Industry: EdTech and Online Higher Education
Employee Size: Medium to Large Ref Pallavi & Team UniAthena is looking for an HR Associate to join the Pune division on-site. The role focuses on making every people decision more accurate by finding what truly predicts success across hiring, onboarding, and performance, and building it into assessment and talent development processes.
Role Objective: Make every people decision more accurate than the last by finding what truly predicts success across hiring, onboarding, and performance, and building it into how we assess and develop talent.
Roles and Responsibilities: Build and run sourcing across job boards, professional networking platforms, referrals, and talent pools to keep pipelines full for multiple roles, and track which sources deliver quality hires. Screen candidates against role success profiles and knockout criteria, using candidate personas to separate real fit from surface fit. Match the assessment method to what each role needs to measure, using structured behavioural interviews, situational judgment tests, work samples, and weighted scorecards. Brief interview panels, standardize rubrics, and turn scores into clear, evidence-backed recommendations. Compare assessment scores with probation outcomes, performance, and retention, and refine the methods based on what predicts success. Own onboarding as the employee's first experience, from pre-joining engagement to a structured thirty to sixty to ninety-day plan with buddy and manager check-ins. Hold structured check-ins at key points such as day thirty and end of probation to understand motivation, fit, and early concerns, and flag risks to the human resources business partner. Run review cycles end to end, covering goal setting, mid-cycle check-ins, ratings, calibration support, and feedback documentation, so the process stays fair and consistent. Turn assessment, onboarding, and review data into insights on hiring quality, early attrition, and performance patterns.
Qualifications: Bachelor's or Master's degree in human resources, psychology, or business. Zero to two years of hands-on experience in talent sourcing and assessment, with onboarding and at least one full review cycle managed.
Key Skills Required: Strong sourcing skills across channels, including the ability to engage passive talent. Working knowledge of assessment methods including structured interviews, situational judgment tests, work samples, and scorecards. Sharp understanding of people, reading motivation, behaviour, and fit beyond the curriculum vitae. Analytical mindset with clear communication, high ownership, and discretion.
