Marija Vukic Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

PlugandPlay Talent is a special kind of recruitment service.We offer the customization of an in-house recruiter with the expertise and speed of an external professional. PlugandPlay Talent is more than a recruitment agency. Although we specialize in filling senior, hard-to-find roles, we offer a full complement of talent solutions, including recruiter training and talent branding. We are senior talent experts that you can plug in to assist your internal team, or, if you’re a smaller organization, we can be your team right from the beginning.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

Klue is B2B, Vancouver based SaaS enterprise competitive intelligence platform run by very experienced entrepreneurs and fueled by awesome new hires. Klue was at the beginning of their journey when we started. Low TA maturity, no systems and some process. We hired 17 people for the year, installed an ATS (Workable) and put in place a research based and candidate friendly recruitment process. Klue got to their Series A ($15 million) ready to scale.

London, Ontario, Ca

•Focused on raising the talent maturity level with an investment and execution of an employee branding strategy. •Focused on accurate forecasting by building capacity funnels and trying to plan and pipeline ahead. Some of it worked.

London, Ontario, Ca

•Helping to build a world class, data-driven, talent organisation in a digital media business experiencing 'the speed of light' type scaling and growth. •Our revenue skyrocketed to $80+ million in less than 3 years and we opened multiple offices in the US hiring 150+ people in different verticals with a very lean TA team.

London, Ontario, Ca

•Set up talent acquisition from 'scratch' , hiring 150+people in 2.5 years with an ROI Warren Buffett would be proud of. Roles were at all levels including executives like CTO and CSO. •Developed a rigorous, custom recruitment process with a work ability sample and structured interviews as well as personality testing for each role level. •Trained hiring managers on executing on the recruitment process.

London, Ontario, Ca

•Helped eliminate $500,000 in yearly agency fees, in a rapidly growing hardware technology company, while improving all the talent acquisition metrics in the process. Recruited senior sales and technology leaders in 10 countries. •Measurably raised the overall talent acquisition maturity of the department, mainly by forming strong relationships with hiring managers, delivering great candidates and a modest investment in employer branding.

Zurich, Zurich, Ch

•Loved my time at Adecco and learned a lot of important lessons. Collaborating with a wide range of clients and executive candidates. Recruiting efficiently, creative sourcing all while selling against an aggressive quota. •Lead the opening of a new division recruiting for senior executive roles on retainer – placed roles ranging from CFO’s to COO’s with Fortune 500 clients.

Zagreb, Hr

•Helped a fast-growing translation and localization start-up develop their first ever OKR based performance management system. Productivity gains of 25% measured 6 months after implementation. •Developed and staffed a freelance translator program.

New York, New York, Us

•After 6 years of accounting and audit this was my 'first job' in HR. I got the job by pitching the partners of the company a solution to ‘fix’ their recruiting. I fixed it and that lead to my second job in HR.

Toronto, On, Ca

KPMG was my real life MBA. While I did not know it at the time, being an auditor prepared me to be a People Operations professional that understands numbers, data and business impact. What I actually did: Audit and preparation of financial statements. Cross functional projects like due diligence and consulting with different departments of KPMG. Leader of audit teams up to 6 people. Worked with different profiles of multinational organizations in a very wide range of industries like tech, big pharma, CPG, global marketing agencies, retail and manufacturing.

Zagreb, Grad Zagreb, Hr

Side hustle, along with my daytime KPMG job. Teaching English. Received the Teacher of the Year Award 2005.

Master'S Degree, Master Of Human Resources Management, Mhrm

Ba, Business Management, Business Management