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Sonal Alva K

Recruiter

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Nearly a decade in talent acquisition.
  • Expert in enhancing candidate experience.
  • Strong partnerships with hiring managers.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Specialist with expertise in recruiting for startups and technology companies.

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Skills

Core Skills

RecruitingSourcing

Other Skills

Career CounselingIT RecruitmentInternet RecruitingInterviewingProgram Management

About

With close to a decade of expertise in talent acquisition, I am passionate about partnering with startups and growing companies to build exceptional teams. I thrive on fostering strong relationships with hiring managers, understanding their unique needs, and delivering top-tier candidates that align with their vision and goals. As a dedicated professional, I prioritize creating a positive and memorable candidate experience throughout the recruitment process. I believe that every interaction counts, and I strive to ensure that candidates feel valued, respected, and engaged from the first point of contact to their onboarding. By providing clear communication, timely feedback, and personalized attention, I aim to make the journey as seamless and enjoyable as possible. If you're seeking a results-driven talent acquisition partner who values relationships, champions candidate experience, and understands the unique challenges of startups and growing companies, I would love to connect.

Experience

Atlan

Talent Partner

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Postman

2 roles

Senior Recruiter

Promoted

Apr 2022Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.
  • Roles & Responsibilities:
  • I partner closely with Leadership and Engineering managers to understand their teams and their hiring needs.
  • In this partnership, I also work with hiring managers to design end-to-end recruiting strategies for their roles and find creative ways to source great talent including tapping into passive candidates.
  • I also partner with peers and come up with ideas to improve candidate experience throughout the hiring process.
  • Collaborate with teammates and across the various teams to ensure a phenomenal experience to get the best talent onboard.
  • Maintain reports and leverage this data to drive recruiting strategy and keep the hiring managers updated on recruiting and hiring performance.
  • Track pipeline data and provide relevant updates to managers on all roles/projects supported
  • Lead interview teams through the debrief sessions and support in making hiring decisions.
IT RecruitmentSourcingProgram ManagementInterviewingRecruiting

Technical Recruiter

Mar 2020Mar 2022 · 2 yrs

The/nudge foundation

Volunteer

Jan 2020Feb 2020 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka

Belong.co

2 roles

Career Coach

Jul 2018Dec 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • I have personally engaged with 200+ data scientists, product managers, and front-end developers over the last one year by understanding their career aspirations in detail and helping them join organizations that meet their present non-negotiables by ensuring a great candidate experience.

Talent Expert

Jun 2017Jun 2018 · 1 yr

  • Belong Experts is an independently run, new initiatives project for Belong. At Belong Experts, we’re trying to change the way recruitment works using our Machine learning powered tech platform as a differentiator. We are approaching the recruitment problem from a candidate first perspective and are consistently trying to understand the pain points and needs of candidates (even those who Belong at their present workplaces). We’re always helping professionals to connect with each other -the idea is to create a meaningful community that helps with insights and data to guide professionals through their career paths and by helping them find a place where they truly belong. We’ve still got loads to learn and would love to hear from you!

Neva innovation labs pvt ltd

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Dec 2015May 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Built the technology and product teams which included product managers, engineers, designers and data scientists. where I managed the entire life cycle of an employee from recruitment to exit.
  • Organized employee engagement activities and worked on admin function too.

Mara group

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Feb 2015Nov 2015 · 9 mos · Bangalore

  • Worked on end-to-end recruitment for technology roles including sourcing, shortlisting and setting up interviews.

Wipro

Software Engineer

Aug 2012May 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore

  • Worked on Wipro’s employee portal consists of various applications which provide a one-stop-shop solution for the employees including finance, hospitality, transport, health, travel etc.

Education

PES University

Bachelor's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2008Jan 2012

PES University

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) — Computer Science

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