Technical Recruiter Data Scientist

Sapna Benali

linkedin.com/in/sapnasmt 206-***-**** *******@*****.*** Seattle,WA

Professional experience

Innovative and resilient senior sourcing recruiter offering 10 years years of professional experience within corporate and staffing environment. Proven ability to source strategically, select and secure quality seasoned candidates for scalable product teams across New York, Seattle, Canada and California locations. Focus all this while has been on hiring diversified talent of Staff/Senior software engineers and Mobile developers.

Experience Summary

Been responsible for strategizing and engaging passive/active candidates along with sourcing, screening, interviewing and hiring.

Developed effective ideas and creative solutions to streamline and improve the process of recruiting for active and passive candidates at DoorDash product teams.

Communicated effectively and collaborated across HR and business stakeholders to maximize efforts to identify and hire qualified candidates.

Managed workflow, data integrity and communication through Greenhouse applicant tracking system and GEM.

Lead and partnered with technical recruiters from different teams on retention and strategizing hiring quality candidates for new product teams and planning initiatives.

Created marketing and candidate attraction strategies alongside with hiring managers for unique or hard to fill positions.

Collaborated and educated stakeholders on interviewing techniques, recruiting and sourcing best practices.

Prepare reports, analysis, and extract data for unsuccessful hires to strategize for the top of the funnel.

Been part of the onboarding team to mentor and guide new recruiters.

Use various sourcing tools like LinkedIn, Greenhouse, GitHub, Gem, Hiretual, Indeed, Google and Linked X ray.

Build and maintain network of potential candidates through pro-active market research and on-going relationship management; conducts in-depth interviews of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high offer-to-interview ratios.

Recommend ideas and strategies related to recruitment that will contribute to the long-range growth of the company, implementing any new processes and fine tuning standard processes for recruiting that fits within DoorDash’s mission to deliver the highest quality results to the customer.

Articulate in writing a plan with deliverables, timelines and a formal tracking process with strong interpersonal skills and business acumen.

Possess strong ability to screen, interview and prepare an ideal candidate slate within an appropriate and consistent timeline.

Participate in special projects/recruiting initiatives including assessment of best practices in interviewing techniques, leveraging of internal sources of talent and identification of top performers for senior-level opening

The ability to maintain volume and quality of candidates for the event style model I worked with on my current team.

Employment History

DOORDASH

Senior Sourcing Recruiter

JUNE 2021-November 2022

Amazon

Technical Sourcing Recruiter

JULY 2018-May 2021

Smartworks LLC, NJ

Technical Recruiter

Dec 2011-March 2018

Education

MPhil, Regenerative Medicine

University of Paris VII, Denis Diderot

Paris

France

2006-2008

MSc, Biotechnology

University of Abertay Dundee

Scotland

UK

2005-2006

BSc, Zoology

Fergusson College

Pune

India

2002-2005

Experience

DoorDash, Seattle/Remote

Senior Technical sourcer - June 2021-November 2022

Weekly and biweekly meetings with Director and Senior hiring managers to maintain thorough understanding of hiring practices, recruitment strategies to maintain top of funnel and understand changing hiring needs of our scalable product team.

Subject matter expertize in stakeholder management, sourcing and strategizing, business acumen and sourcing tools.

Diversify sourcing channel by spearheading referral drive within our product engineering teams and procuring more than 400 leads. Collaborate with Directors and hiring managers to standardize this across all teams at DoorDash.

Maintained an average of 250 RO per week and exceeded onsite metrics per month.

Maintained 1:2 onsite to hire ratio consistently.

Document writing weather report every end of quarter.

Exceeded personal metrics every quarter and sourcer metrics were measured by the number of offers extended.

Been successful every quarter to meet 95% goals to hire engineers including diverse talent.

Championed in maintaining a diverse pipeline.

Have been able to manage sourcing, onboard and mentor new recruiters, personally dedicate time developing projects passionate about.

Standardized telephonic interview, sourcing techniques, prep practices for candidates to enhance the candidate experience and interview practices for recruiters, recruiting coordinators and hiring managers.

Maintained 4-5 different pipeline for different managers and locations with domain from Sr/Staff engineers to iOS, Front end and Android developers.

Amazon, Seattle

Technical Sourcer -July 2018- May-2021

Partner with recruiters to identify critical positions and build effective sourcing strategy to fill high volume positions across a national client base.

Recruit passive and active applicants, assessing for skillset and role fit.

Build and maintain a network of potential candidates through on-going relationship management, and demonstrate the ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high offer-to-interview ratios

Recommend ideas and strategies that will contribute to hiring goals and fine tuning standard processes that fit within Client's mission to deliver the highest quality results to the customer.

Build and maintain an ongoing candidate pipeline to support hiring goals.

Recruiting experience including sourcing and building pipelines

Experience building and utilizing a variety of sourcing plans and tools, including proactive phone and internet research.

Contact Management System/Applicant Tracking System experience for sourcing, tracking and managing candidates - MS Office - including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

Experience managing and prioritizing multiple searches, projects and client relationships.

Sourcing experience across different tech and non tech roles like SDE, SDM, Data scientist, TPM roles.

Smartworks LLC, NJ

Talent Acquisition Specialist – Oct 2014-March 2018

Devise and execute strategic recruitment plans aligning with company’s recruitment strategy.

Recruiting top talent from universities.

Involved in identifying new sources for hire.

Source and develop passive and active candidates through networking, social media, job portals, and research and career fairs at universities

Facilitate full-cycle recruitment process for IT candidates and source candidates through proven recruitment channels.

Manage and spearhead Graduate Recruitment Program to facilitate hiring of graduates from local schools/universities into organization.

Increase retention rates by working closely with executive leadership to identify and reward top performers.

Built a strong referral network of candidates.

Smartworks LLC, NJ

Technical Recruiter- Dec 2011-May 2014

Responsible for posting jobs on Dice, Monster, University job portals.

Created and maintained pipelines of applicable candidates and provided leads to Senior Recruiters responsible for specific requisitions.

Sourced and screened qualified candidates for various positions with requirement for skills like Java, Android, iOS, .NET, Big Data, BA, BI tools, Linux Admin, ETL.

Responsible for hiring and maintaining 24 candidates in first year.

Developed and maintained relationships with local colleges, to ensure a consistent process that result in generating a qualified, diverse talent pool. Participated at university career job fairs.

Created weekly reports for cold calls and leads.

Performed market research to find out talented candidates.

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