The Hiring Room LIVE: What Recruiters Look For

Ever wondered what really goes on behind closed doors when hiring decisions are made?

Get a front-row seat to the hiring process as recruiters and industry hiring managers reveal how they evaluate candidates, shortlist applicants and make the final call. Experience the decision-making process LIVE and discover what it takes to stand out from the competition.

Here's what goes down in the Hiring Room:

1. The CV Showdown: Watch recruiters review CVs in real time and uncover what makes an application stand out or get passed over.
2. The Recruiter's Scorecard: Get an insider's look at the criteria hiring managers use to assess candidates.
3. The Hire or No-Hire Debate: Witness industry hiring managers deliberate over candidates and make their hiring decisions LIVE.
4. The Verdict Explained: Find out why candidates make the cut (or don't), with candid feedback and actionable takeaways.

Want to be in the hot seat? Here's your chance! Be among the first 10 students to email your CV to Eunice Hui at euniceh@nus.edu.sg to have your CV reviewed by a recruiter and stand a chance to experience a live interview.

Whether you are preparing for your first internship or gearing up for your graduate job search, this is your opportunity to see the hiring process from the other side of the table.

This is a pre-event workshop for NUS Career Fest 2027.

Speaker(s)

Kris
Founder, Campus Partners

Kris has spent over 16 years on the other side of the interview table, deciding who gets hired at some of the world's most demanding tech companies. As a Talent Acquisition leader at HPE, VMware and IBM, he built and led recruitment teams across 13+ Asia-Pacific markets, hiring for sales, technology and corporate roles. Today he brings that insider view to Campus Partners, helping graduates and professionals win offers by showing them how real recruiters make the call.

Serdar Arican
Technical Adoption Manager, VMware(Broadcom)

Serdar is a technology strategist with over 20 years of experience across cloud consultative sales, migration and modernisation, multi-cloud strategy, cloud economics and hands-on global data centre operations. As a Cloud Infrastructure Architect for Asia at VMware, they led the VMware Cloud on Hyperscalers strategy, partnering with AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud teams to accelerate customers' cloud journeys. A trusted advisor to CxOs, they turn business vision into practical technical roadmaps that drive cloud adoption.

Koushik Radhakrishnan,
Executive Director - Enterprise Architecture

OCBC Koushik brings over 20 years of tech experience guiding enterprises through their cloud journey, from migration and modernisation to building and deploying cloud-native applications and infrastructure. He has built and led teams of Cloud Architects and Reliability Engineers at New Relic, IBM Consulting and VMware, speeding up cloud migrations and making developers more secure and efficient. He has lead cloud security engineering across APAC, driving innovation and thought leadership that help customers secure their applications in the cloud.

Register by 24 January 2027.
(Registration will close once all slots are filled)