AASHIKA N (AASHIKA NETHAJI) Contact Details:

Contact: +91 8489715208

- Strategic Planning, Talent Acquisition, Interview & Screening
Email: ashika221997@gmail.com
- Talent Mapping, Headhunting & Stakeholder Engagement
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/aashika-n/
- Vendor / Supplier management, Offer Negotiation and Closing
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HIGH-PERFORMANCE HR PROFESSIONAL: Recruitment & Talent Acquisition, Strategic Planning
Proven Success in:
 Strategic Planning  ATS Software  Project Management
 Talent Acquisition & Management  Recruiting Process Organization  Leadership Hiring
 Candidate Interview  Annual Operating Budget  Career Progression
 Recruitment Sources  Referral Networks  HRIS
 Screening & Qualification  Offer Negotiation & Finalization  Employee Relations
 Database Management  Social Recruiting / Placement  Brand Building
 Stakeholder Engagement  Employment Branding  Team Leadership

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
 Versatile Recruitment Professional with over 5 years of exposure in end-to-end recruitment lifecycle for both technical and
professional roles, including sourcing, screening, assessing, interviewing, evaluating, and closing candidates to innovate the human
capital with the educated workforce needed to negotiate ambiguity and paradox.
 Verifiable proficiency in capitalizing on various platforms to source resumes and recruit the best talent available. Well-versed with
the Applicant Tracking Systems. (Job Diva, Dice, Greenhouse, Talent Now, Launch, Lead Squared, and Gem).
 Proven expertise in building high-touch interactions with a database of competent active and passive talent for new openings.
Skilled in filling diverse open roles by identifying, recruiting and retaining great employees.
 Capable of cultivating an equity, diversity, and inclusive culture that promotes the employee’s complete selves in working using their
unique talents and experience to produce transformational outcomes for the business.
Career Highlights:
 Major clients handled across BFSI, telecom, wireless, communications, business solutions industry, tech companies, and startups.
 Domain Exposure: Telecom, Automotive & Infotainment, Technology, Engineering, Software, SaaS, Digital Marketing, Cloud Based
Companies, Electronics, Presales, etc.
 A distinction in developing talent strategies, workflows, retrospectives, SOPs, and training manuals.
 Experienced in identifying and hiring candidates using LinkedIn, Facebook, Stack Overflow, GitHub, Twitter, Skill Pages, Google+,
etc., as well as Google Boolean and LinkedIn X-ray search.

EMPLOYMENT OUTLINE
Sept 2022- Aug 2023: Deeplogictech Pvt Ltd – Tekmonks (Affected by Layoff)
Global Talent Acquisition Specialist – APAC & USA, Latam, Canada.
Skills Used in DLT: End to End Recruitment, ATS, Negotiation, Technical and Non- Technical recruitment, Placement Activities,
Employer Branding, Employer Engagement & Training and Content writing.

Key Deliverables:
Recruitment and Talent Acquisition:

 Accountable for recruiting and retaining talent worldwide for various positions, including Sales Managers, C-level executives,
Presales specialists, Content writers, BDMs, Bidding and delivery managers.
 Hiring candidates using W2, 1099 and C2C, Contract and freelance recruiting and also hiring remote employees to work for our
team from 13+ countries.
 Special focus on North American (USA), Canada, LATAM, and Southeast Asian (Singapore, Philippines, India) regions.
 Directly reporting to the CMO and CFO, responsible for end-to-end recruitment, from generating offer letters to onboarding and
performance appraisals.
 Created job descriptions and interview questions for different positions. Also full time and part time hiring for our company.
 Established a successful hiring program with talent strategies, curation flows, and resource allocation.
 Signed MoUs with top labs and tier 1 & 2 colleges for collaboration in cloud innovations and cybersecurity.
 Highly proficient using ChatGPT, Canva, Google and Microsoft Tools

Recruitment Channels and Tools:

 Utilized job portals such as Wellfound, Indeed, Naukri, Freshersworld, and LinkedIn for candidate sourcing.
 Proficient in using ATS tools like Zoho Recruit and Zoho People, Greenhouse, and Gem.
 Developed and maintained a database of active and passive prospects.
 Proficient in all ATS, Job portals and significant hiring using Github, Sales navigator, Facebook and X.com

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  Freshers hiring using Placement activities and other hiring using vendor management.

