Shubhi Bhalla

Recruiter

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India11 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Over 100 hires delivered in a single fiscal year.
Designed innovative hiring initiatives leveraging AI.
Built high-performing teams rapidly and effectively.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition expert with a focus on leveraging AI in recruitment strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionRecruiting

Other Skills

Stakeholder ManagementAICandidate ExperienceHiringSourcingMarket ResearchEmployee EngagementRecruitmentCandidate SourcingSocial Media EngagementMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft ExcelManagementPowerPointTeamwork

About

I build teams and I build tools. With 11+ years in product engineering hiring, I've partnered with senior leadership on talent mapping, stakeholder management, and scaling recruitment frameworks from scratch — across SWE and PM roles. But what's changed recently is how I work. I've started using AI not just as a productivity hack, but to fundamentally rethink recruiting — building tools like an automated job application tracker and a GitHub-based talent screener to discover and engage candidates faster and smarter. I believe the next generation of TA isn't just about relationships and instinct. It's about combining that human judgment with systems that scale it. If you're building a team or rethinking how talent acquisition works — let's talk

Experience

11 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

2 mos

Current Experience

Zoom via levelup hcs

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

Apr 2026 – Present · 2 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · Remote

Microsoft

Recruiter

Jun 2021 – Jan 2026 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Noida

At Microsoft IDC, I owned full-cycle hiring for product engineering — partnering with senior engineering and PM leadership to build high-performing teams at scale and speed.
Some highlights from my time here:
→ Delivered 100+ hires in a single fiscal year across SWE and PM roles
→ Stood up a product engineering team from scratch in record time
→ Designed and executed the Low Code No Code hiring initiative — 12 niche, first-of-kind hires in 3 months in a talent-scarce market
→ Built a campus PM branding program that drove strong engagement across 8 premium campuses
→ Elevated candidate experience through structured engagement initiatives and built battlecards to equip peers in converting offer extensions to offer accepts
→ Leveraged AI to create recruiting assets that improved interview-to-offer conversion and reduced time-to-offer across pipelines

RecruitingTalent AcquisitionStakeholder ManagementAICandidate ExperienceHiring

Netcracker technology

3 roles

Senior Associate- Talent Acquisition

May 2017 – Mar 2018 · 10 mos

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Promoted

Jan 2016 – Jun 2021 · 5 yrs 5 mos

Associate Recruitment

Jan 2016 – Nov 2016 · 10 mos

Involved in 360 degree recruitment which included understanding the business requirement from stakeholders to getting people onboard.
Responsible for hiring for roles like Developers, architects etc. in all relevant technologies for teams like Operation Support System (OSS), R&D (Mano-Orchestration, Mano-Monitoring, Agile Virtualization Platform), Integration and Migration team in telecom space
Extensively hired for technologies such as J2EE, frameworks (Spring, Hibernate), Web services, Front end technologies such as Angular JS, GWT (Google Web Toolkit)
Expert in scouting & building pipeline of candidates with niche skills such as LifeRay, NoSQL databases etc
Used social media (Linkedin, Facebook, Google search etc.) extensively to engage with passive candidates
Designed various templates for making the entire internal employee referral program more effective

RecruitmentCandidate SourcingSocial Media EngagementRecruiting

Hexagon executive search

Senior Recruitment Consultant

Jun 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Pune

Understanding the positions and job descriptions including mandates skills , attributes.
Sourcing the candidates from various job portals , for respective positions as per client’s requirement.
Involved in preliminary screening by cross checking candidates on various parameters set by the clients, evaluating on certain skills.
Sharing the potentially good resumes adhering to the criteria of the clients.
Coordinating the entire selection process starting from scheduling technical discussions to negotiations, on boarding/ joining of the candidate.
Formal reference checking for the candidates who are in select to offer stage to validate the credentials, before the offer is rolled out.