About

Neelima Sahu is a result-oriented recruitment professional with 7 years of technical recruiting experience. She currently works as a Director at Occupride Technology LLP, where she is responsible for building quality teams for ambitious startups in both engineering and non-engineering roles. Neelima possesses strong technical and business acumen, deep sourcing skills, and experience in sourcing passive candidates. She has worked on various technologies and positions ranging from fresher to leadership level and has catered to industries like software/product-based, semiconductor, printing, e-commerce, retail, manufacturing, networking, telecom, healthcare, SaaS, internet, and media. Neelima is a specialist in IT recruitment, tech recruitment, startup hiring, and staffing. She also has experience in employee engagement, employer branding, employee culture positioning, vendor management, stakeholder management, job portal hiring, social hiring, passive hiring, and strategic hiring. She has worked in core technical recruitment, client front-ending, RPO model, stakeholder management, interacting with hiring managers, driving recruitment plans from scratch, vendor management, new technology training, and has three years of experience in team handling. Neelima has previously worked as a Talent Acquisition Lead at Last9 and as a Talent Acquisition Manager at Pratilipi, where she was responsible for all end-to-end hiring needs. She has a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) in Human Resource Management from the National School of Business, Bangalore, and a BSc in Physics from Berhampur University. Neelima's tech stack includes SDET, software engineer, UI, backend, senior software engineer, SRE, research scientist, and search. With almost 6 years of relevant experience, Neelima is an expert in technical recruitment and is passionate about helping startups grow by hiring the best culture fit minds.