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During my internship, I noticed our onboarding paperwork was painfully manual. New hires filled out 8–10 separate forms, then HR re-keyed the same information into our HRIS. It took about 45–60 minutes per employee, and we were onboarding 15–20 people a month. I tracked the time for two weeks and documented duplicate fields across forms. Then I mapped three options: keep the process but create a master form, use fillable PDFs, or integrate directly with the HRIS. Full integration was ideal but not realistic in the short term, so I proposed a combined master form with pre-populated fields and fillable sections. I built a draft in Word, converted it to a protected PDF, and piloted it with one cohort of 6 hires. We cut admin time by roughly 35% and reduced data entry errors by about half. The HR manager liked the results and rolled it out for all office roles.
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In your resume you note improving or optimizing [a process, KPI, or metric]. What specific baseline metrics did you start from, what steps did you personally take, and how did you verify that the improvement was due to your changes rather than external factors?
Based on your hydrology and irrigation engineering background, explain how you would estimate the irrigation water requirement for a kharif crop in a semi-arid region of Gujarat. Walk me through each step: from reference evapotranspiration estimation, crop coefficient selection, effective rainfall calculation, to arriving at canal discharge for a given command area.
In your civil engineering studies, what specific design coursework or project work did you complete related to irrigation channels or canals (e.g., design of lined/unlined canals, distributaries, minors)? Describe one such design in detail, including how you determined discharge, permissible velocity, section dimensions, and lining choice for Gujarat-type soil and climate conditions.
Walk me through a recent multi-channel digital marketing campaign you managed end-to-end. How did you set objectives, choose channels, allocate budget, and measure success?
On your resume you mention working on a cross-functional project (e.g., involving multiple teams or stakeholders). Describe a situation from that project where priorities conflicted—how did you navigate the trade-offs and what was the final outcome?