HR Manager / Talent Acquisition · Mid-level · ~5 yrs
Farhan Qureshi
HR Manager / Talent Acquisition Lead
Professional summary
Talent acquisition and HR professional with 5 years scaling teams across IT services and product startups. Owns recruitment end to end — workforce planning, full-cycle hiring on the ATS, structured interviewing, and offer negotiation — and pairs it with employee-engagement and onboarding programs that keep new hires. Partners closely with hiring managers and leadership, and uses HRIS data to drive measurable wins in time-to-hire, retention and candidate experience.
130+
Hires closed end to end
−38%
Time-to-hire reduction
88%
Offer-acceptance rate
Skills
Talent acquisition
Engagement & retention
Systems & analytics
HR practices
Work experience
Talent Acquisition Lead · Novexa Software (product startup)
Aug 2022 – PresentGurugram
- Own full-cycle recruitment across engineering, product and GTM; closed 130+ hires and scaled headcount from 90 to 240 in 20 months.
- Reduced time-to-hire from 47 to 29 days by rolling out structured interview kits, a Greenhouse ATS workflow and a sourcing scorecard.
- Lifted offer-acceptance from 71% to 88% through faster feedback loops, transparent compensation bands and a redesigned candidate-experience journey.
- Launched a 90-day onboarding program with buddy pairing and milestone check-ins, improving 6-month new-hire retention 18%.
- Partnered with leadership on workforce planning and ran quarterly engagement pulses, raising eNPS from 22 to 41.
HR Generalist / Recruiter · Tritone Infotech
Jun 2020 – Jul 2022Noida
- Managed end-to-end hiring for IT services roles, filling 60+ positions annually across multiple client accounts.
- Migrated recruitment from spreadsheets to a Lever ATS and a Keka HRIS, cutting reporting effort ~12 hours/month and improving data accuracy.
- Ran onboarding, performance-review cycles and exit formalities for 150+ employees while ensuring labor-law and statutory compliance (PF, ESIC, POSH).
- Drove an employee-engagement calendar that reduced first-year attrition 9% year over year.
Featured projects
An ATS + HRIS data dashboard tracking funnel health across all open roles.
- Built a live dashboard on top of Greenhouse exports that surfaced source-of-hire and stage drop-off, redirecting spend to channels delivering 2x conversion.
Education
MBA — Human Resources
2020Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurugram
Specialization: Talent Management & Organizational Behaviour
B.Com (Hons.)
2018University of Delhi, New Delhi
Certifications
SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM-CP)
SHRM · 2023
LinkedIn Certified Professional — Recruiter
LinkedIn · 2022
See the work in 3D
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