Talent Acquisition Specialist

Company Description

YourDOST is an emotional wellness platform dedicated to helping individuals navigate personal, professional, and academic challenges. Through a network of professionally trained counselors, YourDOST empowers individuals to manage stress, anxiety, and burnout, all while promoting self-improvement and a positive self-image. It offers around-the-clock access to experts who provide guidance, self-help techniques, and emotional support. At YourDOST, the mission is to ensure better mental health by enabling meaningful conversations and creating a positive impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the complete recruitment lifecycle from sourcing to onboarding.
• Design and execute sourcing strategies across job boards, LinkedIn, referrals, networking, and creative talent channels.
• Partner closely with hiring managers to understand hiring needs, role expectations, and team requirements.
• Screen candidates and coordinate interviews while ensuring a smooth and positive candidate experience.
• Build and maintain strong talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs.
• Keep candidates informed and engaged throughout the hiring process to minimize drop-offs.
• Maintain recruitment trackers, dashboards, and hiring reports with accuracy and consistency.
• Drive employer branding and recruitment engagement initiatives.
• Ensure timely closures while maintaining quality of hire.
• Support proactive pipeline building and workforce planning initiatives.
• Coordinate onboarding activities and pre-joining engagement.
• Organize and participate in job fairs, campus drives, and hiring events.

What We Are Looking For

• 1–2 years of hands-on experience in Talent Acquisition, Recruitment, or a related role.
• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of recruitment processes, sourcing strategies, and hiring metrics.
• Hands-on experience with LinkedIn Recruiter, job portals, and recruitment tracking tools.
• Proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets and candidate database management.
• Excellent communication, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.

Preferred Skills

• Experience working in startup environments.
• Exposure to hiring within mental health, wellness, education, or consulting domains.
• Strong networking and relationship-building abilities.
• Detail-oriented and process-driven mindset.
• Empathetic communication and candidate-first approach.

Why Join Us

• Opportunity to work with a mission-driven organization focused on emotional wellbeing.
• Dynamic, collaborative, and growth-oriented work culture.
• High ownership and learning opportunities.
• Meaningful work that creates real impact at scale.