Talent Acquisition

📍 Location: Mohali (On-site)

💼 Experience: Minimum 1.5 Year

💰 Salary: ₹15,000 - 20,000 per month

🕴 Eligibility: Candidates with Core Recruitment Consultancy background are mandatory

🔎 About the Role

We are seeking a proactive and target-oriented HR Recruiter to drive end-to-end talent acquisition. The ideal candidate will be experienced in high-volume sourcing, screening, interview coordination, reporting, and ensuring an efficient hiring experience for both candidates and hiring managers.

🎯 Key Responsibilities

• Handle the complete recruitment cycle — sourcing, screening, interview coordination, negotiation, and final selection.
• Source candidates using Naukri, Shine, LinkedIn, Indeed, and other recruitment channels.
• Build and maintain a strong talent pipeline for multiple roles.
• Conduct telephonic/virtual screening discussions to evaluate skills, experience, and expectations.
• Coordinate interviews and timely feedback with hiring managers.
• Maintain daily/weekly recruitment trackers and MIS reports.
• Ensure a smooth and positive candidate experience during the entire hiring process.
• Support onboarding activities, if required.

🧩 Required Skills & Competencies

• Minimum 1.5 year of recruitment experience.
• Proficiency in both English & Hindi speaking.
• Experienced in BPO/KPO Hiring.
• Core Recruitment Consultancy background is mandatory.
• Strong understanding of varied job profiles and industry hiring dynamics.
• Excellent communication, coordination, and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work independently and achieve hiring targets.
• Proficiency in MS Excel & Google Workspace (Sheets, Docs, Drive, etc.).
• Hands-on experience using Naukri, Shine, LinkedIn, Indeed, and similar platforms.

🎓 Educational Qualification

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Human Resources or related field (preferred)

EXCITED ABOUT YOUR TASKS?

● Liaise with clients to understand role requirements in order to source the most suitable candidates

● Source, screen and compile a shortlist of qualified candidates for various technical roles

● Screen the candidates to ensure we put forward the best quality candidates to clients

● Recruit senior IT profiles, with a focus on functional expertise

●Communicate with hiring managers in order to understand vacancy requirements fully

● Establish a strategy in order to deliver suitable candidates on time

● Build and develop relationships with both clients and candidates to provide a high level of client and candidate service

● Connect and coordinate with external vendors to support hiring needs

● Serve the business at a very deep and high touch level

WHAT WILL YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?

● 1 year of full life-cycle IT Recruiting Experience, in either an agency or corporate setting

● Familiarity with different selection methods (screening, interviews, assignments)

● Excellent follow-up skills and ability to work independently and collaboratively in a

hands-on, fast-paced environment with a high degree of ambiguity

● Must have Strong Knowledge of IT Technologies and skills

● Experience in handling multiple vendors.

● Great interpersonal and communication skills

● MBA in human resources or similar relevant field

We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Intern to join our Talent Acquisition team. This internship offers hands-on experience in the recruitment process, from sourcing candidates to coordinating hiring processes. An ideal candidate is eager to learn, highly organized, and passionate about Talent Acquisition.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in sourcing and screening candidates through job portals, LinkedIn, and social media.
• Support the team in reviewing resumes and conducting initial candidate assessments.
• Maintain and update the applicant tracking system (ATS).
• Post job openings on various job boards and company career pages.
• Schedule and coordinate interviews between candidates and hiring managers.
• Provide administrative support to the recruitment team.

Qualifications & Skills:

• MBA in HR / Business Administration, or a related field.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Detail-oriented with excellent organizational abilities.
• Ability to handle confidential information with professionalism.
• Proficiency in Google Suite or Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).
• Familiarity with LinkedIn and job portals is a plus.

About the job

Are you passionate about finding the best talent in the Software Development industry? Do you thrive on the exhilaration of attracting top talent currently working at other companies? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

What you'll do:

As a Talent Acquisition Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in our organization by managing the entire recruitment process, from crafting sourcing strategies to interviewing and hiring exceptional talent. You will collaborate closely with hiring managers and executive leadership, ensuring a robust talent pipeline to meet our strategic growth objectives. Your natural aptitude for building strong, trusting partnerships and your ability to prioritize and problem-solve with limited information will be key to your success.

Some of your tangible deliverables will include:

• Cultivating and maintaining strong relationships with passive candidates and industry leaders, establishing our organization as an employer of choice.
• Developing and executing a comprehensive recruitment strategy to attract top-notch tech talent.
• Utilizing data and analytics to measure the effectiveness of recruitment strategies and continually improving our processes.

