Karishma Soni

Sole Talent Acquisition Partner for APAC & EMEA, designing and executing full-cycle recruitment for cybersecurity, engineering, product, and sales roles and reducing time-to-fill by 20% for critical positions.

First TA hire in India; established recruitment infrastructure (Greenhouse, GEM), managed global hiring across US and India, and launched employer branding and referral programs to improve quality-of-hire.

Delivered high-volume and niche technical hiring for enterprise clients across embedded systems, BFSI, e-commerce, and healthcare, partnering with hiring managers and managing offer negotiations and onboarding.

Led sourcing operations for niche tech talent across client accounts, built passive sourcing functions, mentored recruiters, and reduced agency dependency through vendor negotiation and cost-effective channels.

Managed end-to-end recruitment for customer care and technical support roles in a high-volume program, introduced structured screening questionnaires that reduced interview drop-offs by 15%.

Delivered employability training and mock interviews for final-year engineering students, training 400+ students and improving campus placement outcomes.

Managed RPO recruitment for Microsoft across India and US markets, delivering high-volume technical and functional hiring and maintaining strong candidate conversion rates under strict SLAs.

Completed a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from 2012 to 2016.