I help professionals and organizations make better career and hiring decisions—faster and with confidence.
With experience across career coaching, sourcing, and higher education, I work with:
* Professionals navigating career transitions
* Students and early-career talent
* Startups and organizations hiring critical roles
* Institutions and teams needing career-focused training
What I Do Best
Career Coaching (Recurring Support)
* Career clarity & positioning
* Resume and LinkedIn optimization
* Interview preparation
* Job search strategy and accountability
* Career transitions and advancement planning
Recruiting & Sourcing Support
* Candidate sourcing for hard-to-fill roles
* Resume screening and shortlisting
* Recruiting process support for small teams
* Talent pipeline development
Teaching, Workshops & Educational Content
* Virtual career development workshops
* Curriculum and course creation
* Educational content for higher education or internal training
* Career readiness programs for students and professionals
If you’re looking for someone who understands both the candidate and employer side, I’d love to connect.
Recruiting
Education
Career Coaching
Elearning
Sourcing
Teaching
Education Presentation
Sagar I.
Jersey City, New Jersey
$50/hr
4.9
12 jobs
Hi,
I am Sagar, an Upwork "Rising Talent", which means I am on my path to becoming Upwork's "Top-Rated" Freelancer, which depicts my Job Success Score to be promising by delivering quality standards on time.
I am a Seasoned Technical Recruiter with 8 years of professional experience in Full lifecycle End-to-End Technical Recruiting
I am an expert in:
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- Boolean search string variants
- Indeed passive sourcing
- X-ray Search
- Establishing Network connections
- GitHub
- AI Recruiting rules and methods, Talent GPT, Chat GPT, GoHire
- Stack Overflow,
- ATS(iCIMS, Beamery, Greenhouse, Lever, Zoho, cBIZ, Jobscore, Amazon Hire)
- ycombinator(Hackernews) Job posting
- Job Posting - Internal and External(LinkedIn feed, Linked Groups, Indeed, Glassdoor)
- Social Media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter)
- Calibrating technical competencies with HM's and Prospects
- Technical candidate screening on questionnaires
- Building candidate relationships to find a synergistic match
- Mentoring Candidates until onboarding
- Candidate Interview Preparation
- Interview Coordination and Scheduling
- Full Onsite Loop strategizing, pre-briefing, debriefing, and feedback documentation with business stakeholders.
My Technology Knowledge:
- Software Development Engineering (Fungible)
- Software Engineering Engineering (Backend, Front End, Full Stack, Firmware, Embedded, IoT, IOS, and Android)
- Data Science and optimization
- UGC(User Guided Content) Creators
- UI/UX Designers
- Data Engineering
- DevOps and Cloud Engineering
- Cyber Security
- Technical Project Management
- Network and System Engineering
My Education:
- Masters in Information Systems
- Bachelors in Computer Science
- Independent Study Thesis - Technical Recruitment
A passionate and self-motivated individual to find the best talent in the industry retaining long-time connections and building a targeted database.
Hire me to discover smart insights in dealing with candidates and hiring managers.
Let's work together to help reach your business its highest hiring potential.
Recruiting
Candidate Evaluation
Candidate Management
Candidate Interviewing
IT Recruiting
LinkedIn Recruiting
Staff Recruitment & Management
Internet Recruiting
Sourcing
Software Development
Employee Onboarding
SmartRecruiters
Interview Training
Interview Preparation
Simone Y.
West New York, New Jersey
$75/hr
5.0
5 jobs
I’m a Talent Acquisition and Recruiting leader with 10+ years of experience supporting enterprise organizations, startups, and high-growth companies across technical, corporate, operational, and executive hiring.
My background includes executive recruitment, technical recruiting, talent sourcing, recruitment marketing, workforce planning, stakeholder management, and full-cycle recruiting across both U.S. and international markets.
I’ve partnered directly with senior leadership teams, including Hiring Managers, Directors, VPs, CHROs, CFOs, and business stakeholders to drive hiring strategy, improve recruiting operations, and build scalable talent pipelines.
My experience includes recruiting and talent strategy work with organizations including Mastercard, Collibra, and Hacking HR.