Who you are:

• Passionate problem solver: You possess the ability to define, scope, and solve ambiguous problems, delivering clear, actionable insights.
• Self-starter: You thrive when presented with challenges, proactively identifying problems based on data and presenting innovative solutions.
• Effective communicator: You have the talent to translate complex analysis into compelling narratives, and you communicate effectively with individuals at all levels of the organization.
• Master of multitasking: You excel at setting priorities while remaining flexible in an ever-changing environment.

Skills required:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in talent acquisition, with a proven track record of sourcing and hiring top talent in the tech industry.
• Proficiency in applicant tracking systems (ATS) and other HR technologies.
• Experience in utilizing creative sourcing methods and cold calling to identify and attract exceptional talent currently employed at other companies.
• Previous experience in working with mature startups or high-volume tech service companies is highly desirable.

Why join us:

At our company, we value the motivation and dedication of our employees. As a Talent Acquisition Specialist, you will have the opportunity to shape the future of our talent acquisition strategies and directly impact our strategic growth objectives. We foster a collaborative and inclusive culture that encourages learning from industry leaders and provides opportunities for personal and professional growth. Additionally, we offer competitive compensation packages and attractive benefits.

If you are driven by the thrill of finding extraordinary talent and are excited about contributing to our organization's success, we invite you to apply and join our dynamic team.

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Proven work experience as an HR Recruiter or similar role.
Familiarity with Applicant Tracking Systems and resume databases.
Experience with sourcing techniques.
Understanding of referral programs.
Solid verbal and written communication skills.
Sound judgment.

• Partnering with leaders in resource planning, allocation and drafting the manpower plans for the company
• Collaborating with Hiring Managers to design and implement optimal sourcing strategies against the manpower plan requirements
• Direct sourcing covering all sourcing channels - internal mobility, referrals, advertised search, on-line job boards, networking, research, company website and search engines
• Identifying the sources for hiring that are cost efficient, highly effective with fast turnaround time
• Partnering with the business leaders on creating strong assessment mechanisms for recruitment
• Deploying assessment tools in the interviews to ensure that talent that is taken forward is as per org/ business requirements
• Handling all Recruitment operations (Sourcing, interview scheduling, coordination etc)
• Creating regular recruitment reports / trackers to gauge the health of manpower planning and recruitment related processes
• Creating Job Descriptions & specifications with respect to hiring
• Staying connected to consultants, vendors, industry peers & internally with business leaders at all points to ensure relevant and timely information flow
• Gathering real time market intelligence on people, compensation, related trends and movements
• Compensation benchmarking - internal and external
• Handling salary negotiations and ensuring the compensation offered takes into account the market trends and internal parity

Desired Candidate Profile

• Masters with specialization in HR
• Certification as Assessor
• Awareness of the placement process across Tech and Non-Tech Institutions
• Knowledge of recruitment and assessment tools
• Understanding of competency based assessments
• Exceptional excel skills
• Financial literacy of P&L and balance sheets
• Planning and organizing skills
• Strong process orientation
• An inclination for documentation & frameworks
• Strong communication Skills
• Strong Interpersonal Skills
• Ability to multitask

• Define and execute the recruitment strategy for our India hub
• Directly source high caliber technical talent using tools like LinkedIn, GitHub, StackOverflow to name a few
• Manage the end of the end recruitment process from direct sourcing, interviewing, and offer negotiation 
• Partner with a variety of hiring managers to create robust interview processes
• Articulate company culture and values throughout recruiting process
• Use data and metrics to measure our performance and provide insights on how we can improve our recruiting efforts 
• Build talent pools of candidates for key disciplines like Engineering and Product
• Develop and implement a delightful candidate experience
• Partner with our global Talent Team and work on key strategic projects 

• You’ve got extensive experience as an internal recruiter in a high growth tech company/startup 
• You have strong knowledge of the talent market in India and know where to source high caliber candidates from 
• Proven track record in direct sourcing for candidates using a variety of tools
• You are confident managing and advising stakeholders on how to approach building their teams
• Experienced in building and utilizing a variety of recruiting tools and channels
• Strong ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment
• Strong ability to work in a team environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication

The interview process for this role is: 

• 30m interview with one of our Talent Team or Recruitment Partners
• 1h interview with Operations Lead
• Final interview with our Leadership Team

We can be flexible with the structure of someone's circumstances or timescales require it for good reason, just let us know! 

Please reach out if you have any specific requirements so we can be as accommodating as possible for you.