Talent Acquisition Lead

Thrillophilia’s journey is rooted in a passion for travel, exploration, and adventure. It began back in 2011 when the global market was still too young for online travel transactions. Ever since we have grown to become India’s largest online platform for booking affordable travel experiences across 55+ countries. Our offerings are diverse and wholesome, with 24,000+ products and services ranging from tours and activities to luxury and culture stays, powered by exclusive deals and extra effort to bring joy to all our travelers.

Thrillophilia grows on a strong foundation of innovative travel technology, great on-ground presence & support, and hand-curated local experiences to bring our 84 million travelers the most delightful holiday experience every year. With multiple tourism and start-up awards as well as global recognition under our belt, we have scaled tenfold over the past three years.

Role Overview:

As the Assistant HR Manager at Thrillophilia, you will play a critical role in building and maintaining our exceptional team. Your primary focus will be on recruitment, ensuring we attract, onboard, and retain top talent who share our passion for travel and adventure. In addition to recruitment, you will also be responsible for various HR operational tasks, contributing to a positive and efficient work environment.

Responsibilities:

• Recruitment and Talent Acquisition

- Lead end-to-end recruitment processes, including job posting, candidate sourcing, screening, interviewing, and selection.

- Develop and maintain relationships with external recruitment agencies and platforms to ensure a continuous pipeline of top talent.

- Collaborate with department heads to understand staffing needs and align recruitment efforts with business goals.

- Enhance and maintain the employer brand, ensuring Thrillophilia is an attractive destination for prospective employees.

2. Onboarding and Orientation

- Design and implement effective onboarding programs to ensure new hires acclimate smoothly to the company culture and workflows.

- Coordinate orientations, including paperwork, introductions, and training to help new employees settle into their roles.

3. HR Operations:

- Manage and maintain employee records, ensuring accuracy and confidentiality.

- Assist in the development and implementation of HR policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with local employment laws.

- Handle employee queries and concerns, providing guidance and resolution in line with company policies.

- Administer employee benefits and leave policies, including leave tracking and coordination.

4. Employee Engagement

- Support initiatives that foster employee engagement, satisfaction, and retention.

- Coordinate team-building activities and events that contribute to a positive work culture.

5. Exit Management:

- Oversee the exit process, conducting exit interviews, and identifying trends and areas for improvement.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources Management or a related field. Master's degree or HR certification is a plus.

- Minimum of 3 years of experience in HR roles, with a strong emphasis on recruitment.

- Proven track record of successfully recruiting and retaining talent.

- Sound knowledge of HR best practices, employment laws, and regulations.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

- Strong organizational and multitasking abilities.

- Proficiency in HR software and tools.

- A passion for creating a positive and engaging workplace culture.

Preferred:

- Familiarity with HR practices in a startup or fast-paced environment.

Join us in our journey to create memorable travel experiences for millions of adventurers. As the HR Manager, you will be instrumental in shaping our team and culture, ensuring Thrillophilia remains a great place to work and grow.

Responsibilities:

· Responsible for Technology hiring across levels and manage a team of recruiters

· Responsible for end to end Talent Acquisition including planning and strategizing for deliverables, sourcing and attracting candidates through various active and passive channels; candidate engagement; stakeholder management; reporting; database management etc.

· High end ownership of the deliverables.

· Focus on priorities, drive & deliver successfully.

· Maintain effective communication with the hiring managers and candidates.

· Build influential candidate relationships throughout the process.

· Follow and practice latest recruitment trends and strategies.

· Build and maintain network of potential candidates through proactive market research and networking.

· Proactively resolve bottle necks.

· Prepare and submit timely progress reports to various stakeholders.

· Involve in various initiatives for process improvement and talent branding

What are we looking for?

