Recruiter - Verity Healthcare
(2026-01)
Recruiting healthcare and office staff at all levels for 6 UK branches
- Candidate sourcing: databases and job boards (CV Library, Reed, LinkedIn), direct outreach, advertising, building candidate pipelines
- Candidate screening and assessment
- Coordinating and conducting the interviewing process: phone, video and in-person interviews
- Maintaining audit-ready compliance documentation, right to work and reference checks, following safer recruitment practices, GDPR compliance
- Market research, salary benchmarking, identifying potential talent pools
- Maintaining recruitment records
- Cooperating with the HR team, local branch managers and Job Centres
Business Mentor - Part-time - Help to Grow Management Course
(2024-01)
- Supporting entrepreneurs in developing their business growth plan
- Delivering quality mentoring sessions following the T-GROW model
- Areas of work: people management, hiring, retention, employee motivation, talent development, delegation, leadership, business scale-up, processes and metrics, sales and marketing, customer service, cash flow, strategy
Volunteer - Crisis
(2022-01)
- Volunteering with the homeless - general volunteer duties
- Member of the Welfare team - helping the most vulnerable guests
- Interpreting for Polish-speaking guests at legal and medical consultations etc.
Founder and Managing Director - Link School of English
(2010-01 - 2025-01)
Recruitment and HR related responsibilities:
- Recruiting teachers, managers and office staff
- Managing the full recruitment cycle
- Talent acquisition strategy and forecasting recruitment needs
- Recruitment process design: advert copy, advertising channels selection, vacancy posting, role descriptions and requirements, candidate profile, selection criteria, recruitment tasks
- Interview design: structured interview, behavioural and competency questions, psychometric tests
- Candidate sourcing: databases, specialised platforms, direct outreach, advertising, identifying potential talent pools
- Candidate screening, assessment, selection, cultural alignment, mindset, background checks
- Managing employee feedback (two-way), appraisals, exit interviews
- Reducing turnover, increasing retention and engagement, dealing with burnout (e.g. burnout workshops for teachers)
- Maintaining continuous improvement standard, career planning
- Networking (including running a Meetup group)
- Managing candidate journey, creating positive candidate experience, contract negotiating and signing, onboarding
- Market research: competitor activity, trends, salary and benefits benchmarking
Early Career Sales and Marketing Roles - Various (Mercedes-Benz, Budweiser) - Poland, Hungary, USA
Before founding Link School I gained experience in sales, marketing and customer service in Poland, Hungary and the USA, where my employers included Mercedes-Benz and Budweiser.
