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Farhan Qureshi

HR Manager / Talent Acquisition Lead

Gurugram, India • +91 99102 64438 • farhan.qureshi@hey.com • linkedin.com/in/farhan-qureshi-hr

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

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.

Skills

Talent acquisition: Full-cycle recruitment, Tech & non-tech hiring, Workforce planning, Structured interviewing, Offer negotiation, Employer branding

Engagement & retention: Employee engagement, Onboarding programs, Stay interviews, Pulse surveys, Rewards & recognition

Systems & analytics: ATS (Greenhouse, Lever), HRIS (Darwinbox, Keka), LinkedIn Recruiter, Excel / dashboards, Time-to-hire metrics

HR practices: Performance management, Labor law & compliance, POSH committee, Stakeholder partnering, Mentoring

Core Competencies

recruitment · talent acquisition · full-cycle hiring · ATS · time-to-hire · employee engagement · onboarding · HRIS · performance management · labor law · stakeholder partnering · retention

Work Experience

Talent Acquisition Lead — Novexa Software (product startup)

Aug 2022 – Present

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 2020 – Jul 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.

Projects

TalentRadar — sourcing analytics dashboard — 2x source ROI

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.

Tech: ATS, HR analytics, Recruitment

Interactive 3D Portfolio

WebGL portfolio built on Eliorexa, linked from this résumé.

  • Showcases hiring programs, engagement results and onboarding flows as an interactive case-study site — reduced-motion safe and mobile-fast.

Tech: WebGL, Storytelling, Personal brand

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)