Parth Desai

Dejavu Tech, is tech company, focused towards solving People and Culture issues via tech. Our aim has been to create newer tech-products for HR sector, to make the task of HR personnel simpler

We generally, provide solutions and business-wide changes to modernize procedures and organisations

Dejavu Learning, is a product that is aimed to increase retention of learning from trainings.

Key Points:

• Quickly pivoted from product-based model to service-oriented model in very short span, owing to business and travel restrictions put in place by thepandemic.
• Developed innovative sales and marketing strategies to facilitate business expansion.
• Maintained P&L and shouldered corporate fiscal responsibility.

Taangent is aimed to consult companies from a Tech HR perspective.

Our services in addition to HR consulting involve helping our clients make the shift from legacy HR to tech based HR department and teams.

We serve the entire gamut of Tech HR, starting from Tech due diligence, to selection and implementation and taking training sessions for team for change management and tech-based thinking.

The goal has been to create tech based efficiencies, while implementing with a lot of change management consulting and projects to improvise HR and uptake from employees.

Key Points:

• Spearheaded third-party contract negotiations to obtain favorable pricing and scheduling parameters.
• Directed technological improvements, reducing waste and business bottlenecks.
• Prepared annual budgets with controls to prevent overages.
• Identified business development challenges and customer concerns for proactive resolution.

Started my entrepreneurial journey, with Ridhum Consulting

We started consulting SME and Family owned business to create a professional environment for their business and employees.

Typically helping business to setup and/or optimize their HR departments.

We serviced the entire consortium of HR services, ranging from workforce planning to hiring to HR strategy and HR operations to succession planning.

Key Points:

• Aligned organizational objectives with company mission to increase business growth and integrate work strategies.
• Established foundational processes for business operations.
• Introduced new methods, practices and systems to reduce turnaround time in hiring and lowered attrition.
• Networked with other businesses and customers to increase sales opportunities and contacts.
• Formed senior leadership team through rigorous interviews and extensive candidate research.
• Recruited, interviewed and hired new staff members and developed training materials for employees.
• Implemented team plans, clarified roles of members and introduced new processes to boost quality across departments.

As Manager for overall HR Business Partners, I was responsible for managing strategy for HR and People across India Locations, and serving ~12 clients

A major part of the role, involved holistic development for the employees, as well as consulting clients for best practices and strategies from India perspective for People and Culture

Expanded cross-functional organizational capacity by collaborating across departments on priorities, functions and common goals.

Managing all facets of HR management for an organization, ranging from Strategic HR(50%), to transactional HR(40%) and Administrative HR(10%) work

Overall managing the HR across 4 locations with a team of 10 reports for a total >800 employees.

Key Points:

• Evaluated employees' strengths and assigned tasks based upon experience and training.
• Performed statistical analyses to gather data for operational and forecast team needs.
• Applied customer feedback to develop process improvements and support long-term business needs.
• Recruited and hired top performers to add talent and value to department.
• Cross-trained existing employees to maximize team agility and performance.
• Delivered feedback to decision-makers regarding employee performance.
• Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.
• Maintained professional, organized and safe environment for employees and patrons.
• Reduced process bottlenecks by training and coaching employees on practices, procedures and performance strategies.

My work area shifted from transactional HR to HR advisory and consulting for clients

As a AM - HR BP, in addition to managing more number of employees, my major tasks involved partnering with 'Line Managers' to help strategically manage employee issues and provide resolutions

Had an additional member reporting in to me, for his/her set of assigned employees.

Key Points:

• Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
• Exceeded goals through effective task prioritization and great work ethic.
• Maintained energy and enthusiasm in fast-paced environment.
• Increased customer satisfaction by resolving issues.
• Participated in team-building activities to enhance working relationships.
• Integrated talent management process to include detailed analysis of potential talent gaps and development of career plans to identify and retain current talent and attract outside talent to business.

As a core member of the HR team, started by managing up to 100 employees.

Managing the HR operational transactional requirements, to ensure they are serviced appropriately

Taking care of entire HR life cycle for the set of employees, all the way from onboarding to exit, and HR documentation and analytics.

Key Points:

• Identified HR training needs and conducted training for employees and leadership while recommending approaches to effect continual improvements in business objectives, productivity and within company to reach business goals.
• Streamlined HR efficiencies, coordinated new hire orientations and provided onboarding and training for ~200 new employees.
• Liaised between multiple business divisions to improve communications.
• Devised hiring and recruitment policies for 800-employee company.
• Engaged employees and conducted exit interviews to gain complete sense of satisfaction and areas in need of improvement.
• Managed full cycle of recruiting, hiring and onboarding new employees.
• Developed and delivered special events for company employees.
• Structured compensation and benefits according to market conditions and budget demands.
• Facilitated communication and coordination between employees and management to keep parties informed.
• Updated training processes by reviewing existing documentation, leveraging feedback from associates and working with legal and compliance teams.

Generate actionable insights by performing competitive benchmarking, company analysis, industry analysis, vendor selection and leading practices for strategic client projects.

Provided research support, generated tangible insights and recommendations to help formulate key decisions for various client projects in sectors such as oil & gas, transport sector(focus on railway and railway infrastructure), retail sector and IT and ITES.

Adept at understanding various industries and processes through primary and secondary research techniques such as interviews, setting up primary research questionnaires via SurveyMonkey, exposure to focus groups, and use of databases such as Datamonitor, Forrester, Factiva, Bloomberg, OneSource, Ovum and Gartner.

Key Points:

• Collaborated with teams to define, strategize and implement organizational and people strategies.
• Created and developed detailed work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines.
• Supported clients with business analysis, documentation and data modeling.
• Analyzed problematic areas to provide recommendations and solutions.
• Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.

Developed a framework/model to evaluate effectiveness of training programs for employees.

The frame-work was custom-fit to fulfill the needs of the HR department at Crompton Greaves, Lighting Department.

Engaging and servicing of clients in the corporate sector

Responsible for promotional activities for both walk-in and corporate sector

Helping other retailers to set up dealerships in collaboration with Dynamic

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