Shagufta Poonawala

Recruiter

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India8 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Legal Recruitment with extensive network.
  • Successfully managed mass hiring projects across industries.
  • Proficient in training and developing recruitment teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Legal Recruitment Specialist with expertise in mass hiring and training within the Healthcare and Legal sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Legal RecruitmentCandidate SolutionsMass HiringClient CoordinationTraining StrategiesPerformance-based TrainingClient ServicingKey Account ManagementRecruitmentTraining And Development

Other Skills

Account ManagementAnalysisBoolean SearchingBusiness DevelopmentCRMCollege RecruitingComplianceCorporate TransactionsCurriculum DevelopmentCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Direct SalesDispute ResolutionDocumentationEmployee RelationsEmployee Training

About

We are Hiring! Let’s Connect! If I viewed your profile, I may have a role for you :) Personal Motto One motto that practically governs my work and life is if anything is worth doing, it is worth doing well. In the pursuit of this ideal, I constantly strive to achieve perfection in the projects that I undertake and thereby, to be the best in whatever I do. Then, of course, honesty, diligence, respect for others, fairness and ethical conduct are principles that can never go out of fashion - at least, not for me. Professional Expertise Strategic Search |Cherry Picking| Headhunting| Executive Search |Leadership Hiring |LinkedIn |X-Raying |Peeling back |Social Media Recruiting| Niche Skills hiring |Job Boards |Volume Hiring| Tech Hiring| Client / Candidate Relationship Management|

Experience

Human elevation (he)

Legal Recruitment Specialist

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Avimukta | legal recruitment consultancy

Consultant at Avimukta Consultancy Services

Oct 2023Aug 2024 · 10 mos · Remote

Human elevation (he)

Senior Consultant - Legal Recruitment

Feb 2020May 2023 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • My Role,
  • Passionate Linkedin Networker with more than 17000 connections which include Attorneys, General Counsel, Legal heads, Independent Practitioners, and Notable Advocates from top law firms in India & Magic circle & Silver circle firms across the globe.
  • Successfully completed Attorney recruitment (Partners, Associate Partners, Principal Associates, Senior Associates & Associates) of all practice areas and the hiring of legal support roles for leading Law firms in India and in-house legal roles.
  • Practice Areas Handled - General Corporate advisory, Corporate transactions, PE, Venture Capital & M&A, IPR & Trademarks, Patents, Indirect Taxation, Compliance, White Collar Crimes, Projects & Infrastructure, Project Finance, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Media & Entertainment, Antitrust & Competition, Real Estate, Restructuring & Insolvency, Banking & Finance, Labour & Employment.
  • Coordinate research activities on large projects and/or complex assignments, to ensure candidate solutions through mapping firms within the practice area.
Legal RecruitmentCandidate SolutionsResearch ActivitiesCorporate TransactionsGeneral Corporate AdvisoryCompliance+1

Independent

Independent Search Experience

Aug 2014Dec 2019 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Completed a mass hiring Project for a fitness technology venture client’s like Goqii, for their Healthcare (Dietitian, Nutritionist, Fitness trainers, Yoga Experts) and Technology team (Mobile development / Android / IOS developers)
  • The Highlight of this project was all the candidates were completely sourced through Facebook, Social Networks & References.
  • Have worked for Health apps like Goqii, OBINO, Healthifyme, Just for Hearts.
  • Successfully handled search assignments for Banking, Telecom and Retail vertical in Middle East / GCC Countries (Dubai/UAE / Saudi Arabia/ Qatar/ Oman) clients.
  • Worked for Banks & Retail clients like FGB, Mashreq Bank, RAK Bank, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank, Landmark Group, SPLASH.
  • Handled documentation related to VISA, ticketing and joining formalities.
  • Successfully closed multiple designing & Tech mandates for Automobile client like Shape Corporation.
Mass HiringClient CoordinationDocumentationSearch Assignments

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Recruitment Training Manager

