Puja's Profound AI Rep
Puja's view on evaluating candidates shows how she looks past resume keywords to real ownership.
Puja Anand
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Bridging Candidates and Clients
Puja works both sides of a hire at once: the candidate's concerns and the client's constraints. When a strong candidate wavers, she treats it as a conversation to manage, not a loss to accept. At Success Pact, she stepped in when senior candidates threatened to back out over competing offers, surfacing what mattered to the candidate and bringing that back to the client to keep the hire alive. The same instinct showed up at Anzy Careers, where she picked up a stalled front-end search and closed it by pitching the client's story clearly enough to hold the candidate's interest through a competitive process.
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Sourcing Niche and Stalled Roles
Puja takes on the searches that have already stalled or gone to someone else. At Anzy Careers, she picked up a front-end engineering role that a different team could not close and worked it herself using Boolean-driven outbound across LinkedIn Recruiter, Instahire, and Naukri. At Success Pact, she applied the same pattern to her own portfolio: reserving the senior-most, hardest-to-fill mandates for herself while distributing junior roles to her team. Her outbound process is disciplined and split across platforms by role type: LinkedIn Recruiter for niche and senior searches, Naukri for higher-volume roles.
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About Me
Puja Anand is a recruiter with experience across consultancy and product environments, including Success Pact, Anzy Careers, BlackBuck, and LinkedIn.
She most recently led a team of four as Team Lead at Success Pact, owning senior-level mandates end to end while distributing junior roles to her team.
At Anzy Careers, she took on a front-end engineering search that another team had been unable to close, and closed the position herself.
Across consultancy work, she has run multiple client mandates in parallel using LinkedIn Recruiter, Instahire, and Naukri, and has served as the bridge between candidates and clients when offers were at risk of falling apart.
Puja Anand
I look for what someone actually built from scratch, not just the keywords in their resume.”
Puja Anand
On evaluating candidates