At Refining Skills we're rewriting the playbook on HR consulting.Ever felt like the hiring process needs a fresh perspective, a bit of flair, and maybe a touch of magic? That's precisely what we bring to the table.In a nutshell, we've cracked the code to make hiring not just a task but an experience—a journey to find not just any candidate but the right one. No stiff corporate jargons here, just a promise to redefine the way you look at talent acquisition.

MyLogic is a premier institute providing world-class training in finance & accounting related professional courses like CMA (USA), CPA (USA), CFP, CIA, CFA, ACCA, FRM, FP&A, etc. to students & professionals across the globe.

Sapphire Trading Enterprises is in the business of trading & export of agricultural products. I moved to Nashik to set-up Sapphire Trading Enterprises' own onion packhouse. I studied and learnt everything about the onion trade: both domestic and export. I setup a semi-automated warehouse for sourcing, processing & packaging of onions for export to middle-east. (I was in-charge of negotiation & finalizing the location (27,000 sqft.) and its infrastructure development.)

NTD is a non-profit media company whose mission is to share truth, humanity and hope with the world. It’s remarkably different from anything else on the web: heartwarming, inspiring, and fascinating content that never generates cheap thrills at people’s expense. Our content is humanity uniting, never dividing.NTD’s content engages people from across the political spectrum - both conservative and liberal people love it. We don’t moralize the news. We don’t muddy facts with opinions. We try to keep even subconscious, subtle bias out of our stories - allowing viewers to learn the facts and make up their own minds. My role included:- Identify new business opportunities, & make marketing & sales strategies- Overseeing the implementation of the marketing strategy- Continually review changes to the market, consumer trends and the activities of competitors, adjusting the marketing plan if necessary- Explore marketing options to increase brand visibility of NTD India- Manage and measure marketing campaign costs- Talk to / meet prospect clients for barter deals or revenue deals- Generate sales leads for FB, Instagram, website- Seeking out major clients and forming working relationships with the premier buyers- Negotiate and close sales deals to generate large revenues- Guide the day-to-day activities of the marketing & sales team- Train new marketing & sales staff- Provide tools and materials to enable the sales team to function effectively

NiRS solutions was my start-up through which I provided marketing & sales consulting, and also set-up NiRS Books (an innovative solution for kindergarten books.)- Set-up NiRS Books in partnership and provided kindergarten schools with innovative sets of books for age groups 2 to 6.- Was key in planning & executing the design & content of the books. - Achieved sales of INR 20lacs in 2016 & 2017. - Couldn’t sustain the business for the next cycle due to lack of funds & poor financial planning.

Presidency University is a part of the Presidency Group of Institutions and has a vision to create, sustain and apply learning in an inter-disciplinary environment.- Key in defining strategies and creating processes for marketing, lead generation and lead management, MIS management, training, and team operations. - Contributed in media planning to reach out to more than 35million people through online & offline activities. - Audited various processes at right times to analyze the team’s performance and to avoid deviations from standard policies. - Achieved unmatched sales targets in just four months of marketing and sales activities.- Helped setting up the transport and hostel operations.

Career Modifiers was a start-up with a new-age single window solution in terms of providing professional and technical skills, addressing the need of both corporate and academia. - Played the role of a liaison to tie up with soft skill trainers, corporate trainers and subject matter experts. - Assumed a role in outlining various operations and HR procedures.- Creatively designed the structure and layout of the company’s website, which had more than 200 web pages.- Created and developed content for the website and for social media marketing.

School of Engineering and Technology (SET),  (formerly known as Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College of Engineering) under JU, was conceptualized with a vision to meet the Industry's growing demand of Quality Engineers with Practical Knowledge about implementation of Technology in Real Life Scenario. - Developed and launched direct marketing campaigns and online marketing activities that boosted sales from $1.2M in 2012-13 to $6.4M in 2014-15.- Strategized and executed online branding and advertising activities to increase online sales multifold. - Identified the need to and revamped the institute’s website by recreating the content and design to stay ahead in the competition. - Created a web-portal to transform the reporting methods to a dynamic one which added as an effective sales tool to the team executives and allowed the team leads to track individual activities & distribute incentives. - Wrote procedures, various application forms& checklists, training material and sales brochures that enhanced the team executives’ understanding of the product and helped them sell more effectively. - Performed market research and demographic profiling to identify and capitalize on unmet market needs ahead of the curve.

- Was responsible for out-reach activities and traveled to 20+ cities across India to raise awareness about SET (School of Engineering & Technology,) JU. Reached out to thousands of students in the process. - Involved heavily in the marketing of JEET (Jain Engineering Entrance Test) and admissions at SET.- Prepared and documented detailed project reports of every activity such that even a new team can go through it and execute the process to get similar results. - Built a healthy relationship with various vendors and regularly got various services delivered on/before time.

- Developed an entrepreneurial ecosystem in the institute and improved the entrepreneurial activities. Was instrumental in establishing a campus company, SETJU Co. This ecosystem pushed and motivated about a dozen students to start up companies in various domains.- Provided assistance to placement and training activities, during which organized a batch of Infosys Campus Connect Training Program.- Facilitated the formation and operations of many student/department clubs. - Organized 'INK talks' at the Jain University Campus.