Tia Sharma

Senior Technical Recruiter

Senior Technical Recruiter Tia Sharma joined Elite Technical in April 2021, as a highly competent and versatile IT- Human Resource Professional with nearly 18+ years of experience in Technology, IT Recruitment, Employee Relations, Compensation Analysis, Workforce Planning,

 

Having previously studied technical applications, Tia began her recruiting career in India with West Coast Consulting, a U.S. recruiting staffing company headquartered in California, with an office in Northern India, where Tia had worked for 7+ years. In the years following, Tia held positions ranging from Senior Technical Recruiter to Team Lead and Senior Talent Acquisition Resource in the recruitment arena with responsibility for core account management and end-to-end IT recruitment before emigrating to the United States in 2015.


Today, Tia is committed to meeting the varied requirements of Elite Technical’s national client base while providing personal and professional growth opportunities for talented technical professionals.

 

Tia specializes in full-cycle recruitment for contract, direct hires and short term contracts while fulfilling requirements from Commercial, Federal and State organizations. Tia’s expertise includes sourcing relevant resumes, interviewing candidates on phone and video calls, salary and benefit negotiations, client/vendor account management, business development, talent pipeline management, and hiring as well as using ATS and VMS systems. Her extensive HR skills include employee relations, performance management, and policy and procedures, among other areas of expertise.

 

After completing a bachelor’s degree (1996) and master’s degree (1998) in Literature from Utkal University Orissa (India), Tia study at Tata Unisyss-Hyderabad, (India), a technical school where she earned a diploma in Computer Applications technology (2005) and a Certificate of Excellence in ERP/SAP, Human Resources from Webcom Technologies in 2015.


Tia speaks fluent English, Hindi, Oriya and Bengali. Learn more about her journey to the United States as a woman in technology and her recruiting insights in this article. She is based at Elite Technical’s headquarters in Ronkonkoma, NY.