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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, Founder of Prowess Consultancy 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. ## 📊 THE NUMBERS • 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.

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!

Are you a growing business that needs HR expertise but doesn't yet need a full-time HR Manager? I help startups, agencies, consulting firms, and SMEs build practical, scalable HR systems that improve hiring, employee experience, performance, and business growth. I am an Industrial Psychologist and HR Consultant with 6+ years of experience supporting organizations across India, UAE, Oman, USA and the UK. Unlike traditional recruiters or HR administrators, I specialize in building and optimizing the entire employee lifecycle—from hiring and onboarding to performance management, training, compliance, and employee engagement. My expertise includes: ✔ Recruitment & Talent Acquisition * Technical, non-technical, and leadership hiring * Candidate sourcing and screening * Structured interviewing * Behavioral assessments * Hiring process design ✔ HR Operations & Administration * Employee onboarding and offboarding * HR workflows and documentation * Offer letters and employment contracts * Employee records management * HR process improvement ✔ HR Policies & Compliance * Employee handbooks * Company policies * HR documentation * Compliance-focused HR processes * SOP creation and implementation ✔ Performance Management & Employee Development * Performance review systems * Goal-setting frameworks * Employee engagement initiatives * Training and development programs * Leadership coaching and support ✔ HR Systems & Organizational Development * HRMS implementation * Organizational structure design * Reporting frameworks * Team accountability systems * Workforce planning Over the years, I have helped organizations build HR functions from the ground up, establish scalable people processes, improve recruitment outcomes, implement HR systems, and create stronger employee experiences. Whether you need support with recruitment, HR administration, policy development, onboarding, employee relations, training, compliance, or a complete HR function, I can help create systems that support sustainable business growth. Let's discuss how I can support your organization.

With over a decade of experience in Human Resources and Organization Development, I bring deep expertise in designing and implementing HR strategies, competency frameworks, performance management systems, and talent management initiatives. My background includes working with leading firms and consulting assignments across manufacturing and service sectors. I am certified in OD & Change Management from TISS and have a strong track record in driving impactful HR interventions—from organizational design to stakeholder engagement and change communication. My ability to work independently and deliver high-quality outcomes remotely makes me well-suited for any role.

A highly motivated, adaptable, and responsible professional, with a passion to grow in areas such as Training & Development, Talent Management and Employee Engagement within the HR function. Specialties: Developing, delivering and evaluating process related, product related, behavioural and soft-skill training programs. Recruitment across functions like Sales & Marketing, PR, Events, Mar Com & Corporate Communications. Also managed the entire employee life-cycle and worked on employee engagement, retention and coaching projects.