Ashna Kothari

Ashna Kothari Email:--Contact:- LinkedIn Address: Poorva Heights, Pashan Sus Road, Pune – 411021 Maharashtra, India Career Objective Seeking a responsible position in Human Resources where I can develop new skills, gain knowledge, and leverage my extensive experience in Recruitment, Talent Acquisition, and HR operations. I am eager to excel in the field of HR by effectively managing HR functions, attracting top talent, and contributing to the growth and success of a prestigious organization. Key Strengths: Sourcing, Head Hunting, Interviewing, Screening, Technical Recruitment, IT Recruitment, Non-Technical Recruitment, Talent Acquisition, Offer Letter Creation, Salary Breakup and Salary Negotiation, Stakeholder Management, People Management, Strategic Thinking, Employee Benefits, Employer Branding, HR Operations Tools: ATS – SmartRecruiters, Bullhorn Staffing, Jobvite, Workday Job Boards - LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, Snaphunt, Naukri India, Naukri Gulf, Dice, FoundIt, CareerBuilder Internal Communication – Slack, Skype, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, Google Suite, Google Forms, MS office, MS Excel Professional Experience Company: PWS Tech Services Pvt Ltd (Selfdrive.ae), Pune Role: HR Executive • • • • Mar 2023 – Oct 2024 Lead and manage the full 360° employee lifecycle, focusing 70% on Talent Acquisition & Recruitment and 30% on HR Operations. Talent Acquisition & Recruitment: End to end recruitment, Job Posting, Sourcing, Initial Screening, Scheduling Interviews, Salary negotiations, Offer roll out. Conducted strategic sourcing and job postings through various portals such as Indeed, LinkedIn, Naukri, Snaphunt, Behance, GitHub, Stack Overflow, and Recruit’em. Hired for various IT and Non-IT roles, managing hiring from junior to senior level positions across India, UK, and UAE. Talent Mapping: Involved in active and passive pipelining of candidates through different source mixes like internal referrals, job postings, and talent finding tools. Onboarding & Exit Formalities: Responsible for smooth onboarding of new hires, Conducting HR Induction and orientation. Conduct off boarding process and Exit interviews • • • • HR Operations: Develop and implement HR Policies, Employee background checks to ensure compliance, Maintain Employee database, Leaves & Attendance, prepare HR Letters, Employee benefits and Payroll, coordinate various HR Projects and stakeholder management Employee Relations: Handling employee grievances and foster a positive workplace through employee engagement activities and implement strategies for employee retention and conduct employee satisfaction surveys Performance Management: Employee performance appraisal processes, KPI’s and evaluations, handling PIP HR Procedures: Documented HR processes and prepared reports relating to various personnel activities. Company: Palo Alto Networks (India) Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru Role: Recruiting Specialist (Contract) • • • • • • • • • Being part of the Rec Ops and Enablement team, Conducted full review and update of current Job descriptions and complete modifications based on documentation provided Performed Audit of all new job postings for compliance using Lookup Tool and based on the documentation provided Validated and updated job postings through SmartRecruiters to meet the job posting requirements Managed Candidate Background checks through HireRight for both International and Domestic Follow Up with the candidates to provide supporting documents for verification Handling escalations and resolving queries of Candidates and Recruiters Worked on multiple projects and multi-tasking to adapt to shifting priorities, demands and meet the deadlines Supported other HR and Recruiting operations projects as outlined by the documentation provided Hands on experience with Jobvite and Workday Company: Palo Alto Networks (India) Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru Role: Talent Acquisition Screening Specialist (Contract) • • • • • Aug 2021-Aug 2022 Feb 2021 – July 2021 Screening all the inbound applications and employee referrals for the US across different LOBs such as R&D, GCS, GTM, G&A, IT/InfoSec and Exec for active and future roles Increase Diversity at the top of the funnel and ensure every diverse lead/candidate (applicants, referrals, sourced) are curated for just-in-time pipelines globally Maintained close partnership with Sourcers, Stakeholders and Recruiters to ensure the talent provided meets/exceeds the bar at Palo Alto Networks Building the CRM/ATS with most qualified and diverse talents Partnered with the Talent Research Team and worked on few Scrubbing projects, Support requests, Sourcing jams, Talent Mapping to build diverse talent pipelines through creative sourcing techniques like GitHub, Stack Overflow, Prophet, Recruit’em, Google search engine, SmartRecruiters, LinkedIn • • Identify and tap into talent from diversity events, sororities, LinkedIn Groups, Diversity Boolean search strings Research target companies to develop list of prospective candidates for active and future roles though various channels such as online directories, networking platforms, career events etc. Summer Internship Project Ian Martin Consulting Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru Role: Project Intern • • • • Responsible for Sourcing and Client Analysis Sourced candidates for various job roles in the field of IT, Engineering, Banking, Marketing, Customer service Screened Resumes and created database of candidates in ATS from various job portals like Monster, LinkedIn, Dice, Indeed, CareerBuilder Performed Client analysis of Canadian banking clients on various Job orders received, status of the job orders, no.of roles filled, no.of candidates placed in the client company Ian Martin Consulting Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru Role: Intern • • • • Jan 2020 - Feb 2020 July 2019 – Aug 2019 Performed academic assignment on the “Organization Study” of the company to study the company profile and background and prepared SWOT Analysis & Financial statement analysis using the financial ratios Observed the Personal Interview Process conducted in the company Received Training on Sourcing and Recruiting, studied time zones of US and Canada, tax terms and work authorization of Visa Worked on Pool-Building projects and learned about the meeting practices & feedback techniques followed in the company Academic Qualification Degree University/Board Year %/CGPA MBA Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management - 67.8% BBM SDM College of Business Management - 72.26% 12th Canara PU College 2014 73.5% 10th Ladyhill Victoria Girls High School 2012 79.20% Academic Projects Teal Organization and its effect on Employees Productivity • • • • Jan 2020 – Feb 2020 Studied about the new organizational paradigm “Teal Organization” for Ian Martin Consulting Pvt Ltd, Bangalore. The company follows Teal organization culture and practices The study was done to analyze to whether Teal Organization has effect on Employees Productivity. Data was collected from employees with the help of questionnaire for the study The analysis showed that Teal Organization had positive effect on Employees productivity, where 58.4% of the employee’s productivity was due to Teal Organization Recruitment and Selection Process July 2019 – Aug 2019 Did a mini project on “Recruitment and Selection Process” for Ian Martin Consulting Pvt Ltd, studied about the end-to-end recruitment process, the tools and methods used for selection during the hiring process. E-recruitment tools used, External and Internal recruitment like campus recruitment and employee referral programs followed in the company Languages English, Hindi, Kannada, Gujarati Achievements/Certifications • • • • • • Completed “Payroll Administration and HR Analytics” a value added course from Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management – June 2020 Completed “Recruiting, Hiring and Onboarding Employees” course from Coursera – April 2020 Attended International conference on Future Dimensions in Higher Education – A Quantum Leap in Technology – Feb 2020 Attended National Conference on ‘People Management: Issues and Concerns’ – Sept 2019 Completed the course “Level 1: Beginners level - Introduction to Business Analytics” with IBM SPSS from Noble Analytica – June 2019 Awarded as “Best Outgoing HR Co-ordinator” at SDM College of Business Management – Feb 2017