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Hiring delays, messy HR processes, poor follow-through, an overloaded inbox, and founder bandwidth issues don’t stay “small problems” for long — they slow hiring, create employee friction, and pull leadership away from growth. If you’re a startup founder or growing business, you need more than task support; you need someone who can bring structure to both your people operations and day-to-day execution. I help startups, founders, and high-growth teams build and run the people side of the business more effectively through a combination of HR consulting, talent acquisition, people operations, and executive support. With 11+ years of experience across India and global markets, I’ve supported businesses with startup HR setup, recruitment, performance management, HR operations, HR systems implementation, and founder/CEO support — helping teams hire faster, operate more smoothly, and build stronger internal structure without adding unnecessary complexity. Here’s how I can support your business: HR Consulting | Startup HR | People Operations - Set up or strengthen HR functions for startups and growing businesses - Build HR processes, policies, employee lifecycle workflows, onboarding, and documentation - Support HR operations, compliance coordination, performance management, employee engagement, and day-to-day people processes - Create practical HR systems that are scalable, organized, and aligned with business goals Talent Acquisition | Recruitment | Hiring Support - Manage full-cycle recruitment support for technical and non-technical roles - Handle sourcing, screening, interview coordination, candidate communication, and hiring process management - Build structured recruitment workflows and talent pipelines to reduce hiring bottlenecks - Support urgent hiring needs as well as long-term workforce planning Executive Assistant | Founder Support | Business Support - Provide executive support to founders and senior leaders through calendar management, inbox management, meeting coordination, travel planning, follow-up tracking, and administrative support - Help reduce operational overload so leadership can focus on strategic priorities, hiring, growth, and decision-making - Bring structure, responsiveness, and consistency to fast-moving founder workflows HR Systems | Process Improvement | Operational Support - Support implementation and optimization of HR and workflow tools such as Zoho People, Notion, Asana, ClickUp, and Lever - Improve process visibility, task ownership, and internal coordination - Create more efficient systems for hiring, HR operations, and day-to-day execution What clients typically hire me for: Startup HR setup HR operations support Talent acquisition / recruitment coordination People operations and employee lifecycle support Performance management process setup HR policy and process documentation Executive Assistant / Founder support Calendar, inbox, travel, and meeting management Process improvement and workflow coordination Why work with me: - 11+ years of experience across HR, recruitment, people operations, and executive support - Strong experience supporting startups, founders, and high-growth teams - Comfortable working across both strategic HR priorities and hands-on execution - Experienced in building structure from scratch in fast-moving, evolving environments - Global exposure across teams and clients in India, the US, Canada, the UK, the UAE, and other markets If you’re looking for someone who can support your business across HR, hiring, people operations, and founder support — with a practical, startup-friendly approach — I’d be happy to discuss how I can help. Send me a message / invite with what you need support with, and I’ll let you know how I can add value.

