1. Stakeholder Management - Critical

• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience of working directly with senior stakeholders and hiring managers.
• Should be confident in understanding hiring requirements, challenging requirements where necessary, and driving closure.
• Should not be limited to backend recruitment or sourcing.
• Assess how the candidate handles situations such as:
  • Recruitment not progressing as planned.
  • Hiring managers pushing for unrealistic timelines.
  • Delays in feedback or decision-making.
  • Difficulty in closing critical positions.
• The candidate should demonstrate ownership, influencing skills, assertiveness, and the ability to push back constructively.

2. IT Recruitment Expertise
Candidates should have hands-on experience in IT/technology hiring and understand current technology roles such as:

• AI/ML
• Infrastructure
• Solution Architect
• Cloud/Technology roles
• Other current IT and digital technology positions

3. Corporate Hiring Exposure

• Experience in hiring for corporate functions is preferred.
• Exposure to hiring across functions such as IT, Finance, R&D, and other corporate/enabling functions.
• Candidates from established/good-sized organizations would be preferred, as they are more likely to have experience dealing with complex stakeholder environments.

4. Recruitment Analytics & Excel

• Should have hands-on experience with Excel.
• Should be comfortable preparing and maintaining basic recruitment dashboards and hiring trackers.
• Should understand recruitment metrics and be able to present hiring progress to stakeholders.

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