Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 · 1 yr · Ahmedabad · On-site

• ● Setting up the Career Services Office (CSO) and training students and newly recruited staff on various aspects related to placements, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of the process and best practices.
• ● Streamlined the entire placement process from start to finish, optimizing workflows and enhancing coordination to improve efficiency and placement outcomes.
• ● Established and led a 25-member student placement team, fostering their development, guiding the placement process, and improving team efficiency.
• ● Conducted portfolio building workshops, resume building sessions, group discussion activities, and industrial visits as part of pre-placement activities to enhance student preparedness and employability.
• ● Managed and facilitated the campus placement process for various organizations, start-ups, and studios, ensuring smooth coordination and successful recruitment efforts.
• ● Streamlining the placement process by introducing dedicated placement software for automation.

Jun 2018 – Dec 2024 · 6 yrs 6 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India

• ● Lead and mentor a team of 33-member students’, providing coaching and support to foster career development and team success, nurturing them, leading the placement process and enhancing the team efficiency with a vision to achieve best placement statistics
• ● For the 2024-25 drive, she reached a significant milestone by successfully securing Apple Inc. for campus placements for the first time. Being one of the few private institutions in India to achieve this is an exceptional accomplishment.
• ● During the 2023-24 and 2022-23 recruitment drives, she secured a record-breaking package of 82 LPA.
• ● Pioneering a first in DA-IICT placements, she facilitated international internship placements, with Micron Inc offering positions in Malaysia during the 2023-24 placement drive.
• ● In the 2021-22 placement drive, she introduced a groundbreaking shared slot concept, inviting four prominent recruiters—Google, Microsoft, Sprinklr, and D.E. Shaw—to share Day Zero. This achievement, typically reserved for top IITs and NITs, marked a significant accomplishment for DA-IICT.
• ● Despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, DA-IICT achieved an all-time high in placements in 2020-21, maintaining its legacy of excellence with the highest-ever package of 51.75 LPA
• ● Before 2020, placements exclusively occurred in a physical (offline) mode. she devised and implemented a pioneering virtual placement procedure and guidelines during the pandemic, ensuring a seamless placement process for both students and companies.
• ● She established a standard criterion of inviting only companies offering a minimum of 5 LPA for campus placements.
• ● Effectively coordinating and distributing tasks to empower 33-member students team throughout the year and keeping the team motivated, despite the absence of monetary rewards, proves particularly tricky.

Aug 2009 – May 2018 · 8 yrs 9 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India

• Doordarshan (DD) Girnar has invited Ms Sneha Thakker to speak up in a panel discussion regarding
• her juourney as a women entrepreneur, the show was telecasted on the Intenrational Women’s
• Day 2018.
• Invited at SVUM-2018 International Trade Show to speak on Startup and Government initiative /
• benefits for startup.
• LJ Institute - Ahmedabad has invited her to empower, mentor and motivate female students of
• the Institute as part of their incubation program.
• Parul University, Baroda has invited her to give speech on the topic “Startups, Funding and
• Challenges”
• Zee Business – a leading business news TV channel, invited Sneha Thakker to address the issues
• related to Startups.
• She along with other women entrepreneurs, was invited by Google Developers Group –
• Ahmedabad to showcase their success story.
• She was invited as a panelist for the topic “What Technical Skills all Non Technical
• Founders should have?!” by Startup Saturday at CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad
• She was invited to deliver speech on “Women in Technology” by eChai at IIM, "eChai @ iCreate in association with GCCI Youth Wing" , Rotary club of patan to deliver a speech on “Women’s
• empowerment and equality”
• She was chief guest and motivational speaker at various events of Gardi Vidhyapith, Rajkot, "challenges of working women" at LDRP,Gandhinagar
• She was invited as one of the Jury Member at Kaizen 2018 organized by LD College of Engineering -
• Ahmedabad, GTU TECH-FEST 2015, Techexpo’15
• She was invited to mentor students and their projects at START-UP WEEK 24x7 2018 organized by
• LJ Group of Institute, Startup Process 24x7 organized by LJ Group of Institute, Immaculate-14
• Sneha Thakker was invited to take guest speaker session/interaction at Entrepreneurship
• Development Institute of India (EDI) – Bhat, NICM - Gandhinagar, GLS IBA - Ahmedabad
• Sneha Thakker was nominated as an external examiner for GLS University MSCIT Examination

Jul 2007 – Jul 2009 · 2 yrs