Namburi Manikanta
Bengaluru
Summary
- Talent Acquisition Professional with close to 13+ years of work experience in recruiting Leaders, Mid-Seniors, Freshers and Interns.
- Expertise in the areas of end-to-end campus recruiting, strategic planning, employer branding, university relations, vendor, and stakeholder management.
- Expertise in building strategy & hiring from Tier 1, 2, and 3 Technical and business schools
- Hands-on experience in design, execute and implement on & off-campus hiring, volume hiring, pooled campus events, diversity hiring, and other competitive hiring models.
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in hiring laterals for various Tech and Non-Tech positions
- A freelance soft-skills trainer- trained students from 23 universities during lock down.
- Guest and a part time lecturer for couple of UG and PG campuses in Karnataka.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Head of Talent Acquisition
Fev Tutor/Focus Edumatics
08.2023 - Current
- Professional expertise in talent acquisition process design, development, and implementation
- Utilized various platforms for candidate identification and recruitment needs
- Managed and mentored a strong 18-member team of seasoned TA professionals
- Scaled Engineering teams from scratch across Director of Engineering, Product Owners, Product Managers and Quality associates
- Scaled Tutor Operation teams and on-boarded 1000+ freelance resources in 2024 and designed a strategic plan to hire 3000 resources fr Q1, 2025
- Designed and launched Tutor hiring playbook and Job Post Optimization Playbook in 2024
- Builds a proactive talent community across levels, monitoring and improving staffing processes, systems, and tools
- Executed data driven approach and worked extensively of TA key metrics includes, Attrition, Retention, Engagement, Quality of hire and Process Optimization
- Serving as an interviewer, trainer, and mentor across domain expertise
Senior Manager-Campus Recruitment
LeadSquared
09.2021 - 05.2023
- Responsible for end-to-end campus hiring at LeadSquared for India and APAC requirements, handling a team of 7
- Introduced 2 different verticals- Early Career Program and University Recruitment
- Designed a detailed landscape for sales campus hiring and tech campus hiring
- Designed and implemented campus recruiting budget for FY 2022-2023 by creating market research, understanding recruiting trends, and following internal parity
- Executed branding activity at IIMs for niche requirements
- Successfully anchored in hiring 820 resources in a span of 16 months for various business units (On campus-700, Off-campus-120+)
- Created and executed hiring plan for Indonesia-Intern requirements, collaborated with the University of Indonesia and ITB career center
- Introduced SIP and competitive hiring model and were able to hire 350+ resources in a season of 2 months
Senior Manager- Campus Specialist
DLT Labs
03.2021 - 09.2021
- Responsible for end-to-end campus hiring at DLT Labs for India requirements
- Managing virtual basic and leadership level pieces of training, external hiring events, university relations, and branding activities
- Successfully anchored in hiring 38 Technical resources from the alumni-connected campuses- NIET and AKGUT
- Assisted product and project marketing teams to connect with universities for various initiatives and programs on Blockchain technologies
- Hosted 3 sessions on blockchain topics in coordination with the global teams for external audiences in India
Talent Champion-Campus Recruiting
Odessa
09.2018 - 11.2020
- Responsible for end-to-end campus hiring at Odessa for India requirements
- Designed and executed a summer Internship program (MBA/PGDM) for the 2019 batch
- Successfully executed 3 Internship models from engineering colleges (1 year, 6 months, and 3 months)
- Handling a team of 2 campus recruiters
- Anchored hiring of 300 full-time hires for FY 2018-2019
- Initiated diversity hiring events across India
- Initiated competitive hiring model (Via hackathons) for 2019 season 1 and successfully hired 33 fresher techies from premium Institutions( ahead of the campus season)
- Designed and executed product owner, product manager, and program manager requirements with IIM's-2019-2020
- Anchored all India Women's Hackathon campaign for 2019-2020 across Indian colleges
- Actively Involved in recruitment-branding events
- Designed process flowchart of NIT hiring and submitted a market study on-campus recruiting during this pandemic to leadership and management teams
Campus Specialist
ThoughtWorks
06.2016 - 06.2018
- Responsible for scouting early talent and campus branding for ThoughtWorks India
- Act as a strategic partner by coordinating closely with senior business leaders across geographies to develop a robust campus engagement plan year on year to set higher benchmarks - currently overseeing ~70+ campuses (both E- Schools and B-School)
- Anchored hiring of 150 full-time hires for FY2016-17
- Anchored hiring of 135 full-time hires for FY2017-18
- Develop relationships with placement officers to assist in recruiting and branding activities at each assigned university