· Proven 5 -10 years of experience in technical recruitment with excellence in hiring across levels, stakeholder management, database management, reporting etc

· Ability to manage a team of recruiters and sourcers

· Expertise in stakeholder management and leading an entire unit of hiring independently

· Possess the ability to assess candidates against profiles and the culture

· Strong understanding about engineering and product requisitions

· Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and work under tight timelines

· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

· Impeccable multitasking and organizational skills

· Always pushing the limits

· Excellent relationship building and analytical skills

· Knowledge of latest recruitment trends and practices

· Proven skills in attracting candidates through various social media channels

· Detailed oriented, organized, discrete and dedicated professional

We are currently hiring for multiple Talent Acquisition Partner positions for our team at www.qrata.co, Qrata is a talent startup that helps scale funded startups globally, we work with most of the top VCs in India as well as help build remote engineering teams for US/Europe-based startups. We will be launching our talent product to analyze talent using machine learning to help our customers find the right fit.

Responsibilities

• Build an effective candidate pipeline through Inbound/Outbound sourcing channels with minimal dependency
• Source and recruit candidates by using databases, social media, and hiring portals (Naukri, IIM Jobs, LinkedIn etc.) and other creative sources
• Plan and execute candidate engagement activities, including owning the candidate experience from start to finish, pre-onboarding engagement, and post-joining engagement.
• Keep track of employee growth and the company's atmosphere and culture to ensure that it remains pleasant and productive.
• Research, mapping, company analysis, pitching, understanding the startup ecosystem, having intelligent discussions with talent and founders, preparing talent for interviews, and following up with talent are all things which need to be handled.
• Drive outcomes with zeal, think and act fast, and function long-term and in the best interests of the organization.

What are we Looking for

• Ability to work with a wide range of clients, including senior level business leaders and seasoned professional candidates within the engineering organization; proficient in using data to guide decisions and change
• Recognize how to recruit and keep the best brains from all walks of life while harnessing the potential of a diverse workforce.
• Ability to mix the position of strategic talent adviser with a sense of urgency while also managing and achieving outcomes in a fast-paced, expanding environment
• Proven track record of developing talent pipelines and sourcing
• Continuously developing talent pipelines and identifying suitable individuals is a plus.
• A thorough grasp of and application of recruitment metrics to guide decision-making is highly recommended.
• Ability to talk intelligently about the firm and respond to any technical inquiries posed by a prospective recruit
• 3 plus years of experience

Star Points if you have

• Startup Experience
• Effective client contact abilities at all levels
• Interpersonal skills and the capacity to interact effectively in a professional setting
• Consistent with our beliefs and values
• Initiative/leadership experience in projects or events
• Solid understanding of LinkedIn, Naukri, IIM platforms.

About Us:

Sankey Solutions is a technology solution and IT consulting firm providing IT and digital transformation services. Solving high-level business problems of the clients using advanced software and methods. Started in 2015 with a team of 4 and has grown to a team of 200+ employees with offices in India, Singapore, and the UK.

The company has been awarded as one of the top 5 startups of the year 2019, recognized as the 7th fastest-growing tech company by Deloitte and 13th High Growth Company by Economic Times in India. We are technology agnostic with constant learning and unlearning of tools, languages, and mindset with conceptual understanding over black-box knowledge.

We work to develop innovative technology solutions with the latest technology in the field of Web Mobility, Application Services, AI, Big Data, Machine Learning, Predictive and Prescriptive modelling. With a vision to create a new type of technology company that can drive more innovation and build cutting edge solutions, we have worked with 50+ clients globally. Built more than 60 applications and solved more than 80 business problems

Role: HR-IT Executive

Job Description:

Job responsibilities:

• Create and execute a Campus Strategy for Sankey Solutions.
• Building relationships with College TPOs/ Directors/ representatives and driving campus hiring initiatives.
• Visiting College Job fairs in PAN India and conducting pre-placement presentations, group discussions, technical interviews, and Personal Interviews.
• Showcase your passion for campus talent acquisition by being responsible for PAN India campus relationship coordination with training & placement officers.
• Own and participate in induction program activities to maintain candidate engagement that results in a higher conversion of full-time employment.
• Leverage functional expertise, industry knowledge and trends to identify optimum sourcing options to attract top talent across campuses to ensure quality hires.

