Years of professional experience as Senior Talent Advisor
Vlada Todeush
Senior Technical Recruitment & DEI Expert
Dublin,Dublin
Summary
As a senior Technical Recruiter with a decade of experience as a trusted talent advisor, my career has been dedicated to nurturing and connecting the world's top tech talent with game-changing opportunities. I drive outcomes for a talent ecosystem as a key contributor in order to meet hiring demand, making sure to build and execute against an equitable, inclusive, and accessible hiring system. I'm a subject-matter specialist and trusted advisor for business leaders regarding talent and recruiting needs, with a deep understanding of tech industry landscape, product areas, business strategy, and domains and roles. I have a keen interest in driving DEI and how AI can enhance people experience. Empathetic and people oriented I’m a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders and a dedicated mentor and coach.
Overview
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Work History
Senior Technical Recruitment Specialist
Google
2021.04 - 2023.12
- SME/Senior member of Site Reliability Engineering Staffing team responsible for full life cycle recruitment across
- Partnering and consulting with senior stakeholders to build hiring strategies, headcount forecasting, and Diversity & Inclusion business plans that can scale globally
- Client point of contact and business process advisor in EMEA, hiring for locations such as London, Zurich, Munich, Dublin, Sydney, San Francisco, Montreal and Tel Aviv
- Program Manager for EMEA SRE/SWE internal mobility, coaching, and transfer program refresh.
- Led cross functional efforts with EMEA SRE/SWE internal mobility, hiring committee, referrals and online teams to streamline processes
- Program Managed vendor onboarding and training for 40+ new recruitment vendors
Diversity Equity and Inclusion Program Manager
Google
2019.05 - 2021.04
- Acting as DEI advisor to PA staffing: partnered with key business, staffing, and hiring stakeholders in SRE and SWE organisations to build solutions for diversity, equity, and inclusion objectives
- Consistently exceeded aspirational hiring goals, with 175% offer accepts to goal
- Responsible for influencing team of 120 recruiting peers and engineering leaders to drive towards representative hiring goals for EMEA and APAC regions
Staffing Services Lead
Google
2018.06 - 2019.06
- Managing team of up 10 Googlers (including onboarding new starters, supporting conversions and Googlers returning from leave etc.)
- Overseeing and evolving day-to-day delivery of EMEA Recruiting Coordination operations in EMEA
- Partnering closely with stakeholders in Staffing, Hiring Managers and Facilites team to identify and drive holistic process improvements which will streamline efforts and increase overall productivity and improve candidate experience
- Provided ongoing coaching and mentoring to team, in helping to implement interview coordination strategies
Technical Recruitment Specialist
Google
2014.08 - 2018.05
- Full cycle technical recruiter, leading Site Reliability Engineering hiring across EMEA (focus on SE, SWE, FE, T/Pgm and Eng Manager profiles)
- Extensive stakeholder management, partnering closely with global site leads, hiring managers, interviewers, sourcing/HR/GPS partners to deliver on ambitious hiring goals
- Consistently achieved highest referrer and candidate satisfaction scores across Tech Staffing (100% across previous Performance cycle, with OKR of 90%)
- SME for experience, referrals, diversity & inclusion, providing onboarding and mentorship to staffing teams globally
- Responsible for resource planning, TVC hiring and onboarding in partnership with extended workforce, recruiting partners and referrals team
- Strong experience in initiating, designing and executing full life cycle projects.
- Created first global, standardised Candidate Experience Training for Staffing and Sourcing team. Training has since been delivered to 500 recruiters and sourcers
- 3 month Assignment in Shanghai: Lead Hardware & SETI hiring for Greater China Region. Designed hiring & sourcing strategy from scratch. Partnered closely with stakeholders to create hiring process, job description and interview panels.
Employee Referral Specialist
Google
2014.01 - 2014.08
- Responsible for managing referrals across 9 diverse markets (France, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Estonia, Ukraine, Russia and Greece). Gained in-depth understanding of hiring needs and business areas for up to 60 roles across EMEA (Sales, Legal, Marketing etc), while continuously managing consultative relationships with key stakeholders
- Partnered with core client groups to develop recruitment and referral strategies, managed pipeline and exceeded delivery on hiring targets by delivering 32 hires in 2 quarters
- Screened average of 175+ referral applications and carried out 35+ interviews per week
- Exceeded SLA targets by 300% with 1 day average time to screen application (SLA of 3 days)
- Created referrals best practices guide as scalable way to educate referrers and improve referral pass through rates
Customer Support Specialist & Quality Lead
Google
2011.06 - 2013.09
- Delivered customer support to global SMB clients across Adwords, Analytics, Youtube, Google+, Places and Merchant Center platforms on variety of complex topics (Billing, Policy, Analytics, Account Performance & Troubleshooting)
- Demonstrated ability to learn, adapt, develop and seek out new opportunities while exceeding customer satisfaction, sales and productivity targets
- Received 2 GCS Business CSAT Top Performer Award (selected from 305 Googlers)
- Responsible for coaching 35+ peers to ensure consistency & quality of service
- Coached 20+ new team members and interns
Program Manager: Google.org
Google
2013.04 - 2013.08
- Managing and coordinating the NGO Engage Programme which connects Googlers with the wider EMEA NGO community to help them implement Google products based on their goals. The programme has now been rolled out to 150+ NGOs & Googlers, across 6 countries
- Overall project management: defining project strategy, documentation, processes creating project timeline, creating communications plan
- Responsible for recruitment of volunteers & NGOs for the program.
- Provided ongoing support and trainings for 60 Google consultants for programme duration
- Created a NGO Engage Handbook to be used as a framework for international roll out to EMEA and LATAM
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Bachelor of Commerce with Chinese Studies
University College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland 2007.09 - 2011.05
Skills
- Global Talent Acquisition (tech & non tech)
- Diversity Equity and Inclusion advocate
- Full life cycle recruitment & sourcing
- Stakeholder management
- Cross functional leadership
- Negotiation
- Program Management
- Data driven decision making
- Team leadership and coaching
Languages
English
Fluent
Russian
Upper intermediate
Ukrainian
Elementary
Chinese (Mandarin)
Elementary
French
Elementary
Timeline
Senior Technical Recruitment Specialist
Google
2021.04 - 2023.12
Diversity Equity and Inclusion Program Manager
Google
2019.05 - 2021.04
Staffing Services Lead
Google
2018.06 - 2019.06
Technical Recruitment Specialist
Google
2014.08 - 2018.05
Employee Referral Specialist
Google
2014.01 - 2014.08
Program Manager: Google.org
Google
2013.04 - 2013.08
Customer Support Specialist & Quality Lead
Google
2011.06 - 2013.09
Bachelor of Arts - Bachelor of Commerce with Chinese Studies
University College Dublin
2007.09 - 2011.05
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