The Lead Early Talent & HR Specialist will manage university relationships, coordinate internship programs, and support HR initiatives to enhance talent acquisition.
Work Flexibility: Onsite
What you will do:
- Responsible for early talent management for various activities in the overall lifecycle both for interns as well as converts.
- POC for various teams to ensure smooth onboarding for campus hires.
- Overseas final project allocation & smooth onboarding experience for interns & educate students about the company’s culture, values, career opportunities, and benefits. Oversee final project allocations and ensure a smooth onboarding experience for new hires.
- Internship Program Development & Management & design, implement, and continuously refine the internship program to align with business goals and industry best practices.
- Manage a large cohort of interns (~200 annually), ensuring a structured, engaging, and development-focused experience. Track and analyze program performance metrics, including retention rates, intern satisfaction, and conversion to full-time employment. Assign mentors or buddies to each intern to enhance their experience and provide guidance throughout the internship.
- Coordinate between HRBPs and talent acquisition teams to facilitate seamless intern-to-employee transitions
- Conduct regular check-ins with interns and their mentors or managers to provide support, address concerns, and ensure smooth progress.
- On ground support to HR Partner to execute various HR processes and initiatives as per Talent agenda & engage with HR CoEs, HR Ops and other internal teams as per work requirements
- Plan well in advance to execute tasks/assignments timely in line with required quality standards & attrition Analysis - Insight generation and present to HR and required stakeholders
- Collaborate with HMs, new hires and Corp Comm team for timely rollout of Org Announcements for new Joiners
- Submission of comp related inputs to HR Ops e.g. – COLA policy & provide support to HR Team on Onboarding & Induction as and when required & collaborate with HRBPs for preparing any presentations to Division/Business leaders
What you need
- Bachelor's degree required or equivalent, MBA in HR preferred
- 4 to 8 years of work experience required in HR domain
- Experience in project management in leading large-scale projects within HR
Top Skills
Project Management
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