Vaishali Gakhar, M.A., M.S.'s Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

📖 Summary

Employer Relations Coordinator and Career Advisor @ • Shape and drive the employer outreach and engagement strategy to increase the number of partnerships and employment opportunities offered to students within and outside Florida area • Collaborate with college recruitment teams to identify recruitment needs and design customized solutions and events to help organizations meet their recruitment goals • Consult with employers in designing robust recruitment strategies, assist in designing job descriptions to hire and retain engaged students and graduates for internships and employment opportunities • Plan and evaluate campus recruiting events including job fairs, industry panels, information sessions and workshops to support students in career development and employers in their recruitment needs within the department budget • Provide consultation to students with job search strategies, interviewing, networking techniques to find meaningful employment • Identify career development needs of students; deliver and evaluate workshops and training to support their career development • Update and manage center website and social media platforms (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest etc.) • Serve on Strategic Planning team’s “Partnership” goal to enhance and optimize USFSP’s community partnerships • Advise and mentor a variety of student organizations and clubs – Delta Epsilon Iota, Delta Sigma Pi • Serve on the Assessment Committee for Student Affairs to promote metric based decision making process for the division • Assess and interpret a variety of Career Assessments(MyPlan, Strong's Interest Inventory, Myers Brigg) for undecided and students with unclear career direction • Train the Career Peer Advisors on effectively handling walk-in student consultations and answering employer inquiries From May 2013 to Present (2 years 8 months) Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida AreaAssessment/Recruitment Consultant @ • Assessed the recruitment process for gaps and areas of improvement • Identify key roles and responsibilities to design job descriptions to attract competitive talent • Re-design the recruitment process and implement individual assessment process including personality assessment, behavioral interviewing and position concept questionnaire to accomplish hiring based on objective criteria • Collaborate with SME’s and team members to ensure job relatedness and validity of the new process • Presented the results and deliverables to the team members for successfully using the new recruiting process to ensure integrity, fairness and ethical selection practices From January 2013 to May 2013 (5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaCareer Management Center Assistant @ • Facilitated student career exploration and decision making by administering and interpreting career related assessments • Strengthened campus recruiting by using psychological assessments to enhance organization-talent matching process • Supported employer relations for campus recruitment events and Advancing Career and Education (ACE) experiential learning program by identifying meaningful work assignments, in an effort to prepare international students for working in the US • Coordinated various career programs and events for Business School Students • Managed marketing and communication of events and job opportunities to students, alumni, faculty and employers • Created and continuously updated career related information and resources available to students • Handled employer and student data, jobs / internship postings and event communication on NACElink • Developed, analyzed and summarized Student Satisfaction Survey to gain understanding of student satisfaction and success, institutional ranking and strategic planning • Collaborated with DOSA staff for new student orientations, commencement, and other student engagement programming • Trained new student assistants on operating system, policies, procedures, job postings and building database for CMC From March 2011 to December 2012 (1 year 10 months) Greater Chicago AreaGlobal Human Resources (Organizational Development) Intern at Cummins Inc. @ • Developed 360 degree Diagnostic Tool for identifying gaps and areas of opportunities in OD practices using six sigma tools • Designed OD Toolkit based on benchmarked best practices in identified areas like career development, leadership development, succession planning etc. for successful delivery of OD initiatives to 40,000 employees in 190 countries • Designed new tools/methodologies and made recommendations for process improvement and quality enhancement of existing tools • Created communication and implementation plans for successful execution of tools created • Collaborated with HR and Learning & Training leaders in initiatives around investigations, employee engagement, employee recognition, background checks and training • Supported research for identifying key competencies and skills for training HR generalists for strategic HRBP roles From May 2012 to August 2012 (4 months) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaCTC Career Coaching - Project Assistant @ • Designed client intake questionnaire for clients’ need assessment that facilitates coaches to design a plan for client effectively and saves time • Designed assessments for volunteer career coaches (self‐assessment) and combined it with client’s coaching experience assessment for coaches self development • Supported the standardization of the volunteer coach orientation program to enhance coaches volunteer experience • Assisted the director in the CTC Coaches’ Manual update, supported various functions like providing coaches with online access to exercises/tools, questions, relevant articles and resources organized by relevant/current themes and topics From August 2011 to May 2012 (10 months) Greater Chicago AreaOrganizational Assessment Consultant @ • Worked with a team of 5 Graduate Consultants to identify the potential need for organizational redesign • Designed and conducted interviews and questionnaires to yield survey design themes • Launched an organization wide survey, gather and coded responses • Conducted data analysis to identify organizational strengths and areas of improvement for organizational effectiveness • Developed a comprehensive report and presented recommendations to the management team From August 2010 to December 2010 (5 months) Greater Chicago AreaCounselor @ • Counseled middle school students with learning, behavioral, and general developmental issues and taught Physical Social and Health Education classes. From February 2010 to May 2010 (4 months) Producer Conference & Training @ • Collaborated closely with Conference Manager India to identify new business opportunities • Designed and produced conference and training courses for legal/finance/business in India and south east Asia • Ensure program quality and agenda is immaculate before going to the market • Handled, Monitored and Provided internal sales and marketing staff with necessary information (briefs) and training • Organized meetings with potential speakers, sponsors and partners • Ensured profitability of the projects - from ideation to smooth operation till the closure of event • Produced reports and press releases for events upon completion • Hired and trained new sales staff to deliver effective B2B sales to accomplish and exceed sales targets Delegate Sales Executive • Trained, mentored and managed new sales executives • Handled sales forecasting and pipeline management • Identify potential customers, create business from the old accounts and reach profitability level and sales growth • Achieve conference sales revenue targets From April 2009 to December 2009 (9 months) Delegate Sales Associate @ • Conducted market research to identify new clients based on target industry for specific events • Identified and implemented strategies for client acquisition and retention • Exceeded target sales revenue for events by selling delegate seats for competitive conference and seminars From January 2009 to April 2009 (4 months) ESLR @ • Generated high quality event and industry specific database • Established and maintained rapport with existing and potential clients • Identified delegate and sponsors, forwarded leads to sales team for follow up • Recognized for high quality research work and was considered to handle production for new conferences From June 2008 to August 2008 (3 months) Clinical Psychologist - Intern @ • Conducted psychometric tests and various therapies for behavior modification and drug de-addiction • Delivered lectures to nursing assistants and conducted workshops on drug de-addiction From August 2006 to April 2008 (1 year 9 months) New Delhi Area, IndiaMaster of Science @ Illinois Institute of Technology From 2010 to 2012 Master of Arts (MA) @ Amity Business School From 2006 to 2008 Bachelor @ University of Rajasthan From 2003 to 2006 Vaishali Gakhar, M.A., M.S. is skilled in: Career Development, Organizational Development, Performance Management, Employee Engagement, Interviews, Psychometrics, Employee Relations, Talent Management, HRIS, Career Management, Recruiting, Individual Assessment, Organizational Behavior, Student Assessment, Employee Benefits