Senior IT Recruiter

Key responsibilities

• Identify, source, and engage qualified IT professionals across diverse technical domains.
• Utilize job portals, professional networks, social platforms, referrals, and advanced sourcing techniques to build strong talent pipelines.
• Conduct market research to identify talent hotspots and hiring trends.

• Evaluate candidates through in-depth screening and preliminary assessment of technical skills, experience, and cultural fit.
• Coordinate technical assessments and interview panels with internal teams.
• Validate experience, salary expectations, notice periods, and employment documentation.

• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle—JD creation, sourcing, screening, interviews, salary negotiations, offer rollout, and onboarding coordination.
• Ensure smooth communication between candidates, internal stakeholders, and hiring managers.
• Maintain structured follow-ups to reduce dropouts, improve joining ratios, and enhance candidate experience.

• Work closely with department heads and project managers to understand technical hiring needs and workforce requirements.
• Provide hiring insights, talent availability reports, and suggestions for role alignment or compensation benchmarking.

• Leverage experience from HR consultancy / staffing models to manage mass hiring, niche hiring, or leadership-level roles effectively.
• Execute strategies for IT lateral hiring, permanent staffing, executive search, and headhunting.
• Manage multiple requisitions simultaneously while maintaining quality and timelines.

• Track and report hiring metrics such as sourcing efficiency, TAT, offer–acceptance ratio, and joining conversion ratio.
• Maintain recruitment dashboards and candidate databases for future reference and audits.
• Provide insights to optimize recruitment processes based on data and performance trends.

Required Skills & Competencies

• Proven experience in IT hiring across roles such as developers, testers, cloud engineers, DevOps, UI/UX, data professionals, and IT support.
• Strong understanding of technical terminology, current IT trends, and market demands.
• Expertise in sourcing through portals (Naukri, LinkedIn, Indeed), Boolean search, and headhunting strategies.
• Experience in HR consulting, staffing, executive search, or lateral hiring.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong negotiation and stakeholder management abilities.
• Analytical thinking for assessing candidate abilities and market conditions.
• Ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage multiple hiring demands under tight timelines.
• Professional, empathetic, and approachable demeanor to ensure strong candidate engagement.

Preferred Experience

• HR consultancy / recruitment agency background.
• Exposure to mass recruitment, permanent staffing, and IT staffing processes.
• Experience in recruiting for both domestic and international markets (optional but advantageous).

Certifications & Continuous Learning

• Commitment to staying updated on industry hiring trends, new sourcing platforms, and emerging IT skillsets.
• Relevant HR, recruitment, or technical certifications are an added advantage.

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience and performance.
• Work-life balance and supportive work culture.
• Opportunities for career advancement and leadership roles in talent acquisition.
• Collaborative environment with access to the latest recruitment tools and platforms.
• Opportunity to work with global clients and cutting-edge technologies.