Marija Karakabakov

Tech Recruiter

Adeva is an exclusive network of engineers, product and data professionals that connects consultants with leading enterprise organizations and startups. Over the last decade, Adeva has been building and supporting over 35 local tech communities distributed across the world. With over 98% success rate, Adeva is changing the way work works.

• Developed and executed innovative sourcing strategies across platforms (LinkedIn, GitHub, Discord, Slack) to attract and nurture great talent across Tech & Product.
• Built and maintained relationships with potential candidates, using creative approaches to engage and nurture these connections, providing a great experience during the interviewing.
• Closely collaborated with Client Partners to understand client needs, thus ensuring candidate delivery and match within 3-5 days of initial search kickoff.
• Mapped out the talent journey and communication process and helped improve it contributing to a great candidate experience.
• Owned the Support (Ticketing) System, handling candidate questions and feedback promptly (within 24 hours of initial reach out), thus ensuring a positive candidate experience.
• Created strong internal relationships cross-functionally, advising on process and talent pipeline.
• 11 hires in 6 months via direct sourcing, mostly Senior roles (including Sr. Data Engineers, Senior .NET Engineer, Lead Laravel Engineer, Business Analysts, DevOps Engineer, Sr. Fullstack Javascript Engineer).

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, talent acquisition and expert advisors from all over the world.

Helped with market expansion through online research, data processing, and in-depth analysis for Fortune 500 companies. Daily to-dos also involved monitoring the news to extend client insight, reach and impact.

Followed topics related to the work of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, and the Working Group on Budget and Structural Policies:

• Attending committee meetings and writing meeting minutes
• Office assistance (handling incoming calls and other communications)
• Intensive document preparation related to the EP Plenary

Crafted marketing content for DMV.com, ranging from articles, landing pages, guides, etc. In-depth online research in order to write high-quality content with a strong focus on SEO. Used the AP Stylebook of writing.

• Teaching according to the educational needs, abilities and achievement of the individual students and groups of students
• Planning, preparing and delivering lessons to all students in the class, assigning work, correcting and marking work carried out by students
• Providing guidance and advice on educational and social matters

Assisting the professor with classroom instruction, exams and record keeping. Occasionally, in charge of delivering lectures, handing out assignments, as well as grading papers.