Aaron Desai

Recruiter

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 12 years of experience in talent acquisition.
Awarded LinkedIn Talent Insights Pioneer Award in 2021 & 2022.
Expert in building talent intelligence for hyper-growth organizations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Specialist with expertise in Research and Market Intelligence across various industries.

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Applicant Tracking SystemsBusiness Process ImprovementData AnalysisEnglishExecutive SearchHuman ResourcesIT RecruitmentInternet RecruitingInterviewsLinkedIn RecruiterMarket ResearchMarketing CommunicationsMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft OfficeOrganizational Behavior

About

Research professional with a Master’s degree in Psychology from Christ University, Bangalore, and 12+ years of experience working with Retail, Technology, FinTech and Cybersecurity organizations. Extensive experience in Research, Talent Sourcing, Executive Search, Market Research, Talent Intelligence, TA Reporting & Analytics, Talent Acquisition, and Recruitment Marketing. More recent experience in building Talent Intelligence to support hyper-growth organizations.

Experience

Abnormal ai

Talent Researcher

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Revolut

Recruiting Sourcer

Mar 2024 – Apr 2024 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Atlassian

2 roles

Senior Market Research Analyst

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos · Remote

Working on Talent/Market Intelligence within the People Insights org.
Supporting internal stakeholders with actionable intelligence and insights across talent market trends, skills availability, competitor benchmarks, DE&I, pay parity, etc.
The Talent Intelligence team secured the "LinkedIn Talent Insights Pioneer Award" consecutively in 2021 & 2022

Senior Talent Sourcing Specialist

Nov 2019 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Remote

Talent Identification & Intelligence

Hudson's bay company

3 roles

Executive Researcher/SME - Talent Acquisition

Promoted

Feb 2019 – Nov 2019 · 9 mos · On-site

Building the Talent Research & Sourcing team to support Corporate & Store hiring.
Helping the organisation identify & engage with top industry talent for Executive positions (VP+).
Scaling the Candidate Experience measurement framework for HBC globally.

Executive Researcher - Talent Acquisition

Promoted

Apr 2018 – Jan 2019 · 9 mos · On-site

Helping the organisation identify & engage with top industry talent for Executive positions (VP+).
Designed & built Candidate Experience measurement framework for HBC India.

Researcher - Talent Acquisition

Jun 2017 – Mar 2018 · 9 mos · On-site

Setting the foundations for Talent Research & Sourcing. Helping the organisation improve its IT & Engineering talent funnel.

Walmart global tech india

Recruitment Research Analyst

Feb 2016 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

First member of the Talent Research & Insights team.
Roles & responsibilities - Building talent pipeline for active requisitions (Backend Java, UI/UX, Quality Engineering, Big Data/Hadoop, Machine Learning/Data Science, other niche roles).
Building Market Intelligence reports and tracking trends in the talent market (Skill reports, hiring trends, layoffs, etc).
Recruitment Marketing - running engagement campaigns for passive talent (email, social media, landing pages, events). Building & maintaining the Walmart India Talent Community.
Role requirements - Data management, research, reporting, sourcing, CRM & ATS workflows, marketing/branding.
Additional Projects - managing recruitment drives, HR interviews, campus recruitment.
Tools/platforms - Avature CRM, Kenexa ATS, LinkedIn Recruiter, social media sourcing (Facebook, Twitter), Google boolean search.

Google

2 roles

Channels Specialist via Cognizant Technology Solutions

Mar 2014 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos

Part of the Research team - building talent pipeline for R&D roles across Google's North America operations. Partnered with Google’s North America sourcing team to build pipeline for their respective active requisitions.
Roles and responsibilities - building & maintaining 1:1 relationships with US based sourcers/recruiters and HMs, to understand OKRs, the product areas they were hiring for. Performing everything from sourcing and talent mapping to candidate research. Areas supported included: Mobile Engineering (iOS & Android), Software Engineering (Java, Python, C++, Machine Learning, AI, etc), Front-End Software Engineering, UI/UX, and other niche roles.
Role requirements - interacting with Hiring Managers to understand their specific product area needs and the positions they were trying to fill.
Additional Projects - Tracking & reporting of team metrics for a team of 30.
Training for new joiners - Excel, Talent Sourcing, Profile Calibration
Tools/platforms used - Google's ATS, LinkedIn Recruiter, Github, social media search (Facebook, Twitter), Google boolean search.

Global Staffing Data Specialist via Optimum Info Systems

Apr 2013 – Mar 2014 · 11 mos

Part of the Research team - building talent pipeline for Software Engineering roles in Google's North America operations.
Roles & responsibilities - sourcing, pipeline building, candidate research and talent mapping.
Primary focus was on Tech profiles - Software Engineers, Test Engineers, UI/UX.
Role requirements - understanding of Google's technologies/products and software stacks, role matching, profile calibration, data management, etc.
Additional projects - sourcing for GBO roles (Marketing Managers, Sales and Business related roles).
Interviewing & shortlisting candidates for the Google Student Ambassador Program.
Tools/platforms used - Google's ATS, LinkedIn Recruiter, Facebook search, Github, Google boolean search.