal supervision.
• Should be well aware of the recruitment process and related terms like MSP/Markup/Rate Negotiation.
• Team Player.
• Ability to learn and grasp new skills.
• Positive Attitude towards Work.
• Not looking for a specialist recruiter for a particular domain, we need someone who can work on all types of requirements as per the business need.
• Qualification: Any Graduate.

• Experience in end to end recruitment and account management.
• Source candidates using a variety of search methods to build a robust candidate pipeline
• Screen candidates by reviewing resumes and performing screenings
• Stay abreast of recruiting trends and best practices
• Manage the overall interview, selection, and closing process
• Handle IT recruitment for clients
• Client interaction and managing client expectations
• Work in a target driven environment