Experienced Recruiter and Sourcer

SHIKHA MATHUR

Cell: 408-***-**** | *******.****@*****.***

To help companies meet their human capital needs by sourcing and recruiting exceptional candidates.

QUALIFICATION

• Strong knowledge of staffing and human resources including all aspects of a full-cycle hiring process, with experience in sourcing, employee screening & interviewing, offer negotiation and employment law.

• Strengths include attention to detail, strong analytical, organizational, coordination, and multi-tasking skills with a passion for continuous improvement.

• Committed to producing results above and beyond expectations.

Key Strengths:

• Full-cycle recruiting

• Create and execute multiple candidate search campaigns

• Sourcing and candidate development

• Background and reference checks • Salary negotiations

• Relationship Building & Management

• Marketing Campaigns

• Account Management

• Leadership and Team Development

Sourcing skills

• Boolean searches along with social and professional networking sites (LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, OpenBC, Orkut, Google Groups, Twitter, etc), publications and patent lists, alumni lists, blogs, etc

• Innovative search techniques such as URL peel back, X-raying, Domain Searches and Web flipping

• Candidates referrals

• My extended network of past co-workers and friends

Technical Skills

Windows, UNIX, SQL, Sybase, MS Access, MS Office, HTML

EDUCATION

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (GPA: 3.93/4.0)

University of Houston

BACHELOR OF ARTS - Economics & Political Science

Delhi University, India

Additional Training:

• DIPLOMA IN NETWORK COMPUTING, National Institute of Information Technology

• RECRUITING AND HIRING, Google Inc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Google Inc, Mountain View, CA

Recruiter and Sourcer (Nov 2008 – Till Date)

I manage the full cycle of recruiting. My involvement starts at sourcing candidates and take them through the recruitment process at Google all the way to offer acceptance.

Achievements and Responsibilities:

• Sourcing active and passive candidates through creative search strategies including: networking, cold calling, internet searches, on-line databases, user groups, blogs, patent searches and employee referrals with expertise in skills core to the company such as mobile technology, search, data mining, Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval.

• Conduct pre-screen of candidates to determine qualification match, availability, interest, visa status, salary range and relocation needs. I also conducted technical screens for engineering candidates.

• Work with candidates during the recruitment lifecycle. This includes but not limited to, contact them for their availability, answer any questions, provide them with feedback after their phone interview and get the required paperwork in order to bring them onsite

• Represent suitable candidates at hiring committees and Executive Management Groups (EMG)

• Collaborate with compensation teams to arrive at an appropriate salary package suitable for the candidates background and experience level

• Assist the immigration and relocation teams to ensure a smooth transition for candidates to global Google locations.

Recruiter and Sourcer (Feb 2008 – October 2008)

LiveOps Inc, Santa Clara, CA

I was responsible for sourcing, contacting, screening and qualifying passive as well as active candidates. My scope of activities included recruiting for engineering, product management, marketing, and sales positions.

Achievements and Responsibilities:

• Utilized sourcing savvy, sales skills, and networking to identify and attract superior talent, and to champion the LiveOps mission to a diverse audience

• Worked with management on job specifications, source and screen candidates, schedule interviews, formulate offers, and close deals

• Managed employment advertising campaigns and programs

• Managed a broad range of direct sourcing channels to include: an employee referral program, job board postings, niche advertising, networking, recruiting events (including college recruiting), and other creative means to promote and publicize our opportunities to the very best technical talent

• Tracked the candidate progress through the Applicant Tracking System – Jobvite

• Conducted background and reference checks as well as salary negotiations

Recruiter and Sourcer (Jan 2007 – Jan 2008)

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA

Responsible for recruiting, sourcing and engaging diversity candidates (which includes cold calling, selling the Google concept and assessing candidate’s skill sets and suitability) for Google engineering and operations teams. This role requires a very good understanding of the company’s unique culture, the needs of the engineering department in general and high hiring standards of the company, the ability to work independently, take initiative and think creatively.

Achievements and Responsibilities:

• Sourced and developed 500+ passive candidates in the first three months

• Sourced from leading technology companies, open source projects, and educational organizations. Also regularly scouted from publications, patents, professional websites such as IEEE and ACM.ORG, etc

• Performed internet research, identify leads, contacted and developed leads into candidates, identified matching roles within the Engineering organization, facilitated interviews, and hosted candidates.

• Responsible for ensuring compliance with Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Programs.

• Represented Google at various technical conferences and events (ApacheCon, JavaOne and “Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining”) as a result of which collaborated and shared 800+ leads with other engineering groups

• Interviewed candidates for the recruiting team; mentored and trained new hires about the Google hiring process

Account Executive (Dec 2005 – Jan 2007)

Sprint-Nextel, San Diego, CA

Responsible for Sales management including channel development, conflict resolution, mentor and train channel partners, sales force motivation using creative incentive techniques. Build and maintain MIS reports for sales trending and forecasting.

Achievements and Responsibilities:

• Developing Marketing Strategy for Sprint Channel Partners

• Designed and executed strategic marketing and promotional plan that achieved exceptional market penetration and resulted in exceeding projected activation goals by 30%.

• Developed marketing campaigns with business partners like Samsung, LG, Motorola, Sanyo, RIM, Palm, and Nokia to gain market share.

• Negotiating the contractual agreements and implementing the program with channel partners

Achieved 110% of sales quota while developing new channels and partners

MBA, UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON (2003 – 2005)

I worked on my fulltime MBA from University of Houston. Emphasis of the MBA program was on Human Resources, Project Management, and Marketing.

Senior Sales Executive (June 2000 – September 2002)

Sony Entertainment Television

Senior Sales Executive for the Network, which comprises four television channels – Sony, MAX, AXN CNBC. Management and implementation of deals done in Advertising Sales in the Delhi Branch. To and Fro flow of information between Head Quarters (Mumbai) and Branch Office (Delhi).

Achievements and Responsibilities:

• Managed key accounts with 20% increase in 9 months

• Outstanding success in building and maintaining relationships with key corporate decision makers, establishing large volume, and high profile accounts with excellent level of retention and loyalty.

• Handled Public Relations and event management for Sony Entertainment Television in collaboration with outside marketing tie-ups

• Analysis of sales data based on television rating point (TRP) using TAM/INTAM. TAM/INTAM data is provided by A.C. Nielson and Org-Marg. Maintained current market analysis – competitive analysis, market share, market potential, risks, threats, and industry trends

• Developed packages for Northern Region along with client sponsorship details on software on the channel

Business Development Executive, (June 1998 to June 2000)

National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT), New Delhi, India

NIIT has 2500 IT Education Delivery centers all over India.

Responsibilities included conducting marketing analysis and develop packages and solutions which would address the needs of the local markets while keeping the overall goals of NIIT intact. A new course was launched in my tenure of service, which gave me good exposure to new product launch marketing strategies.

Achievements and Responsibilities:

• Conducted research and analysis of market economics, demographics, spatial geography, supply and demand and related topics, assist with marketing presentations. Analyzed customer data to identify trends.

• Developed strategy to address under served market niches

• Participated in marketing conferences and sessions for new Brand Extensions for the company

• Present NIIT products and solutions to schools and exhibitions in the city

• Maintain a high enquiry conversion ratio (90% conversion rate)

• Helped design, track, and interpret results of lead-generation and retention marketing efforts across customer segments and products

• Managing Backend Operations for smooth functioning like preparing and analyzing various sales / revenue reports for the center and maintaining documents

• Consistently achieved 125% of allocated quota.

REFERENCES

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