About

Chaitra Gowda is a Full-Stack Technical Recruiter with a passion for hiring niche talents for product companies and startups. With 3.52 years of experience in end-to-end recruitment, she has worked with Tech/Product Companies/Startups and has built and executed creative talent sourcing strategies/channels to scale up the quality resource rates. Chaitra's specialties include tech hiring, leadership hiring, sourcing, and end-to-end recruitment. She has experience hiring for Director of Engineering/Product, Senior Engineering Managers/Engineering Managers, Leads/SSE/SE, and other mid to leadership positions on multiple complex skills like Java/Java Fullstack, Python, .Net, Database Dev, Oracle DBA, Big Data, React, and Automation Selenium. Chaitra has worked at PayPal as Talent Acquisition and at Oracle as Talent Sourcer with the Talent Research & Global Talent Sourcing team, where she primarily focused on Technology Hiring. She partnered with different business units among Oracle to hire the best talents aligning with their business needs. She developed candidate talent pipelines through sourcing channels, recruitment campaigns, internet searches, networking groups, social media, database searches, and referrals. She also headhunted passive candidates through social media like LinkedIn, Instagram, etc., and unconventional sourcing channels like Github, Stack Overflow, medium.com, HackerRank, HackerEarth, Behance, leetcode, CodeChef, etc. Chaitra has also worked at Target as Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist, where she sourced, pitched, and recruited for mid-senior to leadership positions. She developed a recruiting pipeline, assessed candidate's suitability, attitude, academics and professional qualification, experience, communication skills, etc. She communicated employer information and benefits during the screening process, negotiated the salary, and followed up to get feedback. She also acted as a point of contact and built influential candidate relationships during the process. Chaitra holds a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree in Computer Engineering from Reva University. Her tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, Java, Selenium, Big Data, Research Scientist, Python, product manager, Frontend, and Backend. Chaitra believes she is a go-getter and passionately driven toward her work. She finds awesome people and finds them awesome careers. This all starts with a conversation. Along the way, they will find it together and uncover their values, personal aspirations, and next career move.