Brijendra Rao is an experienced 360° recruiter with over 9 years of experience in various recruitment models and hiring methodologies. He has worked with several consulting, services and product development companies, making him experienced in different hiring trends in different industries. Brijendra, an engineer turned recruiter, has strong expertise in technology hiring and building engineering teams. He is a delivery-focused hiring advisor in several areas, including compensation, interview framework, interviewing etiquette, pool availability, and sourcing, among others.

Additionally, he is an expert in strategic, tactical, and innovative sourcing approaches. He hires with traditional & non-traditional sources/tools using social media, technical developer communities like StackOverflow, GitHub, open-source communities, scrapers, browser plug-ins, proprietary tools, internet & of course with traditional recruiting techniques (job portals, employee referrals). He is also an expert in organizing and planning tech-talks end-to-end event engagements for hiring. Brijendra is a good team mentor and is an expert in recruitment and sourcing tools, training teams on sourcing 2.0 (DB), 3.0 (Social) & 4.0 (Internet, Browser, Tech communities), talent mapping, talent/channels/sourcing research, market analysis, market research, market intelligence. He is also excellent in discovering new-age tools, finding sourcing hacks and market practice in recruiting and recruitment leaders, planning reactive recruiting & sourcing while proactive is in action.

Brijendra studied Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at Visvesvaraya Technological University. He has worked as a Lead Recruiter, Engineering at Cloudera, Talent Acquisition at Intuit, Channels Specialist at Google, Recruiter at Sasken, and Training at Initial.