About

Raksha Manay is a Talent Acquisition professional with almost 6 years of experience in recruitment and employment processes. She has been exposed to various aspects of the recruiting cycle and has expertise in translating business strategy into talent acquisition plans for high volume or niche hiring. Currently, she is working as a Talent Acquisition professional at Palo Alto Networks, where she is part of the sourcing team providing recruiters and hiring teams the support needed to find the right candidate. Raksha is responsible for building IT - Centre of Excellence, NextGen Firewall, GCS, R&D teams for JAPAC region focusing on high tech roles like Data Engineers, Software Developers, Product Managers, Site Reliability Engineers, QA Engineers, etc. She has expertise in converting passive candidates through outreach methods such as LinkedIn Recruiter and Naukri. Raksha is also responsible for creating a basic reporting structure to track Sourcer Metrics, providing Talent Mapping, Market Mapping, Company Mapping to help understand the market and candidate pool available and focusing on creating Employer Brand ensuring a good candidate experience. Before joining Palo Alto Networks, Raksha worked at Google as a Talent Acquisition professional (via Cognizant), where she generated a high-value passive candidate pool for the clients' immediate manpower needs. She also worked at Tundra Technical Solutions as a Talent Acquisition professional, where she proactively sourced, scheduled, and interviewed qualified candidates while matching them to current openings. Raksha holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Human Resource Management and Marketing Management from M.P. Birla Institute of Management and a Bachelor of Business Management in Human Resource Management from the University of Mysore. Her tech stack includes SRE, Search, QA, and Web. Overall, Raksha has 8.20 years of relevant experience in the field of Talent Acquisition.