Anuja Shah

Early Careers and Talent Acquisition professional with experience spanning corporate recruitment, campus hiring, employer partnerships and talent programmes. Most recently led centralised placement delivery across six postgraduate programmes at XIC, managing employer requirements, candidate assessment, selection coordination, stakeholder engagement and hiring analytics. Earlier corporate recruitment experience spans IT, Banking, Analytics and Corporate functions.

An MA in Clinical Psychology brings an additional behavioural lens to talent evaluation, with experience applying competency-based assessment and psychological tools including 16PF and MBTI to understand candidate fit, development needs and readiness.

Placement & Industry Talent Partnerships Lead at Xavier Institute of Communications (XIC) (2025-08 – 2026-07)

• Centralised the placement process across six postgraduate programmes, coordinating course heads, students, the IT team and hiring organisations through a consistent end-to-end workflow.
• Managed employer requirement intake, candidate applications and screening, interview logistics, candidate communication, selection follow-up, offers and placement reporting.
• Delivered a 79% overall placement outcome, with 100% placement across Public Relations, Event Management and Journalism; facilitated approximately 197 full-time placements.
• Designed and implemented a structured student-readiness diagnostic combining behavioural assessment, classroom observation and mock interviews; applied competency-based evaluation principles and insights from psychological tools including 16PF and MBTI to strengthen understanding of behavioural fit, communication style and candidate readiness.
• Built a central placement tracker with the IT team and used employer feedback, rejection patterns and course-level conversion analysis to identify market-demand and candidate-readiness gaps.
• Expanded the network to 60+ hiring organisations, onboarding 26 new partners and converting internship discussions into full-time opportunities with Publicis Groupe, Oppo India, Dentsu Creative and Paras Corporation.
• Created employer-brand and industry-exposure initiatives, including newsroom immersions with ET NOW and Mid-day and a structured traineeship concept.

Consulting Coach (Concurrent Practice) at Private Practice & Wysa (2022-03 – 2025-07)

• Provided evidence-based coaching to a global client base, strengthening expertise in behavioural assessment, communication and individual development.
• Delivered workplace mental-health and resilience programmes for corporate audiences, including Bosch and Accenture.

Senior Counsellor & Team Lead at iWill (2015-07 – 2022-02)

Mental Health & Wellness

• Recruited and onboarded therapists and an HR Executive; designed onboarding, KPI and Performance Improvement Plan frameworks.
• Led behavioural assessments and team-development interventions supporting leadership and organisational-effectiveness decisions.

HR Consultant at Medallion Consulting (2011 – 2012)

• Supported the design and implementation of recruitment, onboarding and scalable HR processes for a 600-bed multi-specialty hospital.

HR Executive – Talent Acquisition at SAS India (2007-09 – 2008-11)

• Delivered end-to-end recruitment across technical and corporate functions, partnering with hiring managers and agencies on requirements, interviews, offers and onboarding.
• Supported recruitment operations and workforce planning across business units.

Senior Recruiter at People Equity HR Consulting (2006-01 – 2007-06)

• Delivered recruitment mandates across IT, Banking, Analytics and Corporate functions for clients including HSBC Analytics, Royal Bank of Scotland and SAS India.
• Led five recruiters, consistently exceeded targets, and received the Best Recruiter Award (2007) while leading the Best Performing Recruitment Team.

PGDBM in Human Resources – Welingkar Institute of Management

MA in Clinical Psychology – SNDT Women's University

Bachelor's Degree – University of Mumbai