Pallavi Chawla

Recruiter

London, England, United Kingdom9 yrs 1 mo experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in tech and non-tech recruitment across EMEA and ASEAN.
Strong focus on diversity and inclusion in hiring practices.
Proven track record in building talent pipelines and communities.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Tech Recruiter specializing in Diversity & Inclusion strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent ManagementStakeholder ManagementTechnical RecruitingStrategic SourcingDiversity & InclusionCandidate ExperienceCandidate EngagementData AnalysisHiring

Other Skills

Analytical SkillsApplicant Tracking SystemsCandidate negotiationClosing CandidatesContract RecruitmentCultural AwarenessEmployee EngagementEquality & DiversityHigh-volume RecruitingHuman Resources Information Systems (HRIS)Internet RecruitingInternet searchInternet search toolsInterpersonal CommunicationInterviewing

About

An expert recruiter in Tech and Non-Tech space across EMEA, UK & ASEAN || Stakeholder Management || Employee Engagement || D&I || Talent Management || Talent Scouting || Candidate Experience || Headhunting About Me With extensive knowledge of end-to-end recruitment, I am a seasoned professional armed with around 5 years of work experience, and an MBA degree in HR & Analytics. I have strong expertise in competency mapping and workforce planning. I am currently part of the Talent Acquisition team as a TA Business Partner with Viridien, UK. Previously, I was associated with Amazon Web Services as a Recruiter for their Science and Technical Leadership team within the Utility Computing Business. Before my stint with AWS, I worked as a Talent Partner at Adobe managing hiring for Adobe's Digital Experience Business Unit (Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Campaign, Marketo). Together with providing hiring solutions, I have also been part of various projects to help in devising TA strategies and scouting for A-1 Talent in the industry - *Mapping top 200 women in tech across EMEA *Building Talent Communities for Adobe (For Proactive Hiring) * Data-Driven Operating Model (For using Analytics while creating Hiring Strategies) * Customer Zero Approach (To understand candidate behaviour through RAG analysis) * D&I (To break the glass-ceiling effect for diverse candidates, and be more inclusive in our hiring approach)

Experience

Viridien

Talent Acquisition Business Partner

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

Hiring for HPC, GeoVentures, Earth Data, Tech-plus, Imaging, SMO (Concept and DeRegt) businesses of Viridien.
Regions: UK, Netherlands, France, Norway, APAC, US
Skills hiring for:
Early Careers: Graduate Machine Learning Interns, Machine learning Engineers, Graduate Imaging Geophysicists
Geoscience: Clastic Sedimentologists, Automated Minerology Technician, Carbonate Sedimentologist, Data and Contract Specialist, Spectral Geologist, Meteorological Researcher
TechPlus: Software Developers (Backend, Fullstack), Machine Learning Engineers
Earth Data: Entity Finance Director, Senior Financial Analyst, Business Development Manager
High Performance Computing (HPC): IT Support, Data Centre Facility Manager, HPC Leader, IT Help-desk, MongoDB Database Administrator, Business Advisor, Network Engineer, Virtualization Engineer, Technology Integration Specialist, Data Centre Application Support Lead, IT Architect
Corporate: HRBP, People Development and Engagement Specialist, Senior Financial Analyst

Stakeholder ManagementEmployee EngagementTalent ManagementTalent Scouting

Amazon web services (aws)

Recruiter II

Jul 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Hiring Executive, Scientific, Tech and Non-tech Talent for AWS across EMEA
Adept at passively sourcing candidates via Boolean searches on sites such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, Seekout, HireEz and Beamery.
Collaborate and follow up with Sr. Leadership and Hiring Managers to ensure a successful pipeline of qualified candidates.
Strategizing different ways to build talent pipelines and execute on tactical research, referral-generation, talent mapping, events and sourcing campaigns
Identified top 200 women in tech across EMEA through a sourcing project, partnering with Hiring Managers, Recruiters as well as RMs
Part of ‘Be AWSomely Prepared’ project to provide exceptional candidate experience by curating customised interview preparation material for scientific roles

