Ranell N.

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company. We build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI Full cycle Recruiter for our growing Security org including Business Technology, IT, Detection and Response, and Global Safety, Intelligence & Security teams! Please apply online via our careers page so we can determine if there is a good fit. Partner closely with hiring managers and leadership to understand hiring needs and deliver top talent. Develop and execute strategic recruiting plans, with a focus on candidate experience and inclusive hiring practices. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: • Surpassed hiring goals with 60 hires in 2025, averaging 5+ hires per month (against target of 2/month). • Accelerated hiring across the product engineering organization, contributing 18 hires and helping the team reach 85% of it's annual headcount goal by mid-year. • Achieved median time to hire of 24 days. • Maintain 91% offer acceptance rate.

Led a team of 12 vendor Talent Sourcers for SWE GEO Hiring Events. Collaborated with clients to understand business requirements, craft tailored sourcing strategies, and optimize candidate pipelines. Maintained high candidate engagement throughout the hiring process. Proactively identified current and future talent needs, leveraging market insights to inform approach. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: • Co-developed a Power BI Dashboard to centralize hiring data across geographies and enable sourcers, closers, and recruiters to drive inclusive hiring strategies based on offer trends, candidate sources, and market insights. • Exceeded talent pipeline submittal expectations by 41%. • Elevated capabilities of the talent sourcing team by providing mentorship and sharing best practices for inclusive hiring, outreach messaging, candidate engagement, and interview prep. • Co-led a career development event for the sourcing community.

Part of Amazon’s Recruiting Engine team that hired backend and full-stack Software Engineer II’s across North America. Built and executed search strategies, prepared candidates for interviews, and partnered with recruiters to meet high-volume hiring goals under aggressive timelines. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: • Exceeded expectations with 3-4 offer accepts a month. • Ranked #2 on a 10 person team for both onsite interviews (10-12 monthly) and assessments for passive candidates.

Recruited Business Intelligence Engineers for the Worldwide Operations organization. KEY ACHIEVEMENT: • Consistently exceeded expectations with 4 hires/month and 80% offer accept rate.

Hired the best and brightest Software and Senior Software Engineer’s for Microsoft's Engineering Partners for our Redmond, WA location among others across many exciting areas such as Azure, Business Applications, Office, Security, OneDrive/SharePoint, Windows, ML/AI, and more! KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: • Generated 100 offers within 1 year to surpass annual requirement of 48. Achieved 21 offers in the month of September 2019 alone. Produced 125 total offers over the course of 15 months. Used an above-and-beyond approach in maintaining continual contacts with candidates, ensuring transparency in the process, and utilizing effective organization skills. •Played a key role in the success of the Inbound team by contributing candidates sourced from Microsoft's internal application tracking system. Out of 100 offers in 1 year, 83 were inbound-sourced offers. • Named as one of two Talent Sourcers among a group of 40-45 who was regularly assigned to 2 hiring events per month (on-site interview days) due to strong sourcing skills and high number of offers generated. • Became a go-to person for ramping up newly hired Talent Sourcers referred by Programs Managers and immediate supervisor. Conducted one-on-one meetings to help with onboarding, sharing of best practices, and tips for success.

Full-Cycle Technical Recruiter responsible for sourcing, screening, scheduling, interview prep, and closing junior-senior level Software Engineers for medium-large size local clients. Recruited for contract, contract to hire and direct hire roles in the Greater Seattle Area.

Technical recruiter with a focus on finding and delivering top technical talent to our largest software client, Amazon, and others including Groupon, Zillow, DRW and others. VitalSource IT provides top-flight staffing services to companies in the Seattle area as well as nationally for clients with multiple locations. We partner with all types of companies to place Information Technology and Software Engineering Professionals in Full-time and Contract roles.

Provide high value sourcing of university student candidates for Customer Facing Technology roles. • Fill phone and university on-campus interviews in an aggressive timeline adhering to firm graduation date, school, and work authorization requirements. • Use online portals such as LinkedIn and Microsoft careers portal as well as career fairs and referrals to source recent college graduates for high-demand positions. • Review and evaluate students’ resumes and other credentials to determine candidacy for first-round interview. • Invite students to first interviews, process and review interview results, and determine status for final interview. KEY ACHIEVEMENT: • Exceeded expectations with ratio of first-round candidates who were invited back for final-round interviews. Maintained a low ratio of candidates who were not invited back for final-round interviews.

Conducted first-round phone interviews of technical and non-technical student candidates for Sales, Software Engineer, Program Manager, and Customer Facing Technology positions, including Full Time, Internship and international roles. • Completed 465+ interviews for Customer Facing Technology candidates and 700+ interviews for sales and other job candidates. • Assessed candidates’ core competencies and provided interviewing and hiring recommendations to their Recruiter. • Partnered with Recruiters to identify position requirements based on business needs and goals. • Monitored candidates’ metrics, including position applied to, interest level, interview status, and candidate background information. • Developed and maintained candidates’ profiles in Cantrack portal; trained team members on the software. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: • Consistently exceeded expectations as lead interviewer across phone interviews-to-interview ratio and interview-to-offer ratios for Customer Facing Technology candidates. Instrumental in enabling Microsoft to satisfy its hiring and start-date requirements for these roles. • Prepared and delivered presentations on phone interview processes and best practices to on- and off-site teams. • Consistently met / exceeded objectives in completing 8 phone interviews per day during Fall hiring season. • Interviewed 40+ diversity candidates from annual South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference in Austin, TX. • Assisted in the review of 1000+ student resumes referred by Microsoft employees. This involved screening and determining suitability of 150+ Software Engineer resumes per week. • Stay current with technology trends in and outside of Microsoft to build rapport with IT candidates and assess their technical acumen. Coached team members to adopt this practice.

Promoted to Talent Acquisition Team due to strong sales, customer service and quality record. Reviewed and evaluated all candidate applications (250 per week) identifying most qualified talent. • Conducted phone interviews for all qualified candidates and scheduled in-person interviews accordingly. • Communicated regularly with Human Resources Managers to ensure their satisfaction with candidate selection. • Wrote emails notifying job applicants of their interview status and the company’s interest level. • Completed 25 phone interviews per day (regular hiring) and 50 per day (seasonal hiring). • In an efficient manner provided customer service to job applicants accurately answering their questions. • Supported HR functions, such as updating HR portal and posting open sales positions. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: • Ranked as one of the top 3 employees (out of 50) during February and April 2016 for completing the most monthly phone interviews per month (291 and 271 respectively). • Exceeded expectations for all customer service Quality and Assurance metrics for phone interviews.

Trained sales staff on selling tools and technologies in order to provide efficient, high quality customer service. • Motivated and mentored staff to meet / exceed sales goals and build customer relationships. • Utilized problem solving skills to diffuse and resolve escalated customer issues.

Provided sales, merchandising and customer service support to store guests. • Built relationship with customers to drive and support sales and encourage repeat business.

Promoted from Student Assistant to Coordinator in 2012. • Trained and oversaw Food Services’ employees for on-campus residence hall, which served 1,000+ students. • Supervised food services’ areas and ensured efficient checkout; processed orders as needed. • Provided excellent customer service and communicated effectively with students, staff, and visitors.