Most businesses don’t discover their HR gaps until something breaks. A compliance notice. A key hire who quits in 60 days. A founder spending 15 hours a week on people problems that should run themselves. A POSH complaint the IC has no idea how to handle. I fix the system before it breaks and rebuild it when it already has. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I’m Kirti Shinde, a boutique HR, recruitment, and international POSH advisory based in Mumbai, India. I work remotely with founders and HR heads across India, the US, UK, Canada, Singapore & the UAE. • 10+ years across agency and in-house HR • 500+ placements delivered (mid-level to C-suite) • 20+ companies with complete HR infrastructure built from zero • 6 industries at depth • Author of "The Invisible Anchor: Why Growth Without Structure Is Chaos in Disguise" • Certified in International POSH frameworks across US, UK, Canada, Singapore & UAE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ## WHAT I BUILD FOR CLIENTS ### ✅ INTERNATIONAL POSH ADVISORY (my specialty) - Policy drafting, IC constitution, training, and audits designed for companies operating across multiple jurisdictions. - If you’re a GCC reporting to a US or UK parent, or an Indian company with remote employees abroad, generic Indian POSH won’t cut it. I build compliance that holds. ### ✅ HR POLICY FRAMEWORKS & EMPLOYEE HANDBOOKS - Custom-built, not templated. Designed for your industry and enforceable from Day 1. - My last 5 handbook projects resolved 8-14 compliance gaps each. ### ✅ RECRUITMENT & EXECUTIVE SEARCH - Full-cycle hiring from JD design to offer closure. - Mid-level to C-suite across manufacturing, pharma, retail, hospitality, logistics, real estate and increasingly SaaS and services. - Average time-to-hire reduction: 35-50% within 90 days. ### ✅ HR INFRASTRUCTURE FOR STARTUPS & SMEs - Built from zero. - Audit → policy sprint → onboarding system → performance framework → POSH setup. - Founders typically reclaim 10-15 hours per week. ### ✅ HR AUDIT & COMPLIANCE - 8-area HR audits with compliance scorecard and prioritised remediation plan. - Used for investor due diligence, regulatory preparation, and pre-acquisition HR reviews. ### ✅ EMPLOYER BRANDING & LINKEDIN TALENT STRATEGY - LinkedIn company page optimization, JD redesign, talent attraction campaigns. - Offer acceptance rates improved by 15-25 points for my clients. ### ✅ RECRUITMENT AUTOMATION - ATS setup, AI-powered Boolean sourcing workflows, WhatsApp chatbot screening. - Also designed a 14-module, 365-day recruiter training academy adaptable for client teams. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ## INDUSTRIES I KNOW AT DEPTH - Manufacturing | Pharmaceutical | Retail & FMCG | Hospitality | Logistics & Supply Chain | Real Estate - Expanding into: SaaS, Fintech, GCCs, Professional Services ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ## WHY CLIENTS KEEP ME AROUND • I implement, I don’t slide-deck. You get playbooks, hired candidates, and completed policies — not PowerPoints. • I bring compliance depth most Upwork HR freelancers can’t touch — POSH across 5 international jurisdictions plus India. • I work in your time zone. Comfortable with async, Slack, Notion, Google Workspace, ATS platforms. • Boutique firm, senior consultant. When you hire me, you get me not a delegated intern. • Founder-friendly pricing tiers for early-stage; enterprise engagement models for scaled teams. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ## 📖 THE BOOK Author of "The Invisible Anchor: Why Growth Without Structure Is Chaos in Disguise" — a founder’s guide to building HR infrastructure that scales with the business rather than fighting it. Sample chapters available in my portfolio below. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ## LET’S TALK Every project starts with a free 20-minute discovery call. Send me a message with: 1. What’s breaking (or what you’re building) 2. Team size and stage 3. A rough timeline I’ll come back within 4 hours with a scoped approach. 📩 Message me with "POSH" and I’ll send my International POSH capability deck. 📩 Message me with "AUDIT" and I’ll send my HR Audit sample scorecard.

Hi there! 👋 I’m Aastha, an experienced Human Resources Professional with a proven track record in recruitment, onboarding, policy drafting, and HR consulting. Over the past few years, I’ve helped organizations streamline their people operations — from sourcing the right talent to building strong HR processes that improve retention and engagement. Whether you’re a startup setting up your first HR system or a company looking for recruitment support, I can help you create smooth, scalable, and compliant solutions. My key expertise includes: ✅ End-to-end Recruitment (Technical & Non-Technical) ✅ Job Posting, Sourcing & Screening (LinkedIn, Naukri, Indeed, etc.) ✅ Employee Onboarding & Documentation ✅ HR Policy Drafting & Employee Handbooks ✅ Performance Management Systems (PMS) ✅ HR Audits & Compliance Support ✅ HR Dashboards, Data Entry & Reporting (Excel, Google Sheets) ✅ Employee Engagement Initiatives & Retention Strategy I’m known for my attention to detail, clear communication, and fast turnaround time. Clients appreciate that I treat every project as if it’s my own organization — ensuring professionalism, confidentiality, and high-quality delivery every time. If you’re looking for an organized, proactive, and reliable HR partner, let’s connect and discuss how I can support your team remotely. 📩 Let’s build efficient people systems together!

I help growing businesses streamline their HR, recruitment, payroll, and finance operations—so they can scale efficiently without compliance risks or operational chaos. With 7+ years of experience supporting remote teams and startups across the US, UK, Canada, APAC, and India, I bring a practical, process-driven approach to people operations and back-office support. 🔹 What I Can Help You With 🔹 Recruitment & Talent Acquisition • End-to-end hiring (Tech & Non-Tech) • Sourcing, screening, and interview coordination • ATS setup & optimization • Offer management & onboarding coordination 🔹 HR Operations & Employee Lifecycle • Onboarding → Engagement → Offboarding (D-boarding) • HR documentation, policies & compliance tracking • HRIS implementation & data management • Process improvement, SOPs & workflow design 🔹 Global Payroll & Compliance • Multi-country payroll support (US, UK, India, Philippines) • Payroll inputs, validations & reconciliations • Tax compliance, filings & audit support • Payroll reporting & documentation 🔹 Finance & Payroll Coordination • Payroll-linked invoicing and billing support • Hands-on experience with Xero (invoicing, reconciliation, payroll coordination) • Experience with Sage portal for payroll and finance operations • Coordination with finance teams, accountants & vendors • Managing invoices, payment tracking & financial records 🔹 Tools & Systems Workday | SAP | Sage | Xero | Quickbook | Wise | Keka | PeopleSoft LinkedIn Recruiter | Jira | Trello | Slack | Hubstaff MS Excel | Google Workspace | SharePoint 🔹 Business Impact ✅ Reduced payroll errors through structured SOPs & validation checks ✅ Improved hiring speed with optimized sourcing workflows ✅ Strengthened HR compliance across multi-country operations ✅ Streamlined onboarding for 100+ global remote employees ✅ Improved invoicing accuracy and finance coordination using Xero 🔹 Why Clients Work With Me ✔️ Strong mix of HR + Payroll + Finance support ✔️ Experience working with global remote teams ✔️ Process-driven and detail-oriented ✔️ Clear communication and reliable delivery ✔️ Focus on practical, scalable solutions 🔹 Call to Action Let’s simplify your HR, payroll, and operational processes. 📩 Send me a message with your requirement, and I’ll share a clear action plan on how I can support you.

