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Ananya Deshpande

HR / Talent Acquisition Associate (Entry-Level)

Pune, India • +91 98220 51764 • ananya.deshpande.hr@gmail.com • linkedin.com/in/ananya-deshpande-hr

Portfolio: www.eliorexa.com/portfolio/hr-talent-manager-fresher

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.

Skills

Talent acquisition: Sourcing, Resume screening, Interview coordination, Boolean search, Offer rollout

HR operations: Onboarding, Employee engagement, HR documentation, Exit formalities, Attendance & leave

Systems & tools: ATS (Zoho Recruit, Naukri), HRIS (Zoho People), Excel / Google Sheets, LinkedIn Recruiter Lite, Canva

Foundations: Indian labor law basics, POSH awareness, Payroll inputs, HR analytics (intro), Communication

Core Competencies

recruitment · talent acquisition · ATS · employee engagement · onboarding · HRIS · sourcing · interview coordination · labor law · HR analytics

Work Experience

HR Intern (Talent Acquisition) — Bluecrest Technologies

Apr 2025 – Jul 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%.

Projects

PulseUp — campus engagement program — +42% participation

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.

Tech: Employee engagement, Surveys, HR analytics

HireFlow — recruitment process map — 7-stage funnel

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.

Tech: ATS, Recruitment, HRIS

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)