Technical Recruiter with 5 years of experience hiring software, data and infrastructure engineers for product companies. Made 64 engineering hires in 2025, including 11 staff-level engineers, with a 3.8:1 onsite-to-offer ratio. Brings enough technical fluency to screen for system design depth and an outreach approach engineers actually answer.
Experience
Technical Recruiter, Quantra Health (Remote)
Oct 2022 – Present
Hire backend, ML and platform engineers for a 140-person engineering org, closing 64 hires in 2025
Improved onsite-to-offer ratio from 6:1 to 3.8:1 by adding calibrated technical screens with engineering leads
Sourced 70% of hires directly via GitHub, LinkedIn and Gem sequences with a 31% reply rate
Partnered with engineering to replace take-homes with paired exercises, raising candidate NPS from 22 to 61
Recruiter, Riverbend Digital (Denver, CO)
Aug 2020 – Sep 2022
Recruited frontend, QA and DevOps engineers for 20+ client projects at a digital agency
Cut time to fill for React developers from 45 to 28 days by building a referral pipeline from local meetups
Education
B.A. in Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder (Aug 2016 – May 2020)
A strong Technical Recruiter resume shows the people programs and processes you ran, and how they improved hiring, retention or efficiency. Put your most relevant recent role first and make every bullet show a result, not a duty.
Sections, in order
Summary
Experience
Skills
Education
Length: One page for most candidates; move to two only if every line is relevant.
Summary: Write two or three lines: your role, your strongest skills, and one result that proves them.
Skills to feature
Talent acquisition
Employee relations
HRIS (Workday, BambooHR)
Compensation and benefits
Performance management
Onboarding
Employment law compliance
Process improvement
People analytics
Change management
Example bullet points
Rebuilt the engineering hiring loop, cutting time to hire from 52 to 31 days across 80 hires
Launched a structured onboarding program that raised 90-day retention from 82% to 95%
Moved payroll and benefits to Workday for 600 employees with zero missed pay cycles
Tips from recruiters
Show the size of the population you supported (headcount, locations, countries).
Name certifications such as SHRM-CP or CIPD near the top if the role asks for them.
Describe sensitive work by outcome and scope, never by individual cases.
Recommended templates
Classic (ATS-friendly): Jake's-style LaTeX classic: small caps and hairline rules
Modern (ATS-friendly): Clean single column with accent headings and rules
Executive (ATS-friendly): Centered executive layout with serif headings
Technical Recruiter resume FAQ
What should a Technical Recruiter resume include?
A Technical Recruiter resume should show the people programs and processes you ran, and how they improved hiring, retention or efficiency. Use these sections in this order: Summary, Experience, Skills and Education. Put your most relevant recent role first and make every bullet show a result, not a duty.
What is the best resume template for a Technical Recruiter?
Classic, Modern and Executive work well for Technical Recruiter roles. They are single-column with standard headings, so applicant tracking systems (ATS) parse them reliably.
How long should a Technical Recruiter resume be?
One page for most candidates; move to two only if every line is relevant.
Which skills should a Technical Recruiter put on a resume?
Prioritize the skills named in the job posting. Common ones for Technical Recruiter roles are Talent acquisition, Employee relations, HRIS (Workday, BambooHR), Compensation and benefits, Performance management and Onboarding.
How do I write strong Technical Recruiter resume bullet points?
Start with an action verb, say what you did, and end with a measurable result such as time to hire, offer acceptance rate and retention. For example: "Rebuilt the engineering hiring loop, cutting time to hire from 52 to 31 days across 80 hires."