- Collaborate with peers and leadership to ensure that an appropriate level of priority is given to the recruiting effort at assigned universities
- Coach and prepare campus team members for campus visits and coordinate closely to ensure a unified recruiting and branding approach
- Work in close partnership with global teams to ensure that appropriate branding is coordinated in line with other university efforts and strategies; realize synergies and efficiencies to achieve a unified recruiting approach
- Coordinate and help execute interviews, pre-placement talks, presentations, special events, and other recruiting initiatives
- Keep abreast of relevant innovations and best practices in campus recruiting and use that knowledge to improve the existing processes in the domain
- Campus Branding and Engagement: Working closely with the branding/marketing team to create sustainable campus relationships every quarter
- Representing ThoughtWorks brand by promoting ThoughtWorks as an employer of choice
- Creating brand recall initiatives before the campus visit
- Engaging leadership participation in campus branding events to make an impeccable impact
Campus Recruiter ( India Lead)
Cigital ( Synopsis)
07.2015 - 04.2016
- Designed the campus recruitment program for Cigital India by Indian audiences and universities
- Publish the Campus Calendar for all campus activities before campus season
- Review the campus selection process before campus kick-off
- Partner with the business team to annually assess each target university's performance to determine overall effectiveness, review analysis with key stakeholders and use data and feedback to make long-term decisions related to each school
- Investing high focus on market intelligence
- Liaison with multiple stakeholders -Placement Officers, and Student Placement Committee for the campus selection process
Talent Acquisition Consultant
Hewlette Packard
09.2014 - 02.2015
- Anchored recruiting of 800 engineering graduates from Tier-1, 2 and 3 universities
- Developed strong campus relationships with colleges and universities through placement offices, faculty, and student bodies to promote the company's brand and find diverse ways to attract candidates
- Held responsible for collecting campus intelligence data from various campuses through primary and secondary sources, including but not limited to gathering information from published reports available externally
- Collecting information from placement teams across campuses, drawing inferences from published campus rankings, and collecting feedback and information from internal sources
- Interact with the business heads and technology heads to identify the entry-level requirements-capturing business unit-wise and skill-wise requirements
Human Resources- Recruiter
Hardquest
06.2013 - 08.2014
- Handled the tasks of headhunting, identifying, and approaching suitable candidates for the right profile
- Draft advertising vacancies and advertise the same in a wide range of media like websites, Naukri, LinkedIn, and Facebook
- Prepares resumes, CV, and correspondence and forward the same to the client to list suitable candidates
- Selected and scheduled interviews with potential employees required for the organization
- Assisted the organization to meet recruiting goals by providing best-recruiting practices
Education
MBA - Human Resources Management
Sikkim Manipal University
Sikkim, Gangtok01-2015
Bachelor of Engineering - Instrumentation Techonology
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Bellary01-2013
Skills
- Talent Acquisition Metrics and Analytics
- Employer Branding
- Onboarding Process
- Stakeholder management
- Data-driven Decision Making
- Social media recruiting
Accomplishments
- Designed and executed Campus Connect (University Relations) programs for various rural and urban engineering colleges in India and made them understand the recruitment process, Industry expectations, corporate culture, and usage of the latest tools and technologies, this program has helped us to hire top talent from rural and urban colleges.
- Anchored Diversity hiring season (2017-2018) at ThoughtWorks and achieved an 88% of female hiring ratio at a grad level through campuses.
Awards
- Awarded as "Top 100 HR leaders-India" by HR success talk 2024
- Awardee of " Disruptor of the year" by Panchajanya ( Bangalore)
- Awardee of " Corporate Excellence-2022" by IEM Institutions, India.
- Awarded as“Top 100 HR Super Achievers India” by the World HRD Congress in 2018.
Timeline
Head of Talent Acquisition
Fev Tutor/Focus Edumatics
08.2023 - Current
Senior Manager-Campus Recruitment
LeadSquared
09.2021 - 05.2023
Senior Manager- Campus Specialist
DLT Labs
03.2021 - 09.2021
Talent Champion-Campus Recruiting
Odessa
09.2018 - 11.2020
Campus Specialist
ThoughtWorks
06.2016 - 06.2018
Campus Recruiter ( India Lead)
Cigital ( Synopsis)
07.2015 - 04.2016
Talent Acquisition Consultant
Hewlette Packard
09.2014 - 02.2015
Human Resources- Recruiter
Hardquest
06.2013 - 08.2014
MBA - Human Resources Management
Sikkim Manipal University
Bachelor of Engineering - Instrumentation Techonology
Visvesvaraya Technological University
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