Sajna Raj

Recruiter

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands7 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To Switch

Key Highlights

  • Expert in full cycle recruiting and stakeholder management.
  • Passionate about building diverse and inclusive teams.
  • Strong ability to enhance candidate experience throughout recruitment.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Technical Recruiter specializing in talent acquisition for engineering and technology sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Full Cycle RecruitingStakeholder ManagementEnd To End RecruitingTechnical SourcingScreening ResumesVendor Management

Other Skills

Candidate ExperienceMarket ResearchStrategic SourcingCompetency Based InterviewingFeedback ManagementDiversity RecruitmentFull StackContent EngineeringPlatform EngineeringInfra EngineeringSecurity PlatformGames EngineeringFull-life Cycle RecruitingInterview ManagementSales Recruitment

About

Sajna is an insightful recruiter who is passionate about growing teams and dreams. She enjoys collaborating with people from different cultures, customer experience driven and curious about technical competencies. Sajna has grown her skills in full cycle recruiting , strategic sourcing, stakeholder management, candidate engagement. She values learning from others, genuine connections and thrive to go above and beyond with each and every task. Fun fact - She believes in getting things done with a smile, laughing and even twirling along the way! Recruiting has allowed her to leverage her passion for building and nurturing relationships while remaining challenged to find that perfect candidate in today's competitive talent market. She thrives on working with her leaders to support them in shaping and building their teams with the most talented, diverse, dedicated and exceptional players in the market. When not at work or in denial about having a social life, she loves travelling and now long walks. She gets oddly satisfied watching zombie movies and re-runs of The Office series. She considers herself born with an extra sweet tooth and currently in search of the best stroopwaffles in town! Strengths include positive attitude, approachable demeanor, multitasking, relationship building, effective communication, team player, quick learner with ability to work under pressure and taking that extra mile to meet deadlines. She is well versed in sourcing, stakeholder management, candidate engagement, vendor management, feedback management, employer branding, data management, reporting, interview scheduling, D&I management, operations management. Eightfold.ai / Workday / ICIMS / LinkedIn / SeekOut / SmartRecruiter / Smashfly / Indeed / Monster / GitHub / StackOverflow / Taleo / Abacus / HireEZ / HireVue / Codility / HackerRank / HackerEarth / GenderDecoder / CodeSlate / Textio / Jobwriter.io / Recruitee / Asana / HireRight / CareerBuilder / SurveyMonkey / Textio Connect with her over linkedin for networking, career opportunities and more! #recruiter #talentacquisition #seniorrecruiter #seniortalentacquisition #Techrecruiter #ITrecruiter #Sourcing #talentpartner #Negotiation #offermanagement #recruitment #TAjobs #GTM #opentowork #talentacquisition #TA #layoffs #amazon #europe #EMEA

Experience

7 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 6 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 9 mos
Current Experience

Netflix

Talent Acquistion EMEA - Engineering

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

  • Building Infrastructure Engineering teams in Warsaw.
  • Defining the search strategy for attracting top candidates(through talent mapping), across competitive research, profile development, networking and direct sourcing.
  • Partner directly with Hiring managers to understand specific needs to source, attract, and engage with top talent.
  • Build strong relationships with candidates, provide an impeccable candidate experience, and make judicious decisions on fit for a particular role or team, in addition to thinking through fit for our unique company culture.
  • Conduct recruiter screens to assess preliminary technical skill sets with suggested action items on how to progress the candidate forward.
  • Use market expertise, data, and business acumen to educate and influence hiring managers on how to identify and hire the best talent at Netflix.
  • Champion inclusion, by generating diverse candidate pipelines that boost representation at the team level, in turn enhancing Netflix's ability to entertain the world. Advocate for continually raising the bar and ensuring that candidates understand and embrace our culture of Freedom & Responsibility.
  • Network and maintain relationships with key talent communities for short and/or long-term opportunities.
  • Skill Stack: Full Stack, Content Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infra Engineering (Refactoring, Developer Enablement, Testing Tools, DevEx), Security Platform (incident response, vulnerability management), Games Engineering
Stakeholder ManagementCandidate ExperienceMarket ResearchStrategic SourcingCompetency Based InterviewingFeedback Management+2

Amazon web services (aws)

Technical Recruiter EMEA

Apr 2022Jul 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area

  • Role impacted by 2023 layoffs across Amazon
  • Responsible for full cycle hiring process with relevant stakeholders and advise business on solutions to talent challenges.
  • Develop and maintain a pipeline of qualified candidates, finding innovative solutions to increase candidate flow and advocate internal talent advancements.
  • Ensure exceptional candidate experience, regardless of their application outcome.
  • Conducting the first stage of screening interviews and assist managers with interviews and selection assessments.
  • Manage recruitment campaigns, working directly with hiring managers to understand the requirements and decide on the appropriate sourcing strategy.
  • Work closely with recruitment coordinators to streamline interviewing process and timelines.
  • Support a business project to identify recruitment pillars and actively contribute to internal resources.
  • Volunteering makes me! Active contributor to virtual volunteering initiatives and sustainability opportunist.
  • Skill Stack :
  • Sales Operation, sales planning, Solution Architecture, Field Sales, Field Enablement, Business management, Productivity and Readiness, Proposal Management, Data Analysis, Sales ops compensation, learning experience, training coordinator, Customer optimization and enablement, Area Effectiveness
Full-life Cycle RecruitingCandidate ExperienceInterview ManagementStakeholder ManagementSales RecruitmentSeekout+2

