ANISHA GHODADRA
Jersey City,NJ
Summary
Dedicated Senior Technical Recruitment Strategist with a proven track record of enhancing team capabilities and filling key roles in technology. Skilled in full-life cycle recruiting and talent pipeline development, I have a passion for aligning candidates with company ethos while providing the best candidate experience. With a focus on reducing time-to-hire and strategic candidate sourcing, I am adept at partnering with hiring managers and leaders to meet organizational hiring needs.
Leveraging strong interpersonal and negotiation skills to build effective relationships and drive team success.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist(P&T)
GeneDX
09.2024 - Current
- Biotech, Contract
- Reduced time-to-fill for critical roles to under 45 days by cultivating strong relationships with hiring managers and understanding their specific needs.
- Negotiated competitive compensation packages with selected candidates, ensuring alignment with company budget constraints and internal equity standards.
- Championed the use of data-driven decision-making within talent acquisition team, utilizing various analytics tools to identify trends and pinpoint areas for improvement.
- Increased quality of hires through meticulous candidate screening, interviewing, and assessment techniques.
- Sourced and filled highly critical positions such as EA to the CEO, Senior Data Center Manager, Systems Engineer, Senior Manager, Bioinformatics, Senior Bioinformatics Engineers, Full stack Engineers, RCM Product Manager, Security Engineer, CS Supervisor, CS Associates with 95% closing rate.
- Partnered with CPO to identify gaps in Greenhouse ability and usage and worked with Greenhouse representative to enhance system performance and create training material for the hiring leaders.
- Saved agency fee of $40K by sourcing and identifying a top Executive assistant for our CEO and CFO.
Senior Technical Recruiter
Pompa Program
08.2023 - 02.2024
- Healthcare Start-up, Contract, Laid off
- Manage full life cycle recruiting process from specification through the employment offer
- Enhanced team capabilities by hiring 30 professionals in Engineering, Marketing, Health Coaching, and Sales
- Filled IT Manager, Engineering Manager, IT Administrator, Software Engineers, QA Engineer, Affiliate Manager, Marketing Manager, Creative Director, Video Producer and Video Editor filling 12 positions
- Utilized LinkedIn Recruiter to source for all W2 positions and maintained time to Hire average about 27 days
- Healthcare Start-up, Contract
Senior TA Specialist, Technology
SecurityScorecard Inc
12.2020 - 07.2023
- Cyber Security Start-up, Full-time, Laid off
- First and sole technical recruiter (for most of the time) to be hired to help scale up and hire all the positions in Technology including the executive roles across US, Canada, India and LATAM
- Full life cycle recruiter with Req load: 10-15, Filled 20-30/Quarter with Time to Fill average 45/days and Time to Hire under 35 days
- Partner with HRBP team, hiring partners, and leaders to identify personnel needs & workforce planning as well as partner with FP&A to manage allocated budgets for headcount
- Improved decision-making efficiency by streamlining post-interview feedback, impacting over 100 hiring decisions
- Fulfilled Product, Marketing, Customer Success, and People team hiring needs, filling key roles including VP of Product and Product Manager while managing technical hiring needs
- Created and implemented recruiting processes, improving TA team's project tracking and efficiency by employing a Kanban board
- Developed a talent pipeline ensuring a reservoir of over 500 qualified candidates for strategic hiring
- Boosted organizational culture by recruiting candidates that embody SCORE Values, aligning 100% with company ethos
- Presented and secured weekly CEO and CTO approval for job offers, ensuring alignment with corporate hiring standards
- Cyber Security Start-up
Technical Recruiter
Sony Music Entertainment
02.2020 - 05.2020
- Entertainment, COVID Lay off
- Streamlined recruiting life cycle, reducing time-to-hire by 15% by designing effective strategies and optimizing candidate sourcing
