Puja Thakur

Conduct screening and delivery check calls for all candidates, and attend monthly and quarterly client review meetings to discuss performance, explore business opportunities, and plan proactively Ensure that new employees feel welcomed and have the resources they need to succeed. Offer regular feedback and check-ins on the employee’s performance, helping them navigate challenges or any performance gaps. Encourage self-reflection and personal growth for employees at various stages of their career. Serve as the main point of contact for internal clients (e.g., hiring managers, department heads) to understand their hiring needs. Provide regular updates to leadership on recruitment progress, challenges, and key metrics Develop and implement talent acquisition strategies tailored to the company’s needs and growth plans. Identify workforce gaps and proactively build recruitment pipelines for hard-to-fill roles. Manage the recruitment team to ensure they are sourcing, interviewing, and screening candidates effectively. Ensure a smooth and positive candidate experience throughout the hiring process. Build relationships with potential candidates for future recruitment needs, focusing on diversity and inclusion. Oversee the interview process, ensuring that hiring managers and interview panels are following consistent and effective assessment practices. Ensure that the best-fit candidates are identified based on both technical skills and cultural fit

Senior Talent Advisor with a proven track record of success in building and maintaining relationships with clients, understanding their needs, and finding the best candidates for open positions. Handling Mastercard client in terms of all IT requirements. Experience working with a diverse range of clients, including Mastercard, BNY Mellon, CITI, Fiserv, Intuit, Amazon. Responsible for the entire requirement life-cycle stage from requirement qualifications & distribution, requirement reconciliation, candidate sourcing, recruiter interview, submission, technical interview, on- boarding and consultant/employee and pipeline maintenance. Developed, drove and executed comprehensive search strategies to recruit senior and niche profiles. Reviewing the submission reports of the recruiters and updating to the Superiors. Develop strong, strategic relationships with Clients. Ensure the timely and successful delivery of our solutions according to customer needs and objectives.

Owned full recruitment cycle collecting requirements, studying, analysing, sourcing, screening, shortlisting, scheduling & closing positions for assigned requisitions. Sourcing candidates from different job portals. Review applicants to verify if position requirements are met. Communicating with the candidates regarding job role, Company profile, ctc & notice period. Shortlisting the cv’s based on the desired skills, experience, salary, expectations & notice period. Sharing job description with the candidate, screened profiles are sent to delivery manager for further shortlisting. Coordinating with the interview panel and scheduling interviews. Follow up with candidates throughout the hiring process. Following up with the candidates till they complete the rounds of interview. End to End follow up with the candidates (pre and post offer release). Maintaining database & excel sheet tracker for sourcing profiles, status of the candidates and other activities.

Recruited candidates from entry level to senior position in IT Recruited candidates for 4 clients Sourcing profiles as per requirements on Naukri and LinkedIn Shortlisting candidates with lead and keep follow up candidate’s status Maintaining inner database up to date with conclusive assessments. Upload shortlisted candidates on client ATS Conducted Video interviews of shortlisted candidates Kept follow up on candidates until they join.