Apr 2011Mar 2012 · 11 mos

  • Create learning strategies aligned with business and organization goals
  • Designed performance-based training solutions for the RBP Model
  • Created a training model for setting up a Recruitment business
  • Leading the training & Orientation for the RBP's
  • Providing assistance in the entire RBP setup
  • Providing Search Suggestions, Data Support, Sample Resume's & Tip sheets.
  • Screening support & Quality Check
  • Responsible for Preparing & Managing the training documents, Curriculum & Handouts
  • Deliver/facilitate training for all RBP's
  • Refresher training program
  • Setting up virtual classroom sessions
  • Constant skills assessment of each Recruiter and focusing on improving their competencies
Training StrategiesPerformance-Based TrainingCurriculum Development

Inx services

Client Relationship Manager

Jan 2010Apr 2011 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Client Servicing
  • Key Account Management for Clients like 3M, Samsung, IFB, Tata Communications.
  • Managing client coordination and building key account relations as a single point of contact.
  • Managing client-vendor relationship
  • Identifying opportunities and Client Penetration
  • Turning client needs to actionable business development proposals or quotations
  • Submitting regular progress reports, analysis and recommendations on all aspects of Recruitment and Client Penetration
  • Strategically, consistently developed businesses across all key Accounts
  • Recruitment
  • Handling end to end recruitments
  • Gathering Market Intelligence and Market Mapping
  • Converting stuck cases to a closure to meet the targeted numbers.
  • Negotiating salary with the candidate ensuring offer acceptance & Joining date
  • Headhunting and Mapping
  • Market & Industry Research and Analysis:
  • Gather information about Market Developments, Launch/expansion plans of existing/potential clients.
  • Competition tracking and Market share analysis etc.
  • Internal Hiring - Have done internal recruitments for my team, right from identification of right talent to his settling down in the team, Training new hires & Coaching & mentoring.
Client ServicingKey Account ManagementMarket Intelligence

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2 roles

Member-COE

Nov 2006Oct 2009 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Roles & Responsibility:
  • Recruitment
  • Throughly understanding client requirement through job description.
  • Screening the right profiles.
  • Pitching & scrutinizing the candidates on the projects and experiences.
  • Generating a pool of database through job portals, posting queries, & referencing.
  • Handled IT as well as Non IT requirements
  • Market Research
  • Company Mapping
  • Cold Calling
  • Expert Headhunter
  • Telephonic Evaluation
  • Scheduling Interviews.
  • Background reference checks
  • Follow up till joining.
  • F2F interview with Candidates at Executive search level
  • Account Management & Client Servicing
  • Currently Executing a Training Certification Program on Recruitment
  • Training & Development
  • Roles & Responsibilties
  • Topics Covered
  • Training & Development
  • Topics Covered
  • o Recruitment And Human Resource
  • o Recruitment process
  • o Methods and ways of doing Recruitment
  • o Framing job description
  • o Usage of job portals
  • o Various types of interviews like telephonic, face to face, behavioral, stress
  • o Candidate Evaluation, Candidate management
  • o Use of Business Networking sites like Too Step and Linked In
  • o Referencing
  • o Company mapping
  • o Headhunting
  • o Cold calling
  • o Advance methods of Recruitment like sourcing through Google, Peeling back X-raying techniques
  • o How to source niche skills
  • o Induction, Orientation, Attrition calculation
  • o Understanding salary components, offer letter, appointment action, joining formalities.
  • o Overview on Campus Recruitment, Overseas Recruitment, Volume hiring
  • Handling the END to END Training program
  • Setting Training Agenda’s
  • Induction of New Joinees
  • Designing of the Training Curriculum (Theory & Assignments)
  • Taking post Training Feedback
  • Hired at all levels
  • Organized campus hiring drives at colleges like Sydenham, NK College etc.
  • Organized Walk-ins
  • Have successfully closed positions upto Director Level
  • Created content and delivered training sessions
RecruitmentMarket ResearchTraining and Development

Member - COE

Nov 2006Oct 2009 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Education

KC College of Management Studies, Churchgate

PG Diploma in Human Resource Management (Gold Medalist) — Human Resource

Jan 2005Jan 2006

American Tesol

Advanced Diploma in professional development in training — Training

Jan 2011Jan 2011

Gujarat University

Diploma in Electronics & Communication Engg — Electronics & Communication

St Stephen's Higher Secondary School

HSC

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