Position: Recruitment Lead, Head of Recruitment
Category: Recruiter
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 10


As a Recruitment Team Leader, I am responsible for building and managing a team of up to 15 employees - recruiters of middle to senior levels. Also, I was managing the efforts of dedicated recruiters outside of my team (up to 15 additional recruiters at a time). The main focus was on the Ukrainian market, since March 2022 my team joined staffing in Poland, Bulgaria, Columbia, Spain, and Portugal.
My goal is to provide one of the top projects of the company with high-level recruitment services. Overall demand was up to 89 technical vacancies (middle to lead roles). Most of the vacancies are in critical status.
My responsibilities are:
- Lead, coach, and motivate a Talent Delivery Team
- Create and implement development plans for the team
- Partner and drive staffing within the Delivery organization
- Constantly track, measure, and analyze team productivity and improve the hiring process
- Participate in updating recruitment-related processes, procedures, guidelines
- Work on corporate HR and branding initiatives, etc.
- Hire staff at new locations in Europe.

My previous experience as a Recruitment Lead at a Ukrainian product company (igaming and esports). My goal was to organize effective recruitment processes, keep a high level of recruitment standard, and work closely with Managers to ensure their satisfaction rate. Overall demand was up to 406 vacancies, and 1/3 was highly critical.
My responsibilities were:
- Growing up recruitment team from 8 to 24 employees;
- Developing the new structure of the recruitment team;
- Planning and implementing changes in the team, organizing both 1-on-1 and group meetings;
- Developing a new motivation system for the recruitment department;
- Identifying training needs and organizing internal educative activities;
- Setting priority for open positions, gathering updates and reports on the recruitment process;
Close contact with Managers, providing them with more information on the recruitment process, gathering their feedback and working on action plans;
- Improving work relationships within the recruitment team and with managers, building a high-performance culture;
- Filling critical positions (Product managers, Project coordinators, Business Development managers, Frontend Developers, DevOps, Lead Scala Developer, and many others).