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SAPNA ELANGOVAN
Talent Acquisition
Bangalore,AP
Summary
Experienced recruitment professional with 5+ years of experience into end-to-end IT recruitment & sourcing across APAC (SEA & India). Specialized in hiring cloud professionals (AWS, Azure & GCP), IT service delivery roles (Solution Architect, Cloud consultant - Infra, Devops, M365, security, Data & ai), full stack developer (.net, C#, reactjs, nodejs), IT sales roles (Account Manager, Solution specialist, Inside sales AM, Customer success manager, BDM, CSP lead). Proven success in global technical sourcing, leadership hiring, stakeholder engagement, and building high-performing teams for tech and product-based companies. Skilled in market mapping, DEI-focused hiring, and driving talent strategies in startup and enterprise environments. Known for mentoring recruiters, project ownership, and delivering results through data-driven sourcing and ethical practices.
Overview
6
years of professional experience
Work History
SoftwareOne
Sourcing Lead - SEA & Ind
01.2023 - Current
Job overview
- Lead a team of sourcers across SEA & India; providing guidance, support, and performance feedback.
- Train and mentor team members on sourcing best practices, tools, and technologies.
- Set sourcing KPIs and monitor team performance against them.
- Participate in intake meetings and define ideal candidate profiles.
- Designing and executing region-specific sourcing strategies aligned to business needs.
- Recommend new technologies or platforms to enhance sourcing effectiveness.
- Identify hiring challenges and propose solutions based on data and trends.
- Provide insights on talent availability, competitor hiring trends, and salary benchmarks.
- Continuously evaluate and improve sourcing processes and candidate outreach tactics.
- Share weekly, monthly reports with TA partners & business.
- Identify new initiatives & drive process augmentation.
SoftwareOne
Sourcing specialist - APAC
01.2023 - 05.2024
Job overview
- Talent sourcing across India & SEA countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand & Vietnam for Services & sales hiring.
- Extensively worked on LinkedIn for sourcing, market insights and market intel.
- Direct experience in Stakeholder management.
- Preparing detailed report on market analysis & candidate mapping and sharing it with Hiring Managers on weekly basis.
Microsoft
Technical Sourcing specialist (Contract role - Layoff)
08.2022 - 11.2023
Job overview
- As part of the GSMO team: Sourced, screened and partnered with candidates throughout the process.
- Partnered with hiring managers for intake sessions for requirement gathering.
- Constant engagement with hiring managers through the active Pool, live sourcing, and data hunt candidates for the designated roles through LinkedIn and ATS - iCIMS.
- Conducting phone screening to understand the background, experience and technical skills of the candidate to qualify for the role.
- Shortlist and presenting the candidates to the Hiring Manager.
- Predominantly hired for roles like Cloud architect, Data Architect, Infrastructure Architect, Technical Account Managers, Account Managers, Cloud solution architect, Sales specialist and Niche skills.
- Extensively worked on DEI hiring, Women in Technology.
- Proven capability in delivering and implementing high quality external candidate's experience.
Google via Randstad Source Right (RPO)
Talent Advisor
12.2021 - 08.2022
Job overview
- Part of the Google's Cloud hiring team, sourced mainly for Cloud roles like - Cloud Engineer, Cloud Migration consultant - Data & Infrastructure.
- Worked extensively on lateral hiring and building active pipeline of candidates predominantly on DEI (aim to maintain the standard 26% ratio).
- Screening the resumes, initiating one way and two-way communications with candidates - as per Google's standard recruitment process.
- Initiating recruiter screening by conducting the Initial Phone Screening (IPS) to qualify candidates' technical competencies (tech questions) and background for the role.
- As a full life cycle recruiter, my duties included end to end recruitment process from qualifying candidates through initial screen process to final select.
- Was chosen as a SPOC for conducting Interview Preparation Sessions for a batch of shortlisted candidates, preparing them before their technical interview (1 hour session, occurs every Tuesday & Friday).
- Acted as a SME & mentored new joiners & a team of 7 recruiters.
Allegis / Teksystems
Technical Recruiter
10.2019 - 12.2021
Job overview
- Partner with business to get a clear view on their strategic and financial objectives and hiring needs.
- End to End recruitment: Gathering the requirement from the Hiring Manager, understanding the requirement, sourcing candidates using various job portals, have an in-depth telephonic conversation with candidates to understand their skills, goals and interest and post that, screening them to the next level i.e., in-person interview / video interview, submission of candidates' profile, interview preparation and coordination, HR discussion, offer release and consistent follow up post offer and onboarding.
- Predominantly worked on skills such as - SAP, Cloud Engineer (Devops), SFDC, QA Engineer, Support engineer, backend engineer, full stack developer, UI developer, devops, mobile application developers.
- Monthly service touchpoint calls with the technical employees.
- Network and build long lasting candidate relationships.
- Interact with the Hiring Managers or the Vendor Management Officer on weekly or bi-weekly basis.
- During this time, I predominantly worked into lateral hiring for Product based companies.
Education
ASC Degree College
Master of Commerce
01.2019
University Overview
GPA: 70%
KLE Society's Nijalingappa College
Bachelor of Commerce
01.2017
University Overview
GPA: 78%
Websites
Accomplishments
- Hit my first promotion within 1 year, promoted to Senior sourcing specialist in 2023-12-01.
- Hit my second promotion in less than 6 months to Sourcing Lead in 2024-05-01.
- Gave the first offer for Google cloud team for Randstad source right & was recognized as a SME.
- Recognized as a SPOC for Interview batch preparation session for Google.
- Promoted twice within 18 months at Allegis Group.
- Recognized for best sourcing performance in October 2020.
- Mentored a team of 7 recruiters while at Google RPO.
- Delivered successful DEI hiring targets for Microsoft & Google.
Projects And Other Initiatives
- Pre-joiners Connect - prepared process framework, timeline, invite, professional PPT & hosted the event on monthly basis.
- Post Offer follow up process - set up a tracker, reach out guideline etc.
- Email template - created multiple email out reach templates to use throughout the candidates' interview process until onboarding.
- Introduced Sourcing Hackathon to APAC TA team at SoftwareOne - hosted on weekly basis, encouraging sourcing strategies & tracking progress week-on-week basis.
- SEA Market Intel project - heading the market intel project for SEA Services & Sales roles with an aim to provide a detailed report on salary benchmarking, competitor market & market trend analysis.
Sourcing Platforms
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- Naukri & Hirist
- Indeed
- Cielo
- CareerBuilder
- Monster
- Jobstreet
- Itviec
Sourcing Strategies
- Hackathon
- Internal & external employee referrals
- CRM campaigns
- Virtual job fairs
- Competitor market research & hiring
- Boomerang
- Evergreen roles proactive pipelining
Dei Sourcing Initiatives
- PowerToFly
- Textio
- Collaboration with NGO & DEI awareness workshops
Skills
Friendly, positive attitude
Teamwork and collaboration
Customer service
Problem-solving
Attention to detail
Multitasking Abilities
Excellent communication
Critical thinking
Organizational skills
Active listening
Decision-making
Availability
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Timeline
Sourcing Lead - SEA & Ind
SoftwareOne
01.2023 - Current
Sourcing specialist - APAC
SoftwareOne
01.2023 - 05.2024
Technical Sourcing specialist (Contract role - Layoff)
Microsoft
08.2022 - 11.2023
Talent Advisor
Google via Randstad Source Right (RPO)
12.2021 - 08.2022
Technical Recruiter
Allegis / Teksystems
10.2019 - 12.2021
ASC Degree College
Master of Commerce
KLE Society's Nijalingappa College
Bachelor of Commerce
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