About Sonder Careers

Three times.

That is how many times I have been made redundant since the pandemic turned the world upside down.

Each time, I did what everyone tells you to do. Updated the CV. Tailored the cover letters. Applied for roles I was genuinely excited about. Sat in front of interview panels and tried to compress more than thirty years of experience, personality, and capability into forty-five minutes.

And each time, I felt the same thing. That the process was designed to filter people out rather than let the right people in.

Maybe you have felt it too.

The market has changed in ways that most people still in work have yet to experience. The number of people competing for the same role has grown to a scale that felt unimaginable just five years ago. The silence from applications sent into the void gets heavier. The mental toll of the search, the uncertainty, the rejection, the starting over and over again; it accumulates in ways that are almost impossible to put into words. And completely impossible to put on a CV.

And yet the CV endures. A document format that has barely changed in decades, handed to recruiters who are doing their best with the tools they have, trying to find one person out of thousands in a stack of perfectly identical pages.

I know both sides of this. The people behind Sonder Careers work in recruitment. We have seen thousands of CVs. We know what good looks like on paper. We also know how often the best candidate in the room is not the best CV in the pile. We have spent years watching the right people get missed because the process never gave them the space to show who they actually were.

That is what we decided to change.

Sonder Careers is a UK-based professional community built on a simple belief. The best hires are not made by scanning documents. They are made by understanding who someone truly is.

Our Get To Know You system invites members to answer thoughtful questions across five areas: Character and Strengths, Vision and Ambition, Resilience and Growth, Values and Principles, and Purpose and Fulfilment. These answers become the first thing an employer sees. Not your job titles. Not your dates of employment. You.

Alongside that, we give you the tools to compete. AI-powered profile summaries, a full job board, CV uploads, real-time messaging, hub based community discussions, real-time application tracking, and a hiring pipeline built for employers who want to hire people, not paper.

We built this because we have lived the other side of it. And we think you deserve better.