About

Nikish Bakshi is a seasoned Full Recruitment Life-Cycle Professional with diverse experience in recruiting. As a Manager of Talent Acquisition at Acko, he is responsible for the entire recruiting cycle, including sourcing, shortlisting, pre-screening, scheduling interviews, follow-ups, offer negotiation, and onboarding. Nikish is well-versed in a variety of sourcing methods, including database mining, internet/web searches (x-ray search), direct sourcing, community organizations, networks, and employee referrals, to create a candidate pipeline to meet front-line hiring needs. Nikish has worked with some of the leading companies in the industry, including Huawei and Guesthouser. During his tenure at Huawei, he was responsible for end-to-end hiring support for the Consumer Software Business unit of Huawei Bangalore R&D Centre. He hired for Research Architects, Chief Architects, Technical Advisor, Community Leader, and Distinguished Engineer in Open Source AI and Multimedia domains for the Device OS team. Nikish maintained strong stakeholder management and worked closely with the Business Head and other HMs to build strategy and define hiring roadmaps. As a Technical Recruiter at Guesthouser, Nikish worked closely with the CTO to forecast hiring needs and department goals. He spearheaded the entire end-to-end technology hiring process single-handedly and closed entry to senior-level positions, including Senior Software Developer, Technology Lead, Product Manager, and Engineering Manager. Nikish maintained an in-depth understanding of recruitment trends and hiring desires and liaised with premium vendors for senior positions. He successfully ran an employee referral program and hired back-end developers, front-end developers, QA engineers, Mobile application developers (Android & iOS), UI/UX designers, DevOps Engineer using various sourcing techniques, including head-hunting, X-ray searches, market mapping, employee referrals, and generic sourcing platforms like LinkedIn, Hirist, Github, Stack overflow, Dribble, Behance, AngelList, etc. Nikish holds a PGDM in Human Resources from the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from Doon Valley Institute of Engineering & Technology. He has relevant experience of 6.94 years and has a tech stack that includes Search, Web, AI, Research Scientist, Senior Software Engineer, QA, Product Manager, Android, iOS, DevOps, Mobile, UI, Frontend, Backend, and Software Engineer.