Abhinav Sharma

Recruiter

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 12+ years in recruitment across Big Tech and startups.
  • Expert in scaling teams from 0-1 and 1-10.
  • Passionate about innovative recruitment methodologies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS recruitment expert with extensive experience in talent acquisition for tech companies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionTechnical RecruitingStrategic Hiring

Other Skills

Applicant Tracking SystemsBackground ChecksBusiness DevelopmentCRMCloud ApplicationsCommon SenseCorporate CommunicationsCorporate RecruitingCorporate RelationsEmployee EngagementEmployer BrandingEmployment-based ImmigrationEnterprise Risk ManagementExecutive Sales RecruitmentHCM

About

"Draw a circle around yourself, invite people in or keep them out. We are the creators of our own social geometry. Calculate your volume. Mine is infinite"​ With 12+ years of experience in in-house recruitment in Big Techs as well as scaling startups in their 0-1 and 1-10 journey, I can label myself as someone who loves their profession as it does not feel like work anymore. Unlike the orthodox recruitment methodologies, I prefer new school recruitment weaponologies. Do you want to be a part of an organization that’s on the cutting edge of technology, business and above all travel? Would you like to experience a rewarding work environment that allows you to further develop your skills, while giving you the opportunity to develop new skills? If you answered yes, you’ve taken your first step towards working at Airbnb - https://careers.airbnb.com/ We have a track record for employing and developing the very best talent in the industry.

Experience

Airbnb

Senior Recruiter

May 2025Present · 10 mos · Remote

  • Scaling Airbnb with focus on Product and Engineering hiring.
RecruitingTalent AcquisitionTechnical Recruiting

Applypass

Senior Talent Advisor | Growth

Jan 2023May 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Remote

  • /Helped the founders grow ApplyPass and another venture (Outco) in their 0-1 and 1-10 journey respectively.
  • /Executed growth by finding the right talent for founding team and establishing the core engineering and sales team.
  • /Roles worked on: Product Manager (SaaS), Software Engineering (Backend/FE/FS/Mobile), Customer Success and Sales Managers.
Strategic HiringCommon SenseScalabilityTalent Acquisition

Goto group

Executive Recruiter | Hiring Business Leaders and CxOs | Leadership Hiring

Mar 2022Dec 2022 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • /Successfully partnered with the internal C-Suite Executives and management team to bring the best executive talent to GoTo Group (Gojek + GTF + Tokopedia)
  • /Served as a trusted advisor to Goup CxOs by leveraging global talent mapping data to provide insights and have data driven cadence with key stakeholders.
  • /Roles managed - VP APAC - Enterprise Sales, GTF Pre-Sales Head, Account Director - BFSI, Chief Compliance Officer (Indonesia), Chief Data Officer (Singapore), Regional Managing Director (E-Commerce). Global Employee and Industrial Relations Head, Global Head of Compensation.
  • /Ensured exceptional executive level candidate experience as well as stakeholder management experience.

Google

Recruiter - Cloud | India

Feb 2019Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Responsible for hiring Software Developers for Google India.

Oracle

Talent Advisor - APAC | Technical Sales and Leadership Hiring

Jul 2017Feb 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Oracle's hired resources are talented and specialized in their respective arena.
  • Great hiring doesn't happen by accident; it's the culmination of a series of thoughtfully planned and well executed events. At the core of any hiring process is a recruiting strategy.
  • This is where I step in....!!
  • Visionary, high-energy and well-rounded Human Resource Management and IT Recruitment professional effective in management of full life cycle recruiting, under fast paced environment and working on time sensitive hiring needs.
  • I am highly passionate about the work I do and the way I do it, thereby adding value to Oracle's extreme recruiting ecosystem of zeroing in and closing headcounts with impeccable talent available or hidden in the market.
  • Currently hiring for Business Development Consultants, Sales Reps and Technical Sales Leaders for ASEAN and ANZ region.

Amazon

Global Talent Hunter - Talent Acquisition☁ | Recruiter | Hiring Core ML Scientist

Jan 2017Jun 2017 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Turning theory into reality :
  • Sometimes, a project idea needs to be researched to see if it’s good enough to take into production. Amazon’s Applied/Research Scientists do that, looking at new technologies—or at old technologies in new ways—to help us decide whether something is great in theory or will actually improve the lives of our customers in some way.
  • Research Science positions:
  • Research Scientist
  • Machine Learning Scientist
  • Applied Scientist

Oracle

2 roles

Strategic Talent Sourcer - Headhunter | Sales & Leadership Hiring | Digital Talent

