Harish Gulati
Fairfax,VA
Summary
Dynamic Talent Acquisition partner with years of experience spearheading recruiting strategy in a variety of industries. Expertise in establishing effective partnerships with executive leadership and hiring managers with quality of hire, candidate experience and employment branding. I have worked in Tech, Payment, E-commerce, security, Banking, Finance, and Insurance industry, I have Continuously exceeded expectations in metrics and annual performance including sourcing, candidate satisfaction, manager satisfaction, time to hire.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Technical Recruiter
Liberty Mutual Insurance
08.2022 - Current
- Managing full life-cycle recruiting strategy for active, passive, and internal candidates In Data Science, Cybersecurity & Engineering space
- Recruited Variety of roles in AI, ML, Engineering and Cybersecurity Space
- Led weekly recruiting meetings with all business partners and updated them on all the activities on all open positions
- Working Directly with Global Mobility on cases for sponsorship and international immigration
- Exceeded 2022 sourcing goal of 20% with 48.4% sourced hires
- Brought high-volume concepts to Core hiring.
Senior Technical Recruiter
Amazon Inc.
11.2021 - 08.2022
- Hiring for Amazon Physical Stores: Amazon Go, Amazon One, Amazon Fresh, Amazon Bookstore, and more! Working on Bemary, ICIMS, LINKEDIN, HIRETUAL, Diversity Recruiting, Hiretool, etc
- Responsible for recruiting (Software Engineers/Developers, Cloud Engineers, Data Architects, Web Developers)
- Evaluated and reviewed potential IT candidates utilizing cold calls, job boards, social networking and the internal database
- Designed business reports to capture key staffing metrics, including statistical/operational reports, cycle time to fill jobs, candidate flow, pipeline management and candidate quality –designed vi
- Developing effective and innovative recruiting strategies for attracting and sourcing high quality technical candidates.
Lead Technology Recruiter
John Wiley and Sons
05.2020 - 11.2021
- Hiring the best engineering talent for roles in Backend, Front end, Product, Project, Data Analytics, Infrastructure, Machine learning, AI, Security Engineering positions
- Providing guidance to new Hiring Managers (Engineering & Product) as well as lead Managing and training for new managers within the company and assist them by providing guidance & best practices on how to best partner with Recruitment
- Partner with sourcers and hiring managers to deeply understand current (and future) hiring needs and build strategy for attracting, hiring, and closing talent from non-traditional backgrounds
- Built market map of key populations to increase pipeline and pass-through rates
- Maintained an active role in defining and iterating on customized diversity sourcing strategies for Software Engineer and similar technical roles
- Developed partnerships with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) as well as Diversity Recruiting/University Recruiting (DR/UR) to manage cross-functional events such as Referral parties, “Planning For Your Promotion” talk, and technical meetups.
Senior Technical Recruiter
Delta Dental of California
09.2017 - 05.2020
- Recruiting candidates for various technologies and skills such as Front-End UI, Java/J2EE, Quality Collaborate with HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition Leadership, and Hiring Manager on immediate hiring needs, forecasting, and overarching organizational needs
- Working very closely with Security, Infrastructure, Architecture, Application Development & Customer Experience teams
- Proven ability developing human resources policies, procedures and standards to support recruiting, training and leadership of diverse employee teams aligning with business objectives
- Creatively search and source for candidates using multiple job boards, hunting candidates via LinkedIn and working with other affiliates to produce qualified candidates
- Screening candidates in various areas: Backend, Front-end, Infrastructure, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Cyber Security, EPMO, Data Analytics and many more
- Managing team of 2 technical sources (offshore) and two recruiter onsite
- SME for the ATS (Lever) integration and roll out, as well as lead trainings through enterprise on use of tool
- Top Producer” in 2017 with 190% of hiring goal
- Finished 2018 at 250% of and 2019 with goal
- Led the creation of sourcing and recruiting plans for all open positions
- Supported management in developing and implementing personnel policies and procedures
- Have helped building few cyber security and architectures teams from scratch.
Senior Technical Recruiter
Nextgen Technologies
06.2015 - 09.2017
- Managed full-lifecycle recruiting process: qualifying requisition, getting approvals, posting and modifying job descriptions, sourcing candidates, coordinating panels/prep, coaching hiring managers through the process, managing candidates from first phone screen to offer
- Partnered closely with VP’s, Directors and Engineering Managers to develop hiring and pipeline strategies, including Employee Referral Programs, Batch Interview Days, Tech Talks, New Grad Hiring Efforts, and Pipeline & Interview Strategy
- Pre-screened candidates including phone and in-person interviews, checked professional references, administered technical tests and background checks
- Hired variety of Software Engineering Candidates like .Net, Mobile, Security, Cloud, UI/UX, Web, Machine Learning, Senior Software/Database Developers etc
- Effectively recruited candidates through Internet research, internal database, referrals, networking and other strategies
- Responsible for mentoring and providing on-going training and support for new recruiters and serve as a resource for learning and navigating senior technical policies and procedures
- Established and maintained professional relationships with candidates.
Technical Recruiter/Sourcer
Dell Inc
10.2011 - 01.2014
- Hired Engineers using Advanced Sourcing techniques like Boolean, Conferences, Open Source forums, Tech talks, Competitions etc
- Help to build the hybrid team, consisting both of Software Engineers as well as Systems Engineers
- The Software Engineers focus on the code, algorithms/data structures, large system design and distributed systems.
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Business Management
ITU
San Jose, CAPost Graduation Diploma - Computer Applications
G.D Infotech
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) - Business Management
KUK University
Human Resources Management and Recruitment -
UC Berkley Extension
Professional Recruiter Certification -
AIRS
Skills
- Boolean searches along with social and professional networking sites (LinkedIn, Facebook, Google Groups, Twitter, etc)
- Candidate’s referrals
- My extended network of past co-workers and friends
Timeline
Senior Technical Recruiter
Liberty Mutual Insurance
08.2022 - Current
Senior Technical Recruiter
Amazon Inc.
11.2021 - 08.2022
Lead Technology Recruiter
John Wiley and Sons
05.2020 - 11.2021
Senior Technical Recruiter
Delta Dental of California
09.2017 - 05.2020
Senior Technical Recruiter
Nextgen Technologies
06.2015 - 09.2017
Technical Recruiter/Sourcer
Dell Inc
10.2011 - 01.2014
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Business Management
ITU
Post Graduation Diploma - Computer Applications
G.D Infotech
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) - Business Management
KUK University
Human Resources Management and Recruitment -
UC Berkley Extension
Professional Recruiter Certification -
AIRS
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