Avni Puri
Summary
Results-driven and highly efficient Human Resources professional with over 5 years of comprehensive experience in end-to-end talent acquisition and staffing. Proven expertise in volume/mass hiring, lateral and niche skill recruitment across diverse business units. Skilled in headhunting, campus recruitment, and executing full-cycle hiring processes including candidate sourcing, quality screening, interviewing, offer management, onboarding, and post-onboarding support. Adept at stakeholder and vendor management, ensuring compliance with recruitment processes, and maintaining accurate MIS and reporting. Known for a strategic, process-oriented approach and a strong commitment to delivering timely and quality hiring solutions in fast-paced environments.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate- Talent acquisition
Infosys, Bangalore
12.2021 - Current
- Handling end -to-end recruitment for Infosys -Australia & NZ, meeting quarterly basis demand of both niche and generic skills.
- Managing end to end hiring for 2 Business units along with stakeholder management and Vendor management.
- Onboarding minimum 20 employees per quarter for niche and general skills- IAM, Scrum, Python, Java, DevOps, Moogsoft, Network Security, Cloud, Power curve, Quantexa etc.
- Closed first successful disability hire being onboarded in entire APAC team.
- Creating and posting job descriptions on professional networking sites.
- Achieving a 90% above offer acceptance rate every quarter by effectively negotiating salary and benefits packages with candidates.
- Requirement gathering and analysis from the units based on business needs and growth estimates.
- Working closely with hiring managers to understand job requirements and build an ideal candidate pipeline.
- Analyze MIS data to identify the talent acquisition trends, and gaps involving talent pool availability from market/ campus, offers, joiners etc. to enable quick and easy decision making across different stakeholders.
- Facilitate decision-making through creation & analysis of various dashboards and reports for relevant stakeholders.
- Point of contact with all delivery heads and Vendors for deliverables and slot fulfillment.
- Supporting employer branding initiatives by promoting company’s values and culture to attract top talent.
- Taking care of Requisition generation and system cleaning ensuring compliance and process management.
- Monitoring and continuously improving key recruitment metrics- Lead time, Conversion/Decline ratios, Cost per hire, Source mix etc.
- Updating candidate information in ATS timely.
- Responsible for HR discussions for lateral hires (inclusive of Salary discussion and Infosys benefit plans).
- Point of contact with talent all throughout until candidate has joined.
- Responsible for releasing offer letters with closing pre employment checks, reference checks, background verification etc.
- Improved candidate satisfaction ratio by streamlining communication and providing timely feedback throughout hiring process.
Recruitment Professional
IBM, Bangalore
01.2021 - 12.2021
- Co-ordinating IBM assessments for technical resources.
- Scheduling interviews-Achieving targets of handling around 80-90 interviews in a week.
- Sourcing- Point of contact for college TPO'S and POC'S, Diversity specific hiring and bulk recruitment campus drives.
- Pre hire and background verification checks Onboarding- Closing Pre hire and GOAF(Global Offer approval form) before releasing offers.
- Maintaining database trackers- Recruitment, Onboarding.
- Talent management Involved in employment engagement activities for TA team and social media/ brainstorming ideas for better candidate experience.
Education
MBA - Human Resource and Organizational behavior
Alliance School of Business, Alliance University
07.2021
Certification
- People Analytics- Moscow Institute of physics and technology
- International leadership & OB by University of Bocconi
- Recruiting, Hiring and Onboarding employees by University of Minnesota
Timeline
Associate- Talent acquisition
Infosys, Bangalore
12.2021 - Current
Recruitment Professional
IBM, Bangalore
01.2021 - 12.2021
MBA - Human Resource and Organizational behavior
Alliance School of Business, Alliance University
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