
Talent Acquisition Lead - Edtech & Sales
at E-Learning Platform for Skill Development
Headquartered in Bangalore, our client was co-founded by a team of four young veteran entrepreneurs who were all specially mentioned by ‘Forbes 30 under 30’. They focus on their online programs conducted by young professionals and educators who have made a mark in their fields as published authors, young entrepreneurs, investors etc. They have been funded by tier 1 investors and have recently raised $3M in funding.
As aTalent Acquisition Lead - Edtech & Sales, You will be focusing on the aspects of recruitment from strategizing and designing the recruitment process for a fast-growing sales team, you will be working with a huge recruitment team of 20 plus members to achieve the results. You will be working towards improving the quality of hires and increasing the retention of the sales team.
What you will do:
- Working closely with sales and operations & Sales team on all diversity involving recruitment to ensure fairness in hiring practices
- Using various methods to recruit and network with potential candidates including social media platforms, networking events, job fairs, job portals and campus hiring
- Ensuring proper onboarding for new hires and the necessary paperwork is completed promptly and accurately
- Providing feedback to management about details regarding applications
- Using standardized screening techniques, Assess the skills, qualifications and experience of potential candidates
- Coordinating the hiring process end-to-end
What you need to have:
- Proven experience of 4-6 years as a Talent Acquisition Specialist, TA lead, or similar role
- Should have experience into sales hirings and building sales teams
- Edu-tech experience preferred.
- Hands-on experience with the largest job sites like, Indeed, LinkedIn and Campus Hiring
- Experience with full-cycle recruiting, using various interview techniques and evaluation methods
- Familiarity with applicant tracking systems
- Strong interpersonal skills and communication skills
- Team spirit

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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.
About the Company:
Our client a luxury home décor brand. It’s nothing less than a revolution in home décor industry- where technology enables world class home interior design.
HR Recruiter- JD
Job Purpose : To understand job description, business role requirement, source, screen, interview and
shortlist cv’s for all roles and forward them to the hiring manager and close all target positions
Responsibilities:
• Ensure all job descriptions are as per business requirements and there is role parity in the
organization chart in terms of role redundancy, overlapping , gender and cost alignment
• Understand the job specification from the hiring manager and discuss the same with HR Head.
Take approval on the same
• Strategize the channels of hire for the roles and justify the cost for the same
• Show efficiency of the recruitment process in a weekly report dashboard to all internal
stakeholders
• Daily reporting of cv’s received, cv’s rejected, cv’s in interview and cv’s shortlisted, role wise to
HR Head and evaluate ratios for the same, align strategy accordingly
• Track any on notice positions and plan for replacement hiring
• Create a proactive pipeline of high attrition roles
• Create a campus hiring strategy and interaction all year round
• Give market insights and share solutions to tackle them proactively
• Onboard best recruitment consultants to work with
• Create monthly reports and share the same with internal stakeholders
• Ensure all hygiene factors are accounted for Job description, job specification, KPI’s, cv’s,
candidate information forms, feedback forms, reference check forms and daily, weekly and
monthly reports are all maintained and updated
Requirement:
• Preferably a recruitment consultant with experience of 7 – 9 years in recruiting
• Someone who enjoys talking to people and scanning through cv’s all day
• Hard core recruiting experience in IT (50%) as well as Non-IT (50%) roles
• Strong communication, interpersonal, negotiation skills and efficient in stakeholder management
• Attention to detail
• Able to handle ad hoc work without stress
Qualification:
• MBA HR preferred or Diploma / Graduation with 5 years’ experience in recruiting
Regards
Team Merito
- Design and implement overall recruiting strategy- For Asst Manager
- Above only.
- Develop and update job descriptions and job specifications.
- Perform job and task analysis to document job requirements and
- objectives.
- Prepare recruitment materials and post jobs to the appropriate job
- portals and other sources.
- 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 the schedule
- Assess applicants’ 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
- Promote the company’s reputation as the “best place to work”
Role Talent Aquistion
who can handle multiple clients
Expertise in contract staffing
Big 4 experience will be preffred
- 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.
• Hire candidates from various sources such as Job portals, Social networks and references etc.
• Responsible for data/file management processes
• Responsible for the end-to-end process of the recruitment
• Responsible to handle requirements and clients (if directed to) effectively.
• Continuously seek and open to learn, improve the skills.
Desired Skills
• Experience in end-to-end recruitment, both vanilla and niche skills in an agency environment
• Ability to work with normal sourcing avenues such as Job Portals, Social Networking,
References, Head Hunting etc. as well as to Innovate new recruiting techniques.
• Understanding of Technology from a recruiter standpoint
• Excellent interpersonal skills with good written and verbal communication.
