Meenakshi Gairola

Recruiter

Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand18 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Nearly 20 years of global recruitment experience
  • Proven track record in senior leadership hiring
  • Expert in building high-performing recruitment teams
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition expert specializing in IT and E-commerce recruitment.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionRecruitingGlobal Talent AcquisitionTechnical Recruiting

Other Skills

Benefits NegotiationBusiness DevelopmentCandidate ManagementClient Delivery ManagementClient ManagementClient Relationship ManagementCollaborationCorporate RecruitingEmployee Retention StrategiesEmployer BrandingExecutive SearchHR ConsultingHuman Resources (HR)IT and Non-IT HiringInternal Recruitment

About

Dynamic and result-driven Talent Acquisition professional with nearly 20 years of experience across ANZ, APAC, North America, Canada, and EMEA regions. Specialized in end-to-end recruitment for IT, Non-IT, and Sales domains. Skilled in stakeholder engagement, senior leadership hiring, and building high-performing recruitment teams.

Experience

Peoplescout

Recruiter

Mar 2024Present · 2 yrs · Australia · Hybrid

Internal RecruitmentGlobal Talent AcquisitionCorporate RecruitingCandidate ManagementTechnical RecruitingTalent Acquisition+1

Mongodb

Principal Global Talent Acquisition / Principal Talent Sourcing Specialist

Jan 2019Feb 2023 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon · On-site

  • Principal Sourcing Specialist for North America and LATAM : May 2022- Till Date
  • Senior Sourcing Specialist for North America and LATAM: September 2020 - April 2022
  • Senior Sourcing Specialist for India: January 2019 - August 2020
  • Key Responsibilities
  • Hiring software sales and IT professionals for North America, Canada & APAC region including India.
  • Mentored 3 new joiners.
  • Strong stakeholder management and partnership.
  • Ownership of senior confidential and ad-hoc projects.
  • Until Aug 2020, was responsible for hiring talent for India office which includes sourcing for Sales, IT and non-IT professionals, across levels. Initial shortlisting and screening of resumes and scheduling interviews for the right candidates with hiring managers. Ensuring a smooth recruitment process till candidate on-boarding.
  • Achievements:
  • Excellent stakeholder feedback in all quarterly survey reports.
  • Smashed all quarterly targets, consistently. Grabbed several monthly and quarterly awards for performance.
  • Won “ALL” the ad-hoc Spiff and Marathon awards announced so far, with maximum numbers and best conversion rate.
  • Got recognition from GEM (CRM vendor) for being their top user in the year 2021.
Stakeholder ManagementSenior Leadership HiringMentoringSourcingScreeningInterviewing+2

Quadrangle (naukri.com)

Senior Manager - IT Search

Jul 2015May 2018 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Key Responsibilities
  • Lead the recruitment of E-commerce, internet domain / product development companies with a team of 4 people.
  • Understand business objective and scenarios of clients, devise optimal recruitment strategy and talent hiring plan within timeframe in sync with Client’s needs.
  • Manage client delivery goals of hiring KRA’s/KPI’s.
  • Responsible for defining future strategies, business plan for Quadrangle BU along with execution plan.
  • Collaborate with HR Business Partners of organizations on recruitment objectives, hiring plans and sharing of best practices.
  • Mandate to close senior level Management positions with Amazon Ecommerce and web services.
  • Achievements:
  • Built e-commerce practice for Bangalore unit. Started working on niche IT and Non-IT positions for Amazon, AWS and other clients.
  • Derived new sourcing strategies and helped the team over achieve targets. Added multiple new accounts (clients) for Bangalore branch.
Client Delivery ManagementRecruitment StrategyTeam LeadershipCollaborationTalent AcquisitionRecruiting

Magnasoft

Senior Manager – Recruitment

Feb 2014Apr 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

  • Magnasoft is a Café Coffee Day Group Company, which specializes in Product Development, GIS Services and Engineering Services, having its own SaaS product, with international presence.
  • Key Responsibilities
  • Heading Talent Acquisition for the company, along with a team of 7 recruiters, and reporting to the CEO of the company.
  • Was instrumental in hiring for various lines of business (product development, Engineering Services and GIS services verticals)
  • Reduced the hiring cost by introducing various strategies. Closely work with HR team for improving employee retention
  • Achievements:
  • Closed multiple senior most positions at individual level. Streamlined the recruitment process.
  • Participated in key marketing activities for Magnasoft as Recruitment Head for a better candidate experience.
Talent AcquisitionRecruitment Process ImprovementEmployee Retention StrategiesRecruiting

Elixir web solutions pvt ltd, a gi group company

Recruitment Manager

Jul 2005Jan 2014 · 8 yrs 6 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Achievements:
  • As a Practice Manager :
  • Responsible for starting Company’s Mumbai office and business practice from year 2010. Built a team and developed new clients through aggressive Business Development campaign. Strong foundation and quick actions ensured Mumbai team overachieving their targets within first year of inception.
  • Started the Education sector hiring, as a vertical for Elixir in 2012.
  • First and only team to over achieve targets in 2009-2010 (recession period).
  • Only team selected for Dehradun pilot project. The project was a success.
  • Got excellent review as a Manager in recent exit interviews in the team.
  • Won “Best Manager” awards.
  • As a Practice Lead :
  • Played a key role in developing and growing RBS and IBM ITD accounts from inception to one of the largest accounts for Elixir.
  • Selected for Fast Trackers forum, an initiative of Elixir towards building a collaborative organization.
  • As a Sr. Consultant :
  • Honoured with the “Best Senior Consultant” and “Highest Biller” of the Quarter award within 3 months of joining.
  • Achieved and over achieved targets almost every quarter.
  • 1st Recruiter to crack the Accenture account.
Business DevelopmentTeam ManagementClient Relationship ManagementTalent AcquisitionRecruiting

Artech information systems

IT Recruiter

Jan 2004Jul 2005 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Achievements:
  • Honored with the “Best Recruiter Award” very often.
  • Top performer of the team.
  • Achieved and exceeded targets in terms of submittals, interviews and placements almost every month.
RecruitmentPerformance TrackingTalent Acquisition

Education

Indira Gandhi National Open University

MBA — HR

Jan 2003Jan 2006

Annamalai University

M.com — Commerce

Jan 2001Jan 2003

Gargi College, Delhi University

B.Com — Commerce

Apr 1998Mar 2001

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