Knowledge Sharing and Training:

 Trained new team members in sourcing strategies and company culture during their first three months.
 Created and managed social media content and videos related to talent acquisition.

Staffing and Employer Branding:

 Managed staffing contracts for technical and non-technical roles.

 Lead initiatives for employer branding to attract and retain talent.
 Worked with vendors to hire freelance engineers in cybersecurity and AI domains.
 Content Writing and Social media management to attract candidates.

Mental Health and Employee Motivation:

 Trained and motivated employees on mental health and well-being.

 Implemented new strategies in the TA team, including ATS implementation, KPI implementation, and performance management.

Candidate Pipeline Management:

 Maintained a healthy candidate pipeline and focus on hiring referral candidates to save recruiting time.
 Excellent candidate management and relationship.
 Main focus on countries like Southeast Asian countries like Singapore, Philippines, Washington DC, North American & Central
American regions like Maryland, Delaware, New York, New Jersey, California and San Francisco and more.

Jan 2022 – Aug 2022: TURING, USA – (Contract Role – Affected by Layoff)
Global Talent Acquisition Specialist – APAC & USA, LATAM, CANADA, India

Key Deliverables:
 Interviewed candidates and conducted background checks to ensure they met the company’s standards for hiring.
 Reviewed resumes and scheduled interviews with potential candidates to determine their eligibility.
 Prepared job advertisements for open roles in coordination with the recruiting team and hiring managers.
 Ideated, formulated and incorporated the sourcing strategies using online channels.
 Sourced, screened, and qualified applicants, maintained candidate/client communication, and negotiated final offers.
 Hired candidates based on W2, C2C and 1099. Also hired candidates for contract, full time and part time positions.
 Worked on training college freshers for TA team by using presentations and live sessions.
 Involved in team management as a lead to a junior team consists of 5 members to hire candidates focusing in USA and South Africa.
 Focused highly on recruiting candidates for presales team, delivery team, accounts team, marketing team and technical content
writing team.
 Main focus on countries like Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, North American & Central American regions like Maryland,
Delaware, New York, New Jersey, California and San Francisco and more.

Oct 2021 – Jan 2022: BYJUS Ed Tech [Relieved due to location constraints]
Recruitment Manager – Central Recruitment Team

Key Deliverables:
 Entrusted with the overall accountability of screening resumes, conducting in-person, phone, and video call interviews, and managing
the entire interview, onboarding, and joining process.
 Handled a team of 10 junior recruiters called as R1.
 Fulfiled the staffing requirements in coordination with the hiring managers.
 Followed up on all the hiring campaigns for Central recruitment.
 Enhanced the staffing policies, procedures, and processes across the company and informed stakeholders by extracting recruitment-
related data and reporting analytics on CRM systems and data recording software.
 Developed tactical statistical models using data metrics to identify company opportunities and improvements.
 Handled the employee's personal files and HR databases.
 Maintained internal and external client connections to meet staffing goals. Communicating employer perks during screening.
 Carried out the HR analytics to streamline operations and provided stakeholders with a consistent, scalable, customer-focused
recruitment experience. Worked with IT on central HR team requirements.

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Oct 2020 – 2021: Whitehat JR [Acquired by BYJU’s – Contract Job]
Coding Trainer—Android and Web Development

Key Deliverables:
 Taught 2200+ Javascript, Python, machine learning, and artificial intelligence classes to 10-18-year-olds as Instructor and Trainer.
 Worked on code.org and thunkable.com.
 Assisted parents in comprehending the classes and the benefits of young minds learning JavaScript basics.
 Proficient in handling parents and relationship between students
 Proficient in presentation making and student teaching across the USA, Australia, Indonesia, Philippines and India.

