About

Shankar Shahi is an experienced technical recruiter with over 4 years of experience in full life cycle recruitment. He has a strong background in IT recruitment with product-based organizations and has worked extensively in the BFSI sector. Shankar is skilled in strategic planning, employee development, recruitment (lateral & campus hiring), stakeholder management, lateral hiring, campus recruitment, and process improvement. Shankar is a LinkedIn certified social & technical recruiter and has expertise in using various recruiting tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter Professional, Naukri, Hirist, Monster, and Indeed. He has been hiring for information technology positions such as software developers, quality analysts, production support, and managers. Currently, Shankar is working as a Senior Executive - Talent Acquisition Group at ta digital, an innovative digital transformation agency specializing in delivering digital experience, commerce, and marketing solutions. His responsibilities include designing and implementing the overall recruiting strategy, developing and updating job descriptions and specifications, sourcing and recruiting candidates, screening resumes and job applications, conducting interviews, assessing applicants' relevant knowledge, skills, and experience, and providing analytical and well-documented recruiting reports to the rest of the team. In the past, Shankar has worked as a Senior Associate and an Associate in the Talent Acquisition Group at Valuemomentum. He has reviewed job descriptions to understand the needs of hiring managers and helped identify the right candidates, identified avenues for sourcing candidates, screened and ascertained the competence of candidates against the open demands, scheduled interviews, partnered with hiring managers on feedbacks and pipeline movement, and actively involved in employer branding, ER floor walks, campus hiring, and other engagement initiatives. Shankar holds a post-graduation diploma in management from Siva Sivani Institute of Management, where he studied human resources, marketing, and business analytics. He also has a bachelor's degree in life sciences from Bharathiya Vidya Bhavans Vivekananda College of Science, Humanities & Commerce and an intermediate degree from Army School Rama Krishnapuram. Overall, Shankar has 6.03 years of relevant experience in technical recruitment and is passionate about identifying the right industry potential and hiring the best talent.