We are looking for a Talent Acquisition Executive for Merito. Merito is a curated talent platform where we identify, assess, and connect candidates for matching job opportunities. We are working with the mission to change the way hiring is done. The company is founded by a team, consisting of alumni from IIM Ahmedabad, McKinsey with more than 2 decades of experience in recruitment, training, and coaching.
Job Profile:
Client onboarding and engagement.
Analyzing requirements and creating job descriptions.
Ensuring quality recruitment and selection within agreed TAT.
Individually contributing toward closing key executive search requirements
Requirements
1-3 years of agency recruitment experience for Tech / Non-Tech / leadership roles.
Minimum 1 year experience with executive search
Hands-on experience with optimally utilizing ATS and other recruitment software.
Benefits
Fixed Pay + Variables

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Merito.ai is a full stack talent services company.
We are a curated talent platform where we identify, assess, and connect candidates to matching job opportunities. We are working with the mission to change the way hiring is done.
Our clients are India's fastest-growing startups that are looking to hire quality talent to fuel their growth.
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Job Specification – Recruitment Lead
Experience: end-to-end recruitment experience, including niche and leadership hiring.
Domain Knowledge: Strong exposure to IT hiring, preferably within the Salesforce ecosystem.
Technical & Process Skills: Proficient in sourcing, headhunting, ATS management, and recruitment analytics.
Stakeholder & Team Management: Skilled in managing business leaders and driving recruiter performance.
Networking & Market Insight: Capable of building talent pipelines and leveraging industry networks.
Communication: Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and presentation skills.
Agility & Ownership: High adaptability with a fast paced & high results-driven and process-oriented approach.
KRA will involve-
End-to-End Hiring – Manage full-cycle recruitment to ensure timely and quality closures within a TAT of max 45 days.
Niche & Leadership Hiring – Independently manage Salesforce niche, senior, and confidential mandates through headhunting.
Team Performance – Lead and drive consistent results with 3 successful joining's per recruiter per month.
Process Compliance & Excellence – Ensure adherence to hiring process, data accuracy, ATS upkeep, candidate verification, and defined process flow.
Recruitment Strategy – Design and execute effective sourcing and hiring strategies.
Talent Pipeline – Build and sustain a strong Salesforce talent network for future needs. Coach team members on follower development on LinkedIn for pool creation.
Strategic Projects – Lead initiatives like ATS implementation, salary benchmarking, and employer branding.
Position - Recruiter & HR
About the role
Identify qualified Tech & Non-tech candidate profiles using various sourcing techniques
Proactively interact with potential candidates through various job portals, social media, and professional networks (e.g. LinkedIn, Indeed, Angle list)
Work directly with the founders and develop talent pipelines for future hiring needs and strategic roles
Ensuring a good candidate experience during the recruitment process
As our first HR hire, be responsible for some of the other early stage HR functions (Onboarding & Policies).
What are we looking for?
3-5+ years working in the early stage startups or similar organizations
You are a self-starter and can make decisions on your feet with minimal supervision, end-to-end ownership to drive outcomes.
You possess deep employee empathy
We are location agnostic, but in the same time zone (India). We have a small garden office @ Jayanagar, Bangalore (home to some of the best dosas in India) to jam together on anything that requires space.
You are somebody who shares the same ethos.
Bonus
You've an interest in EdTech & learning.
You have interests outside work, in art, music, cooking, dance or any other similar skill.
What is our interview process?
An initial 30 min call to understand each other at a high level.
Work on a case study or assignment together to ensure a good match.
Responsibilities
- Identify and Source candidates with matching skills and experience as specified in the requirements
- Interview and qualify shortlisted candidates to confirm suitability (technical, administrative and personal), attitude, honesty and reliability
- Confirm that the chosen candidates are willing to be deputed to work at our clients’ premises
- Build confidence and trust in the candidates that they are our team and full-time employees
- Follow-up with candidates by sharing with and obtaining from the candidates all information promptly and periodically throughout the recruitment process
Location: Chennai
Experience: 3+ years
Domain: Domestic Staffing Industry
Skills: Recruitment of IT and other engineers for Telecom Industry
Geographical Coverage: Pan India
Work Hours: 6 Days Week except Second Saturday
We are hiring a Recruitment Specialist who can take care of hiring and team building.