Areas of expertise include:
Executive Recruitment
Technical Recruiting
Talent Acquisition Strategy
Talent Sourcing & Pipeline Development
Recruitment Marketing
Workforce Planning
Finance & FinTech Recruitment
SaaS & Technology Recruitment
High-Volume Recruiting
Recruiting Operations
ATS Optimization
Stakeholder Management
Candidate Experience
Employer Branding
Recruiting Analytics & Reporting
I’m highly experienced in sourcing passive candidates, managing complex hiring processes, supporting workforce growth initiatives, and partnering cross-functionally with leadership teams to align recruiting efforts with business objectives.
I’ve recruited across:
FinTech
SaaS
Technology
Operations
Finance
HR
Corporate Functions
Healthcare
Startups & Enterprise Environments
Tools & Platforms:
Workday, Greenhouse, Taleo, LinkedIn Recruiter, HubSpot, Pipedrive, CRM systems, AI sourcing tools, automation platforms, and recruiting analytics tools.
Whether you need:
an experienced recruiter,
sourcing specialist,
talent acquisition partner,
executive recruiter,
recruitment strategist,
or recruiting operations support,
I can help build and scale your hiring efforts effectively.
Recruiting
Coaching
Career Coaching
Continuing Professional Development
Life Coaching
Business Coaching
HR & Business Services
Yolande R.
Watchung, New Jersey
$70/hr
5.0
1 jobs
Executive Value Proposition
Strategic human resources and organizational development leader who helps organizations strengthen performance, scale responsibly, and build the workforce infrastructure required for long-term growth. I partner with executive leadership to translate business priorities into practical HR strategies that improve accountability, workforce effectiveness, leadership capability, compliance, and operational efficiency.
My value lies in connecting people strategy to business outcomes. Through organizational design, workforce planning, compensation strategy, performance management, leadership development, HR technology, employee engagement, and continuous process improvement, I create scalable systems that reduce risk, support sound decision-making, and improve key performance indicators.
I bring an ethical, data-informed, and solutions-focused approach to complex organizational challenges. As a trusted advisor, I influence across all levels, build credibility quickly, challenge assumptions constructively, and help leaders convert strategy into measurable and sustainable results.
Human Resource Information System
Candidate Interviewing
Communications
Training
Human Resource Management
Change Management
Intuit QuickBooks
Business Management
Continuous Improvement
Customer Service
Process Improvement
Microsoft Excel
Management Skills
HR & Business Services
Business
David M.
Mount Laurel, New Jersey
$58/hr
4.7
73 jobs
𝐈 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐎𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐎𝐟 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐇𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐇𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐨 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐎𝐧 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬.
𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝟏𝟖 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬, I’ve helped companies solve 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 by recognizing what truly motivates candidates and aligning opportunity at the right moment in their career.
Since 2020, I’ve 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 who know what they need but want an experienced partner to help secure it correctly.
My recruiting career began with 𝐃𝐮𝐧𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝𝐰𝐢𝐝𝐞. Within six months, I ranked 𝐍𝐨. 𝟏 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝟏𝟗 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 in my group by filling roles that had remained open for 4 to 6 months with top professionals others were unable to convert.
𝐅𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬
Many companies are no longer interested in paying $15,000, $20,000, or more for every hire. One of my most requested solutions is embedded and flat-rate recruiting, providing dedicated recruiting support for multiple positions simultaneously without the traditional fee structure attached to each hire.
𝐓𝐲𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐈 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭
• Marketing & Growth Leadership
• Revenue & Sales Leadership
• Market Research & Consulting Talent
• Engineers, Technical Specialists & Trades
• Plant Managers & Operations Leadership
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐈 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝
Every hire begins with 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡, 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠, and informed 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 built through years of recruiting across key industries. I identify and target 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐬.
Searches are executed through 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭, 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 with professionals who are typically not applying and rarely respond to mass recruiting efforts.
Conversations focus on motivation, timing, and long-term fit, allowing results focused hiring decisions to move forward rapidly and clearly.
𝐇𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐏𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞.
Each candidate presented has already been thoroughly vetted, confirmed interested, and delivered with a detailed write-up, resume, compensation insight, and clear rationale for their alignment with your organization.
𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞
When I was selected to co-host Executive Leaders Radio, I spent years interviewing founders and senior executives. That experience honed a natural ability, recognizing leadership patterns, decision drivers, and true alignment between candidates and organizations long before the offer stage, and it continues to shape how I evaluate, engage, and convert talent while guiding hiring decisions today.
𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕:
● Accelerated ramp-up for your hiring needs
● Enhanced candidate engagement
● Consistent flow of qualified, interview-ready candidates
● Dedicated attention until the right hire signs on the dotted line
𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎯 “David is a true professional. His communication and talent discovery skills are exceptional. He found two high-level candidates - I’ve already hired one.”
🎯 “Responsive, insightful, and effective — David delivered on an executive search when others couldn’t.”
🎯 “David is a hiring superstar! Resourceful, fast, and readily available.”
🎯 “We were struggling to find qualified candidates for a specialized role. David stepped in and solved it in weeks. He’s efficient, clear, and incredibly sharp.”
𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐈’𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞:
🏢 𝙏𝙚𝙘𝙝 & 𝘿𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣: Adobe, EVS Tech, Range, Moffitt Cancer Center, Amazon
🏦 𝘽𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 & 𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚: Cross River Bank, PayActiv, Range, Unicoin, JoinJuno
🔬 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚 & 𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙨: Medtronic, Affinity Healthcare
💡 𝙀𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙮, 𝙐𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙨 & 𝙉𝙪𝙘𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧: GSE Energy Solutions, Clearpath Utility Solutions
🏗️ 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 & 𝙀𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 (𝘼𝙀𝘾): Crossland Construction, R. Fork Eng., NOVUS REB
🌱 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙪𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 & 𝘼𝙜𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚: Lindt & Sprüngli, Columbia Fruit, Frito Lay
🔍 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙩 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 & 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜: Ipsos Loyalty, Strategyn, MGT Consulting
🔐 𝙎𝙚𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣: Vector Security, Acomplis Technology, Securitas, USS, RFI
⚖️ 𝙇𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙡: Pillsbury Winthrop, Hildebrand Law
🧬 𝙇𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨: Imagen Tech, Gilead
When the right hire matters, I make time for the conversation.
Send a message and we’ll determine the right path forward.
Best,
David
Recruiting
Recruiting Process Consulting
Applicant Tracking Systems
Human Resource Information System
Candidate Interviewing
Resume Screening
LinkedIn Recruiting
Staff Recruitment & Management
Boolean Search
Candidate Sourcing
Internet Recruiting
IT Recruiting
Lead Generation
Sourcing
Relationship Management
Ruchi S.
Springfield, New Jersey
$40/hr
4.9
107 jobs
I am an experienced Human Resources and Talent Acquisition professional with 13+ years of experience supporting businesses with recruitment, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, HR administration, and candidate management. I have worked with clients across North America, APAC, Europe, and Australia, supporting both Fortune 500 companies and fast-growing startups.
I have supported recruitment across a wide range of industries, including DTC/eCommerce, IT, SaaS, EdTech, AI/ML, Healthcare, Digital Marketing, Fitness, Operations, Customer Success, Finance, and more. My experience includes full-cycle recruitment, passive sourcing, resume screening, candidate outreach, interview scheduling, reference checks, offer coordination, and post-joining support.
I am also proficient with AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI-powered sourcing and productivity platforms. I use AI to improve sourcing strategy, build stronger Boolean search strings, research unfamiliar industries, summarize resumes, draft personalized outreach, prepare interview questions, organize candidate notes, and create clearer hiring updates for clients. This helps me work faster and more strategically while still keeping communication thoughtful, accurate, and human.
Services I can support with:
Full-cycle recruitment
Talent sourcing and candidate outreach
LinkedIn Recruiter sourcing
Boolean search and resume database sourcing
Resume screening and shortlisting
Interview scheduling and coordination
Candidate communication and follow-ups
ATS management and pipeline updates
Job posting and job board management
Reference checks
HR administrative support
Hiring manager coordination
Recruiting reports and status updates
AI-assisted sourcing, outreach, and candidate research
I am familiar with various Applicant Tracking Systems and hiring platforms, including LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, Greenhouse, and other recruitment tools. I take pride in building strong relationships with both clients and candidates while creating a smooth, professional, and efficient hiring experience.
Recruiting
Candidate Evaluation
Candidate Management
Resume Screening
Sourcing
Candidate Sourcing
Human Resource Management
Candidate Recommendation
IT Recruiting
LinkedIn Recruiting
Administrative Support
IT Sourcing
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