Promoted

May 2015Dec 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • I was working under Oracle's extreme model of clubbing Recruitment and Research that includes talent mapping, headhunting, market research, social media recruiting, Web 2.0 sourcing, google and X-ray search techniques.
  • Have been a key resource for Oracle Rainmaker hiring project and Oracle Digital Prime(ODP) Sales hiring project.
  • Domain : Sales and Leadership, Pre-sales, Consulting, Strategy and Transformation Roles.
  • Skills/Product Suite Worked Upon:
  • Servers, Storage, Oracle Database, Oracle On Premise and On Demand(Cloud) Applications (CRM / CX, ERP, HCM, SCM), Data Integration Services (DIS), Middleware (SOA, BPM, Weblogic etc.), Business Intelligence (BI), Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Hyperion, Big Data and Analytics, Peoplesoft, Taleo, Exalogic, Endeca/ATG, Digital Marketing Cloud, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS products.
  • Roles worked upon:
  • Key Account Director, Enterprise Account Manager, Commercial Sales Rep, Inside Sales Rep, Business Development Consultants, Sales Support, Regional Director, HR Transformation Director, Presales Head, LOBs Head, HR Recruiter,Order to Cash/Order Management, FP&A, SAM (Software Asset Manager - LMS), Korea HR Leader, Enterprise Architect, Solution Architect, Solution Sales Manager, Application Sales Director (People Manager), Tele Sales Rep, DBA Architect, Oracle Apps Technical and Functional Consultants, Customer Strategy Director, Weblogic Administrator, JAVA/C++ Developers, OBIEE Tech Analyst, QA Analyst.

Recruiting Research Analyst, India - Talent Acquisition ☁ | Talent & Market Mapping

Jul 2014Apr 2015 · 9 mos

  • As a Recruitment Research Analyst, I was in sync with the requirements across Oracle recruiting pillars, synchronizing my internal and external research work that enabled me to communicate effectively about the possible opportunities one could explore at Oracle.
  • I was responsible to tap skill availability in the open market and also route a quality resume to the exact team which will value a talent in need .

Centurylink

Recruitment Executive - Talent Acquisition | HR/Recruitment Operations

Jun 2013Jul 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

  • Involved in end-to-end complete life cycle of the recruitment process such as understanding job description based on the job specification, source, screen, scheduling and coordinating interviews, updating ATS with feedbacks, reference checks, onboarding and logistics deliverables.
  • Build a strong pipeline report from sourcing efforts and connect with potential candidates for a variety of roles.
  • Keep a regular follow up with active candidates to keep them warm until the position is locked in with the best resource available.
  • Responsible for monthly ERM activities for employee grievances purpose.
  • Be helpful to the candidates by providing information about the company and the benefits of working with employer thereby ensuring strong employer branding.
  • Work closely with the Talent Acquisition team in all aspects of recruiting functions and coordinating with the team thereby reducing overall recruitment TAT.
  • Responsible for carrying out LinkedIn Audits of the FTEs of the organization. Also, coordinated in chronological resume presentation and One Pager Snapshots of the relevant candidates for project RFP purposes.
  • Hosting telephonic interviews and assisting inperson rounds of discussion followed by circulating the feedback amongst the team members.
  • Engaged in reference checks and actively involved with HR for HR activities as support capacity.
  • Played a major role in maintaining real time and organization wide tracker for onsite and offshore hiring needs, pipeline, project plans, open and closed positions and presented the same to senior management.

Tata teleservices ltd.

Engineering Intern

Jan 2013Jun 2013 · 5 mos

  • Graduate Trainee under Radio Access Network and worked on the project "E1 Troubleshooting and Fault Tracker".
  • Worked on different types of commands of bsc’s and msc’s on Huawei Software.
  • Raising the administrator passwords using IBM Tivoli Identity Manager.
  • Analyzing the KPI Report, RF Report, Network Report, HSIA Sector Utilisation Report.
  • Dealing with the onsite problems.

Brcm college of engineering & technology, bahal-bhiwani,haryana

BDE, Corporate Relationship Cell

Sep 2011Dec 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos · Haryana

  • Responsible for reaching out to corporate firms for campus placements drives through company websites, job portals, direct mailing, cold calls and network building.
  • Maintaining skills wise database of final year and pre-final year students.
  • Segregated merit students from the ones having backlogs and presenting appropriate pool of students to the visiting companies for placement a best talent in top notch firms.
  • Involved in the social media branding of the college. Also, making students aware of presenting themselves professionally on LinkedIn.
  • Played a major role in ensuring a standard chronological format of resume for the entire final and pre-final year students.
  • Extensively engaged in organising Job Fair in collaboration with the HT Shine Group which involved handling of visiting company kiosks, escorting HR(s) of respective firms and assisting them on behalf of college through the entire campus recruitment drive.
  • Responsible for being a proactive communicator in terms of handling queries between students and visiting HR(s).
  • Aggressively assisted the Indian Army personnels for successful completion of selecting candidates directly for the SSB rounds.
  • Coordinated with the TPO on daily basis and getting in touch with Placement Officer's of other colleges to ensure an active participation of the external students in pool campus drives.
  • Coordinated with the HR(s) during assessment/aptitude tests and various rounds of inperson discussions.
  • Responsible for regular follow up with the respective organisation(s) post campus recruitment drive to ensure onboarding of the selected students.

Education

Maharshi Dayanand University

Bachelor of Technology (BTech)

Jan 2009Jan 2013

Bhatnagar International School

High School

Jan 2007Jan 2009

Mount Carmel School

Matriculation

Jan 2005Jan 2007

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