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Gunjan Nandwana

PARRAMATTA,NSW

Summary

A dynamic MBA-HR professional having total 8+ years of experience in strategic guidance & best-practice advisory to maximize results, Insights to build deeper customer relationships for superior ROI, helping brands across industries into E-commerce, Fin-tech, BFSI, Retail, Travel & Leisure, Food-tech & others. Specialized in global hiring and liaising with talent acquisitions teams across India, US and Australia. Detail-oriented professional with strong multitasking and communication skills. Experienced in recruiting highly talented personnel. Proven ability to work collaboratively with team members.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Talent Acquisition Advisor, 6 Months FTC

TripAdvisor
11.2022 - 04.2023
  • Led Australia and India recruitments, worked as part of global recruitment team based in US & Singapore.
  • Partner with key business stakeholders to plan and develop effective recruitment strategies for all types of recruitment services
  • Partner with business areas to gain a thorough understanding of future talent need and contributing to the wider TA sourcing strategy to ensure it remains fit for purpose
  • Liaise with recruitment suppliers in relation to market insights, candidates, and processes.
  • Working with hiring managers and suppliers to educate both on hiring processes, requisitions and hiring systems.
  • Coordinate and contribute to process improvement and process mapping exercises. Screen, guide and prepare candidates through the extensive interview process to set them up for success as much as possible.
  • Assist with the on-boarding and induction processes; helping managers understand their role in the process.

Talent Acquisition Business Partner, 6 Months FTC

Telstra
05.2022 - 11.2022
  • Worked as an in-house recruiter as part of Network & Infrastructure Engineering Team across Australia.
  • Managed a wide range of high Volume recruitment including niche & diversity roles.
  • Enabling seamless experience for all future and current employees who participate in the recruitment process.
  • Supported Talent Acquisition Partner teams across various aspects of the end-to-end recruitment process, focusing on delivering best practice outcomes on strategic sourcing, attracting, and placing the best talent to shape the evolving culture of Telstra.
  • Partnered with key business stakeholders to plan and develop effective recruitment strategies for all types of recruitment services.
  • Driving the offer process, creation of employment contracts, contract variations and ahdoc projects
  • Coaching and building relationships with Talent Acquisition teams to help drive best practice recruitment processes and successful hiring outcomes in all recruitment activities.
  • Maintained company Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to manage and track resumes and information about candidates.

Maternity Break

Taking Care Of Kids
10.2020 - 05.2022

Customer Experience and Sales Consultant

TSA Group
11.2019 - 09.2020
  • Responsible for Retention & Sales. Engage customers, build rapport, and ensure all customers are getting the best value
  • Retain existing customers by presenting personalized solutions based on the customer's current and future needs
  • Offer solutions using a variety of Telstra's market leading products.
  • Maximized customer retention by resolving issues quickly.

Recruitment Consultant

Springboard
06.2018 - 09.2019

Springboard is a B2C product based Ed tech company providing mentor based online courses. They have our offices in 2 locations - San Francisco, US and Bangalore, India.

  • Scaled the technology hiring, which is inclusive of Backend, Frontend, Full stack engineers, UX/UI designers, Mobile application developers, SDET, etc
  • Liaised with the US and India team, working in global environment.
  • Work closely and advise hiring managers on recruitment processes, partner with the business on their recruitment needs from end to end.
  • Identify and engage with the best talent in the market, build candidate pipeline through talent pooling and provide seamless candidate experience.
  • Coordinating the post-interview debrief meetings and providing debrief materials.
  • Effectively manage relationships with agencies. Proactively incorporated various employer branding strategies to attract passive talent.
  • Perform reference checks for selected candidates, plan onboarding and process redesign.
  • Screened resumes conducted interviews and performed skills assessment tests for junior positions and internships through Campus Recruitment.

Talent Acquisition Lead

Skillenza
02.2016 - 05.2018

Skillenza is product based b2b saas company, helping clients for their hiring needs through modern and traditional form of recruitment. They work on different models like Online coding challenges, codejams, practice tests, meetups, & hackathons.

  • Technical hiring including hiring for digital & technical architecture teams, which includes multi-channel sourcing, screening, closing - high level skills in time, negotiation, reviewing company policies and procedures with applicants and extending offers.
  • Individually handled 15+ Hackathon by playing the role of the SPOC for all confidential hiring positions. Managed the hiring for product companies like Amazon, Google, FLipkart, Adobe, LinkedIn etc.
  • Responsible for deciding the right sourcing mix and marketing plan. Recruited for roles like Frontend, backend, fullstack, mobile developers, Sales and Marketing associates, product managers, program managers, architects etc..
  • Attend college career fairs, interact with students and promote our employer brand.

Resource Executive

New Era India Consultancy, En World Group
07.2014 - 01.2016

En World is a leader in connecting global companies and internationally-minded candidates throughout the APAC region.

  • Worked as an agency recruiter as part of IT & Engineering team, India.
  • Interacting with corporate clients to understand manpower requirements and working very closely with them and ensure delivery to clients is on time.
  • Handling full cycle recruitment process for middle and senior level. Generating referrals using existing database and heading hunting through social media recruiting, diversity hiring
  • Source and coordinate with clients/candidates from the interview process to offer roll out, joining and onboarding.

Education

MBA - Human Resource

International Institute of Business Studies
Bangalore, India
07.2014

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

LNCT
Indore, India
05.2012

Skills

  • End to end Recruitment
  • Technology Hiring
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Process Optimization
  • Talent Management
  • ATS - Lever, Workday, Greenhouse
  • Employer Branding
  • Volume Hiring
  • Internal and External Hiring

Additional Information

Australian Permanent Resident

Timeline

Talent Acquisition Advisor, 6 Months FTC

TripAdvisor
11.2022 - 04.2023

Talent Acquisition Business Partner, 6 Months FTC

Telstra
05.2022 - 11.2022

Maternity Break

Taking Care Of Kids
10.2020 - 05.2022

Customer Experience and Sales Consultant

TSA Group
11.2019 - 09.2020

Recruitment Consultant

Springboard
06.2018 - 09.2019

Talent Acquisition Lead

Skillenza
02.2016 - 05.2018

Resource Executive

New Era India Consultancy, En World Group
07.2014 - 01.2016

MBA - Human Resource

International Institute of Business Studies

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

LNCT
Gunjan Nandwana