Oct 2019 – Oct 2020: Virtualmaze Softsys Pvt Ltd.,

Content Writer and Assistant HR Manager (Talent Acquisition Specialist)
Key Deliverables:
 Worked on writing contents for social media pages and projects handled by the company.
 Worked on hiring candidates for our GPS App tools & Projects for technical positions from India & UAE.
 Worked on hiring candidates from Colleges using TPOs and MOUs.
 Assisted the junior recruiters with social recruitment (Google Booleans, LinkedIn X-Ray search, etc.)
 Looked after the entire hiring process for Client positions. (Planning, Sourcing, Qualifying, Assessing, Closing, Engaging)
 Pre-screened applicants by analyzing applications and phone interviews for skills, experience, and expertise.
 Provided candidates with factual, exciting information about the organization and role.
 Focused on hiring candidates from UAE, Southeast Asia.
 Worked on employee engagement and employee training using self-made presentations and directly reported to MD of the company.

Aug 2018 – Sept 2019: Magaduka Technology Pvt Ltd

Software Tester and Talent Acquisition Specialist
Key Deliverables:
 Manually tested applications named RUTO, NAMMA AREA and other apps created by the technical team and worked for UI/UX design
customization as it’s a startup and worked as a multitasker.
 Maintained detailed records of candidates, searches, hiring supervisors, and other recruiting operations.
 Advised on regional employment market trends, innovative recruiting methods, and competitive hiring.
 Actively attended networking and recruitment events locally.
 Reported weekly on open jobs, sourcing tools, candidate status, closed requisitions, and offers accepted.
 Mentored the employees on interviewing and ATS.
 Finalized the agreements with the staffing agency. (Pre-interview/professional service agreements).
 Managed internal, portal, and blog/social network job postings.

PROFESSIONAL ACCOLADES
 Attained ‘Distinction’ in the state-level THULIR Student Scientific Awareness Talent Test—2011,+ conducted by the Tamilnadu
Science Forum
 Built an Eminent World Record under the theme “World’s Biggest International Hands-on Ethical Hacking Workshop,” Conducted by
WIKITECHY and Microsoft Research Community Group, Chennai.

EDUCATION CREDENTIALS
 Bachelor of Electronics and Communication Engineering (BE ECE) from APCE (Anna University) in 2018.
Certifications:
 Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging from LinkedIn
 Become a Corporate Recruiter from LinkedIn
 Confronting Bias: Thriving Across Our Differences from LinkedIn
 Diversity Recruiting from LinkedIn
 Finding and Retaining High Potentials from LinkedIn
 Recruiting Foundations from LinkedIn
 Interviewing a Job Candidate for Recruiters from LinkedIn
 Strategic Human Resources from LinkedIn
 Talent Sourcing from LinkedIn
 Human Resource Management(Legal) - BUS 301 from Saylor Academy
 Mastering Team and Strategic Management from Gyaan Academy

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Technical Skill-set:
 Recruitment: Strategic sourcing, headhunting, executive search, end to end recruitment and supplier/workforce management
 ATS: Job Diva, Greenhouse, Zoho Recruit, Talent Now, Lead Squared, Gem, Lever, Calendly, Day Schedule, Workable, and some
more ATS
 Social Media: LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Freelancing Marketplace, Google+, Blogs, Twitter, Skill pages, GitHub, Stack
Overflow, Slack
 Tools & Suites: Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, Microsoft Excel, Google Suites, Canva, Poster Maker, Visme, Videomaker,
WordPress
 Job Portals: Naukri, Linkedin Recruiter, Freshersworld, Indeed, Internshala, IIM Jobs, Glassdoor, Hirect, Monster, Shine.com, Apna
Jobs, Facebook, Angellist jobs, Dice and etc

Global Exposure:

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