Sameer Ahuja

About Sameer Ahuja

Talent Acquisition is an ellipsis and not a full-stop.It is the currency of the future. With over 23 years of experience in building, scaling, and developing talent acquisition processes, I firmly believe that businesses can go from 0 to 1 with the right recruitment strategies in place. And that\'s where my expertise comes into play.As a passionate growth leader, my strength lies in -Driving scalable and sustainable recruitment operations to achieve business growth. Implementing global recruitment practices to seamlessly tie in with the organizations vision. Building strong teams adept at handling client and candidate expectations. Strong data-driven approach to match the industry and market dynamics.Enabling local operations with global synergies and driving innovation in recruitment. Volume and lateral hiring. Handling complex recruitment problems with strategic solutions beneficial to the organization. The constant growth curves have helped me lead large teams across different geographies, cultures, and domains viz. India, the Philippines, and South Africa.My efforts have helped me achieve key milestones in my career - Scale recruitment process by ~30% YoY consistently across verticals. Break through the toughest nursing market i.e. the Philippines in 2018 by hiring over U.S. registered nurses for business in under 12 months. Built the entire recruitment automation process in EXL. Talent creation strategy Besides BAU, I actively help in - Creating organizational growth strategies by infusing digitization, technology and expansive use of AI to improve recruitment processes.Crafting build-to-scale models for internal stakeholders.Scaling internal teams with the right backup contingency plan (BCP). Driving DEI efforts through the organization. On a side note, I am a meticulous planner, travel-enthusiast, and a foodie with a knack for humor and wit. Let\'s make strategizing, hiring, and building talent processes easy for you.If our thoughts resonate, follow me for posts covering the entire corporate recruitment, sales and marketing journey with years of hands-on experiences. If you want to know me better, let\'s connect over the DM.🫱‍🫲

Experience

1. Vice President Talent Acquisition

   Firstsource

   Oct 2024 — Present · Mumbai, IN

Education

• Symbiosis college of commerce

  Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Marketing

  1994 — 1997

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Marketing

Skills

• Operations Management
• Leadership
• Team Management
• Outsourcing
• Recruitments
• Soft Skills
• Business Process
• Bpo
• Team Building
• Management
• Process Management
• Human Resources
• Recruiting
• Screening
• Deferred Compensation
• Process Improvement
• Benchmarking
• Business Development
• Sales
• People Skills
• Screening Resumes
• Personnel Management
• Internet Recruiting
• Management Information Systems (Mis)
• Training
• Volume Hiring
• Sla
• Mis