- Supported roles across Cloud Security, Product Design, Tech Ops, Game Design, and Technical Art for Sony Music & The Orchard, enhancing team versatility
- Successfully recruited hard to fill Cloud Security Engineer position within first 2 months with gender diverse candidate
Technical Recruiter
Amazon Inc
06.2019 - 01.2020
- Retail, Contract
- Led recruitment for SCOT, collaborating with business leaders to achieve a 25% increase in hiring scale
- Worked with the hiring managers to develop creative strategies for engaging top talent through resume screening, outbound sourcing, networking, referrals and events
- Filled 2 Technical Product Manager, Solutions Architect, 4 Software Engineers II, Software Engineer III and Principal Procurement Specialist – Non-Tech
- Served as primary liaison for HMS in OSS, facilitating 50 job creations and streamlining the hiring process
- Tailored sourcing strategies to generate pool of 100 candidates per week as well as to develop sourcing pipeline of diverse candidates
Technical Sourcer
Target Corporation
09.2018 - 06.2019
- Retail, Contract
- Filled 50 tech roles for Flagship app, enhancing team capabilities by sourcing for both backend and front-end positions
- Sourced and filled 5 Java Engineers, 3 Mobile Engineers, 2 Product Manager and a Lighting Artist role
- Led Target-sponsored Java and Mobile mixers, attracting over 25 attendees each
Sr. Technical Recruiter
Kelly Services
11.2015 - 09.2018
- Staffing, Fulltime
- Met and exceeded monthly gross profit and fee goals, averaging $10-15K PGP$ – Fees/month
- Maintaining around 123% of goal for rolling 12 months by supporting 25 positions at a time
- Helped newly created IT sector to build a book of business by proving sales with hot leads and placing top candidates to gain continuous business
- Recruited candidates for IT positions including Software Engineers, Database Admin, Database Developers, Help desk Technician, Systems Engineers, Network Engineers, BSA, Project Coordinator, PM, Architects, SDM, IT Managers and IT Directors for various clients
- Conducted over 100 in-depth interviews, ensuring a perfect match between candidates and job requirements
- Served as the go-to Bullhorn SME, enhancing team productivity through effective tool utilization
Sr. Technical Recruiter
Genesis10
02.2015 - 11.2015
- Managed IT security and software projects for 3 high-profile clients, including United Health Group and Mayo Clinic
- Accountable for covering a job dashboard averaging 5-7 requirements
- Maintained an active candidate pipeline of technical consultants and proactively market them to our clients
Education
Bachelor's - Information Systems
Georgia College & State University
Milledgeville, GA01.2004
Skills
- Targeted Talent Acquisition
- Candidate Experience Management
- Talent Pipeline Development
- Greenhouse Operations Expertise
- Workday
- ICims
- Bullhorn
- Breezy
- Kanban
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- ZenDesk
- Behavioral interviewing
- Remote hiring
- Executive search
- Passive candidate recruiting
- Global talent acquisition
- Candidate assessment
- Competency-based interviewing
- Data-driven decision making
- Strategic sourcing
- Technical recruiting
Accomplishments
- Reduced Time to Hire to 27 days at Pompa Program, 35 days at SecurityScorecard and 45 days at GeneDx.
- Filled 20-30 technical positions quarterly at SecurityScorecard Inc.
- Sourced for technical positions across NA, LATAM, and APAC saving over 5 million/year in agency cost at SecurityScorecard.
- Volunteered for a company-wide program to support our technical support team to reduce the backlog of help desk tickets.
Timeline
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist(P&T)
GeneDX
09.2024 - Current
Senior Technical Recruiter
Pompa Program
08.2023 - 02.2024
Senior TA Specialist, Technology
SecurityScorecard Inc
12.2020 - 07.2023
Technical Recruiter
Sony Music Entertainment
02.2020 - 05.2020
Technical Recruiter
Amazon Inc
06.2019 - 01.2020
Technical Sourcer
Target Corporation
09.2018 - 06.2019
Sr. Technical Recruiter
Kelly Services
11.2015 - 09.2018
Sr. Technical Recruiter
Genesis10
02.2015 - 11.2015
Bachelor's - Information Systems
Georgia College & State University
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