Talent Acquisition Associate

About us:

We are an ed-tech company that is obsessed with our students’ placement outcomes. In the last 3 years, Kraftshala, with its boot camp-like online programs in marketing & sales, has placed more than 1800 students with a placement rate of 94% (and improving) at over 400 companies like Nestle, Nykaa, Tata Cliq, Coursera, etc., and are looking to add hundreds of thousands more in the coming decade.

Kraftshala is backed by a number of eminent investors including ex-unicorn startup founders and CXOs of global giants (more about that towards the end).

Role Snapshot:

Who we’re looking for: A passionate individual excited about attracting and recruiting top talent to help shape an extraordinary team.

What you’ll be doing: Managing the entire recruitment journey – from sourcing to onboarding – while ensuring that every candidate has an awesome experience with us.

Why this role is for you: Great organizations are built by great people. If you're eager to play a key role in building an outstanding team, this opportunity is for you!

Day-to-day responsibilities in this role:

• Collaborating with Hiring Managers to understand hiring needs
• Developing a sourcing strategy in partnership with and according to the Hiring Managers' role requirements
• Handling the end-to-end recruitment process for assigned roles, from sourcing candidates to onboarding
• Creating a smooth, engaging experience for all candidates, from their first application to their first day on the job!
• Actively building and maintaining a talent pipeline for future hiring needs.
• Managing multiple recruitment projects simultaneously, ensuring effective prioritization and timely completion of all tasks.

Must-Have Skills:

• 0-2 years of experience in sourcing and recruiting high-potential candidates. (We are not too fussed about the number of years. Experience is simply a proxy for capability, which is what we really care for).
• Empathy and a high Emotional Quotient to actively engage with prospective candidates and existing team members, and to ensure a stellar candidate experience
• A structured approach to problem-solving, that involves struggling with the problem until you are able to isolate the Why before coming to a solution
• Ability to clearly and crisply communicate ideas, both verbally and in writing
• High accountability and responsibility to ensure flawless execution on a day-to-day basis
• Working knowledge of MS Office and Google Docs
• A knack for getting things done with good attention to detail

Good-To-Haves:

• Knowledge and experience with industry-standard recruiting tools (such as Naukri, LinkedIn Recruit, InstaHyre, etc.) and the Google Business Suite

What is the recruitment process:

As a small team, it’s imperative that we get to know each other before taking the leap. We want to ensure you succeed in your role within our team. Each conversation (telephonic/video conference) with us will last about 30-60 minutes. Typically the whole process takes between 10 - 15 business days depending on your and our schedules.

• Technical Assignment: This is a specific assessment designed to evaluate your fit for this role
• Setting Expectations: This will be a call to understand your profile briefly and share the details of the selection process
• Assignment Review Conversation: This will be a call with the Senior HR Manager wherein you can expect to be evaluated on your assignment submission
• Technical conversation: This will be a call with a leadership team member wherein you can expect to be evaluated on your functional skills and other competencies needed for the job (mentioned above)
• Culture fit conversation: A conversation with our Founder & CEO to ensure a fit with the Kraftshala Kode
• Extending an offer: If all goes well, we will extend an offer mentioning the relevant details

Location:

Delhi

More about the company:

We are Kraftshala. We are an online skilling institution committed to playing the long game of building a transformative educational experience for the masses. We call this ‘Scaling with Soul’.

Scaling with Soul, to us, means we always prioritise student outcomes– specifically our Placement Rate (percentage of students placed)- over other metrics, such as number of enrolments or company valuation in the coming year.

This is, of course, easier said than done. There are painful choices to be made at every stage, from admissions to training to placements, that wouldn’t have been needed were we willing to give up on either of high quality or scale.

But in the long run, we believe that our obsession over these student outcomes will earn Kraftshala the trust of Indian students, their families, recruiters and the broader ecosystem.

That’s why we make each of our Placement Reports public, capturing how many students are placed in each batch, in what companies, at what salaries etc.

We don’t need to. None of our competitors do (though we’d be happy to be proven wrong and have more educators join us!). Simply put, we have tasted the benefits of an education model grounded in high quality paired with the transparency of student outcomes and now cannot imagine doing it any other way.

We are not the largest in terms of enrollments. Nowhere close, actually. Not yet.

However, we are proud to be one of the largest, if not the largest already, in terms of actual, verifiable placements.

And in terms of Placement Rate, the metric that matters most to us, we are the absolute best in edtech. In the last 2 years, we have placed more than 1800+ students with a Placement Rate of 94% (and improving).

This is our long game- to Scale with Soul. We invite you to join us for the play.

Funding:

Kraftshala is backed by number of eminent investors, including

• Phanindra Sama and Sudhakar Pasupunuri, co-founders at Redbus and early investors in unicorns like Unacademy
• Amit Kumar Agarwal, Saurabh Garg and Akhil Gupta, co-founders at Nobroker.com (the world’s largest NoBrokerage Property Site and India’s first realty startup unicorn)
• Sujayathi Ali, Co-founder at ShopUp and Voonik
• Doreswamy Nandkishore (Former Fortune 100 CEO, Head of Asia, Oceania, Africa for Nestlé S.A. and Professor, ISB)
• Pallav Jain and Sarfaraz Khimani (co-CEOs of Performics, India's largest SEO/ performance marketing agencies)

What do we value (the Kraftshala Kode):

Like all good companies, we value integrity, excellence, respect, inclusion, and collaboration. Our team’s distinctiveness comes from the following:

• We seek a user-centric, value-additive mindset. People who start with the user and work backward, and take every opportunity to add value to their customers/ partners fit right in.
• We believe speed matters enormously in business. We value people who have a bias for action and are willing to take calculated risks in the face of uncertainty.
• We value problem-solving skills. We look at problems objectively, solve for root causes, make decisions for long-term good instead of short-term gain, and don’t let processes get in the way of value addition.
• We look for learning agility. We are a team of learners who like to read, talk to experts, and seek critical feedback to be better today than we were yesterday.
• We respect ambition & courage to take on large goals. Self-starters who demonstrate high ownership strengthen the backbone of our team.
• We expect consistency and reliability. Predictability just makes everyone’s life a lot smoother.
• We like people who are real and open in communication, while still being empathetic.
• We are practical optimists. Our team strongly believes in a better future & we enjoy playing our part to make that future a reality.