HR Recruiter

About Setmi India

Since 1983, Setmi India has been a reputable name in the electronics and audiovisual (AV) industry in India. Currently, the company is expanding its teams across sales, technical, warehouse, and back-office departments and is seeking a dedicated HR Recruiter to manage the full recruitment process efficiently and effectively.

Role Overview

The HR Recruiter will be responsible for end-to-end hiring activities, ensuring timely placement of quality candidates. This role demands ownership of the entire recruitment funnel—sourcing, screening, scheduling interviews, offer negotiation, and candidate onboarding—while focusing on successful closures rather than activity metrics.

Key Duties

• Collaborate with the Managing Director and heads of departments to gather detailed hiring requirements including skills, experience, salary bands, and target profiles.
• Create clear job descriptions and hiring briefs prior to initiating candidate searches.
• Provide guidance on competitive salary benchmarks and candidate availability based on current market trends.
• Source candidates through multiple channels such as job portals (Naukri, Indeed, Shine, WorkIndia), LinkedIn, job groups, walk-ins, referrals, and local notice boards in markets like Chandni Chowk and Lajpat Rai Market.
• Establish and maintain networks with placement consultants, employees, vendors, and industry contacts, including negotiating commercial terms with consultants.
• Conduct first-level telephonic and face-to-face screening focusing on candidate experience, job stability, salary expectations, location, and notice period, ensuring all candidate claims are verified and only suitable profiles are shortlisted.
• Coordinate interviews, manage schedules, and ensure candidates are properly briefed and attended during the recruitment process.
• Collect detailed feedback post-interviews and communicate candidly with candidates regarding their selection status.
• Negotiate offers within approved salary bands, issue employment letters, and maintain ongoing communication to prevent dropouts till joining date.
• Complete reference checks and background verification prior to onboarding.
• Oversee joining formalities, induction procedures, and handover new hires to reporting managers with clear role outlines; conduct follow-ups at regular intervals after joining to monitor employee integration and risk of early exit.
• Keep a dynamic recruitment tracker updated frequently, detailing positions, candidate sources, progress stages, and expected joining dates.
• Produce weekly hiring status reports for management highlighting open positions, candidate pipelines, closures, and potential obstacles; analyze cost per hire and recommend resource allocation for recruitment channels.

Performance Metrics

• Number of successful position closures per month against targets.
• Recruitment turnaround time from requisition to candidate joining.
• Quality of shortlists evaluated by ratio of profiles shared to profiles shortlisted.
• Offer acceptance to joining ratio.
• Retention rate of new joinees after 90 days.
• Cost efficiency measured by reduction in consultant and portal expenditure per hire.
• Maintenance of ready pools of candidates for recurring job roles.

Positions to Recruit

• Sales Executives, Technical and Inside Sales staff, Counter Sales personnel.
• Warehouse and store employees.
• Accounts, billing and MIS/Data executives.
• Administrative and front-office staff.
• Field sales representatives, drivers, and support personnel.

Qualifications and Skills

• Demonstrated experience using job portal dashboards like Naukri Recruiter for candidate search, filtering, mass mailing, and response handling.
• Excellent telephonic communication skills, capable of engaging candidates effectively and assessing them in one interaction.
• Fluency in both Hindi and English, spoken and written.
• Proficiency in MS Excel or Google Sheets for creating trackers, applying filters, and using basic formulas.
• Strong persistence and follow-up skills to minimize candidate drop-offs.
• Ability to assess candidate stability and long-term intent beyond just technical skills.
• Comfortable working directly with the business owner and adapting to direct and prompt feedback.
• Maintains confidentiality of candidate and salary information.
• Self-motivated and capable of independently managing recruitment without daily supervision.
• Preferred experience includes hiring for electronics, trading, distribution, hardware, or SME sectors, exposure to consultancy with volume hiring, and familiarity with onboarding documentation and HR record-keeping.

Benefits

• Direct interaction and reporting to the Managing Director enabling quick decision-making and minimal hierarchy layers.
• Additional incentives for every successful hiring closure beyond the fixed salary.
• Complete autonomy over recruitment activities and the choice of sourcing platforms.
• Opportunity to join a long-established and trustworthy company with over four decades of industry presence.
• Growth potential towards a comprehensive HR and administrative leadership role as the organization expands.

Compensation

This position offers a monthly salary between INR 15,000 and INR 16,000.

Additional Information

Candidates must submit their CV along with current and expected salary details as well as notice period through email as part of the application process. The company is committed to equal opportunity employment, selecting candidates based strictly on merit, skills, and attitude.