Anjali Pathak
HR Professional | Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
Gurgaon
Summary
Results-driven HR Professional with over three years of progressive experience, including more than 22 months focused on leadership hiring, volume and niche recruitment, campus programs, employer branding, and HRBP dashboarding. Expertise in full-cycle recruiting for both tech and non-tech roles, combined with strong stakeholder engagement with CXOs and function heads across India and the Middle East. Proficient in ATS workflows, Boolean search techniques, and market mapping, leveraging a data-first approach through People Analytics and Power BI to enhance turnaround times, SLA adherence, and candidate experience. Committed to unlocking human potential by championing leadership hiring, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives while providing process advisory and building high-growth teams.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
Hero FinCorp
05.2024 - Current
- Owned end-to-end recruitment for senior, mid-level and campus roles; screened 3000+ profiles and conducted 1000+ interviews while managing complex interview calendars and CXO-level panels (India & UAE wide).
- Closed 15+ Senior Management Positions, 60+ junior leadership positions and 40+ mid-level mandates; built diverse pipelines across Product, Risk, Treasury, Strategy, Salesforce, Analytics COE, HR, PR, Audit, Sales, Credit, Collections Strategy, CS, Finance, Digital & IT, including CRO and CBO roles, achieving 90%+ on-time closures for high-priority requisitions.
- Partnered with CXOs & business leaders as Recruitment Business Partner to forecast hiring demand, prioritize requisitions, and align sourcing strategy with AOP headcount plans.
- Drove employer branding and outreach initiatives (events, social, connects) to increase top-of-funnel by 2–3x for hard-to-fill roles; improved candidate experience NPS through proactive communications.
- Implemented People Analytics hygiene and Power BI reporting for ~900+ employees; tracked joins/exits, funnel ratios, DEI metrics, and TAT/SLA to steer weekly governance.
- Optimized ATS workflows and interview ops (JD normalization, panel calibration, debrief hygiene); reduced average TAT for priority roles by ~30%.
Summer Intern – HRBP
Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail Ltd.
04.2023 - 06.2023
- Built a monthly HRBP dashboard for 1,200+ employees covering recruitment, onboarding, learning, and attrition; standardized data definitions and inputs for consistent reporting.
- Compiled a Ready Reckoner of key employee policies (travel, relocation, Mediclaim, maternity, leave, transfer, mobility, POSH, wellness) to improve HRBP response times and candidate/employee experience.
Front-end Engineer
Kritrim Inc
02.2020 - 03.2021
- Built interactive front-end features using JavaScript, HTML and CSS for 20+ enterprise clients; collaborated being the youngest in a 30-member distributed engineering team.
- Partnered cross-functionally with product/design to improve usability; exposure to ML/AI-enabled UI elements to enhance engagement.
Education
MBA - Human Resources
Symbiosis Centre For Management & Human Resource Development (SCMHRD)
Pune04-2024
B.Tech - Computer Science Engineering
GL Bajaj Institute of Technology & Management
Noida, India06-2019
Skills
Full-cycle recruiting
Leadership hiring
Volume & niche hiring
Stakeholder engagement
Recruitment Business Partnering
Campus hiring
Employer branding
DEI initiatives
Candidate experience
Requisition management
Sourcing & Market mapping
Interview ops & panel calibration
TAT/SLA governance
ATS operations
HR/People Analytics
Power BI dashboards
Certification
Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt) KPMG
Hobbies
Travelling & Exploring, experimenting with cooking, reading, poetry, and maintaining an active lifestyle through regular exercise & strength training.
Timeline
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
Hero FinCorp
05.2024 - Current
Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt) KPMG
02-2024
Summer Intern – HRBP
Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail Ltd.
04.2023 - 06.2023
Front-end Engineer
Kritrim Inc
02.2020 - 03.2021
MBA - Human Resources
Symbiosis Centre For Management & Human Resource Development (SCMHRD)
B.Tech - Computer Science Engineering
GL Bajaj Institute of Technology & Management