Petra Petro

Janes enables military, government and defence companies to make critical decisions. Our expert-driven tradecraft, developed over 120 years, combined with human-machine teaming, delivers assured open-source intelligence across military capabilities and order of battle, equipment, events, countries, companies and markets. Reporting directly to the Global Talent Acquisition Director, I support the business' hiring requirements in Dev & Tech, RD&A, Sales, Finance and Operations across Europe, US and APAC.

As an integral part of the Global Talent Acquisition team at Microsoft, I hires talents across the GTM (Go-to-market) functions such as sales and technical sales into the Specialist Team Unit (STU). I predominantly focused on sourcing talent across Germany, South Africa, Italy and the UK specialising in a portfolio of solutions such as Modern Workplace, Infrastructure, Business Applications, Security & Compliance and more.

Being part of the internal HR team my main responsibilities were: • being in charge of international recruitment building teams from the ground up across the whole of Europe; • partnering with Hiring Managers to assess talent needs and provide expertise and guidance around hiring plan and strategy, driving the full end-to-end recruiting cycle; • leading and contributing to process improvement projects such as online and onsite onboarding; • act as a mentor and advisor for junior members.

My main responsibilities were: • Sourcing passive candidates through various channels and activities across the globe for a variety of tech roles • Arranging and preparing candidates and hiring managers for interviews • Advising hiring managers on job offers and acting as a negotiator between candidates and hiring managers • Drafting and posting adverts on job boards and social media sites • Building a strong relationship with hiring managers and stakeholders and becoming a trusted advisor

White Space is a provider of Architecture and Design recruitment solutions across the UK. Supporting the recruitment team with administrative tasks my responsibilities included: screening CVs, qualifying candidates, managing emails and applications, maintaining the CRM system, taking all incoming phone calls. I also took responsibility for the setup and management of the company’s social media accounts.

Being my first ever job in recruitment I gained a lot of experience from both the fast-paced staffing and administrative side of things while partnering with 5* hotels across London. My day-to-day tasks included: taking incoming calls, building and maintaining a strong online social community, chasing and checking timesheets, processing holiday requests, taking and filing candidate details, qualifying candidates, supporting candidates through interview processes, writing job specs and advertising vacancies.