Varsha Goyal

• Responsible for leading end-to-end senior leadership hiring for C-suite roles, along with Sr. VP, AVP, VP, and Director.
• Built, coached, and led a high-impact team of TA Partners for multiple business verticals and geographical locations.
• Develop and execute strategic recruitment plans aligned with the company's objectives, resulting in a 30% reduction in time-to-fill, and a 50% increase in the qualified candidate pool.
• Diversity Hiring: Drove Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, increasing diverse talent hiring across cohorts (women, veteran, PwD, LGBTQAI+) by 35% through strategic interventions
• HR Digital Transformation/AI: Implemented an ATS to automate the end-to-end talent acquisition process. Developed HR analytics dashboards and integrated a chatbot to automate post-offer to onboarding workflows, resulting in a 30% increase in process efficiency, and improved employee experience.
• Revamped the employee referral and IJP program, contributing to saving approximately USD 50,000.
• Geographies Managed: APMEA, Europe, NORAM - US & Latin America

Talent Acquisition, Employer Branding, and Process Optimization.

• Developed TA strategy and Talent Acquisition COE for Ayoconnect while working closely with the founders and Chief of Staff.
• Managing and mentoring a team of talent specialists for the India and APAC region.
• Driving critical global leadership roles, like SVP of Product, VP of Engineering, and VP of Risk Controller, etc.
• Implemented a comprehensive talent sourcing strategy, building a talent pipeline, market mapping for niche or hard-to-fill roles, a talent community, the STAR interview technique, and global employer branding strategies.
• Automated the entire TA lifecycle using Darwin Box, including referrals and IJPs, introducing candidate assessment tools Coderbyte and Predictive Index to improve the candidate experience.
• Implemented organization-wide global employer branding projects, LinkedIn job campaigns, video job descriptions, employee testimonials, and an AI chatbot.
• Nominated and won the “HRD Asia Innovative HR Teams Award” and the “Most Preferred Companies to Work 2023-24” in Q2 and Q3.

Global University Relations/Campus Hiring

• Hire over 250 graduates and 110 interns annually from premier institutes across India and Indonesia.
• Executed 'Ayo-Tron' (Campus Coding and Case Study Challenge) and Ayotalk (Campus talk show series for students) to attract and engage with the talent.
• Spearheaded the inception and execution of the 'Ayochamp' full-time graduate hiring and internship program, maintaining an impressive 30% overall diversity ratio across programs.

• Awarded by the Managing Director for introducing the Campus Hiring Program at Ciena.
• Key member for implementing the PHENOM Recruitment System for India and other geographies outside of India.
• Responsible for hiring leadership positions across the Software division of Ciena, leading the team, and managing day-to-day talent acquisition delivery.
• Project Lead for RPO Implementation in Ciena to drive a ramp-up project for the organization, hired 250 new employees with a forecasting accuracy of 90%.
• Updating and preparing TA policies, budgets, frameworks, and governance, and regularly updating SOPs.
• Created a candidate engagement framework, ensuring a 'WoW' experience for candidates and new joiners.
• Conducting external market succession planning for critical roles and leadership roles.
• Roles Closed: Datacom, OSI, Cloud technology, Software, Technical, Non-Tech, Engineering roles.
• ATS/Tools: Workday (ATS), Phenom (Candidate Pipeline), Seek Out (Passive Pipeline), Textio (Diversity Hiring), LinkedIn (Active & Passive Talent)

University Relations:

• Hire over 100 graduates and over 35 interns annually from premier institutes across India, maintaining an overall diversity ratio of 30% across various programs.
• Strategically develop metrics and analytics that tell the story of campus recruiting efforts, and provide insight into future decisions.
• Work closely with the regional and global hiring teams to ensure a consistent graduate hiring experience across the globe in our tools, processes, and branding initiatives.
• Key member of the Ciena Next initiative, which focuses on creating a network for earlier-career individuals.

• Handling end-to-end recruitment delivery for all internal and external roles of middle and senior-level positions.
• Managed organization-wide manpower planning and HR budgeting, and coordinated with business departments and leadership with respect to manpower requirements.
• Developed an “Interviewing Guide” to educate hiring managers on interviewing techniques and implemented it across the APAC and Middle East regions.
• Ensure the publication of monthly HR analytics, process KPIs, and process audit reports as per defined timelines.
• Strong partnering with the HR verticals (C&B, HR Direct, Payroll, Talent Management, and Training) to deliver seamless and outstanding operational service support.
• Transitioned Middle East hiring to India, which led to a saving of $450,000.
• Formulation of the entire HR shared service center with the closure of 200+ positions in a span of 60 days.
• Reduced attrition rate from 40% to 18% by implementing various retention strategies.
• 96% adherence to the timeline for the due date of completion of recruitment activities and placement.
• Worked as a Lead SPOC in the transition of a global project: Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa external recruitment to India.