Adwait Thakur is a seasoned HR professional with over 16 years of experience in collaborating with business, operations, finance and procurement teams for forecasts and budgets. A proactive HR business partner, Adwait has worked with hiring managers, stakeholders, clients, and business unit owners to understand talent needs, gather requirements, design and implement talent acquisition strategies, solutions, and processes. He has successfully achieved hiring targets within allocated timelines and budgets while maintaining quality standards.

Adwait has led and mentored HR & TA teams, responsible for a global workforce, and designed, proposed, implemented, advocated and enhanced recruitment processes and policies for a streamlined HR workflow. He has experience in full-cycle recruiting and has used various sourcing channels to onboard active and passive candidates through LinkedIn, referrals, job boards, networking, internal databases, social media and agencies/vendors. He has executed hiring schema for both, leadership and executive searches as well as campus and fresher recruitment.

Adwait is well acquainted with HR practices such as L&D, employer branding, compensation & benefits, HR policy revisions, employee engagement, and recruitment analytics. His knowledge of HRMS/ATS tools such as PeopleHR, Comeet, Abacus, Avature, Taleo, Peoplefluent, Brightmove, PC Recruit, Cbiz, Newton, CATS, and vTiger has helped him implement efficient workflows. Adwait has an impressive clientele including BMC Software, Redhat, IBM, Accenture, Cisco, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, Dell, Barclays, HSBC, Credit Suisse, and AIG.