Josh Kasim
Summary
Just a human, trying to recruit other humans in a highly fulfilling company, that adds value to peoples lives. I'm a swiss army knife in recruiting, that starts with understanding, empathy, compassion, respect, and trust, in order to not just work hard, but help create an amazing work culture and experience overall.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Global Technical Talent Partner
Iterable
01.2021 - Current
- Promoted to Senior Technical Talent Partner in 2022.
- 97.5 percent offer acceptance rate for the year of 2023. 12 percent less time to hire than the company benchmark.
- Cross team collaboration across People Operations, PBP’s, Finance, Comms, and other teams in order to cultivate a better-standardized recruiting process, onboarding, transitioning, and culture for candidates, externally and internally.
- Recruiting the very first group of Infrastructure engineers at the company, along with Database engineers, that were critical for the company's future OKRs of global expansion.
- Helping recruit across other Non Technical BU’s such as Revenue Operations, Business Operations, Support, and Sales (from BDRs/SDRs, to Growth and Enterprise AE’s, Senior Managers, based across the US, EMEA and ANZ).
- Cut time to hire across Product and Security from 120 days to 60 days, from strategic sourcing, closs partnership with managers, and revamping interview process for a shorter, but high quality experience for candidates, and internal stakeholder.
Senior Global Technical Talent Partner
Iterable
- Partnered with the SVP of engineering for all engineering hiring from SRE, QA, Backend and Frontend, Machine Learning, and Data Scientists, along with other engineering teams.
- Responsible for all SRE hiring, ICs, and managers, increasing diversity of the team by over 25 percent.
- Helped recruit across Marketing, Professional Services, and Sales Operations when extra help was needed.
- Influenced a more efficient engineering interview process, in order to streamline interviews without compromising the quality of talent brought in.
Sr. Talent Acquisition Partner
Delta Dental Insurance Company
03.2019 - 12.2020
- Partnering with leadership on Product, Design, Infrastructure, Technology, and many other roles to help strategize and bring in top talent to Delta
- Helped orchestrate rapid hiring specifically for Product, partnering with the VP of Product and leaders down the ladder on strategy, process, and candidate pipeline for senior and associate levels
- Roles hired for (Product Managers, Product Designers, Design Prototypers, UX Researchers, CX Strategist, CX Associates, etc.)
- Strategized with different leaders on their internship process, from position expectations, timeline, sourcing, and bringing some interns full time
- Attended different conferences to learn additional best practices on Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging, to bring back to the team and share to give a deeper perspective, and influence any possible changes to increase the dynamic of Delta’s workforce.
Manager of Branch Recruiting
AVID Technical Resources
10.2017 - 02.2019
- Promoted to Co-Manager of office, alongside with the Sales manager, to collaborate and adapt best practices for growth
- Partnered with an Organization called YearUp, that focuses on diverse candidates of disenfranchised backgrounds, bringing a lot of candidates to Stanford and UCSF, who now have full partnerships with them and the students
- Met with Directors of I.T support, Directors of Engineering, and other levels of management at companies such as Stanford, UC Davis, UCSF, WB Games, small startups, and others to best understand qualifications of candidates they were looking for
- Recruited for Game Designers, Various levels of Software Engineers, Unicorns/purple squirrels, Network Engineers, Systems Engineers, Business/Data Analyst, Etc
- Hired and trained multiple recruiters, to efficiently hit number goals daily, that later led them to hitting specific number goals, which led to closing deals
- Trained other recruiters in current, and other offices throughout the country, on best practices to find rock-star candidates, using keyword research, cold calling, and networking events/meetups as a way to reach out
- Using CRM tools such as Salesforce, keeping candidate and client information well organized
- Recruiting sites such as Dice.com, Monster.com, LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, and even Google Boolean searches were the key tools used to find the quality candidates.
Sr. Technical Recruiter
AVID Technical Resources
09.2015 - 10.2017
- After becoming one of the fastest recruiters at AVID to hit a specific milestone, I was promoted to Sr
- Recruiter
- Maintained a high level of calls, and reaching out via email, messaging on LinkedIn, candidate submittals, while continuing to grow my interview requests, and candidates hired
- Started to accompany the sales team on client meetings with directors, managers, and other team lead members for all technical positons, at clients such as Stanford, UC Davis, USCF, etc
- Became liaison between sales and recruiting, on understanding and qualifying technical needs on a deeper level, to efficiently find best candidates for the job
- Attended meet ups in San Francisco in order to get more insight on best practices on recruiting tactics, diversity inclusion for companies, and newer ways to gain attention in a tough candidate market.
Education
Front – End Engineering Certification, A 16-week school dedicated to front-end development. Learned HTML5, CSS3, Responsive Design, Twitter Bootstrap, JQuery, Javascript, AngularJS. -
Codify Academy
B.S: Business - Management/Marketing Concentration
Holy Names University
Skills
- Talent Recruitment
- Strategic Planning
- Industry Expertise
- Customer Relationship Building
- Recruitment and Hiring
- Establishing Effective Relationships
- Building Trust and Relationships
- Teamwork and Collaboration
Volunteer Experience
Year Up, 2016 - 2018, Panelist & Mock Interviewer, Fielded questions for aspiring youth from disenfranchised backgrounds, helping influence a route to choose while seeking out the tech industry as a new profession., Being in advocate for Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, encouraging the youth on best practices to navigate the industry., Performed on the spot resume reviews, acted as a career coach. Interviewed and provided feedback for aspiring IT/Engineering professionals in an open setting., Presented interviewees with effective interview strategies, & coached them on how to land a job.
References
AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
Timeline
Senior Global Technical Talent Partner
Iterable
01.2021 - Current
Sr. Talent Acquisition Partner
Delta Dental Insurance Company
03.2019 - 12.2020
Manager of Branch Recruiting
AVID Technical Resources
10.2017 - 02.2019
Sr. Technical Recruiter
AVID Technical Resources
09.2015 - 10.2017
Senior Global Technical Talent Partner
Iterable
Front – End Engineering Certification, A 16-week school dedicated to front-end development. Learned HTML5, CSS3, Responsive Design, Twitter Bootstrap, JQuery, Javascript, AngularJS. -
Codify Academy
B.S: Business - Management/Marketing Concentration
Holy Names University