Dapinder Kaur Sekhon

What I do: • Closing hires across 6 business verticals with 95%+ offer acceptance rate and an average time-to-hire of 16 days since joining. • Hiring across 12+ countries covering APAC, EMEA, and ANZ markets including highly restricted and competitive talent markets without external support. • Filling distinct role types spanning Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, Publishing, Product, Design & Engineering teams. • Leveraging all job boards including headhunting, LinkedIn, Naukri, IIMJobs, Wellfound, Slack communities, referrals and AI. • Independently evaluating candidates in presentation-rounds interviews; hired for key roles such as Senior Director of - Marketing, Sales, Engineering, and Operations. • Maintaining real-time hiring dashboards to track pipeline health and role-level progress, enabling proactive stakeholder reporting and cross-team visibility.

• Scaled hiring by 500% from baseline — including 95% growth in the first 6 months — through systematic market mapping across sectors, companies, and regions. • Delivered 3–4 quality hires per month across 5 departments with an average time-to-hire of 11 days, acting as the sole TA point of contact for candidates, hiring managers, and founders. • Designed the entire recruitment infrastructure from scratch: interview frameworks, hiring playbooks, recruitment marketing, and culture-fitment assessments. • Executed multi-channel sourcing: LinkedIn outreach, boolean search, headhunting, campus hiring, referrals, and executive search for leadership roles. • Built end-to-end HR operations: policy design, onboarding, background verification, salary negotiation, offer letters, NDAs, contracts, health insurance, and offboarding.

SaaS for campus hiring; built the TA & HR function from 0–1.

• Talent Acquisition/Full Cycle Recruitment + • Designed the Culture Fitment Interview and actively took culture fitment interviews for key roles in the organisation. • Spearheaded companyʼs social media presence to build employer brand and attract top-tier talent. • Developed comprehensive HR policies and oversaw end-to-end onboarding efforts for all new joinees (offer letters, contracts, NDAs, off-boarding, health insurance, and background verifications). • Handled all employee grievances and consistently ensured support as the spokesperson for all things people. • Launched and managed the company HRMS, handled payroll and reimbursements related queries. • Led employee engagement initiatives setting a sense of belongingness to contribute to each individual's growth and success along with the organisation.

• Identified top-performers through data analysis of 260 3M sales representatives, enlisting key trends and issues in the employee performance. • Developed and analysed 30+ HR reports giving insights on performance enabling HRBPs that led to strategic decisions across critical business functions. • Suggested women oriented programs and policies for 3M as part of the Learning and Development team. • Delivered a 2500-word essay on "Diversity & Inclusion at Workplace" leading 3M being in the Top 100 Companies for Women in India 2019.

Rank 1 in Master's

GPA: 7.9/10