Talent Associate

Overview

Talent Associate (P1) supporting Availity India's hiring needs in Bengaluru, with a focus on bulk and high-volume hiring, interview scheduling, candidate sourcing, candidate communication, and day-to-day recruiting operations.

What you'll do

• Support bulk and high-volume recruitment campaigns across assigned business functions.
• Coordinate interviews across candidates, hiring managers, and interview panels, including complex schedules and rescheduling requirements.
• Prepare and send accurate interview confirmations, instructions, reminders, and follow-up communications.
• Act as a responsive point of contact for candidates and keep them informed about interview progress and next steps.
• Source candidates through LinkedIn, Naukri, employee referrals, internal databases, job portals, networking, and other direct channels.
• Conduct initial profile reviews and basic screening against agreed role requirements, as assigned by the recruiter.
• Build and maintain candidate pipelines for recurring and volume hiring requirements.
• Create and maintain hiring trackers, interview status reports, requisition updates, and candidate records.
• Update Workday or other recruitment systems accurately, including candidate stages, notes, source information, disposition reasons, and interview outcomes.
• Follow up with interviewers for timely feedback and escalate delays to the responsible recruiter.
• Support offer documentation, pre-employment activities, background verification coordination, post-offer engagement, and onboarding hand-offs.
• Assist with recruitment drives, walk-ins, campus programmes, hiring events, referral campaigns, and employer-branding activities.
• Protect candidate and company information and follow recruiting, privacy, compliance, and data-security requirements.
• Identify recurring coordination or process issues and suggest practical improvements to increase speed, accuracy, and candidate experience.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 1-3 years of experience in Talent Acquisition, recruitment coordination, sourcing, HR operations, or recruitment support.
• Exposure to bulk, volume, frontline, technology, operations, or shared-services hiring.
• Hands-on experience coordinating interviews and communicating with candidates and stakeholders.
• Basic sourcing capability using job portals, professional networks, internal databases, and employee referrals.
• Strong organisation, prioritisation, follow-through, and attention to detail.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills and a professional, candidate-friendly approach.
• Ability to manage multiple open roles, interview schedules, and tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Teams, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Experience using an applicant tracking system or recruitment management tool.

Nice to have

• Experience using Workday Recruiting, LinkedIn Recruiter, Naukri, or similar platforms.
• Experience supporting hiring events, walk-in drives, campus recruitment, or large interview panels.
• Basic knowledge of recruitment reporting, funnel tracking, and data hygiene.
• Experience working with distributed teams or U.S. and global stakeholders.
• Interest in developing capability across sourcing, candidate assessment, stakeholder partnership, and recruitment analytics.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.
• Work mode: Hybrid.
• Employment type: Full-time.
• India hours with global overlap, as required.
• Video camera must be usable for all virtual meetings.