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
HR operations
Systems & tools
Foundations
Work experience
HR Intern (Talent Acquisition) · Bluecrest Technologies
Apr 2025 – Jul 2025Pune
- 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
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.
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.
Education
MBA — Human Resource Management
2025Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
CGPA 8.4/10 · Coursework: Talent Acquisition, Labour Law, HR Analytics, Org Behaviour, Compensation
B.A. Psychology
2023Fergusson College, Pune
First Class
Certifications
HR Analytics (Specialization)
Coursera · 2025
LinkedIn Recruiter Foundations
LinkedIn Learning · 2025
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