Shakeena Chiguraparathi

Recruiter

Austin, Texas, United States16 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in technical recruiting with a focus on hard-to-find talent.
  • Led strategic initiatives to enhance candidate engagement and hiring success.
  • Facilitated training programs to standardize recruiting practices across teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Technical Recruiter specializing in SaaS and talent acquisition strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical RecruitingTalent Acquisition Strategy

Other Skills

Applicant Tracking SystemsBehavioral InterviewingBenefits NegotiationBoolean SearchingBusiness NetworkingCRMCandidate AssessmentCandidate EngagementCandidate ExperienceCandidate SelectionClient Expectations ManagementClosing CandidatesCorporate RecruitingData-driven Decision MakingDiversity Recruitment

About

Passionate talent hunter specializing in hard-to-find tech professionals. Led a team of 8, dedicated to scaling organizations through strategic recruiting initiatives. Committed to developing craft, strategy, and client management skills while inspiring continuous learning and improvement. EXPERTISE Technical & Leadership Recruiting Team Management Talent Acquisition Strategy Client Relationship Management Mentoring & Skill Development Amazon is expanding! We're seeking exceptional talent to join our dynamic teams in Seattle, California, Nashville, Austin and New York. If interested, Please reach out to shakeena@amazon.com

Experience

16 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
7 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Amazon

4 roles

Senior Technical Leadership Recruiter

Promoted

Nov 2023Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • ACCOMPLISHMENTS
  • Specialized in Market Research and Talent Intelligence
  • Core Member of Amazon's Closing Advisors group - help respond to questions/edge cases from Amazon Stores Recruiters about all closing-related (think ‘ABC Closing’ – at all phases of the candidate lifecycle)
  • A facilitator in Talent Acquisition Certification Training (TACT) - is an Operations, Physical Stores & Corporate TA initiative to grow and develop its work force into versatile and all-rounded recruiters. The program aimed to ensure standardized and consistent recruiting training for the entire organization. This unified approach helped us accelerate bar raising talent and knowledge to hire the best for our customers.
  • A facilitator in Amazon's Ambassador program - the first ever recruiter trainings offered at consumer org level to any new recruiters joined Amazon in the last 90 days. I hosted several Friday study halls, fielding questions and driving engagement.
  • A member of TA Talent Development - participated as a SME in the Skill Matrices program, helped to map skills and create learning exercises that will benefit our recruiting talent and helped achieving our 3YP goals.
  • Spearheaded the project 'Hiring Manager Sell Call Ambassadors' aimed to boost offer acceptance rates by creating a cadre of trained stakeholders across our business lines. These ambassadors engaged candidates directly, articulating our team's value proposition and broader vision.
  • Spearheaded several OTHER PROJECTS like Improving the Interviewer Capacity with quicker and scalable mechanisms, contributed to Amazon's company-wide branding initiative to update the .jobs page, Led Connections to delve deeper into the team Connections data and identify actions the leadership can take to resolve questions/themes with low scores, helped develop a TA playbook, Executed External Tech Talks to improve the TPM/PMT pipeline of potential candidates, well versed in Stakeholder level and VP level Reporting and many more..
Full Life Cycle RecruitingTalent SourcingMarket ResearchStrategic SourcingClosing CandidatesBoolean Searching+2

Senior Client Lead - Amazon Selection and Catalog Systems (ASCS)

Jun 2022Oct 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • A predominate focus to deliver on SDE2, TPM, PMT and SDM roles for Amazon Selection and Catalog Systems across Seattle, Sunnyvale, New York and virtual locations as well as self-source to fill for the above roles.
  • 1. Developed a long-term plan related to talent mapping and a targeted outreach, engagement strategies, candidate experience, discovered passive candidates with various sourcing techniques to increase the chances of making great hires looking through Amazon’s internal databases, Linkedin, LI talent insights key Competitive Intelligence research, leverage employee referrals, GitHub, Hiretual, Seek out, Google Search Patents/Speaker Publications.
  • 2. Demonstrated the ability to close several specialized roles in half the amount of time averaged across Amazon through developing and executing strategic sourcing plans and collaborating closely with the business to ensure calibration throughout the recruiting process.
  • 3. Advise Senior Leadership on organizational structure, market insights, position alignment, and working backwards hiring strategy.
  • 4. Excels at earning the trust of my business through consistent reporting and updates as well as demonstrating the ability to influence as a recruiting subject matter expert. Generated and reported bi-weekly statistical analysis on recruiting efforts at executive meetings.
  • 5. Owned and contributed to weekly and monthly/quarterly/yearly executive business reviews (MBR) and presented path to green strategies.
  • 6. Led several programs like SDE/TPM Calibration series to improve our hiring conversions, ascs amazon.jobs page refresh project to bring-in team branding awareness, Diversity sourcing jams, HM sell call trainings, Interviewer capacity planning & optimization, facilitated and driven ASCS Tech talks and many more.