Adevinta

Technical Recruiter - Fixed Contract

Jul 2021Dec 2021 · 5 mos · Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area

  • Drive the hiring process for active requirements - from attending briefing meetings with a pre-emptive list of candidates and the relevant market insights.
  • Ensuring data integrity of the organisation’s ATS i.e Smartrecruiters
  • Actively conduct candidate searches from Linkedin (using recruiter seat)
  • Effectively screen applications - reviewing CVs and digital interviews.
  • Schedule technical interviews across multiple teams and interview panels.
  • Build awareness of the internal and external talent landscape, developing a holistic view of talent sourcing.
  • Maintain effective partnerships with external agencies to meet sourcing needs when required.
  • Skill Stack-
  • Tech: Java, full stack, big data, Hadoop, Spark, data engineer, vulnerability management, Python, security, Microservices backend developer, frontend developer, mobile engineer, Android, IOS, data Integration, data science, IAM, UI/UX, Engineering Manager
  • Non Tech: Procurement, People Manager, Analyst, HRIS, Workday
Full-life Cycle RecruitingInterview SchedulingStakeholder ManagementCandidate ExperienceStrategic SourcingSmartrecruiter+3

Quantiphi

Technical Recruiter - Product & Engineering

Jun 2020Nov 2020 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • End to end planning and execution of multiple stages in recruitment life cycle.
  • Designing and posting job vacancies in various recruitment platforms and channels.
  • Proactively building talent pipeline across AI and data science for current and prospective roles.
  • Research and recommend new sources for active and passive hunting.
  • Prioritizing and balancing recruitment needs to meet business needs and criticality.
  • Work closely with the stakeholders to provide best hiring experience for the candidates and achieve business goals and objectives.
  • Engage in active employer branding to attract high profile candidates and build world class data science professionals.
  • Collaborating with external recruitment agencies and handling vendor management
  • Creating the WOW experience for the candidates and initiate open communication to reduce attrition, meet candidate expectation and inclusive work culture.
  • Skill Stack- Java, full stack, big data, Hadoop, Spark, data engineer, Node.js, React.js, Python, backend developer, frontend developer
End to End RecruitingNegotiationStakeholder ManagementOffer CreationWorkday

American express

Technical Recruiter - Product & Engineering

Apr 2018Jun 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Work closely with the hiring leaders in understanding niche requirements.
  • Sourcing candidates from Job portals like Naukri, Monster, hirist and Social Networks
  • Proficient in recruiting candidates across bands and locations.
  • Maintain and update the applicant tracking system to ensure information is accurate and up-to-date.
  • Obtaining candidate documents, preparing offers and salary negotiation.
  • Involved in constant follow-up with leaders and candidates to ensure achievement of staffing goals.
  • Responsible for conducting new hire orientations, paperwork and onboarding.
  • Collaborating with external recruitment agencies and handling vendor management.
  • Active participation in employer job fair/marketing and coding events.
  • Skill Stack :
  • Java, full stack, Cloud architect, big data, Hadoop, Spark, Pyspark, Salesforce, Pega, data engineer, product manager, Machine Learning, UI/UX, Node.js, React.js, Python, Application security, RPA, blueprism, backend developer, frontend developer, linear regression, random forest technique, Infrastructure engineer, Apache, Tomcat
Technical sourcingSmashflyEnd to End RecruitingNegotiationNew Hire OrientationsCandidate Experience+6

Accenture

Recruiter

Dec 2015Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Handling End to end Recruitment activities.
  • Understanding requirement in terms of job specification and description.
  • Sourcing and Screening active & passive candidates.
  • Using various internet job portals & social media for sourcing suitable candidates
  • Identify, source and discover candidates, screened technical candidates to ensure their skill sets.
  • Screening each candidate via telephone, to assess their qualifications credentials.
  • Understand technology and technical capabilities & evaluate candidate’s technical skills.
  • Coordinating and scheduling technical interviews.
  • Briefing candidates before and gathering feedback after interviews.
  • Briefing the candidates about the job profile, salary package and organization.
  • Explain-discuss-negotiate the job offers extended to candidates.
  • Scheduling and organizing interviews for the shortlisted candidates by the clients and debriefing them post interviews.
  • Skill Stack :
  • Application Security, threat modeling, VAPT, Code review, SIEM, arcsight, qradar, splunk, RSA Envision, RSA SA, Endpoint Protection, Symantec EPO, Mcafee Nitro, Mcafee EPO, Trend Micro, Officescan, deepsecurity, cloud security, devops, AWS, Azure, Network Security, firewalls, checkpoint, Cisco ASA, Palo alto, fortigate, fortinet, Juniper, Networking, Cisco Routing, switching, ISO Audits, Risk Management, Governance(GRC), Archer development, Linux, MS SQL Server, Oracle DBA, RPA, Identity and Access Management, Sailpoint Identity IQ, Open AM, Open IDM, IBM SAN,VMWARE Admin, Citrix
Screening ResumesVendor ManagementIT SourcingApplicant Tracking SystemsReporting & Analysis

Education

Karunya University Business School

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Jan 2013Jan 2015

Providence Women's College, Calicut

Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.)

Jan 2010Jan 2013

The Indian High School, Dubai

Higher Secondary

Jan 2008Jan 2010

Our Own English High School, Dubai

Jan 2003Jan 2008

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