About

Payal Shiwanekar is a Talent Acquisition professional with over 3.77 years of experience in the field. She is currently working as a Talent Acquisition Associate at OYO, a global platform that provides technology products and services to empower entrepreneurs and small businesses with hotels and homes. Payal has expertise in Product, Digital, and International Hiring and has explored different verticals of HR, including Talent Acquisition, On-boarding, Training & Development, Employee Branding, Employee Feedback & Employee Exits. Payal believes that HR is the building bridge between management & employees who understands the DNA of the organization & helps an organization grow by bringing in the Right Talent, keeping them engaged & adding value to both. She has an Agile HR process and is always keen to learn & implement best practices in strategic recruitment, campus hiring, employer branding & experience. Her approach towards hiring the Right Talent is very simple – one should understand the business thoroughly which helps to translate the requirement better from stakeholders & identify the right pool of candidates. Payal has hired tech & non –tech talents from mid to senior specialist in Business Analyst, Product Managers, Data Analytics, Python Programmers, Golang engineers, Digital Quality Assurance, Research Analyst, Software Developers (Android & ios), Domain Admins, etc. which form a crucial part of many projects. Apart from being an HR professional, Payal is an avid reader & fitness enthusiast and believes in continuously keeping the mind & body active. Payal has worked with companies like Zycus and Angel Broking in the past. At Zycus, she was accountable for hiring in the Global Delivery team and closed critical cloud operations and Global Delivery positions. At Angel Broking, she was involved in Talent Attraction & hiring for their Digital & Business setup across levels, working on setting up business teams from scratch. She also drove end to end Campus Hiring - Interns & Management Trainee through collaboration with IIT's & IIM's. Payal holds a Master's degree in Management (M.Com) from the University of Mumbai and a Diploma in Labour Law (DLL). She has also completed her Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) from M.L. Dahanukar College. Payal has a strong technical background and is proficient in QA, AI, SRE, Research Scientist, iOS, DevOps, Python, Golang, Android, and other technologies.