About

Manish Shekhawat is a seasoned recruiter with over 6.6 years of experience in hiring for both tech and non-tech business units. He is a hands-on creative hustler who is passionate about finding the right people for the right opportunity. Manish is a technology enthusiast and loves to source candidates through Github, Stack-overflow, Meet-ups, and Google search. He is a long and short-term strategist, data-driven, researcher, community member, storyteller, forward-thinker, tech-savvy/expert sourcer, and gets things done. Manish loves teaching and helping people with recruitment fundamentals and hacks. Apart from his recruitment expertise, Manish is a sports enthusiast, an Army brat, a hiker, a cook, a runner, a Royal Enfield rider, and an offbeat driver. He possesses excellent communication, self-awareness, time management, storytelling, grit, prioritizing, decision-making, connecting the dots, emotional intelligence, resilience, and clear thinking skills. Currently, Manish works as a Global Recruiting Manager (Hands On- Technology & GTM) at Fireflies.ai. He oversees all talent acquisition, partners with the leadership team and other hiring managers to understand their hiring plans, and defines recruiting needs. Manish leads the development of different recruiting strategies, builds recruiting infrastructure, and mentors a best-in-class talent acquisition team. He manages the entire lifecycle of talent acquisition across all teams, collects, analyzes, and delivers feedback and action items to improve the overall hiring process. Manish has reduced the average time to hire from 42 days to 28 days and improved the quality of hires by hiring people with 9+ ratings. Manish has worked for Fireflies.ai in the past as an Engineering Lead Talent Advisor (Technology & GTM) and Global Lead Recruiter (Technology & GTM). He has also saved over $125,000 in his first year on agency fees for the roles he filled through cost-effective ATS and outbound hacks. Manish has a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University and a High School Diploma from Kendriya Vidyalaya. His tech stack includes AI, search, senior software engineer, designer, SRE, infra, ML, DevOps, Big Data, SDET, qa, Data Scientist, Research Scientist, iOS, ui, Frontend, Backend, Web, React Native, Android, Integration, and Software Engineer. Manish has relevant experience of 7