Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

• Talent Acquisition: Leading the end to end recruitment and building the entire UAE + Global team (ranging from Argentina to Hong Kong) from scratch.
• Business Partnering & Strategy: creating and implementing HR policies, plans and techniques.
• Compensation & Benefits: helping design and change the compensation and benefits structure for India & UAE
• Employee Engagement & Morale: Maintaining employee morale by fostering a healthy and positive working environment through constructive leadership & team work.
• Learning & Development: Developing modules and training programs for employees especially in the recruitment space among others.
• Appraisals & Feedback: Providing monthly feedback and quarterly appraisals to ensure performance, help with improvement areas and help employees upskill.
• Leadership: Managing the goals, performance and other metrics, coaching people to get to the next step, setting KPIs and ensuring they are followed, motivating employees and helping company profitability.
• Change management and grievance handling: Manage and solve employee grievances and conflicts in addition to change management whether it is on the software or people side.
• Employee Guidelines & Company policies: Evaluating and updating all employee guidelines in addition to preparing, executing and modifying company policies.
• Talent Management: Managing the attrition, performance, KPIs, creating a steady pipeline for quick hiring.
• Labour Laws & Visa processing: Maintain knowledge of legal specifications and government reporting regulations affecting HR functions and doing the visa processing.

May 2021 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• As a Talent Advisor I look over internal recruitment for LinkedIn India Sales and Techno-functional roles.
• Roles covered include -
• > Sales Development (Bangalore)
• > Sales Operations
• > Deal Desk
• > Insights Analyst
• > Insights Associate Program Manager
• > Business Intelligence

Jun 2019 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr · Singapore

• Connecting the best Software Engineers to Google.
• Reporting to the Tech Staffing Channels Lead, I partner with Staffing teams to connect talented people to exciting career opportunities at Google.
• Part of the team to build long term candidate relationships, partner closely with business to ensure we are hiring extraordinary people for the right role at the right time alongside developing strategies for future hiring.
• Focusing on hires for Fullstack Developers alongside Software Engineers

Jan 2019 – Jun 2019 · 5 mos

• As part of the Banking and Financial services team, I specialize in Front Office focused roles for the buy and sell side.
• Michael Page is a leading professional recruitment consultancy specializing in the recruitment of permanent, contract and temporary positions on behalf of the world’s top employers. I am a sourcing associate at Michael Page, a FTSE 250 company listed on London Stock Exchange, First established in London in 1976, employing 5000+ people out of 167 offices in 36 countries.
• We’ve been bringing job seekers and employers together for over 40 years.
• Our role is to work with employers and job seekers to facilitate a successful match. This can range from advising a global company on a candidate sourcing strategy to helping a job seeker find their dream job. We focus on recruiting for banking and financial services, engineering and manufacturing, finance and accounting, healthcare and life sciences, human resources, IT, legal, marketing, procurement and supply chain, property and construction, and sales.
• Michael Page has recently been honoured and awarded the following awards: One of LinkedIn’s Most Socially Engaged Companies — LinkedIn The Accountancy Recruitment Company of the Year — Recruitment International Best Recruitment Firm in Sales and Marketing Positions — HRM Asia Reader’s Choice Get ahead.

Dec 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr

• Finding talent across different domains such as Banking & Finance, Healthcare, Sales & Marketing.

Aug 2017 – Dec 2017 · 4 mos

• Recruitment Consulting for Banking and Financial Services (Middle & Back Office Functions)

Jan 2017 – Aug 2017 · 7 mos · Singapore

• Recruitment Consultant for the Financial Services and Banking sector. Specializing in Mid-Senior level hires.
• Argyll Scott is a specialist recruitment consultancy managing permanent and temporary appointments across a wide range of functions and industries at mid to senior management levels. The opportunities we focus on vary from those in small entrepreneurial enterprises to large multinational companies across commerce and industry, professional services and financial services. Argyll Scott has specialist teams in the areas of:
• Accounting & Finance | Financial Services | Human Resources |
• Life Sciences | Manufacturing & Engineering | Real
• Estate | Sales & Marketing | Strategy | Supply
• Chain & Procurement | Technology

