AKANKSHA PAWAR
Paris
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Recruiter
Impavid Digitech Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Remote
12.2023 - Current
- Lead end-to-end recruitment processes, from sourcing to onboarding, ensuring top talent acquisition for key business and technical roles.
- Partner with hiring managers to define job requirements, create talent pipelines, and develop hiring strategies.
- Utilize advanced sourcing techniques (LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, employee referrals, social media, etc.) to attract top-tier candidates.
- Conduct structured interviews, assessments, and competency-based evaluations to ensure best-fit hires.
- Implement data-driven recruitment strategies, analyzing key hiring metrics such as time-to-hire, offer acceptance rate, and retention.
- Develop and execute employer branding initiatives, enhancing the company’s reputation as an employer of choice.
- Negotiate offers, ensuring alignment with compensation policies, and market benchmarks.
- Collaborate with HR and leadership teams to improve the candidate experience, and optimize the recruitment process.
- Assisted in the development of recruiting plans, including budget projections, timelines, and methods.
- Maintained candidate pipelines for high-volume roles, ensuring a constant flow of talent.
TALENT ACQUISITION SOURCER
ContentSquare
Paris
04.2022 - 06.2023
- Identified and engaged with top-tier candidates using LinkedIn Recruiter, various job boards, and internal referrals for various profiles - Sales, Tech, and Finance.
- Increased the talent pool by 50% within six months.
- Maintained a 35% acceptance/response rate for passive messaging and calling.
- Partnered with hiring managers to understand their requirements, and to discuss candidate qualifications, acting as a consultant to provide insights on market trends, candidate availability, and recruitment strategies.
- Coordinated complex interview schedules for multiple interviewees for numerous different roles.
- Conducted prequalification of the sourced talent and interviews to assess their interest, potential, qualifications, and cultural fit.
- Acted as an internal and external-facing representative of ContentSquare to help promote the company's employer brand, online and offline.
- Implemented an employee referral program with incentives to encourage current employees to refer candidates who align with the company culture. Increased employee referrals by 25%.
- Managed recruitment projects such as Candidate Experience, Hiring Manager Enablement, Internal Referral Program, Sourcing Techniques, Interrupting Bias in Hiring, and Inclusive Recruiting.
TALENT ACQUISITION SPECIALIST
Bandai Namco Europe
Lyon
09.2021 - 03.2022
- Carried out the full-cycle recruitment process, including writing and posting job ads, screening resumes, scheduling interviews, and preparing internship contracts.
- Conducted initial phone screenings and assessments to identify qualified candidates.
- Coordinated interview schedules with hiring managers and managed communication with the candidates throughout their recruitment process.
- Identified and created recruitment and administrative performance metrics and data to analyze trends, drive change, and assess progress.
- Managed the social media page for the company to promote job opportunities, employee life, and office events.
PROCESS ASSOCIATE
Genpact
Hyderabad
07.2018 - 03.2020
- Assisted senior leadership teams in developing annual recruitment goals aligned with corporate objectives.
- Reviewed existing policies, procedures regularly to maintain compliance with applicable laws, regulations.
- Conducted job analysis, identified job requirements and created job descriptions.
- Identified potential sources of recruitment, including job fairs, freelance job boards, colleges, and universities.
- Coordinated internal communication efforts regarding new policies or changes in the workplace environment. Managed employee relations, conflict resolution, and grievance handling to ensure a positive work environment.
- Acted as a liaison between external vendors providing services related to HR functions.
- Used role-playing, lectures, and simulations to present information in variety of instructional techniques and formats.
Education
French Language Course (B1) -
Institut Catholique De Paris ICP
ParisMASTER'S DEGREE - INTERNATIONAL HR MANAGEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Grenoble Ecole de Management
Grenoble12.2021
BACHELOR'S DEGREE - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Walchand Institute of Technology
Solapur12.2018
Skills
- Boolean Search Strings
- Project Management
- HR Strategy and Workforce Planning
- ATS (Lever, HumanSourcing, BambooHR)
- Microsoft Office
- HR Analytics & Data-Driven Decision Making
- Negotiation & Offer Management
- Social media recruiting
Languages
- English
- French (B1)
Timeline
Senior Recruiter
Impavid Digitech Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
12.2023 - Current
TALENT ACQUISITION SOURCER
ContentSquare
04.2022 - 06.2023
TALENT ACQUISITION SPECIALIST
Bandai Namco Europe
09.2021 - 03.2022
PROCESS ASSOCIATE
Genpact
07.2018 - 03.2020
French Language Course (B1) -
Institut Catholique De Paris ICP
MASTER'S DEGREE - INTERNATIONAL HR MANAGEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Grenoble Ecole de Management
BACHELOR'S DEGREE - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Walchand Institute of Technology
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