High-volume RecruitingTechnical RecruitingScreeningStrategic SourcingHuman Resources Information Systems (HRIS)

Adobe

2 roles

Talent Partner

Promoted

Feb 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

Strategised & Executed a programmatic approach to curate talent pool by leveraging recruiting tools & processes, while gathering role requirements, and recommendations from the business.
Managing high volume of recruitment processes simultaneously
Process Review & Improvement
Ensuring great candidate experience throughout the recruitment process
Hired for innumerable roles ranging from mid to exec level
Skills Hired for: Backend Engineers (C++, Java, Python), Frontend Engineers (React.js, Angular.js, Javascript), Technical Program Managers, Technical Architects (Java, C++), Cloud Deployment Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Customer Success Engineers, Database Engineers, Application Support Engineers, Customer success managers, Sales consultants, Inside sales rep, Solutions consultant, Marketing specialists, Key account managers, Executive assistant
Market Mapping and Sourcing to help ramp up the businesses across Adobe.
Assessing the candidate Pulse, during the POE activity and working on back-up, reducing TAT.
Stakeholder management by alerting businesses with risk and mitigation plans for a smooth hiring
Been part of 'Keep in Touch' program for the past 2 years, which is an initiative to map the behavior of Incoming University Grads and Interns through RAG analysis and predict whether they will join Adobe or not. This project has helped the University team in identifying the drop-outs in the early stages of POE process and try to nudge them in the right direction by customizing the engagement strategies.
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Candidate engagementPassive Candidate GenerationStakeholder ManagementSourcingClosing CandidatesCandidate Engagement

Talent Selection

Feb 2019 – Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Managed end-to-end hiring for engineering function across locations
Map potential talent in the market and align/coordinate interviews for the candidates
Experience with working on tools like Workday, LinkedIn recruiter, Naukri, HackerRank, Belong, Github etc
Provide exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience
Identified and built key relationships with the best executive talent in the industry
Calibrate with Hiring Managers on sourcing strategies and targeting right pool of talent
Promoted and facilitated internal-first mind-set
Active part of D&I hiring strategy team

ScreeningHiringHuman Resources Information Systems (HRIS)

Ibinito

Human Resources Summer Intern

May 2018 – Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

I worked under the HR department of Ibinito Pvt Ltd as an HR executive for my Internship during MBA.
Key Responsibility Areas-:
Handling the Naukri.com Admin Portal of the Company.
Sourcing candidates for technical roles.
Aligning Interviews
Designing Job Descriptions and Specifications
Assisting in HR rounds by screening candidates

Hiring

Metlife

Account Associate

Jan 2016 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Worked in Reinsurance Administration process under Finance Operations.
Prepared cash settlement on monthly & quarterly basis.
Prepared MJE (Manual Journal Entries) in the ledger.
Calculated IBNR reserves, Claims, other reserves, premiums.
Calculated and made Premium payments.
Responsible for fund transfer to respective re-insurer companies through TWS.
Prepared monthly, quarterly and yearly settlement and also calculated monthly accrual for the re-insurer using macro enabled Microsoft excel files.
Worked on different applications to pull out transactions, ledger postings, P&L posting, Balance Sheet.
Created Wire and uploaded it to the cession for all payables.
Performed Quarterly and Annual Reconciliation of International currencies.
Worked on software like Cadency, Cognos, ERDR to ensure the integrity of financial statements, via automated enterprise account reconciliation, balance sheet certification and variance analysis.
Gained confidence through complete, accurate and timely production of financial reporting and statutory accounts.

Convergys

Billing Associate

Dec 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Worked for Process EE which is a UK based Telecom Company.
Handled billing, escalations and recalculation for the business.
Handled ADR procedures and other non-technical client requirements.
Rectified more than £20000 worth of bills and also dealt with the third party organizations of the
UK for client benefits.
Designed Proof of ownership, Proof of usage to claim insurances for the clients.
Worked with the fraud investigation department of EE.