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Tina Saj

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Summary

I am an experienced and highly motivated staffing leader with a passion for stakeholder engagement, driving innovation and change. I am skilled in overseeing both technical and non-technical hiring portfolios while bringing an analytical approach to solving complex people challenges for our Senior Leaders and cross-functional People Ops teams. I have extensive experience working in diverse cultural environments, including Singapore, India, Middle East, USA, and Australia.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Recruiting Lead

Shopify
, Australia
03.2021 - Current
  • Develop recruitment strategy, hiring plans, aligned to Shopify's business strategy and values.
  • Lead the APAC TA team comprising of tech and non-tech recruiters based in Singapore, China, ANZ, Japan and India.
  • Playing a coacher player role within the team, balancing leadership responsibilities with active participation in hiring processes.
  • Manage and motivate the team to achieve hiring targets and maintain high performance standards. Conduct regular performance reviews and provided ongoing support for professional development.
  • Compile and deliver comprehensive weekly hiring reports to the APAC leadership team, providing valuable insights and updates on recruitment activities.
  • Represent the APAC Talent Acquisition team in global presentations and meetings, effectively communicating regional strategies, achievements, and challenges to stakeholders worldwide.
  • Provide coaching, mentorship, and training on creative sourcing techniques, 'unconscious bias training', effective communication, and constructive feedback to the Talent Acquisition team.
  • Assessment of existing hiring channels and effectiveness. Defined core hiring success metrics such as cost per hire, time to hire and candidate experience.
  • Still to be launched: lead Shopify's location strategy in India to set up and build and engineering site with focus to hire software engineers as part of Shopify’s strategic growth outside of the US

Talent Acquisition Lead

Telstra
, Australia
05.2018 - 03.2021
  • Lead and mentor a high impactful team of recruiters based across India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines and different locations in Australia including remote locations while managing leadership hiring for the APAC region
  • Recruitment lead of Talent Acquisition for the Enterprise business function. Performance management of the team and coaching through regular 1:1.
  • Ensure process efficiency, operational excellence & stringent timely delivery in a highly agile, ambiguous, changing environment
  • Providing training on creating sourcing through sourcing channels like X-ray, Twitter and advanced Boolean strings
  • Manage ad-hoc projects to deliver recruitment solutions such as volume hiring, new market talent mapping, leadership hiring and talent placement program for employees that were made redundant.

Senior Recruiter

Google
, Singapore
12.2014 - 05.2018
  • Managed the end to end staffing requirements within APAC for the tech and GTM team, focusing hiring across a broad portfolio (gTech, tech, Google Cloud, hardware, GBOP)
  • Hire across multiple locations (Singapore, Australia, Tokyo, India, Manila) and ladders (sales and technical)
  • Sourcing and recruiting using advanced Li search, X-ray searches, boolean strings and creative sourcing techniques
  • Successfully achieved all stretched hiring goals every quarter and strong performance across time to hire, experience and diversity metrics.
  • Diversity POC for D&I initiatives across APAC

Technical Recruiter

Cognizant Technology Solution
, USA & Singapore
12.2012 - 12.2014
  • Trusted talent partner for North America and Singapore staffing for the Enterprise Application Services team
  • Handled full cycle recruiting process for technical and non-technical candidates through candidate sourcing, competency interviews, assessment, offer negotiation, offer extension and on-boarding.
  • Mentor junior team members including sources and new recruiters to ramp up quickly to achieve hiring targets
  • Devised sourcing strategies with stakeholders and managers to achieve short and long term hiring goals
  • Consistently achieved 100% targets month to month
  • Notable achievement of 72 hires over 3 months for the ‘Oracle Service Provider (OSP)’ team

Early Career Experience

contractual roles and relocation from Dubai to India to USA
  • Technical Recruiter | Mphasis | May '12 to December '12
  • Technical Recruiter | Ariston Tek Inc | November '11 to March '12
  • Talent Acquisition Lead | Arowana Consulting Pvt Ltd | April '09 to January '11
  • Recruitment Lead | Thirdwave HR & Networks Pvt Ltd | April '07 to March '09

Education

Master of Computer Applications -

Bharathiar University
2005

Skills

  • Leadership
  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • People and hiring strategy
  • Senior Stakeholder management
  • Recruiting and Sourcing
  • Talent Acquisition

Timeline

Recruiting Lead

Shopify
03.2021 - Current

Talent Acquisition Lead

Telstra
05.2018 - 03.2021

Senior Recruiter

Google
12.2014 - 05.2018

Technical Recruiter

Cognizant Technology Solution
12.2012 - 12.2014

Early Career Experience

contractual roles and relocation from Dubai to India to USA

Master of Computer Applications -

Bharathiar University

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