I help startups, SMEs, and growing organizations across the US, UK, India, and APAC build structured, scalable, and compliance-driven HR systems that support business growth, operational clarity, governance, and audit readiness. With 9+ years of experience across HR consulting, organizational development (OD), HR operations, and compliance frameworks, I specialize in HR transformation — helping businesses move from chaotic, reactive HR environments to structured, process-driven systems aligned with business goals. Many growing organizations struggle with: - Unstructured HR processes - Lack of SOPs and documentation - Compliance risks and audit gaps - Unclear roles and accountability - Scaling and operational inefficiencies I help solve these challenges through strategic HR frameworks, process optimization, organizational effectiveness, and compliance architecture — including ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 9001 aligned systems. What I Help Businesses With: HR Setup, Transformation & Process Optimization - HR department setup from scratch - HR audits & gap analysis - HR process restructuring - Workflow optimization & scalable HR systems HR Policies, SOPs & Compliance - HR policies & employee handbooks - SOP development & process mapping - Compliance documentation & governance support - Offer letters, contracts & HR templates Performance Management & Organizational Development - KPI/KRA framework design - Performance management systems - Organizational structure & role clarity - Employee lifecycle design Compliance & Workforce Systems - ISO 27001:2022 HR compliance support - ISO 9001 process alignment - HRMS implementation support - HR analytics, onboarding & workforce systems Industries & Experience: I have worked with startups, SMEs, manufacturing companies, healthcare organizations, and service-based businesses to build scalable HR systems that improve accountability, strengthen compliance, and support sustainable growth. I have also supported organizations aligned with DBHDD and GVRA requirements for the State of Georgia. Why Clients Work With Me - Strategic yet execution-focused approach - Expertise in HR + ISO compliance integration - Structured, scalable, and practical HR solutions - Strong focus on operational excellence and governance - Experience supporting scaling organizations and transformation projects If your organization needs structured HR systems, compliance-ready processes, or organizational development support, I can help build frameworks that scale efficiently and reduce operational risk.

Building Better Teams • Workplaces • Processes With 15+ years of HR experience across startups, mid-sized companies, and large organizations, I help growing businesses build scalable people processes that strengthen HR operations, support compliance, and create a better employee experience. I am a Top Rated Upwork consultant with a 100% Job Success Score and experience supporting clients across multiple industries. What I can help you with: 🔹Employee Lifecycle Management Compensation and Benefits including Payroll Administration • Performance Management • Onboarding & Offboarding • F&F • HR Documentation • HR Analytics • HRIS 🔹 Policies, Processes & Compliance HR policies • SOPs • Employee handbooks • Leave & attendance systems • Legal compliance support • HR Audits and Gap Analysis 🔹 Employee Engagement & Experience Employee Connection • Grievance Handling • Conflict Management • Personalized dealings • Feedback systems 🔹 Recruitment & Talent Acquisition Manpower Planning • Job descriptions • Shortlisting • Screening • Interviews • Negotiation & Offer rollout • Background Verification 🔹 Employer of Record (EoR) / HR Outsourcing Support Your employee on my payroll • Employee Lifecycle Management • Documentation • Full legal compliance with Indian Laws and Taxation 🔹 Project Coordination and Management Technology Workflow tools such as Asana, Trello • Planning platforms such as Mural • Productivity platforms like Hubstaff • HRMS and Payroll software such as GreytHR Why Choose Me ✔ 15+ years of cross-industry HR experience ✔ Strong foundation in both manual & automated HR systems ✔ Skilled in handling sensitive employee matters with empathy ✔ Excellent communication, professionalism, and discipline ✔ Quick turnaround time and structured workflows ✔ Experience supporting global teams & remote-first companies ✔ Detail-oriented and reliable — no micromanagement needed Key Accomplishments # Built a complete HR function and culture from scratch for a startup of 10 employees. # Led the digitization of HR data for 4,000+ employees, implementing HRIS and coordinating with IT on system requirements and bug fixes. # Contributed to a company’s growth from 70 to 110 employees during my early recruitment projects. ✨If you are looking for practical, tailored, end-to-end HR solutions designed to support your Organization's growth — LET'S COLLABORATE!