Shikhar N.

• Lead end-to-end recruitment strategy for Cybersecurity, Cloud, AI/ML, and Data roles across Federal and Enterprise clients • Manage and own key client accounts, partnering with stakeholders to understand hiring priorities, workforce planning, and delivery expectations • Drive full-cycle recruiting (sourcing to onboarding) for complex and cleared roles, ensuring high-quality and timely submissions • Build and manage vendor ecosystem, optimizing performance, ensuring quality pipelines, and maintaining SLA adherence • Collaborate with hiring managers, program leads, and executives to close critical positions in highly competitive talent markets • Develop advanced sourcing strategies using LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, and market intelligence for niche technical roles • Track and improve recruitment KPIs including time-to-fill, submission-to-hire ratio, and candidate quality • Mentor junior recruiters and sourcing teams, driving best practices in technical hiring and candidate engagement • Handle high-volume and niche hiring simultaneously across multiple federal programs and enterprise clients • Ensure compliance with federal hiring standards, security clearance requirements, and client-specific processes

Recruit for Federal Contracts and IT Services that focuses on the practical application of software and system engineering technologies to solve complex problems. We combine world class engineers with proven engineering best practices, domain expertise, commercial technologies, and proven agile management approaches to provide high value consulting, and solutions aimed at helping our customers meet their most critical business and mission objectives

• I’m working in Business Unit-DAAI (Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence) with Leadership & People Sciences Team. • Management & Planning, Business Objects ERP - SAP, iCIMS, Pocket Recruiter, Workday, Dice etc. • Tech recruitment with an emphasis on applications including development, enterprise placing mid- to senior-level executives. • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champ for Data Science. • My niche market includes the positions- Data Science, Data Analytics, Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence & Robotics.

• Senior Recruitment Executive for engineering and IT related roles in support of Walmart, Verizon and Google. • Work with Sourcing Analyst to develop appropriate sourcing strategies for each role. • Develop and Manage strong consultative relationships with hiring managers and candidates. • Track both requisition and candidate flow through ATS Systems and Glass field. • Perform heavy networking of candidates for present and future opportunities.

• Source, screen, interview and close candidates for contract opportunities within IT and business professional industries. • Constantly communicate with account managers to define and redefine requirements to ensure successful sourcing of candidates. • Utilize Excel spreadsheets for various activities including tracking and reporting. • Placing IT, Engineering, PM, and Administrative Professionals in top companies across the U.S • Proactively built strong candidate pipelines in anticipation of future hiring initiatives.