Client Lead Technical Recruiter - Amazon Selection and Catalog Systems (ASCS)

Mar 2020Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Full Lifecycle Technical Recruiter - Amazon Prime Video & Studios

Oct 2018Mar 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • As a part of Prime Videos/Studios recruiting team, I partnered with our senior leaders in Seattle, Washington to bring top talent to Amazon that have a worldwide impact, enjoy leading and launching products and services that will enable new business opportunities for Prime Video/studios, and delivering innovative and industry leading features to our customers.
  • 1. Excelled at earning the trust of my business through consistent reporting and updates as well as demonstrating the ability to influence as a recruiting subject matter expert. Generated and reported bi-weekly statistical analysis on recruiting efforts at executive meetings.
  • 2. Improved candidate to offer ratio for Prime Video teams from 10:1 to 5:1.
  • 3. Implemented a phone screen/onsite standardization process - Phone screens calibration standardization for each job family to maintain a consistent process throughout, diversity initiatives, strong recruiter/hiring manager partnership methodologies, business lunch and learn lead drives, blitz models, leading the OFCCP Compliance program across teams etc.
  • 4. Mentored new team members all the time and actively participated in their launch plans to make them successful.
  • 5. Actively involved in offer related activities and provides recommendations to business and candidates on offer proposals, inputting on business justification templates, educating them on offer process, discussing compensation threshold points when generating exceptional offers, engaging with the finance/compensation teams etc. My Offer to Offer accept conversions has always been high (80% or more).

Amazon web services

Technical Recruiter

Apr 2016Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Austin, Texas Area

Amazon

Recruiter - Talent Acquisition

Apr 2012Feb 2015 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Supported the recruiting needs for Ecommerce Platform Services team and helped source candidates proactively, screen relevant candidates, present candidates to hiring managers and make hiring recommendations.
  • Recruited and pre-screened Software Development Engineers (SDEI & SDEII), Software Development Managers, Data Engineers, SDET’s, Oracle Applications Developer, Programmer Analysts, Web Development Engineers, Tech Support Engineers, Executive Assistants, Technical Program Managers, IT Managers etc.
  • Acquired external talent through strategy, sourcing, assessment, interviewing and hiring
  • Experience in mass volume hires and took ownership in several Blitz events, resulting an 85% conversion rate – sourced and hired a total of 30 candidates within 6 months
  • Averaged in 4-5 hires a month, exceeding my teams’ goal of a minimum of 3 hires monthly
  • From inception, helped formalize the hiring process for Vendor Specialists and took ownership of distributing and collecting online assessments dedicated to the role
  • Took ownership in scheduling intake meetings with different hiring managers within the business to gain more insight about their teams as well as their open roles and expectations
  • Consistent involvement with client management, providing them weekly updates and setting expectations with all my active hiring managers from requisition approval all the way through requisition close
  • Involvement helping to schedule meetings, intakes, phone screens and onsite interviews for interviewers, hiring managers and candidates
  • Steadily performed within my SLA’s, keeping the 2&5 promise by creating a partnership with my hiring managers and continuously communicating updates to my active candidates.

Prolifics

Senior Associate - Talent Acquisition

Sep 2008Mar 2012 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • A Highly Energetic and Focused recruiter.
  • Able to work independently, as well as within teams.
  • Possess strong technical acumen and understanding of technical requirements
  • Deep sourcing skills and experience sourcing passive candidates; excellent candidate assessment skills.
  • A resourceful, solution-focused professional with excellent interpersonal and rapport-building skills.
  • Responsible, loyal, reliable, and independent worker with high level of enthusiasm and creativity.
  • Strong knowledge of all the Current Technologies in Software Industry.

Education

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

B.Tech — Information technology

Sri Chaitanya Junior kalasala

Intermediate — MPC

Surya Chandra public school

SSC

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