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Jitendra Sharma

Head of Talent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 15+ years in Talent Acquisition leadership.
  • Expert in technical and diversity recruitment.
  • Strong background in managing global recruiting teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition leader with extensive experience in IT recruitment and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionTechnical RecruitingRecruitmentSoftware EngineeringIdentity And Access Management

Other Skills

Diversity HiringSourcingRecruitment lifecycleStakeholder ManagementVendor ManagementFull cycle IT RecruitmentSystem IntegrationBenefits NegotiationScreeningContract RecruitmentIT RecruitmentInternet RecruitingManagementCRMHuman Resources

About

Helping and Assisting Technocrats (the TOP 1% Club) to find a best place to work is my passion. In today's competitive environment its important what you do?, how you do? and more than that with whom? for whom? To help you out with this I AM HERE!! write me@jitendra.sharma1@publicissapient.com I am a Computer Science Engineering graduate and started my career as a Software Engineer with Wipro working on Identity and Access management (IDAM). I moved into Talent Acquisition which I've enjoyed doing for the last 15+ years. During these years I’ve been helping companies like Expedia, Amazon, IRIS Software, People N Tech to find top talent. I strongly feel that Light bulb was never invented by continuously improving the candle ". I am a supporter of radical thinking and calculated risks. •15+ Years of multi-faceted experience with specialization in Talent Acquisition and managing high-performing global recruiting teams. • Recruitment professional responsible for effectively partnering with key management team to collaboratively implement recruiting processes, forecast Manpower requirements, refine talent planning strategy and develop tactical staffing plans. • Well-versed with Immigration policies and employment laws in the United States and Australia. • Executing strategic sourcing techniques to include a variety of resources through channels like internet data bank, job portals, employee referrals, direct sourcing and vendors. Professional forums: GitHub (https://github.com/IMHIRING) (Stack Overflow (http://stackoverflow.com/users/6316254/imhiring) Behance (https://behance.net/jsharma2585d84) Angel list (https://angel.co/jitendra-sharma-16) Dribble (https://dribbble.com/jsharma2588) Xing (https://www.xing.com/profile/Jitendra_Sharma7?sc_o=mxb_p)

Experience

15 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
3 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr
Current Experience

Publicis sapient

Director Talent Acquisition

Jun 2025Present · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Expedia group

Recruiting Leader, Talent Acquisition (APAC)

Apr 2018Jun 2025 · 7 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • We believe travel is a force for GOOD. When we power more travel, we unleash more opportunities to strengthen connections, broaden horizons and bridge divides. Our mission is to power global travel for everyone, everywhere.
  • Who We are:
  • We are travelers and technologists. We work across time zones, hemispheres, cultures and languages. We’re used to breaking things down and building them back up again, until they’re even better. We know travel can be hard, but we also know that it’s worth it, every time. And because we believe travel is a force for good, we take our roles seriously. We’re here to build great products, and facilitate connections between travelers and our partners that truly bring good into the world.
  • What We Do:
  • We build connections. We leverage our platform and technology capabilities across an extensive portfolio of businesses and brands to orchestrate the movement of people and the delivery of travel experiences on both a local and global basis. We help our travelers and our partners find the right pathways  through millions of possibilities to reach the best possible outcome.
  • How We Do It:
  • Powered by more than 70+ terabytes of data and 20+ years of tech innovation, Expedia Group is one of the world’s largest travel platforms. With unrivaled knowledge of the industry and advanced tech innovation, we built a two sided marketplace that allows us to filter through millions of different possibilities, for travelers and partners worldwide.

Amazon

Recruiter (Tech HR) L5

Feb 2017Apr 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India · On-site

  • Amazon is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company that was founded on July 5, 1994 by Jeff Bezos and is Headquarter in Seattle, Washington. It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the world by total sales and market capitalization.
  • Amazon has separate retail websites for the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India and Mexico.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Involved in Tech recruitment for Amazon.in including (India Payments, Seller experience and Customer experience teams) at Hyderabad, Bangalore, Gurgaon.
  • Successfully hired Software development engineer (SDE), Web development engineer (WDE), Software development engineer in test (SDET), Quality assurance engineer (QAE), Technical Support engineer (TSE), Software development manager (SDM), Technical Program manager (TPM), Principal Engineer (PE) and Machine Learning Engineer (Applied scientist).
  • Diversity Hiring: Successfully run diversity hiring recruiting events and hired 2 diversity leaders at amazon.
  • Sourcathon: Conducted multiple Sourcathon for different job families with entire recruitment team of amazon to build pipeline of candidate.
  • Hackathon (Hack Day): Worked with multiple vendors to create online campaign, setup online coding test, create a pool of qualified candidates for hackathon and conducted multiple hackathons at multiple locations in India.
  • Campus Recruitment: Extending support to Campus recruitment team for managing and conducting campus recruitment in all Tier 1 Engineering colleges and B Schools in India.
RecruitmentDiversity HiringSourcingTechnical RecruitingTalent Acquisition

Iris software inc.

