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Responsible for multiple end-to-end recruitment projects across commercial, people, finance, tech (engineering) and product roles. Partnered with VC- and PE-backed start-ups and scale-ups from the digital and technology landscape across Europe, and helped them find their mid-senior level key and leadership hires (C/VP/Director/Head-level).● Led searches from intake to hire within three months;● Actively involved in setting/approving search strategies;● Enhance recruitment processes by designing the interview process, and optimising job descriptions to attract a diverse pool of candidates;● Create standardised processes for salary benchmarking, relocation, and visa requirements across different geographies;● Interviewing and assessing candidates;● Leading and supporting candidates and clients throughout the process;● Consulting and being clients' sparring partner on market and talent insights;● Assisting clients and candidates through offer and closing stage.Involved in company's sales and business development initiatives.Clients: Kevin,eu, billwerk+, Merchlink, Violet, Ninety Nine, flair.hr, PSG Equity, Sympa, Lingoda, Sport Alliance, Mapal, Signaturit.

Skopje

Main focus areas:● Developed research strategies and ran candidate sourcing for 6-8 complex searches at a time, ranging from People, Commercial, Finance, Tech and Product executive roles;● Coordinated team of four researchers (project-based) for a research sprint covering eight roles and mapping across 400 candidates in five days;● Applied out-of-the-box research methods, and strong candidate and client communication and management;● Ran interviews daily for various functional roles of different seniority levels;● Mentored Research Analysts and Research Associates;● Managed at least one end-to-end hiring process at a time supporting the lead consultant (sourcing, interviewing and closing talent, consulting clients based on market insights and developments, including market mapping and assuring best recruitment practices for candidates and hiring managers).Involved in internal hiring processes, contributed to various internal projects, such as re-defining recruitment, research and on-boarding processes and quality assurance.Clients: HelloFresh, Takeaway, Vinted, Container xChange, Numa, VAHA, ABB & PANION, Lingoda, Bitburger, Felyx, Tier Mobility, Zalando, Wohnvoll.

Skopje

The Big Search (“TBS”) builds high-performing teams for growing tech companies. We partner with top investors and founders across Europe and the US to build companies that shape our future. Our strategy is a laser focus on scaling businesses from 0 to 100 and 100 to 1,000 employees, providing executive search, RPO services and expert advisors from all over the world. Why are we called The Big Search? Because our client’s big search for the right candidate and our candidates’ big search for the right opportunity, is our big search too.https://www.thebigsearch.com/Sourced candidates for various executive roles at once which entailed:● Developing search strategies;● Conducting market evaluation to provide market insights for the team;● Developing talent pools for current and future hiring needs with advanced sourcing techniques.Additionally, conducted interviews for different executive roles to support the lead recruiter and client management assistance, organizing and over-viewing the tasks of junior researchers in the team and defining research strategy, as well as on-boarding junior researchers, shadow their work and provide feedback.Clients: Revolut, Spryker, Raylo, PlusDental, IDAGIO, Medwing.

Skopje

Prepared documents for company amendments before the Central register of the RM, prepared and revised all contracts in regards to company's activities, prepared documents for employment for company employees, represented the company before state institutions, providing legal consulting for company's clients.

Skopje

Provided legal opinions regarding the establishment of collateral for loans, establishment of collateral by collecting the necessary documentation from the credit officers for conducting it before the notary public documents check, notary public acts check before and after signature);Issued of statements for erasing collateral and consents for legal matters requested by the clients after prior consideration of the requests, assessment of the legal risk and decision of the credit board;Kept a permanent record of all notary acts for legal or natural entities;Represented the bank in court procedures, acted in court cases, preparation and submission of documents to notary public and enforcement agents and maintaining permanent contact for the purpose of monitoring the cases, represented the bank in the enforcement proceedings;Kept current affairs from the legal department for reporting to the Executive board for the work of the department through drafting notices and preparation of draft decisions.

Macedonia

Acted in legal cases, compiled and filed lawsuits for clients: court submissions, legal remedies and answers, as well as represented clients before courts.

Macedonia

Preparation of various court submissions and following the legal cases by regularly attending the court hearings. Preparing and writing independently court submission for civil, criminal, commercial and administrative legal cases.

Assisting the employees at the Ombudsman office with the cases commenced upon complaints, and the employees working in other departments with events organization.

Master Of Laws (Ll.M.), Intellectual Property Law

LLM studies focused on Intellectual Property Law. Master thesis "Social Media Cybersquatting".

Master Of Laws (Ll.M.), Intellectual Property Law

LLM studies focused on Intellectual Property Law. Master thesis "Social Media Cybersquatting".

Bachelor Of Laws (Ll.B.), Law Studies