Job Roles and Responsibilities:
- Coordinate with managers to identify staffing needs.
- Determine selection criteria.
- Source potential candidates through online channels (e.g. Job portals , Social media platforms, Professional networks).
- Plan interview and selection procedures, including screening calls, assessments and in-person interviews.
- Assess candidate information, including resumes and contact details, using our Applicant Tracking System.
- Design job descriptions and interview questions that reflect each position's requirements.
- Lead employer branding initiatives and manage a team of Recruitment executives.
- Forecast monthly, quarterly and annual hiring needs by department.
- Foster long-term relationships with past applicants and potential candidates.
Requirements:
- Must have experience in IT, Non IT and leadership roles hiring, preferably for startups.
- Proven work experience (minimum 3+ years) as a Recruitment Specialist or similar role.
- Experience in volume/bulk hiring for Sales roles.
- Familiarity with social media, resume databases and professional networks.
- Hands-on experience with full-cycle recruiting using various interview techniques and evaluation methods.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- A keen understanding of the differences between various roles within organisations.
- B-Tech or MBA in Human Resources Management.
About Company
Moody’s Global Talent Acquisition department supports over 10,000 colleagues globally. The team is aligned into 3 regions (US/Americas, EMEA, APAC) and focused on attracting, engaging, and acquiring diverse high-quality talent for Moody’s three business entities.
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Skills: IT/Technical hiring, end to end recruitment, good stakeholder management, candidates from Corporate background with IT/Technical hiring experience.
Key Responsibilities –
The Recruiter is responsible for executing recruiting regional strategies that strengthen organizational capabilities to ensure business leaders have the talent to successfully achieve business objectives.
The Recruiter will work with business leaders and hiring managers in their client group and with other recruiting team members to provide full lifecycle best practice recruitment service. They will execute talent acquisition strategies to identify, attract and hire high-quality talent for the business/region, utilizing active and passive sourcing techniques to fill existing and future job openings. The Recruiter will use the information provided that interprets internal employment demands to translate them into timely, results-driven action items
Recruiting Delivery
• Execute full life-cycle regional recruiting processes, including the HR-related onboarding of new employees
• Support the client group’s current and future staffing needs within the HR service delivery framework.
• Take part in the execution of outsourcing strategy (if any) appropriate to the regions workforce planning and business needs to source, attract, and hire best talent.
• Utilize various tools and resources to effectively evaluate talent in a variety of methods in order to ensure that the company is selecting highly qualified and engaged professionals to join the organization
• Provide value-add recruiting advice to hiring managers to influence and persuade talent decisions
• Demonstrate understanding of talent needs of hiring managers and job requirements to assess candidate quality, skills and fit to identify the best candidate for a position
• Attract and recruit the highest calibre candidates in a cost effective and time efficient manner
• Manage the presentation, selection, offer, negotiation, closing and administrative components involved in fulllifecycle recruiting
• Review resumes and credentials for appropriateness of skills, experience and knowledge in relation to position requirements
• Interview all candidates presented for detailed interviewing by hiring managers and include the use of face-to-face behavioural-based interviewing methodologies
• Advise management on appropriate recruitment methods and salary ranges
• Advise on relevant changes to employment laws that impact recruitment and be aware of confidentiality issues as they arise
• Be knowledgeable about and able to appropriately explain Moody’s benefits and recruitment related policies and programs
• Implement external candidate recruiting programs that attract, select and retain a qualified, diverse workforce and support Moody’s workplace diversity goals.
Sourcing:
• Demonstrate labor market expertise for the markets in which you recruit
• Administer sourcing strategies to identify and recruit potential new hires
• Source active candidates from online databases, internal databases, contact lists and employee referrals
• Source passive candidate leads through internet research, networking, cold calling and market presence
• Design, plan and coordinate large scale recruitment events like career days and job fairs, Super Days and Campus hiring
Recruiting Strategy & Marketing
• Communicate recruiting strategies, including sourcing and acquisition strategies; recruiting tools and processes; talent mapping and systems.