Qualification:

• Tech, B.Tech, M.Sc, B.Sc, BCA, BE, ME (COMP and IT students only), and MCA +MBA (HR)

Skills requirement:

• Excellent interpersonal skills & presentation skills
• Dynamic personality
• Problem-solving attitude

Experience: 1 year and above

Location: Thane, Mumbai

Note: Only IT graduates can apply for this role

We are looking for a Recruiter Lead responsible for full-cycle recruiting experience, from talent sourcing and attracting candidates to interviewing and hiring great employees.

You will collaborate with department managers on a regular basis and proactively identify future hiring needs. You will ensure our company attracts, hires, and retains the best employees while growing a strong talent pipeline. You will develop & lead a team of HR recruiters.

Job Roles & Responsibilities

• Sourcing and attracting candidates by using databases, social media, etc
• Designing and implementing the overall recruiting strategy
• Conducting interviews and filtering candidates for open positions
• Perform job and task analysis to document job requirements and objectives
• Prepare recruitment materials and post jobs to appropriate job board/newspapers/colleges etc
• 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
• Promote the company’s reputation as “best place to work”

Collaborate with business leads/managers, team members, RPO partners, recruitment agencies and other groups to run an effective recruiting unit

• Own planning and achievement of team targets, help team members on aspects like sourcing, quality checks, meeting their goals
• Implement weekly/monthly execution strategies through your team (5-6 members) to provide effective, in-time hires
• Work within predefined recruitment processes, also assess scope for improvement and build new methodologies
• Work on offer-generation, negotiation and post offer follow-up
• Continuously think and implement better candidate engagement practices (pre and post offer)
• Take initiatives to improve offer to join ratio and track necessary data trends
• Prepare team interview coordination plans and manage interviews in and out of Pune
• Work meticulously on ATS adherence and motivate the team to do so
• Work on data gathering, analysing and reporting, fetch meaningful hiring data trends

Required professional and technical expertise:

• Minimum 8 - 12years of experience in recruiting (preferably in IT corporates or Large RPO's)
• Must have worked on niche skills and targeted hiring (headhunting)
• Expertise in sourcing through social media channels and other innovative sourcing channels would be a plus
• Demonstrable experience in partner management and strength to hold difficult conversations with them
• Ambitious individual who can work under their own direction towards agreed targets/goals
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills, ability to lead a team

Responsibilities

• Develop talent by leveraging recruiting processes and tools and gathering role requirements and recommendations.
• Advocate for the candidate and create an excellent experience, supporting candidate assessment, evaluating candidate skills and client needs, and driving the interview and offer process.
• Influence hiring managers on their hiring strategy and provide status updates on open roles.
• Manage recruiting initiatives to meet established goals. Improve the candidate, new hire, hiring manager, and recruiter experience.
• Partner with key business, staffing, and hiring stakeholders to build solutions for diversity, equity, and inclusion objectives.

Key Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in end-to-end recruitment in IT technologies.
• Take ownership individually and as a team member in supporting all open roles.
• Good understanding of software business, preferably Digital, Analytics and Technology hiring
• Energetic, ambitious professional with strong integrity
• Strong Communication, analytical/influential skills
• Good in talent mapping and networking with all levels of candidates
• Keen learner who can sail through ambiguity.
• Maintaining hands-on meticulous reports, draw trends and analysis, have great offer to joining ratio
• Quick joiners are preferred.

Location

Bangalore/Udupi

Seniority Level

5- 9 Year’s Experience, Mid-level in hierarchy

• Write and post technical job descriptions
• Source potential candidates on niche platforms
• Parse specialized skills and qualifications to screen resumes
• Proven work experience as a Technical Recruiter
• 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
• Familiarity with Applicant Tracking Systems and resume databases
• Solid knowledge of sourcing techniques (e.g. social media recruiting and Boolean search)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Solid understanding of HR practices and labor legislation
•