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Palak Soni

Palak Soni

Gurgaon

Summary

Dynamic and forward-thinking HR - Recruitment specialist offering 3 years of experience identifying, recruiting, and hiring highly-skilled employees ( IT & Quant - HFT's ). Detail-oriented professional with strong multitasking and communication skills. Seeking to build diverse and effective teams to meet organizational challenges.

LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/palak-soni-8669251a4/ Experienced in recruiting highly talented personnel. Proven ability to work collaboratively with team members.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Head of HR

QuantX Technology
06.2024 - Current
  • Streamlined HR processes for increased efficiency while building the company from scratch.
  • Designed and implemented succession planning initiatives for future leadership transitions
  • Managing complex employee relations issues, fostering a culture of trust, respect, and open communication
  • Aligning HR strategies with business goals
  • Developed HR policies and workforce planning
  • Handling entire HR gamut including recruitment and employer branding, website making etc
  • Managing onboarding and training programs
  • Implementing performance management systems
  • Developing compensation structures and benefits packages
  • Addressed employee grievances and fostered a positive work environment
  • Ensured compliance with employment laws and maintained accurate records
  • Implemented health and safety programs
  • Fostered an inclusive company culture and developed engagement initiatives
  • Managing organizational changes and communicated effectively during transitions
  • Implemented HR software and utilized data analytics
  • Identifying and developed future leaders, provided coaching and mentoring
  • Built and led a high-performing HR team

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Ebullient Securities Pvt Ltd.
8 2023 - 06.2024
  • Quantitative Traders ( Senior HFT or MFT Trader) /Researcher/ Infrastructure Developer/ Strategist/Equity Dealers/Junior Traders-High Frequency Trading
  • Extensive experience in identifying and attracting top talent across variety of technical roles through strategic sourcing, and data-driven decision-making ensuring strong pipeline of high-quality candidates for HFT while building and maintaining positive relationships with candidates.
  • With strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively, I excel in managing full recruitment lifecycle process which includes application review, candidate sourcing, taking initial call, interview scheduling, follow-ups and delivering results that exceed expectations
  • Preparing and managing new policies/Rules/Events/Tasks/BGV also involved in Sharing offer letter/Email to candidates
  • Sourcing :Through Internal Database/Jobsites/Job Postings/References/LinkedIn/Headhunting
  • Utilized social media platforms to source potential candidates and build pipeline of qualified talent.
  • Streamlined onboarding processes for new hires, ensuring smooth transition int organization.
  • Developed strong relationships with universities, professional associations, and other external partners to enhance organization's visibility among prospective candidates.
  • Generated and analyzed reports to monitor employee engagement and attrition trends.
  • Built relationships with external recruiters and staffing agencies etc to access quality talent also handled Campus Recruitment
  • Optimized employer branding efforts by creating engaging content for company career pages, social media platforms, and other marketing channels.
  • Developed and maintained strong working relationships with executives, HR team, and hiring managers to foster partnerships that produced consistent results.
  • Partnered with departmental managers to ascertain hiring needs and subsequently provide candidate recommendations.

IT Recruiter-Senior Recruitment Researcher

Huntingcube Recruitment Solutions
04.2022 - 08.2023
  • Responsible for End to End Recruitment
  • Client Engagement, Gather information from clients to develop a detailed understanding of the nature and culture of their businesses
  • Follow-ups with clients for regular updates on the status of the candidates presented.
  • Develop strategies tailored to individual client requirement.
  • Experience in entire recruitment lifecycle from sourcing, initial screening, selection, salary negotiation & onboarding
  • Interacting with the candidates, briefing them about the company & job requirements & understand their willingness.
  • Screening, shortlisting and conducting preliminary interview (Candidate Assessment) prior to sending it to the client.
  • Client research and branding to reduce the time-to-hire.
  • Creating and maintaining an active as well as a passive candidate pipeline/Database for different roles.
  • Market mapping, Evaluation of the candidate for the requirements on the basis of skills, functionality, domain, experience, qualifications, temperament, cultural fitment etc
  • Follow up with the candidates, intimating the results & status of the interview to the candidates.
  • Post offer follow-up with the candidate to ensure timely joining.
  • Full involvement in Product Development & HFT hiring in Recruitment
  • Attracting new candidates via networking, internal database, job portals ( Naukri,LinkedIn ), references
  • Sound Experience in doing Mapping and closures for the clients.
  • Positions working on: Frontend Developer, Backend Developer, Fullstack Developer, Engineering Manager, C++ Developer, IOS Developer, Android Developer, Testing & Automation, Quant Trader, Infrastructure Developer, Quant Strategist, Quant Developers.
  • Balanced client and candidate needs to achieve outstanding satisfaction ratings.
  • Negotiated competitive salary packages that satisfied both client's budget constraints and candidate's expectations.

Operation Analyst

Lybrate Pvt. Ltd.
07.2021 - 04.2022
  • Lybrate is a mobile healthcare technology company that developed an online platform to connect doctors and patients
  • Contacting users both Dr. and patient through calls, mails, or messages regarding consultations and appointments.
  • Resolving the queries of both doctors as well as patients through an online Portal of Lybrate App
  • Act as a bridge between the end users and product teams so as to bring about product improvement, Quality keepers of the content that goes live on Lybrate
  • Moderate queries of the users and find relevant specialists to answer them- Refine response of the Dr to ensure the finest end user experience for better coordination and follow ups on time.
  • Identified company objectives by analyzing feedback, observing consumers and collecting surveys.
  • Worked closely with IT teams to implement system enhancements that streamlined data collection and analysis processes for increased accuracy in reporting results.
  • Maintained a strong focus on customer satisfaction, ensuring timely resolution of issues and implementing proactive measures to prevent future occurrences.
  • Developed written documents and reports related to programs and operations.

HR Recruiter-HR Internship

Unschool
08.2020 - 09.2020
  • Screening resumes and application forms
  • Interviewing candidates (via phone, video, and in-person)
  • Providing shortlists of qualified candidates to hiring managers.

Human Resource Dept. Internship

Shriram Pistons and Rings Ltd.
06.2019 - 08.2019
  • Screening resumes and application forms
  • Interviewing candidates (via phone, video, and in-person)
  • Providing shortlists of qualified candidates to hiring managers
  • Preparing Offer and Joining Letter etc.
  • Developed effective improvement plans in alignment with goals and specifications.

Education

BBA -

IMS (Institute of Management Studies), University Courses Campus
NCR

MBA -

ABES Engineering College

Senior Secondary -

SBVM
03.2017

Skills

  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Analytical Skills
  • Time management abilities
  • Team building
  • Multitasking
  • Forecasting Techniques
  • Cross-Functional Communication
  • Screening
  • Negotiation
  • IT & Quant Hiring
  • LinkedIn proficiency

Certification

  • Human Resource Management Specialization Modules
  • Module-E-Tailing in Marketing Specialization and Brand Management
  • B2B Module

Timeline

Head of HR

QuantX Technology
06.2024 - Current

IT Recruiter-Senior Recruitment Researcher

Huntingcube Recruitment Solutions
04.2022 - 08.2023

Operation Analyst

Lybrate Pvt. Ltd.
07.2021 - 04.2022

HR Recruiter-HR Internship

Unschool
08.2020 - 09.2020

Human Resource Dept. Internship

Shriram Pistons and Rings Ltd.
06.2019 - 08.2019

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Ebullient Securities Pvt Ltd.
8 2023 - 06.2024

BBA -

IMS (Institute of Management Studies), University Courses Campus

MBA -

ABES Engineering College

Senior Secondary -

SBVM

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