Sr. Technical Recruiter

Oct 2014Feb 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Actioned into existence in 1996, Iris Software Inc. has grown into a reputed software solutions organization with offices in the US and in India, fulfilling the IT ambitions and requirements of a very broad range of organizations and industries – embracing the Fortune-listed as well as the middle markets.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Involve in entire Recruitment lifecycle process such as Sourcing resume from job portals like, Naukri.com, Monster.com, Hirist, iim jobs, Times Jobs, Shine.com and ATS (Oracle Taleo, Bullhorn, www.smartrecruiters) Initial resume screening, interviewing, Salary negotiation, resume submission to the Hiring Manager, Interview scheduling, Feedback, Reference check, offers and closing.
  • Working as a part of talent Acquisition group and fulfilling the company manpower requirements on a regular basis through different sources.
  • Responsible and Accountable for the Quality of the deliverable on time.
  • Single handed handled entire hiring for Professional Services Business Unit.
  • Stakeholder Management: Liaison with internal stakeholders and business delivery leaders/internal hiring managers to develop staffing plan, job description, sourcing strategy while clarifying the specifications and requirements of open positions and keeping them updated on hiring.
  • Market Research and Company Mapping:
  • Vendor management and Vendor Mapping:
  • Process and Strategy development:
  • Referrals: Actively worked with teams to generate referrals and worked on reverse referrals scheme with the help of a social aggregator “Grown Out” and Belong.co
Recruitment lifecycleStakeholder ManagementVendor ManagementTalent AcquisitionRecruitment

Peoplentech, llc.

Technical Recruiter

May 2011Oct 2014 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Full cycle IT Recruiter, acting as the single point of contact and supporting all IT departments of my clients, reporting directly to the Director, Talent Acquisition with a dotted line reporting to the COO
  • Sourcing the profiles matching as per the company's requirements through available in-house database and Searching on Job Portals.
  • Successfully hired from Director of Engineering level to helpdesk personnel in a high volume, fast-paced and dynamic start up environment.
  • Partnered with key management team to develop staffing and sourcing strategies (Full time/Contract-to-Hire/Contract), requisition approval processes, salary grades, job codes and job descriptions.
  • Good experience in vendor management, benefits negotiations.
  • Expertise in Recruiting for different Federal Government Agencies (NIH, DHS, DOD).
  • Have very good experience dealing with consultant with Public trust, security clearance.
  • Directly reporting to Director of Recruiting, Chief operating operation and Client-Relationship Manager.
  • Experience working in Client facing environment.
  • Responsible for full life cycle Recruitment and Vendor management to fulfill our clients’ needs.
  • Vital experience in recruiting in almost all the phases of I.T. and some Non I.T in throughout United States and Canada.
  • Hands on experience of sourcing the resume from online job portals like (Monster, Corp to Corp, Dice, and Career Builder) and JOB diva etc.
  • Extensive experience in screening a candidate on any particular skills and benefits negotiation.
  • Responsible and Accountable for the Quality of the deliverable on time.
Full cycle IT RecruitmentVendor ManagementSourcingTechnical RecruitingTalent Acquisition

Wipro infotech

Software Engineer

Jun 2010Aug 2010 · 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Wipro (Western Indian Palm Refined Oil) is one of the largest company (CMM level 5) in the field of Information Technology.
  • Wipro InfoTech is the IT Services, Solutions & Products division of the Wipro Limited With over two decades of experience, Wipro has stamped its presence on the Indian market and leads the Indian IT industry.
  • Project: Password Management Portal Client: Aditya Birla Group
  • Description:
  • As a project Trainee I got a chance to work on this project, I have worked with IDAM (Identity and Access Management) team and System Integration team. With the support of my team members I have designed a module in which a user gets the right to change his password into a secured network of LDAP (Light Weight directory Access Protocol) through .csv (Comma seprated Value) files.
Identity and Access ManagementSystem IntegrationSoftware Engineering

Education

Bachelor in Technology in Computer Science from Rajasthan Technical University

B.Tech (Gyan Vihar School of Engineering and Technology) — Computer Science Engineering

Jan 2007Jan 2011

D.A.V. Centenary Public School

Senior Secondary

Jan 2004Jan 2006

St.Pauls Sr.Sec.School

Secondary Education

Jan 1991Jan 2004

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