• Implement external candidate marketing and proactive recruiting programs and processes that attract, select and retain a qualified, diverse workforce.
• Partner with Diversity and Inclusion to achieve Moody’s aspirational diversity goals including support of campus recruiting and summer internship programs.
• Attend business and / or networking functions to build and maintain a vast network of professional relationships over a long period of time with the goal to ultimately attract them to Moody’s
• Strategically develop and implement localized advertising campaigns (Internet, Intranet, newspapers, etc.). Evaluate campaign’s value based on cost effectiveness and ability to attract top-level candidates
• Establish and maintain contacts with employment sources, such as colleges/universities, employment agencies, search firms, trade associations, etc.
• Create and foster relationships with colleges and diverse professional organizations to attract and recruit alumni and diversity candidates (US only
Workforce Analytics
• Implement operational efficiencies and practices that drive strong performance across all recruitment-related metrics including Time to Fill, Quality of Hire, Cost Per Hire and Source effectiveness.
• Maintain accurate and up to date recruiting data. Create and distribute recruiting activity reports and budgets as required. Conduct management presentations regarding recruiting activity as needed.
Contract: 9 Months
No. of experience: 5+ years
Location: Gurgaon/Bangalore
- Source, interview, and select applicants for various positions.
- Sound knowledge on Sourcing Candidates thru REDEX, Monster & various Job Sites.
- Foster long-term relationships with candidates and clients
- Sourcing from different job boards. Excellent knowledge in Boolean function & usage of various job board databases.
- Draft job descriptions, push them through all talent acquisition channels, and coordinate candidate sourcing with the same.
- Doing junior to middle-level hiring for all IT verticals.
- Review applicants to verify if position requirements are met.
- Format resumes meeting client expectations.
- Telephonic Screening of the profiles checking for Technical Fitment, Behavioural Fitment, Stability, etc.
- Utilize your innovative and effective convincing and negotiation skills to impress and attract top talent.
- Follow up with candidates and clients and maintain records of progress.
Roles & Responsibilities:.
- Ability to build strong relationships.
- Self-confidence and self-starter.
- Excellent written and oral (phone) communication skills a MUST.
- Good sense of humor
Talent Sourcer
Location: Pune, India
Type of Employee: Contractual
Druva delivers data protection and management for the cloud era. Druva Cloud Platform is built on AWS and offered as-a-Service; delivering globally accessible, infinitely scalable and completely autonomous enterprise data resiliency. Customers drive down costs by up to 50 percent by freeing themselves from the burden of unnecessary hardware, capacity planning, and software management. Druva’s patented cloud architecture transforms backup data into an asset, making it more open and accessible so customers can streamline governance, improve cyber resiliency, and gain critical insights to uncover opportunities and expedite decision making.
Druva has raised over $350m in venture capital, is trusted by over 4,000 global organizations and protects over 200 PB of data.
Summary:
Druva is seeking a highly motivated and energetic Talent Sourcer. The ideal candidate will be responsible for identifying and recruiting candidates with technical and specialized skills to fill current or future vacancies. You would primarily interact with potential candidates personally or online, and schedule interviews with Recruiters and Hiring Managers. You would also maintain candidate databases and our Applicant Tracking System (ATS).
As an individual contributor, you would be responsible for
- Work closely with recruiters to gain a deep understanding of requirements for open roles, the function and how it fits into the organization
- Strategize different ways to build talent pipelines and execute research
- Driving hiring for niche functions including product, technology to support fast-paced business growth
- Find high-quality passive candidates through the use of Boolean, LinkedIn, and alternative search techniques
Qualifications/Requirements/We’re Looking For Someone With
- Up to 5 years of experience working with and building sourcing strategies with Recruiters and hiring managers.
- Someone with a strong understanding of technology and sourcing would be an ideal fit
- Experience with social-media hiring (Linkedin, Twitter, FB, etc.), technology-focused forums (GitHub, StackOverflow, etc.), and other sourcing channels
- Robust interpersonal skills with a strong track record of success
- Must have worked in a high-pressure environment that is driven by business priorities and stakeholder enabling scenarios
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills







