Devendra Desai

Devendra Desai

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
12K followers 500+ connections

About

👋 Hi, I’m Dev. I went from selling lottery tickets on Sydney streets to scaling…

Services

Experience

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    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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    Sydney, Australia

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    Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Education

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    SIES College of Management Studies - India

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    Activities and Societies: Guest speaker for the 2007 batch on Talent management, Leadership development and Performance.

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    Activities and Societies: Economics, Accounting, Team Presentations and Debate

Licenses & Certifications

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Volunteer Experience

  • Environmental Jobs Network Graphic

    Community Volunteer

    Environmental Jobs Network

    - Present 5 years 6 months

    Environment

    • Volunteering for wildlife Conservation
    • Forest Restoration projects
    • Sustainable Energy

Publications

  • Strategic Workforce Planning

    Self Studey

    The publication outlines the critical workforce planning process, which is usually confused with the routine recruiting forecast. This article will give hiring leaders and businesses to plan their short and long term talent (both internally and externally) with a clear decision to make or buy talent.

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Courses

  • Introduction to Microsoft Azure

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Projects

  • Next Gen Candidate Sourcing App

    I founded a candidate sourcing app that generates 80-90% matching candidates from the web in just a few simple clicks.

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  • Referral Redesign

    Redesigned a non working employee referral project including internal branding, referral process/policy, reward structure and many more.

  • Finance Hiring (Project Gateway)

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    Planned strategies and managed End to End hiring of Finance roles - From Jr. analyst to AVP for Shared services in Mumbai. Planned the recruitment strategy as per the timelines to on-board the candidates.

    Completed 90% of hiring on time. 10% of hiring was placed on hold in the interest of certain planned internal movements.

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  • ITSD Helpdesk

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    Delivered hiring for IT Service Desk Helpdesk right from Planning to On-boarding 50+ candidates in a span of one month.

  • IT & Finance Hiring

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    End to end process mapping & design
    Redesign of employee referral program
    Reduction in cost per hire through effective sourcing mix
    Reduction in time to recruit by 2-3 weeks

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  • Launched Internal Recruiting Team

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    Transition of processes
    Project Planning, risk governance and implementation of ATS system - Peoplefluent
    Designed processes, structure & Ways of Working
    Delivered Sales consultant hiring for Each phase of go live

  • Operational Excellence Project

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    The project was undertaken to certify the project to it's capability level.
    People management by involving team members in brain stormingsessions.
    Evaluated project performance on timely manner and managed leadership reviews.
    Output:
    Achieved results in the shortest span of time and the project was declared as Capable.

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  • Employee Referral

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    Designed a “To be” process with better controls for a non working employee referral project. Developed a new employee referral program by identifying gaps and deployed control mechanisms.
    Deployed best practises from the industry by performing industry analysis.
    Output:
    Improved employee referral succession rate by more than 30%.
    Improved sponsor and candidate communications.
    Improved referral candidate screening time.

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Honors & Awards

  • People Manager Award

    Mondelez International

    Best people manager of the year.

  • Best Idea of the Quarter

    Accenture

    Awarded Best idea of the quarter for better workflow management and huge savings for the clients.

  • Honors and Awards

    Accenture

    Best People Developer Award

Languages

  • English

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  • Hindi

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