Pankaj Kumar Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Full cycle recruitment for quality engineers, validation engineers and R&D scientists.
• Partnered with talent leaders, recruiting managers, recruiters and members of the recruiting team to implement innovative talent sourcing strategies.
• Responsible for sourcing active candidates from on-line databases, contact lists, and internal databases as well as sourcing passive candidates through networking, cold calling, complex internet searches and research.
• Assisted with developing talent strategies and improving the interview process.
• Organized and participated in college career fairs and launched “lunch & learn” programs.
• Attended various tech events and diversity and inclusion events to build candidate pipeline including WIT (Women in Technology and ALPFA Boston (Latino Professional Association)

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Sourced and recruited talent from various job boards like LinkedIn, Monster, Indeed and Handshake.
• Developed and maintained relationships with local colleges and university programs through career services, student leaders, professors and key faculty members.
• Recommended and implemented proactive talent sourcing programs to build a talent pipeline for key roles and hard-to-fill positions with a deep understanding of the competitive talent marketplace.
• Assisted my team with sourcing, screening, scheduling interviews, post jobs, scheduling debrief calls, negotiating salaries, generating offer letters and updating applicant tracking systems.
• Proactively sourced candidates through social media, cold calls, networking and job fairs.
• Joined ASQ Boston, SWE (Society of Women Engineers) and NSBE (National Society of Black Engineers)

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Built relationships with top colleges including Harvard, MIT, BU, Northeastern and TUFTS.
• Conducted new hire orientation and maintained employee relations.
• Built relationships with existing and future employees and gained valuable referrals.
• Managed submissions from various staffing firms and provided weekly/monthly metrics.
• Attended college career fairs and created marketing materials for trade shows.
• Juggled 45-50 open requirements and collaborated with hiring managers and HRBPs.

New York, United States

• Sourced talent from job boards such as Dice, Monster, Career Builder, Indeed, Zip Recruiter, LinkedIn Recruiter.
• Execute talent sourcing tactics such as social and professional media sourcing, CRM Sourcing, networking, name generation, industry events, associations, online communities, external research, etc.
• Assisted in developing and executing tactical sourcing strategies to build candidate pipelines.
• Attended Trade shows and College Career Fairs to build candidate relationships and pipeline.
• Worked in a high-volume agile environment, prioritized work, managed multiple projects and coordinated multiple requests from various department-hiring managers.
• Utilized consultative approach for sourcing, assessment, and selection in order to recruit top diverse candidates in a cost-effective manner.