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

Full-cycle recruitmentTech & non-tech hiringWorkforce planningStructured interviewingOffer negotiationEmployer branding

Engagement & retention

Employee engagementOnboarding programsStay interviewsPulse surveysRewards & recognition

Systems & analytics

ATS (Greenhouse, Lever)HRIS (Darwinbox, Keka)LinkedIn RecruiterExcel / dashboardsTime-to-hire metrics

HR practices

Performance managementLabor law & compliancePOSH committeeStakeholder partneringMentoring

Work experience

Talent Acquisition Lead · Novexa Software (product startup)

Aug 2022Present

Gurugram

  • 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 2020Jul 2022

Noida

  • 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

2x source ROI
TalentRadar — sourcing analytics dashboard

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.
ATSHR analyticsRecruitment

Education

MBA — Human Resources

2020

Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurugram

Specialization: Talent Management & Organizational Behaviour

B.Com (Hons.)

2018

University 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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