Smithaa Gudagie

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Manager - Talent Acquisition at Unacademy

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Overview

Smithaa is a collaborative talent acquisition leader with over 10 years of experience building and scaling technology teams from scratch. She specializes in partnering with leadership to staff engineering, design, and product functions, translating recruitment insights into actionable strategy.

Colleagues and partners describe her as a structured, proactive, and empathetic professional. She is known for being a candid and sincere partner to hiring managers, ensuring alignment and clear expectations throughout the hiring process.

Unique fact: She was instrumental in building teams from the ground up for three separate product lines within Unacademy.

Personality Overview

Values Relationships

Friendly But Fast

Charismatic

They are more likely to accept new and exciting technologies.  A combination of speed and relationship gets the best response from them. They are charming and can persuade others to support their decisions.

Topics They Care About

Scaling Tech Teams
She has direct experience building engineering, design, and product functions from zero by partnering with founders and leadership at Unacademy.
Strategic Recruiting
Focuses on translating recruitment initiatives and metric insights into actionable strategies to meet the organization's overall talent agenda.
Full-Cycle Talent Management
Her experience covers the entire talent lifecycle, from acquisition and vendor management to setting up internal HR policies and processes at companies like Microsoft.

Media Appearances

Smithaa has no verified media appearances

Work History

8-2020
Manager - Talent Acquisition at Unacademy
3-2018 - 7-2020
Talent Acquisition Leader at GO-JEK Tech
12-2013 - 2-2018
Talent Acqusition Leader at Collective
8-2011 - 6-2013
Staffing/Human Resource @ Microsoft India Development Centre(IDC) at Microsoft
1-2010 - 8-2011
Lead Executive- Recruitment at iGATE Global Solutions

Education

Smithaa has no verified education history

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Insights For Selling To Smithaa

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Display high self-confidence and expect them to have a strong personality.
  • Keep your pitch focused on the impact but nurture the relationship too
  • Help them visualize the impact of their decision

DONT's

  • Don’t hesitate from asking questions or pushing them, but take a friendly approach
  • Don't make any commitments that you might not be able to fulfill
  • Avoid unnecessary negativity or slowness

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Smithaa is

  • Relationship and product conviction matter equally, followed by a sense of achievement.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Smithaa

  • If they are not convinced, they will say no though in a friendly way.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Smithaa move?

  • They can reach decisions quickly if they develop trust and confidence in the product.
  • Can Smithaa take some risk or not?

  • If necessary, they will be ready to take risks.

You And Smithaa

Personality Compatibility


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