Jun 2016 – Nov 2016 · 5 mos · Singapore

• I was an Associate for the Venture Capital arm focusing on Information Technology & Communication companies based in Singapore & SEA.
• Skills Gained and Achievements:
• Business Development – identifying new opportunities, markets, clients and investments
• Liaising and networking with Investors, investees and staff, learning more about the Fund and understanding its intricate workings.
• Recruitment: Interviewing, assessing and selecting the right candidates for the job.
• Policies and Procedures: Updating all policies and procedures based on guidelines from MOM.
• Change Management: Due to the high number of graduate interns who work for short amounts of time, making sure their handing over, filing in new position and transitions are as seamless as possible.
• Taking care of the back-end such as scheduling, planning and organizing alongside taking care of all the filing and making sure they are in accordance with compliance requirements.
• Helping with internal audit and maintaining the petty cash for the Fund.
• Helping in migration of all office functions to a Cloud-based software.
• Appraisal: Revamping the existing self-appraisal system to a KPI and 360 degree appraisal.
• On-boarding & Off-boarding employees: After recruitment, welcoming employees, discussing their role and job description, introducing them to colleagues and discussion of any doubts that they may have. And, in case of an employee leaving, making sure they get their correct benefits etc.
• Staff Claims: Preparing and maintaining records for all staff claims.
• Planning and organizing the firm’s calendar, away days and all interviews.

Jun 2013 – Aug 2013 · 2 mos · Kolkata Area, India

• I worked with the recruitment and development department and had the opportunity to observe the recruitment process and plan a training programme for the accounting and finance department. I was responsible for: Sorting through the recruitment files and allotting candidates to various groups depending on job role applied for. Planning an away-day and training programme for the accounting and finance department. Skills Gained and Achievements:
• Organisation and Planning: organising the recruitment files taught me to further streamline tasks. Planning the “away day” taught me how each department was significantly different and how things need to be tailored to each activity to make it more suitable.
• Proactive: Owing to the interdependency of the teams we worked in, achieving common goals required me to be proactive in my contribution.
• Time Management: Working on multiple recruitment files helped sharpen my time management skills.

Jun 2010 – Jun 2010 · 0 mo · Kolkata Area, India

• Wrote and published several articles for the Daily.
• Skills Gained and Achievements:
• Creativity: Excellent creative and writing skills with knowledge of current trends were required to
• write articles based on the same.
• Inter-personal and interviewing skills: I had to interview many people in lieu of my articles
• therefore; I learnt the appropriate way to interact with different people and how to interview them.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr · Kolkata Area, India

• PR Executive (part time - working alongside school)
• I worked for NextGenn Communications from 2009-2010 and joined back ad hoc from October 2015 to April 2016 (1 year 6 months)
• Skills gained and Achievements:
• Teamwork: Essential to ensure the successful outcome of building and keeping relationships with clients.
• Business Development: preparing client pitch presentations to acquire new business and for servicing existing accounts
• Leadership: I was also responsible for the work of other members of the team helping them develop their interpersonal and communication skills while ensuring the overall performance of the team.
• Client Servicing: As the PR Executive I coordinated and communicated with clients to establish their requirements for all events, implementation as well as post-event feedback.
• Communication: The role also required frequent liaising with clients as well as members of the other team to incorporate all necessary events.
• Analytical Skills: Understanding the requirements for multiple clients with different retail objectives helped me to develop analytical skills to ensure events were suited to their target audience.
• Time Management: Required as we worked alongside school and many deadlines overlapped.
• Recruitment for the internal team.
• Innovation: Working for a small company had the advantage of making the top hierarchy more accessible, which meant very visible results for innovation. This led to several events such as book readings attended by many prominent authors.