Technical Recruiter Market Research

Surbhi Agrawal

Chantilly, Virginia • +1-571-***-**** • ********.***@*****.*** • LinkedIn

Work Authorization - Authorized to work for anyone on an L2-S visa. No sponsorship required now or in the future. Technical Recruiter

Customer-focused recruiting professional with 7+ years of experience, combining a growth mindset and consultative approach to meet both immediate and long-term business needs. A strategic planner and problem solver, skilled in using data and metrics to design innovative sourcing strategies aligned with talent market trends—resulting in reduced time-to-fill. Passionate about connecting passive candidates with life-changing opportunities through events and networking, while ensuring a seamless and engaging candidate experience throughout the interview process. WORK EXPERIENCE

Network Designs 03/2024 - Present

Technical Recruiter Mclean, Virginia

• Lead full-cycle recruiting for federal technical roles (including cleared positions), aligning with internal SLAs and program needs.

• Built sourcing strategies tailored to hard-to-fill roles, resulting in 50+ successful placements in one year across multiple security clearance levels.

• Created and implemented standardized Recruiting SOPs to streamline internal workflows and reduce time-to-fill.

• Acted as a talent advisor to hiring managers, aligning job requirements and expectations to improve offer-to-interview ratios.

• Drove passive sourcing through market research and continuous talent engagement to maintain healthy candidate pipelines.

• Maintained a 4-week average time-to-fill across requisitions by proactively managing pipeline volume and velocity.

• Managed all job postings and status tracking within iSolved ATS, ensuring accurate reporting and data integrity.

• Supported external vendor coordination and internal compliance with federal and security hiring processes. Ignitec, Inc 10/2022 – 03/2024

Technical Recruiter Sterling, Virginia

• Managed 10–12 technical requisitions weekly, focusing on niche roles in software engineering, security, and technical program management.

• Conducted 25–40 daily outbound calls/messages to generate high-quality passive pipelines with consistent candidate flow.

• Achieved 80% offer acceptance rate (28 of 35 accepted) by aligning screening with hiring manager expectations and refining outreach strategies.

• Drove volume and velocity by submitting 5–6 quality candidates daily and tracking pipeline metrics against hiring goals.

• Partnered with stakeholders to define ideal candidate profiles and tailor assessments for technical fit and organizational alignment.

• Sourced candidates using Boolean, LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, and ClearanceJobs for high-demand technical roles.

• Maintained detailed candidate records in ATS (JobDiva), ensuring compliance with SLAs and internal processes. Sokowatch now Wasoko 08/2021 - 06/2022

Global Technical Recruiter Bengaluru, India & Nairobi, Kenya.

• Leading technical recruitment function in India and Nairobi, Africa.

• Leverage industry knowledge and talent market research to attract top technical talent and exceed quotas at 150% by full cycle recruiting and collaborating with engineering leaders and business stakeholders.

• Conduct talent market research via LinkedIn Insights focusing on talent supply and demand, diversity gaps, time to fill, location, budget, technical skills, leading industries, and top competitors.

• Optimize sourcing networks and use proactive methods to direct source candidates and onboard 8+ candidates in every quarter primarily SDE’s and PM’s and QA’s

Shortlist Professionals 10/2018 - 07/2021

Global Talent Consultant Mumbai, India and Kenya

• Closed on an average 5 roles every quarter which lead to overachieving of revenue target of 50,000 USD in 2020 and 2021.

• Partnered with C-suite executives of pre-seed, seed, series A funded startups to ascertain hiring needs and subsequently provide candidate recommendations.

• Led 8 to 10 searches for different client at any given point.

• Developing proactive sourcing strategies to engage and nurture the pipeline of passive talents.

• Became an expert talent advisor and disseminated world-class practices, like voice and video screening and build assessments. End-end recruitment right from sourcing, conducting first round of interviews to salary negotiations. Iplace 04/2017 - 02/2018

Sourcer Pune, India

Allscripts 04/2016 - 12/2016

Client Support Analyst Pune, India

Mphasis 10/2014 - 01/2016

Technical Support Analyst Pune, India

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunications 06/2014 University of Pune Pune, India

SKILLS

Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), Candidate Pipeline Development, Full Life Cycle, Recruitment Processes, Head Hunting, Market Research, Placement & Onboarding, Process improvement, Program management, Stakeholder Management, Talent Assessment

& Acquisition, Technical Sourcing.

Roles Hired for: Software Development Engineers (SDEs), Cyber Security Engineers, Security Analysts, QA Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), DevOps Engineers, Cloud Engineers (AWS/Azure), Technical Program Managers (TPMs), PowerApps Developers, Systems Engineers, Network Engineers, Solutions Architects, Data Engineers, Data Analysts, Machine Learning Engineers, Product Managers, Engineering Managers, VP of Engineering. Clearance Hired for: Public Trust, Secret, Top Secret, TS/SCI with poly. ATS Systems: Isolved, Bullhorn, Fieldglass, Greenhouse, JobDiva, Lever and a few internal ATS Applications & Others: Crunchbase, Excel, GitHub, Google Suite, Google Xray, LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, ClearanceJobs, Monster, MS Office 365, MS Outlook, MS Teams, PowerPoint, Zoom.

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