About

Apurva Nerkar Datta is a seasoned Senior Talent Acquisition Partner with over 7 years of experience in IT, Non-IT, and Investment Banking Operations recruitment. She has a proven track record of successfully handling permanent and contract staffing of vanilla skills, niche requirements, bulk hiring, campus recruitment, and headhunting of caliber candidates. Currently, Apurva is associated with NICE Ltd as a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner. Her role involves handling recruitment for two major segments (GFO & Utility Ops), preparing weekly reports, and driving trackers to understand the current scenario and forecast the position criticality. She is responsible for the entire recruitment life cycle, including bagging requirements, understanding the business need, cold calling, scheduling interviews, offer negotiation, and management. Apurva proactively supports weekdays, weekend, and campus drives to close the positions within the given TAT. She also interacts with the candidates and technical panel for better understanding of the requirement and proper evaluation of the required technical skills. Previously, Apurva worked with FIS Global as a Senior Executive Human Resources. Her role involved working as an individual contributor on vanilla IT skills (Java, .Net, manual and automation testing, PL SQL,) and niche positions (Oracle EBS, C++, Build & release, SQL DBA), which includes competency mapping, job posting, sourcing, mass mailing, headhunting, screening resumes, and coordinating the interview process, offer negotiation, and management. She also worked on non-IT skills (Accounting, SAP, Statutory reporting, FP&A, Taxation) and Investment banking operations requirements such as GMI, Clearvision, Clearing, Static data, Brokerage management, reconciliations, margin & collateral management. Apurva started her career with Phoenix Consultancy as a Team Lead Recruitment. Her role involved handling the complete recruitment and selection process, right from crystallizing the requirement specs to closing the requirements. She was responsible for understanding requirements and sourcing suitable candidates from job portals, headhunting, and other sources. She conducted first-level interviews to check technical skills, interest level, availability, compensation, etc. besides liaison with the technical panel. Apurva also handled interview coordination with clients, negotiations, and follow-ups. Additionally, she managed joining, training & resignation formalities, business development, client visits, preparing MoM, etc. Apurva holds a Master of Business Administration - MBA degree in Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General