About

Shashank Mishra is a seasoned Talent Acquisition professional with over 12 years of experience in the product-based startup industry. He currently works at Dehaat as the Senior Manager Talent Acquisition & HRBP (Tech), where he leads the building of Tech, Product, Analytics, and Design teams. Shashank's expertise lies in Executive Search, Technical Recruiting, Sourcing, and Team Management, and he has a proven track record of building and managing high-performing sourcing and recruitment strategies and teams. Shashank is a skilled and result-oriented HR professional with innate skills in Talent Acquisition, HR Business Partnering, and Operations. He has a record of establishing ethical organizational structures, building employee value, driving vision, and achieving critical goals. He has also demonstrated excellence in Talent management and Succession Planning across Senior/Mid-Senior levels, with a distinction of working on HRMS and e-Recruitment Implementation. Shashank is passionate about the people function and is always on the quest to innovate and elevate the 'way we do things' and how this function can make a difference to people's career journeys. He has maximized the use of Social Media, networking, and referral schemes to attract candidates in a traditionally hard-to-source market. He has also dramatically improved brand awareness and candidate applications through the use of social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Xing, and Viadeo. Shashank has worked with some renowned companies like GreyOrange and Dehaat in the past, where he has held key positions and contributed significantly to the growth of the companies. At Dehaat, he scaled up the Tech & Product team from 15 to 160 and counting, and designed and implemented the complete Recruitment process flow. At GreyOrange, he was the Lead Talent Acquisition, where he owned and managed the end-to-end recruitment process for various business units in India. Shashank holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource & Information Technology from Sunshine Education Foundation and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Lucknow. His tech stack includes Search.