Kabir Ahuja

Lead Recruiter

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India7 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

8 years of experience in recruitment and project management.
Expert in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion hiring practices.
Proven track record of exceeding recruitment targets.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Technical Recruiter specializing in Cloud Computing and AI/ML sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

RecruitmentStakeholder ManagementMarket Research

Other Skills

Talent ManagementAIMachine LearningTechnical RecruitingSourcingData AnalysisHuman Resources (HR)Artificial Intelligence (AI)Go-to-Market StrategyCompetitive AnalysisDiversity & InclusionApplicant Tracking SystemsRecruitingHTMLHiring

About

To explore opportunities please reach: Kabirahuja@google.com I am a dynamic resource with 8 years of working experience in recruitment, project management, and vendor management. Adept in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with a successful track record of managing client engagement and stakeholder relations. Proven proficiency in using job boards and social media for recruitment and have successfully led teams to exceed targets. I aim to leverage my industry knowledge for company growth in a recruitment and delivery-focused role. Specialized in Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning Public Cloud Data Analysis Stakeholder Management DEI expert - Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Full life cycle recruitment Market Research, Market Insights

Experience

7 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 10 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Randstad

2 roles

Recruiting Team Lead - Randstad supporting Google

Promoted

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Team lead supporting Google's Cloud Customer Experience team, managing a team of 10 reportee delivered 100+ offers YTD
Specialized in AI and Machine Learning hiring!
Supporting 4 verticals
Engineering (Software and AI/ML)
Support (Infrastructure, Data, Security, Networking & Platform)
Sales (GTM, Account Management, Presales, Post sales)
Cloud

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Recruiting Specialist - Randstad Sourceright supporting Google

Jul 2022 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Working as a Technical Recruiter as part of Google's Cloud product team supporting hiring Sales, Account Manager, Cloud Ops and Sales, Cloud Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-sales, Startups, Mid-Market and Software Engineers
Competitive market research, keeping track of market trends, keeping up to date with latest technologies (AI/ML, Chatgpt, Data Analytics)
Hired Cloud, Software, Security and Infrastructure engineers for Google cloud across APAC and Singapore
Hired Account managers, new business sales, pre-sales for Google's global Go to market team
Multi region hiring - India, Greater China Region, Singapore, Korea, Vietnamese, Phillippines, Thailand
Reponsible for end to end delivery.
Responsible for in-take meetings with Google's hiring manager to understand their technical needs, forecasting hiring needs in cloud team and client consultant for marketing visibility, collaborated with Recruitment stakeholders including director, VPs to plan and forecast hiring needs
Collaborate with Sales director, VPs, Solution Architects and Engineers at Google to understand and forecast hiring needs Quarter on quarter, as well as year on year.
Discuss the project scope, budget and technical specifications.
Specialist in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with a focus of maintaining above 50% Diversity throughout hiring pipeline.
Managed sourcing sessions for 30+ recruiters team, to target Diversity hiring, market research, niche skill and location wise pool availability for Google
Conducting first round of technical screening, relationship building, Interview guidance and feedback discussions.
Creating/editing offer packages, negotiations and closing offers.
Mentoring team on compliance and process adherence.
Market Analysis, Data capturing, Data Analysis and Data Representation.

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Us tech solutions

2 roles

Lead Technical Recruiter

Promoted

Jan 2022 – Jun 2022 · 5 mos

Supporting major technology requirements for leading Technology and Healthcare domain
Working in a team of 4 Senior recruiters and 12 Junior recruiters to cater 50+ technical requirements every month.
Mentoring 3 Technical Recruiters towards Career growth and QoQ targets.
Collaborating with stakeholders for understanding the technology, requirement and budgets.
Connecting with MSP Coordinators on daily basis to follow up for active candidates and requirements.
Responsible for sourcing, qualifying and taking the candidates through various stages of hiring.
Maintaining reports for active requirements in order of priority for multiple accounts
Maintaining reports for active interviews and offer pipelines.
Screening candidates for Junior and associate recruiters
Interview preparation, scheduling interviews, closing offers.
Achievement: 4 New accounts added to portfolio including following industries: Finance, Real Estate, Technology, Retail

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Senior Technical Recruiter

Mar 2021 – Jan 2022 · 10 mos

Industries: Information Technology, Healthcare, Real Estate, Banking and Finance

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Click flick it private limited

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Jan 2020 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · India · Remote

Consulting: Inabia Consulting and Microsoft
Client: Microsoft
Started my journey with Inabia consulting through a 3rd party vendor Click-Flick IT Private limited as a contractor for 3 months, based on performance roles turned out to be contract to hire
Working with a team of 4 recruiters and involved in every aspect of delivery including headhunting the candidate to interview prep ups and offer closings.
Primarily working on technical roles with Microsoft for Software Engineering, Project Managers and Cloud Engineer hiring
Part of my daily work is to understand the technical requirements and simplify for team and simultaneously source the matching candidates.
Achievement: Deep diving into Microsoft Azure technology including data-lakes and data-warehouses.

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Collabera inc.

Technical Recruiter

Jun 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · India · On-site

Started as a part of team Hewlett Packard with my technical recruitment.
Worked under a third-party VMS to support the client domains HPE and DXC (former CSC), also occasionally got chance to work with client IBM.
Answering all the high-end roles starting from but not limited to Security Architect to CISO & CTO, Software Engineering Manager and SDE 4
Responsible for training 2 fresher
Collaborating with Stakeholders for technical analysis, headcount planning and interview process planning
Responsible for preparing and maintaing reports for deliverables.
Included in all the basic recruitment steps such as Interview setup, Interview prep ups, Offer closing.
Technologies worked:-
Core Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, MicroServices
Databases - NoSQL, Cassandra, Kafka (Data Stream)
Front-End - JavaScript, Angular, React
Integration Technologies - Jenkins
CyberSecurity, Information Security, Application Security