Talent Acquisition

Talent Acquisition (TA) operates as an agile, AI-enabled, analytics-driven function, prioritizing swift decision-making. Our distinction as an employer of choice hinges on a differentiated hiring process focused on a superior candidate experience and future skills.

Our differentiated hiring processes, facilitated through various avenues, consistently emphasize scalability:

  • Established agility during the offer process for certain demands as the intent of the offer was based on the agreed grid with BUs
  • Focused approach resulted in a 19% uptick in direct sourcing during this fiscal year
  • Limiting interviews to only 2 levels with a focus on hiring based on potential and not just performance
  • Most of the final interviews are conducted at the office moving away from the virtual practice
  • Routine meetings with respective stakeholders within the business to address any calibrations required on either toning down expectations (skills) or mapping of relevant salary stack as per market trends
  • Active involvement of project and client panels in engaging with short-listed candidates as part of post-offer engagement
  • Panels being more diligent on interview etiquette to ensure better candidate experience
  • Working with local vendors in specific geographies for global engagement hiring initiatives
Happiest Minds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Company

We uphold equal employment opportunities for all. As part of our Equal Opportunity Policy, we ensure parity across all levels of employment without discriminating based on race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, language, age, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, socio-economic status, or special ability. During this fiscal year, we hired 301 women into our workforce. Geo-wise recruitment is as follows:

In the lateral hiring space, our diversity ratio for the year stands at 25%, while in campus hiring, it stands at an impressive 41%. We've implemented a range of initiatives aimed at enhancing workplace diversity, including:

Hiring

Each BU works on the D&I target assigned through hiring drives, hackathons, campus hiring and the usual lateral hiring process. They have given a dedicated target to work on increasing the diversity ratio, which is reviewed every quarter, and the dashboard is published to the Executive Board.

Leadership Hiring

The TA team is tasked with prioritizing diversity in leadership hires, alongside ongoing campaigns for lateral hiring.

Referral Policy

We incentivize referrals by offering a 5% bonus for every female candidate referred and subsequently hired.

Boomerang Policy

We encourage - Happiest Minds Alumni to return to us. The process has minimum interview rounds.

Awareness Session

Continuous awareness sessions are conducted to encourage leaders and managers to actively recruit more women and cultivate a diverse workforce.

Geo-wise Vendor Alignments

Increased outreach to vendors specialized in diversity hiring.