Deeksha Rajpal Email & Phone Number

East Moline, Illinois, United States

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Supported daily human resources operations for company with ~20 employees. Answered staff questions regarding salary, retirement accounts, and other HR issues/regulations. Offered relevant data regarding leaves and attendance to assist with payroll preparation. Coordinated HR projects, including meetings, trainings, and surveys. Handled vendor relations to procure office supplies and equipment. Provided administrative support to 4 directors, including organizing weekly/monthly meetings.● Managed recruiting, including filing job requisitions, sourcing candidates through job portals, screening resumes, conducting interviews, negotiating employment terms, creating offer letters, and preparing employee documents.● Processed documentation and generated reports related to employee activities, including staffing, recruitment, training, grievances, and performance evaluations.● Conducted orientations for 12 new hires, answering questions and reviewing key points of employee handbook.● Published training plan for employees. ● Hired a candidate by proposing flexible work schedule and benefits package that allowed remote work, adding value to organization while supporting employee with newborn. Negotiated offer with directors before presenting to candidate. ● Onboarded 4 new employees in 2 weeks, overcoming challenge of lack of furnished office space due to rapid expansion of startup company. Proposed solution to directors, acquiring help for office setup and providing rotating remote work schedule so new employees could start contributing within short timeframe. ● Added new employees to payroll and collected, verified, and processed employee information and documentation.● Organized and led virtual/in-person employee engagement activities, including games and other team-building exercises, team lunches and dinners, and Family Day/Women’s Day celebrations. ● Produced compliance training plans regarding company policies and distributed to new employees.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Managed admissions process for international school, including preparing admissions folders, maintaining student records, scheduling admissions officers, identifying contacts and other sources of student nominations, and administering admissions tests. Built and maintained relationships with students’ parents/families. Developed presentations for parents, school leaders, and others to promote school. Served as point of contact for new student inductions. ● Enabled admission of 13 Foreign expat students who arrived mid-school year by proposing and implementing additional classes to accommodate new students and developing corporate partnership with global company.● Assisted with strategic planning for student recruitment, including conducting in-person/virtual campus tours and organizing open days and other opportunities for prospective students to learn about school. ● Created daily/weekly/monthly reports for school head, trustees, and teachers related to admissions statistics/forecasts, accounts, and transportation schedules. ● Set up comprehensive admissions database that included baseline data on 1K students using Excel and school portal. ● Contributed to creation of 2-year strategic admissions plan that included stats on students from targeted areas.● Organized 10 annual promotional events that coincided with festivals, in addition to science exhibitions.● Conducted in-person and virtual marketing events, inviting friends of current students to attend as referrals; advertised via social media and digital marketing.

India

Started faculty role in lab and sciences before moving to daycare administration and admissions teams

Bhopal Area, India

Duties included: Conducting laboratory sessions in clinical laboratories such as Physiology, Biochemistry and Microbiology. Responsible for Conducting lectures on laboratory practicals. Demonstration of Practicals. Maintained and supervised all laboratories as an additional responsibility. Coordinator for Attendance Records.

Bhopal Area, India

Duties included: Faculty for DMLT and B.Sc.Optometry. Monitoring laboratory tests and surveillance. Also involved in works like NABL and NABH of the Hospital.

Master'S Degree, Biotechnology, A+

Activities and Societies:  1st prize at intercollegiate level in college in poster presentation organized by Indian Science Congress.

Bachelor'S Degree, Biotechnology, A+

Activities and Societies: Debate,Group discussion,Poster Presentation,Science exhibition.Sterilisation techniques, culture of microbes.

Masters, Biotechnology