Jigna Parekh
Mumbai
Summary
Creative and innovative thinker with effective human resources management and goal setting abilities combined with superior leadership, team building, communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills. Self-motivated with the ability to excel in a fast-paced environment; communicate effectively at all levels; manage competing priorities; and adapt readily to new challenges.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
Vice President- Talent Acquisition
Jaden Executive Search & Recruitment Specialists
11.2025 - Current
- Managing the end-to-end recruitment cycle, from requirement gathering to offer rollout, and onboarding coordination.
- Closely partnering with clients to understand business objectives, role expectations, team dynamics, and technical competencies.
- Designing and executing role-specific hiring strategies based on market intelligence and talent availability.
- Sourcing candidates using multiple channels: Job portals (Naukri, Indeed, Monster, etc.).
LinkedIn Recruiter, LinkedIn Boolean searches, GitHub (for tech hiring), AI-based sourcing tools, and talent intelligence platforms, social media, and networking communities. - Conducting initial screening interviews to assess technical skills, behavioral fit, communication, and cultural alignment.
- Preparing candidate evaluation summaries, and presenting shortlists to clients.
- Managing interview coordination, feedback loops, and offer negotiations.
- Ensuring strong client engagement through regular updates, market insights, and pipeline reporting.
- Maintaining consistent candidate engagement to reduce drop-offs, and ensure smooth offer conversion.
- Building and maintaining a structured talent database for future mandates.
- Working in a completely remote environment while maintaining delivery timelines and productivity.
Sr. Hr Consultant
ETHIKA SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD
01.2019 - 08.2025
- Source candidates (active and passive) using multiple channels, such as job portals, internal databases, social media, referrals, etc.
- Sourcing methodology includes social networks (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.), Boolean search, job portals, IIM Jobs, CareerBuilder, Naukri, and Monster.
- Review the job description, understand the requirements of clients, and accordingly make a recruitment strategy.
- Automated Tracking System.
- Strong experience in assessing and qualifying potential candidates to fit the requirements.
- Screening the resumes and shortlisting them as per the requirements.
- Pre-screening calls to analyze applicants' abilities.
- Schedule interviews with the clients, and ensure closures on time.
- TAT of two months (screening to onboarding).
- Complete follow-up with the selected candidates until their date of joining to avoid back-offs.
- Database management and recruitment tracker (PER, sourced, cleared, rejected, work in progress, joining, notice period, etc.).
- MIS and dashboards.
- Handled and managed multiple clients and multiple profiles. (clients like GE, Sutherland Global, Chola Insurance, Nomura, etc.)
- Worked on hiring middle and senior management profiles.
- Leading a team of three recruiters.
- I have successfully closed 60% of the open positions within the given deadline.
Hr Operations
Green Forest Products (SA – Bolivia)
01.2009 - 01.2011
- Employee orientation and Induction
- MIS report preparations, employee database etc.
- Grievance handling
- Handled disciplinary issues.
- Maintained Attendance and leave records
- Supervised the wage disbursement of the contract and daily wage workers.
BUSINESS UNIT HR
ATOS ORIGIN, INDIA
01.2006 - 01.2008
- Project placements.
- Providing Induction for Staffing for Managed operations.
- Employee Engagement Programs
- Handling Exit interviews for service area
- Attrition Analysis & Retention Planning within the Service Area.
- Publishing dashboards for business leadership to identify the attrition and retention trends across the unit.
- Employee grievances
- Develop proactive employee relations strategies.
- Performance Management.
- Identifying Training needs within the Service Area.
- Hi Potential Identification and Retention of Hi - pots and Key employees. (Tracking, nurturing Hi Pots & Key employees)
- Recruitment:
- Network with practitioners in the service area to identify their interests and staffing preferences.
- Act as business unit’s internal recruitment arm and manage the entire recruitment process. Co-ordinate with AOI HR team with regards to releasing advertisements, shortlisting, interviewing, data-base management using various channels like internal database, networking sites, job portals, referral and campus recruitments.
- Maintaining 60 days TAT for other positions from screening to onboarding.
- Providing regular updates to service area leadership on staffing status, availability info etc.
- Coordinate with AOI recruitment team and actively participate in large recruitment initiatives like campus placements, and recruitment drives as required.
- Handle recruitment for all contract positions within the service line.
- Handling MIS reports that aid the senior management within the SA(Service area) in decision making (utilization analysis, bench analysis etc.).
- Resource planning (head count projection etc.) In coordination with service line leadership.
HR (Generalist)
WNS GLOBAL SERVICES, MUMBAI
11.2003 - 01.2006
- Handling MIS and generating reports.
- Provided assistance in performance management initiative. Coordinating with the regions for the Performance Appraisal forms, follow-up with the vertical leads and business unit heads to meet their deadlines on PA and providing training to the team leads and middle management on how to effectively conduct the performance appraisal. Creating awareness of the new HR policies and practices, regularly provide update on intranet.
- Supervising and controlling the offer letters and the appointment letters to be sent to the new joiners.
- Assisted recruitment manager in recruitment activities, coordinated interviews for Junior and middle management positions. Coordinated with consultants and fixed meetings with vertical heads and Sr. management teams for short listed profiles.
- Conducted Exit Interviews & leading the social committee involved in employee engagement activities.
- Worked with the training team, and coordinated trainings across locations
- Designed training calendars and assisted the training team in make training modules for Soft skills trainings.
Education
Diploma - Personnel management and Industrial Relations
Tata Institute Of Social Science
Mumbai, India05-2006
Bachelors Of Commerce - Majoring in Financial Accountancy
Mumbai University
Mumbai, India04-1995
Proficiency in Using Computers - undefined
NIIT
Mumbai, India08-1992
Skills
Effective communication skills
Strong verbal communication
Professional networking
Proactive mindset
Strong work commitment
Full-cycle recruitment
Stakeholder engagement
Leadership development
Technical & Non-Technical Recruitment
AI-driven talent acquisition
Boolean Search & X-Ray Search
Client engagement strategies
Strategic negotiation skills
Strategic talent mapping
Remote recruitment
Talent acquisition
Accomplishments
- Annual Excellence award for “The Best Support Associate of the year”
- Instrumental in increasing the size of the business unit from 250 to 500+ employees at Atos Origin.
Certification
Oracle certified DBA.
Timeline
Vice President- Talent Acquisition
Jaden Executive Search & Recruitment Specialists
11.2025 - Current
Sr. Hr Consultant
ETHIKA SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD
01.2019 - 08.2025
Hr Operations
Green Forest Products (SA – Bolivia)
01.2009 - 01.2011
BUSINESS UNIT HR
ATOS ORIGIN, INDIA
01.2006 - 01.2008
HR (Generalist)
WNS GLOBAL SERVICES, MUMBAI
11.2003 - 01.2006
Bachelors Of Commerce - Majoring in Financial Accountancy
Mumbai University
Proficiency in Using Computers - undefined
NIIT
Diploma - Personnel management and Industrial Relations
Tata Institute Of Social Science
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT ROLE
- WNS Global Service as Sr. Executive Asst to Chief Operations Officer (June 2003 to Nov 2003)
- United Parcel Services (UPS) as Executive Assistant to Managing Director. (April 2001 to June 2003)
- Enron Broadband Services, as Executive Assistant to Sr. Vice President. (March 1999 – April 2001)
- Samsung Asia Pte Ltd., as Exec. Assistant to Country Director. (July 1997 - Feb 1999)
- Employed with NHB Bearings, as Executive Assistant to CEO. (June 1995 – July 1997)