Varad Kulkarni

HR Associate

Pune, Maharashtra, India5 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Awarded ZS Citizenship Award Winner 2024
Expertise in Employee Life Cycle management across regions
Passionate about HR and employee engagement strategies

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Human Resources professional with expertise in Employee Engagement and HR Operations.

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Skills

Core Skills

Hr OperationsEmployee EngagementLearning And Development

Other Skills

Employee Life CycleSystem EnhancementOnboarding processCorporate PresentationInduction ProgramEmotional onboardingSurvey analysisSurvey DesignData AnalysisTraining CoordinationIntern RecruitmentOrientationTraining Data AnalysisInduction PresentationManagement

About

A passionate HR professional who has worked in domains like Employee Engagement, L&D, Recruitment, Onboarding, Payroll, Generalist, who has planned and conducted Orientation and Onboarding sessions of New Hires. Recent experience is in HR Operations domain. I had taken care of 'Employee Life Cycle' of USA, Canada and Mexico regions. Currently with ZS associates doing the same for India location and I strongly believe 'HR is nothing but Gardening'.

Experience

5 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 10 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Zs

Human Resources Generalist

Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Employee Life Cycle (India) and System Enhancement

Employee Life CycleSystem EnhancementHR Operations

Persistent systems

3 roles

Associate Executive HR

Promoted

Jan 2022 – Aug 2022 · 7 mos

Employee Life Cycle - North America Zone (USA, Canada, Mexico)

Employee Life CycleHR Operations

People Operations

Sep 2021 – Jan 2022 · 4 mos

People Operations

Jan 2021 – Aug 2021 · 7 mos

Allianz technology

HR Associate

Jan 2020 – Jun 2020 · 5 mos · Pune

Responsibilities :
1 - Coordinating the Onboarding process on every Monday and Wednesday
2 - Conducting the Corporate Presentation
3 - Coordinating the Corporate Induction and Divisional Induction at the end of the month
4 - One to one connect with the new joiners
5 - Taking care of Emotional and Technical onboarding
6 - Analysis of the New Joiners survey on Induction and Onboarding process
Projects -
1 - Designed a survey for the New Joiners regarding the Onboarding and Induction
2 - Analysis of these surveys which helps a smooth process of Onboarding

Onboarding processCorporate PresentationInduction ProgramEmotional onboardingSurvey analysisEmployee Engagement

Forbes marshall

Learning and Development Intern

Feb 2019 – Jan 2020 · 11 mos · Pune Area, India

Responsibilities :
1. Co-ordination of Branch and Sales Training Programs.
2. Handling Interns Recruitment and Stipend process.
3. Training Hall Upkeep and Stationary Upkeep.
4. Arranging monthly Orientation for New Joiners.
5. Documentations of Interns
6. People Soft Entries of all Internal and External Training Programs in the People Soft System (HRIS)
7. Preparation of End of Training Report.
8. Preparing ERP and punching the training related Vouchers in the System.
9. Sandwich Interns Recruitment and Project Follow up.
10. Maintaining Box Files of the Internal Training Programs and Interns Data.
11. Looking after Foreign Interns.
12. Overall Joining Formalities of all Interns.
I also have worked on designing the MDP Calendar for the year of 2019-20.
Worked with a consultant as an Admin of the SkillSoft Percipio e-Learning Portal which involves preparing weekly reports, solving queries, assigning members, etc.

Training CoordinationIntern RecruitmentOrientationLearning and Development

Thermax limited

Human Resources Intern

Dec 2018 – Jan 2019 · 1 mo · Pune Area, India

As a Winter Intern, I worked in the following areas :
Learning & Development, Recruitment, HR Process/Operations, Employee Engagement, Research.
I was responsible for the Training Data and analysis of Training Data.
Also, I worked on the Induction Presentation of Thermax Ltd. Chemical Division

Training Data AnalysisInduction PresentationLearning and Development