Julia Popovici Email & Phone Number

Sibiu, Romania

👩🏼‍💻 In this role, my daily activities and projects are around most of the employee life-cycle: from talent acquisition and onboarding, to people development, retention, engagement, and career paths, to succession planning.🔥 I’m the first team member in Systaems in an HR/People related role, so I’m doing all of the above from scratch. I’m also learning a lot.🌍 My main stakeholders are based in GCC, Eastern & South Europe, and North Africa - it’s great expanding my experience in these regions, given that previously I collaborated with stakeholders based mostly in Western Europe, bit in Africa and LATAM.📊 Systaems is part of The KPI Institute ecosystem. Although The KPI Institute has been around for 20 years as a research institute specialised in business performance and also providing training and consulting services, Systaems is a new entity that focuses only on delivering business consulting services on multiple practice domains such as Strategy & Business Planning and Performance Management.🚀 So in a way it’s a start-up. It definitely feels like it.We are now getting to know each other, establishing our strategy, looking into potentially expanding services, building processes or improving the existing ones, creating our website, finding our way of working together but also individually. I’m excited about the future 😃

ADPlist is a global community of mentors and learners, on a mission to democratize mentorship for all.Give me a shout if: 🚀 you’re looking to land your next gig and you think I could support you with + tips for transitioning into a new role or company+ recommendations on how to improve your portfolio, resume, or profile (LinkedIn or others)+ anything else related to the job seeking & recruitment process+ working remotely🚀 you’re a Founder or Hiring Manager and you think I could support you with + setting up your recruitment process+ selecting candidates+ interviewingBook a meeting here: https://adplist.org/mentors/julia-popovici

🎨 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲Did in-house end-to-end recruitment for Creative roles in the Design & Creative Services industry, focusing on EMEA region.🎨 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐭• A lot about Design (Graphic Design, Illustration, UI, UX, Art Direction etc.), other Creative areas (e.g. Video Production), and about the industry (different companies or agencies, how creatives work, their tools and software etc.).• About the dynamic in a fast-growing, scale-up company.• Great examples of Employer Branding actions, externally and internally. Superside demonstrates how a strategic, creative, forward-thinking EB team has a real contribution to showing the organisational culture (and more), supporting not only Talent Acquisition but the company growth in general. • That talented Copywriters are massively important to create proper job adverts, recruitment materials, or contribute to Employer Branding projects. Not all Recruiters are skilled in copywriting (nor want to be), so it’s important organisations invest in training Recruiters or hiring Copywriter(s) to collaborate with TA.🎨 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝• Interviewing Creatives, reviewing their portfolios, interacting with them and their work. I appreciate their mix of art and technical skills, and the impact they bring to a business.• The TA team I was part of.• The work-from-anywhere setup. I knew working from home is perfect for me, but this was the first time I experienced the benefits of everything being adapted to the remote-only, global, diverse organisation: processes, communication & collaboration tools, culture, people’s mindset, values etc.🎨 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐲• reinforcing my confidence that I can recruit for roles and industries I don’t have prior experience with. My skills are transferable.• teaching me more about how a fully remote, globally distributed company should function.

🚄 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲Did in-house end-to-end international recruitment in railway industry, for technical and business roles, while partnering with hiring managers and other internal and external stakeholders. Also, I contributed to improvement projects for Talent Acquisition.🚄 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐭That it’s extremely valuable to create and nurture relationships based on trust and open communication with hiring managers and any stakeholder.🚄 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝• Being involved in the onboarding of new colleagues: creating their onboarding program, delivering some of the trainings, having them in job shadowing activities.• Learning from engineers, candidates, and hiring managers about the railway industry.🚄 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐲• teaching me to think strategically and at scale. To do this, you need to have business acumen.• giving me a better understanding of the role of Talent Acquisition function within a global business. A better understanding of how much TA can impact, positively or negatively, the organization’s results.

🚘 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲As part of this Recruitment & HR consultancy agency, I recruited technical and non-technical roles for customers mostly in automotive or other tech industries.🚘 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐭• What it means to be in a customer-facing role. I was in direct communication with them (either technical managers, HR managers, or recruiters) and handling their questions, challenges, requests, push-backs, was a tremendous learning curve. • Sales. I attended meetings with customers or prospective customers to understand their needs and discuss collaboration opportunities. • Also, I saw how much they wanted a partner to just vent to or get advice from. It doesn’t matter if they are the CEO, Engineering Manager, HR Director or other person in the business - everyone gets value from a trustworthy partner listening to them.🚘 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝• Visiting production sites across the country, seeing and understanding the work of the people I was supposed to recruit. It was fascinating to see robots, production lines, warehouses, labs.• Coaching candidates on identifying their next career step or preparing for interviews.🚘 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐲teaching me how important it is to learn about the industry you’re recruiting for, to keep up with the news, to know how the competitors are doing, to have a deep understanding of the roles you’re hiring for.

📈 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲I laid the basis of the Educational Programs department, as its 1st employee. My role was quite diverse, but for the most part I created processes and tools - such as for course needs analysis, feedback analysis, participants’ management, and others. Also, I contributed to the research and development of educational programs.📈 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐭A lot about organizational strategy, performance management, KPIs, data (gathering, visualization, and analysis), and the tools used for all. 📈 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝As I was interested in performance management since University, I enjoyed a lot to learn more about this field, while meeting people from diverse countries and cultures.📈 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐲letting me quickly realize what I appreciate and what I don’t appreciate in the workplace, in a manager, in a team, in the company culture and way of communication.

Specialisation Course (6 Months), Human Resources Management And Leadership

Master'S Degree, Human Resources Selection And Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Organizational Psychology