Selin Songur

Technical Recruiter

Berlin, Berlin, Germany10 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To Switch

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building equitable people practices.
  • Proven track record in talent acquisition and coaching.
  • Strong advocate for diversity and inclusion in workplaces.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a People & Culture strategist with expertise in talent acquisition and coaching within the tech industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

CoachingCareer DevelopmentTalent AcquisitionPeople ManagementRecruiting

Other Skills

AnthropologyCareer Development CoachingCoaching & MentoringContract RecruitmentDevelopment CoachingDirect SearchEmployee RelationsEmployer BrandingEnglishEvent PlanningFundraisingHR PoliciesHRISHuman ResourcesHuman Resources (HR)

About

🧿 turkish migrant, berlinerin for a decade, 👩🏽‍💻 sociologist, certified systemic coach, people & culture strategist, ✨ values driven: kind, authentic, fair, inclusive, and (human & animals) rights focused, 💭 music, cats, animal rights, and socio-cultural issues are what occupy my mind outside of work, 🤝🏼 helping organizations build more equitable people practices as the right structural changes in the workplaces should be the foundations for a positive change in society. currently my work time is divided into three main areas, 🙌🏼 part of AVOW's people team on a full-time capacity, 🚀 career specialist for students at CareerFoundry, ❤️‍🔥 independent coaching and l&d practice (specialty: people managers, career changers / starters, and, overall, folx coming from historically excluded backgrounds).

Experience

Careerfoundry

Career Specialist

Feb 2024Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Berlin, Germany · Remote

  • CareerFoundry offers online learners the chance to kick-start or advance their tech careers and supports students in finding a job that matches their professional goals. Career Specialists use their industry experience to work alongside a world-class tech curriculum to provide hands-on practice, real-world advice, and one-on-one mentoring to students.
  • In my role:
  • Provide motivational feedback and advice to students both in writing and via video calls on creating an industry-ready portfolio of project work in line with current standards and best practices.
  • Craft individualized video reviews of student resumes/cover letters/applications, highlighting creative successes and areas for improvement to showcase in-demand skills and design processes.
  • Apply extensive industry experience to guide students on potential career paths within their field of study (data analytics, fullstack development, digital marketing, product marketing, UX / UI design) .
Coaching & MentoringCareer Development CoachingCoachingCareer Development

Avow

Senior People and Talent Manager

Sep 2023Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Berlin, Germany · Hybrid

  • AVOW is an award-winning, global app growth company specializing in mobile OEM advertising.
  • In my role:
  • I own the full cycle global TA
  • HR business partnering with Sales and CSM functions
  • Help set up people & culture foundations for the org through strategic projects.
Talent DevelopmentRecruitingLeadership DevelopmentTalent AcquisitionPeople Management

Self-employed

Personal Coach

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · Berlin, Germany · Remote

  • As a systemic and social systems coach, I am here to champion your journey, to empower you with the tools and insights needed to navigate the private, professional, and societal challenges that await.
Development CoachingLife CoachingCareer Development CoachingJob CoachingCoachingCareer Development

Freelance

Freelance Recruiter

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · Berlin, Germany

  • Freelance Talent Partnership on selected recruiting projects (currently via Juucy), supporting companies with niche tech and leadership hiring on a limited project basis.
Multi-Location RecruitmentIT RecruitmentRecruiting

Frauenloop

Career Coach

Jun 2023Feb 2024 · 8 mos · Berlin, Germany · Remote

  • I am offering career coaching to FrauenLoopers who are navigating through tough work and career situations.
Coaching & MentoringCareer Development CoachingCoachingCareer Development

Career break

2 roles

Professional development

Apr 2023Sep 2023 · 5 mos · Berlin, Germany

  • Weiterbildung (further education) on ‘Systemic Coaching and Organisational Development’ at VfTC to allow me to gain more theoretical skills on HRBP and business coaching with leaders.

Health and well-being

Jun 2022Mar 2023 · 9 mos · Berlin, Germany

  • Took time to rest, recharge, spend time with the family, and learn new skills.
  • During this period, I’ve put my time into:
  • music mixing
  • adopting a rescue 🐶 from Ukraine
  • improving my professional 🇩🇪 to the B2 level
  • and co-writting an article on ‘Cultural Genocide in Ukraine’ for a political magazine.

Lokalise | hiring remotely

Senior People Partner

Oct 2021May 2022 · 7 mos · Remote

  • Co-created the infrastructure for people partnering
  • Designed and proposed the first ever DEI strategy for Lokalise
  • Led recruiting efforts for the new People team members and hired 4 employees in a month
  • Supported the people managers with the salary benchmarking requests in various geographies (tools used: Radford, Pave, open source platforms)
  • Conducted research and proposed a 4 day-workweek initiative
Talent DevelopmentRecruitingCoaching & MentoringLeadership DevelopmentTalent AcquisitionPeople Management

Soundcloud

2 roles

Senior People Partner

Promoted

Oct 2019Oct 2021 · 2 yrs

  • Provided strategic HRBP support for 6 leaders in Engineering team (managing ~200 employees under), addressing key people related issues
  • Designed and implemented a new people manager onboarding programme
  • Focus area in compensation and DEI - led and implemented the global compensation strategy revamp
  • Authored and published SoundCloud’s first pay gap report demonstrating organisation’s commitment to transparency
  • Developed the global philosophy and framework
  • Bought and implemented data from survey providers (Radford, ERI, Pave)
  • People managed EU People Ops team (1 team lead + 2 admins)
  • Collaborated with (newly formed) Works Council to establish working processes and build trust for an effective partnership through regular check-ins, feedback exchange
  • Successfully recruited for tech, product management, product design roles in Berlin (mid to VP level)
  • Key hires in this role: VP Product Design, VP People, VP Engineering, Head of Security, Director of Product Design
Talent DevelopmentCoaching & MentoringLeadership DevelopmentTalent AcquisitionPeople Management

Senior Recruiting Partner

Nov 2017Sep 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Started off with Tech Recruiting Partner and got promoted to Senior Recruiting Partner after 7 months of supporting the Engineering org with full-cycle recruiting
  • Expanded recruiting from Engineering to also Product Management & Product Design with a focus on senior leadership roles
Recruiting

Wild mission

Co-Founder

Jan 2019Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Berlin Metropolitan Area

Recruiting

Glispa global group

2 roles

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Feb 2016Nov 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · On-site

  • Gave end to end recruitment support for technology, product and global business hires for all levels
  • Implemented ​'Performance Based Interviewing'
  • Designed an intake document
  • Developed and documented job descriptions
  • Coordinated training and evangelised the methodology to the wider organisation

Technical Recruiter

May 2015Jan 2016 · 8 mos · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · On-site

  • - Full-cycle recruited during hyper-growth - recruited 46 employees across all departments in 2016
Recruiting

Nestpick

Tech Recruiter

Jan 2015May 2015 · 4 mos · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Recruiting

Education

The University of Edinburgh

Master of Science (MS) — International Development

Jan 2012Jan 2014

Masarykova univerzita

Bachelor's degree — Sociology

Jan 2010Jan 2011

Boğaziçi University

Bachelor's degree — Sociology

Jan 2006Jan 2011

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