About

Nitish Gaurav is a seasoned Senior Recruiter with over 10 years of experience in recruiting and sourcing top talent. He has worked in executive search, agency recruitment, and currently serves as a corporate recruitment professional. Nitish is currently employed at Elastic, where he is responsible for hiring and scaling Observability and Platform teams in India. Nitish's expertise lies in supporting the recruiting function in the areas of pipeline/candidate metrics, reporting, and analytics. He collaborates with stakeholders in identifying sourcing challenges and uses data to implement effective strategies. Nitish is proficient in preparing, maintaining, and enhancing recruitment data for effective reporting and analysis. He communicates his findings to stakeholders in the form of presentations and standard governance reports on a periodic/quarterly/annual basis. Nitish is also adept at sourcing and screening resumes for critical roles and has a good knowledge of internet search techniques. He is experienced in resume sourcing, lead generation, and search techniques such as Boolean and Xray. Nitish has worked on Taleo, Kenexa, Job Diva ATS, and currently uses Greenhouse. Nitish has collaborated with hiring teams to build effective sourcing strategies, assessment on current trends, whiteboard sessions, brainstorming, and strategy formulation for providing coverage on niche skills and bulk hiring needs. He has also anchored and independently driven UI Developer hiring at ThoughtWorks Mumbai and Pune, part of Digital Transformation hiring for ThoughtWorks India, and responsible for leadership and executive hiring for demand and business development team. Nitish holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Dr. M G R Educational and Research Institute and an Associate's degree in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics from D.A.V Public School. Nitish's relevant experience is 9.85 years, and his tech stack includes Search, Elastic Search, and UI.