I support founders and company owners by solving problems with key recruitment processes. I will help you create efficient and scalable recruitment processes which will enable your business to continue to grow, strengthen the culture you have created and provide great experience to your candidates.
Do any of these sound familiar?
- Your recruitment process worked fine when you were hiring 3 people per year but it doesn’t scale with your growing business.
- You wish the recruitment process was as measurable and scalable as the technical processes in your organisation.
- You’d like to further improve your leaders’ and recruiters’ competencies in conducting interviews.
- You are planning to enter international markets, or start operations in Poland.
- You invest your energy and your heart into recruitment but the results are underwhelming.
- You hire people who don’t succeed or leave a few months later.
Here is how I can help.
I will teach your team:
Effective recruiting
A review and optimisation of your current recruitment practices.
Hiring top talent
Designing effective, measurable and scalable recruitment processes from scratch.
Fast talent evaluation
Hands-on training in data driven, unbiased interviewing for hiring managers, their teams and your recruiters.
International expansion support
adapting your hiring processes for international markets.
For whom?
For startups and family owned businesses
for companies planning to set up operations in Poland
How I work
Discover
Initial consultation, investigation and defining the needs of your organisation at its current stage of growth. Review of existing resources, processes and practices. What works great and what could work better? What have you outgrown? Which practices or habits no longer serve you, and which have you not yet figured out? What are your main pain points and what causes churn? What are the main challenges in building the organisation of your dreams?
Design
A recruitment process which serves the needs of a fast moving start-up.
Defining the steps in the recruitment process, based on a job analysis, market analysis and common sense, or – we don’t hire a junior developer the same way as a CTO 🙂
Review or design of recruitment resources such as: job ads which appeal to candidates, job descriptions and templates which are consistent with your brand and stand out from the competition.
Creation of a question bank to enable an objective evaluation of candidates based on necessary competencies and explicit company values, or – we hire the best even when the founder is on their well deserved holiday.
Develop practical skills
Practical interviewing workshop
How to speak to candidates so it’s not only fun but also intentional and informative and helps collect objective data. The onion method and the STAR technique, or what start-ups can learn from Amazon and Google.
Offer workshop
it is no longer about compensation or a gym membership. How to celebrate extending the offer and help the candidate accept it.
Interview shadowing and feedback
I shadow you and share my feedback and recommendations to help you improve the quality of your interviews
Debrief meeting facilitation
I show you how to make the right hiring decision without using a crystal ball and how to create the sense of agency.
Recruitment coaching for founders
regular support with your hiring questions.
Packages
Seed
- Initial consultation, problem analysis and defining the goal of collaboration
- Review of current practices and resources
- Requirements analysis and current challenges
- Review of the stages in current recruitment process and recommendations
- Review or creation of job ads (max 2)
- Workshop on Efficient and Unbiased Interviewing
Grow
- Initial consultation, problem analysis and defining the goal of collaboration
- Review of current practices and resources
- Requirements analysis and current challenges
- Review of the stages in current recruitment process and recommendations
- Review or creation of job ads (max 2)
- Creation of an Interview Question Bank to enable competency based and value based evaluation of candidates, or - we hire the best even when the founder is on holiday
- Workshop on Efficient and Unbiased Interviewing
- Interview shadowing and feedback (2 sessions)
- Debrief facilitation - I’ll show you how to make an informed and objective hire or no hire decision
Accelerate
- Initial consultation, problem analysis and defining the goal of collaboration
- Review of current practices and resources
- Job requirements analysis and current challenges
- Review of the stages in current recruitment process and recommendations
- Review or creation of job ads (max 2)
- Candidate and competition market mapping
- Creation of an Interview Question Bank to enable competency based and value based evaluation of candidates, or - we hire the best even when the founder is on holiday
- Workshop on Efficient and Unbiased Interviewing
- Interview shadowing and feedback (2 sessions)
- Debrief facilitation - I’ll show you how to make an informed and objective hire or no hire decision Workshop on Extending Job Offers
- Recruitment coaching sessions for the founder (4)
- How to successfully extend offers to your candidates - workshop
Made to Measure
Individualised package to support you with:
- International market expansion
- Rapid scaling after you have secured investment
- A series of specific training sessions designed to meet your team’s needs
- A unique, complex hiring problem
Cost: after consultation
Book a 45 min strategic consultation - introduction, problem analysis and initial recommendations you can implement (Free)
About me
I started my tech recruitment career when the first iPhone was still in the prototype phase and Java developers wrote in SE06.
I gained most of my experience in the UK and I have recruited in eight different countries.
I spent many years in technical recruitment agencies and was a founding member of a recruitment start-up. I have recruited for a broad range of companies – from software start-ups, small R&D companies to large manufacturing organisations in the medical devices and defence sector. I understand 5-employee businesses and large, publicly traded tech corporations. I have made many recruiting mistakes so that you don’t have to.
Since 2018 I have been working in big tech, at Amazon and Shopify, some of the most innovative companies, where I have learnt to experiment, take risks and how to build and scale recruitment processes to support companies through hyper growth. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and E-commerce is where I have gained most of my experience.
At Amazon Alexa I built tech teams of software developers, machine learning, AI and speech scientists, and even linguists who helped Alexa understand human language.
For the last few years I have been leading teams of technical recruiters – hiring, developing, coaching and mentoring. Together with the business leaders I have been creating effective recruitment strategies. Myself and my teams have hired hundreds of software engineers, engineering managers, architects and devops across EMEA.
In 2020, after 16 years in the UK, I moved to Gdynia, together with my partner, two bilingual kids, and Lulu – the gentlest staffordshire bull terrier in town.
- Hired across 8 countries (UK, Ireland, Poland, Romania, Germany, Spain, Israel, Italy)
- Led teams of 20 people responsible for over 300 hires annually