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SONAL PALAM

SONAL PALAM

Bangalore,KA

Summary

Dynamic professional with 14 years of IT recruitment experience, specializing in data-driven strategies and niche recruitment techniques. Proven track record in effective negotiation and decision-making, contributing to team growth and organizational success. Self-motivated recruiting manager focused on aligning staffing solutions with company objectives.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Talent Acquisition Lead (TA Manager)

Tietoevry
Bangalore
05.2022 - Current
  • Averaged 8 full-time hires and 2-5 Contractors per month.
  • Oversaw all hiring processes and procedures from start to finish interviewing, recruiting, and onboarding all new hires.
  • Maintained daily and weekly MIS, weekly hiring updates to Staffing Head & Line of Business.
  • Participated in weekly meetings with executives.
  • Created reports on recruiter productivity and other metrics; provided.
  • Leading the sourcing strategy in partnership with hiring managers by sharing market insights to enable talent decisions.
  • Understanding Salary fitment and taking care of salary negotiations.
  • Managing a team of 2 resources.
  • Have been part of campus recruitment program.
  • Act as an ambassador for the Talent Acquisition team at Tietoevry, showcasing the company’s values, culture, and employee experience.

Talent Acquisition Advisor

Huron Eurasia Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
07.2016 - 05.2022
  • Averaged 15-18 full-time hires per month.
  • Handling End-End Hiring process from Profile Identification – Offer Release - On-board Process.
  • Led the sourcing strategy in partnership with hiring managers by sharing market insights to enable talent decisions.
  • Partnering with business leaders/hiring managers to understand hiring needs, skill requirements & selection process.
  • Strategic hiring is done for Workday and the product team in India.

Talent Partner

Oracle India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
05.2015 - 07.2016
  • Average Hires per month - 28 to 30.
  • Managed and planned project calls to gather and understand the requirements for fulfillment of requirements for OMCS and OCI BU’s.
  • Coordinated with the offered candidates for seamless onboarding - Maintained daily and weekly MIS.
  • Weekly hiring updates to Staffing Head & Line of Business - Maintained, analyzed data, and prepared hiring updates for the weekly call with Business Managers.

Recruiter

Rolta India Pvt Ltd
Mumbai
04.2012 - 01.2015
  • Interacted with the hiring managers and understood the business requirements by working closely with cross-functional teams to source the right talent through various sources.
  • Involved in a weekly meeting with the President and presenting the overall hiring strategy and future course of action to fulfill the open positions.
  • Prepared weekly MIS to share important metrics like slippage (if any) and take any necessary preventive actions with partners and Directors on the hiring process & bringing to their notice if we have any slippage from the technical team in terms of interviews and seeking business support to conduct the interviews on time.
  • Sourced profiles through various channels such as LinkedIn, Facebook, WhatsApp groups, networking, staffing companies, employee referrals, job portals, and Discussion forms.
  • Screened and short-listed candidates per the requirements - Coordinated with Technical Panel for candidates Interviews - Posted advertisements on the websites, on job portals, and on social networking sites.
  • Rolled out offers for the selected candidates and completed their joining formalities.
  • Led Walk-in-Interview Co-ordinations.
  • Independently handled the scheduled events in locations like Bangalore and Pune.
  • Generated and maintained a good database to respond to the future needs of the company.

Sourcing Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
Pune
06.2011 - 03.2012
  • Sourced talent through traditional methods (Job Boards, BYB, Job Posting) as well as through passive sources (deep internet search, networking sites, etc.) Pre-qualified & short-listed the candidates.
  • Maintained various MIS reports (candidate tracker, etc.) and coordinated recruitment drives.
  • Searched, screened, pre-qualified, and assessed suitable candidates for a job.
  • The spearheaded gamut of activities on monitoring and maintaining a systematic database of an active and qualified pool of job seekers.

Education

PGDHR - Human Resource Management

Institute of Management Development & Research
Pune
06.2009 - 05.2011

Skills

  • Recruitment analytics
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Talent Strategy
  • Social Media Recruitment
  • Leading Teams
  • Diversity Hiring
  • Talent market analysis
  • Offer negotiation

Accomplishments

  • Recruiter of the Month to successfully hire for the telecom capability and build the team from scratch for first time in India in Tietoevry, Bangalore.
  • First-person in the TA team to receive a spot award from BU Stakeholders in Huron.
  • Received performance-based spot award every six months from the TA director.
  • F1 Recruiter award of the month when I was part of Oracle. (30 hires in 30 days)

Special Projects

Part of Workday and Smart Recruiter End-to-End testing from India for ATS implementation. 

Leading Referral Kiosk Program (Virtual)

Technologies Recruited

5G RAN Protocol, Golang, React, MERN stack, AL/ML, Data Governance, Data Scientists, Tableau, Power BI, MSBI, Informatica, OBIEE, ODI, MDM, DevOps, AWS, Java, .NET, Python, QA, RPA, Salesforce, Security Engineer, Infrastructure Engineers, Linux Administrators, Project Managers, Oracle ERP, Workday, Anaplan e.tc

Timeline

Talent Acquisition Lead (TA Manager)

Tietoevry
05.2022 - Current

Talent Acquisition Advisor

Huron Eurasia Pvt Ltd
07.2016 - 05.2022

Talent Partner

Oracle India Pvt Ltd
05.2015 - 07.2016

Recruiter

Rolta India Pvt Ltd
04.2012 - 01.2015

Sourcing Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
06.2011 - 03.2012

PGDHR - Human Resource Management

Institute of Management Development & Research
06.2009 - 05.2011

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