HR Manager / Talent Acquisition · Fresher · 0 yrs

Ananya Deshpande

HR / Talent Acquisition Associate (Entry-Level)

Professional summary

MBA (HR) graduate who turns hiring and engagement problems into structured, people-first programs. Comfortable across the talent lifecycle — sourcing and screening on an ATS, coordinating interviews, building onboarding checklists, and running pulse surveys — with a working grasp of HRIS tooling and Indian labor-law basics. Detail-oriented and empathetic; drove a campus engagement project that lifted event participation 42% and helped close 18 internship roles during a single recruitment cycle.

18

Hires supported in one cycle

240+

Candidates screened

+42%

Engagement participation lift

Skills

Talent acquisition

SourcingResume screeningInterview coordinationBoolean searchOffer rollout

HR operations

OnboardingEmployee engagementHR documentationExit formalitiesAttendance & leave

Systems & tools

ATS (Zoho Recruit, Naukri)HRIS (Zoho People)Excel / Google SheetsLinkedIn Recruiter LiteCanva

Foundations

Indian labor law basicsPOSH awarenessPayroll inputsHR analytics (intro)Communication

Work experience

HR Intern (Talent Acquisition) · Bluecrest Technologies

Apr 2025Jul 2025

Pune

  • Sourced and screened 240+ candidates across 12 engineering and sales roles, advancing 58 to interview and helping close 18 hires within the cycle.
  • Maintained the ATS pipeline (Zoho Recruit), cleaning duplicate records and disposition codes that lifted reporting accuracy and cut recruiter follow-up time ~25%.
  • Coordinated 90+ interview slots across panels and time zones, reducing average scheduling turnaround from 3 days to under 1 day.
  • Built a 30-60-90 onboarding checklist and welcome kit adopted for all new joiners, improving first-week documentation completion to 100%.

Featured projects

+42% participation
PulseUp — campus engagement program

Student-run engagement and feedback drive across an MBA cohort of 180.

  • Designed and ran monthly pulse surveys and themed events; raised event participation 42% over two quarters.
  • Translated survey findings into 3 action items per cycle and tracked closure, modelling a real employee-engagement loop.
Employee engagementSurveysHR analytics
7-stage funnel
HireFlow — recruitment process map

An ATS-driven hiring workflow and metrics dashboard built as a capstone project.

  • Mapped a 7-stage recruitment funnel and modelled time-to-hire and offer-acceptance in a tracked sheet, surfacing the screening stage as the top bottleneck.
  • Drafted structured interview scorecards and a basic HRIS onboarding flow to reduce bias and manual handoffs.
ATSRecruitmentHRIS

Education

MBA — Human Resource Management

2025

Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune

CGPA 8.4/10 · Coursework: Talent Acquisition, Labour Law, HR Analytics, Org Behaviour, Compensation

B.A. Psychology

2023

Fergusson College, Pune

First Class

Certifications

HR Analytics (Specialization)

Coursera · 2025

LinkedIn Recruiter Foundations

LinkedIn Learning · 2025

See the work in 3D

Explore Ananya's interactive WebGL portfolio — projects, skills and a way to get in touch.