Skills and Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree (Must)
• Good experience in domestic recruitment
• Exceptional communication skills, writing skills, interpersonal skills, and ethical mindset
• Adept to problem-solving and conflict resolution
The Recruitment Lead will be responsible for overall India recruitment strategy
development, implementation and administration of recruitment programs. Execute
Recruitment strategy to drive business results of each internal departments and
appropriate stakeholders.
The Recruitment Lead will possess and exercise exceptional skills in: problem solving,
strategic thinking, and project/process management, coaching and fostering
collaboration. To monitor and constantly reduces the costs of the recruitment process
Functions and Responsibilities:
40% Recruiting Strategy: Provide day to day support on the overall recruiting life cycle and
building trusted relationships with hiring managers.
Overall Recruiting Strategy for
o Responsible towards the senior leadership in planning, developing,
executing, and directing hiring strategies, processes, and programs for
o Lead sourcing strategies through a variety of sourcing channels across all of
recruiting needs.
Manage and maintain external search agency relationships, contracts,
negotiations and effectiveness.
Develop and manage university and external program relationships to
build additional sourcing pipelines.
Oversight over all open roles and health of the pipelines.
Identifying key industry related events and coordinating participation.
o Responsible for partnering with Marketing and Design on all recruiting related
activities including managing our social media brand related to hiring
o Partnering effectively with the Global recruiting team, ensuring
alignment on practices, and alignment on use of external agencies.
Hiring Manager Relationships
Responsible for building an understanding of our hiring needs, conducting a
needs analysis and evaluation of job descriptions that best target our talent
profiles.
Responsible for providing counsel to hiring managers on approaches to recruiting
and interviewing practices
2
Senior Manager Recruitment
Job Description
Act as a relationship manager between hiring managers and candidates, being
responsible towardsand balancing our needs and expectations with
that of the candidate.
Partnering with theHR team on supportinHiring manager
needs.
Educating and enabling managers through the interview framework
30% Recruiting
Manage open job postings and candidate pipeline
Responsible for managing an active and passive pipeline search through a variety of
recruiting channels.
Responsible for ensuring a positive candidate experience throughout the life cycle of the
recruitment process.
Provide support on building out job descriptions
Gathering candidate feedback in a timely manner
Coordinating and scheduling candidates in a timely manner being respectful of the hiring
managers’ schedules.
Ensuring alignment of communications through job postings and candidate experience
align with our overall culture and brand.
20% Recruiting Operations
Reporting and Metrics:
Ensuring the recruiting report is updated on a weekly basis and providing any
further metrics or reporting needs analysis.
Leadership level communication: Managing the Leadership and as appropriate
Managers communications on the overall health of our recruitment.
Financials:
Oversight of the budgets aligned against search agencies, external events,
memberships
Oversight of referral program partnering with Finance, including processing of
any referral payments
Agency Relationships: Responsible for negotiating and managing any external agency
relationships. Fiscally responsible for the costs and management of these relationships.
Responsible for the overall recruiting flow and offer approval flow:
Experience Guidelines:
To ensure that the HR Policies & Procedures on recruitment are fully complied throughout the
selection process. Strong ability to communicate effectively (verbal and written), at all levels
within and outside the organization
Solid understanding of on-going Technology trends. Past experience in managing and mentoring
a team of at least 4-6 recruiters is a must.
About 10 years of related experience of which a minimum of 6 years should be in a similar
position / responsibility, preferably in a similar Industry. HR , Recruitment , Recruitment
Manager/Preferably from Analytics or IT domain company
Hands-on experience on MS Office skills
3
Senior Manager Recruitment
Job Description
Ways of Working
Think and act strategically to resolve issues, problem solve, add business value
Approach work with a sense of urgency
Strong organizational/planning, project management, and multi-tasking skills required to
deliver on time and within budget
Work independently with minimal supervision to set priorities and demonstrate excellent
program /process and management skills
Demonstrate a strong attention to detail
Demonstrated experience in fostering a collaborative working environment between
individuals and teams through coaching & personal example
Exceptional time and priority management skills
Use excellent communication skills to collaborate and provide transparency on all things
Be a collaborative,
Responsible for handling IT requirements from US based clients.
- Must have full life cycle experience of US Staffing
- Sourcing from Job Portals (Monster, Dice, Career builder), Making job postings on the Job Portal.
- Well versed about US Terms like W2, C2C, 1099, US Visas, etc.
- Must be having capability to work with a team or individually.
- Must have strong command on English (oral, written).
- Willing to work in Night Shift Monday to Friday (7.30 PM - 4:30 AM IST).
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