About

Shivkumar Gurram is a passionate Sourcer and LinkedIn certified recruiter with over 10 years of experience in tech and non-tech hiring. He has won the Global sourcing contest twice and has created 30+ Google custom search engines to find profiles from various sites. Shivkumar has extensive experience in sourcing candidates across various geographies, including India, US, Canada, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Zurich, Seoul, Beijing, Poland, Australia, and counting. Currently, Shivkumar is the Founder and Mentor of Sourcing X-Press, where he is on a mission to create Recruiting SoloPreneurs. In this program, he provides complete end-to-end training and support for applicants to become successful Recruiting Solopreneurs. He also provides LIVE Sourcing and recruitment training from scratch to advanced level for free on weekends and holidays as a good cause during the ongoing pandemic to help people secure a career in Sourcing and Recruitment. Before starting Sourcing X-Press, Shivkumar worked as an SDE-III Recruiter at Amazon. He has hands-on experience in some of the off-line projects in Digital marketing using Facebook, LinkedIn, Google PPC, and AdWords. Shivkumar is highly research-oriented and can spend hours in front of a computer doing internet sourcing tirelessly. He is a search-worm and always keen on search and research activities and gets to a core understanding of how search algorithms work on Google and various portals/sites. Shivkumar has excellent understanding of SEO and is hands-on using Data-Miner with GitHub and other sites to scrape data, and deep web mining to source profiles. He loves playing with keywords/key strings (Boolean, All Keywords, Borden Search, X-Ray, Deep search, and research…etc). Shivkumar is also proficient in finding contact details using chrome extensions like Prophet, Lusha, HiringSolved, Hiretual, and on another side generating emails id’s in formula-driven excel and verifying it in Gmail compose, and other mail verifier sites. Shivkumar holds a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) degree from Dr. C. V. Raman University, Kota Bilaspur. He has a tech stack that includes Search, Research Scientist, Software Engineer, and Web. Shivkumar has 16.12 years of relevant experience and is committed to helping startups to hire with scale.