Joana Cahner

Recruiter

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain13 yrs experience

Key Highlights

  • 10 years of experience in Talent Acquisition.
  • Expert in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion strategies.
  • Proven track record in building inclusive hiring processes.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Specialist with a strong focus on Diversity and Inclusion in the Tech industry.

Contact

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Skills

Core Skills

Diversity And InclusionTalent AcquisitionTechnical RecruitingTraining And Development

Other Skills

Assessment and evaluationBusiness developmentCandidate experienceCandidate experience best practicesDEI high-impact projectsDEI principles creation and implementationData and metrics accountabilityDirect sourcingDocumentation and reportsEmployee RelationsEmployer BrandingEmployer brandingEnd-to-end recruitmentExecutive RecruitmentExecutive Search

About

With an academic background in Psychology and 10 years of dedicated Talent Partner experience across Tech and Product multicultural and global organizations, I have learned to promote open cross-functional collaboration, liaising with a wide variety of stakeholders and teams ensuring a fast adaptability to address any new challenge. Driven by my aim of fostering a safe place to work where everybody feels supported, valued, and heard, my main goal is to place equity first in the list to achieve real diversity and inclusion, and for that, I have focused on Talent metrics and analytics to improve interview and hiring process, leading initiatives, conception of strategies, and training. 👩🏻‍💻 PROFESSIONAL SKILLS - Data process reports and TA-DEI metrics dashboard (Tableau & Workday Insights) - Tech&Product Talent Advisor - Hiring process equity and best practices implementation - Interview Trainer - Unconscious Bias Trainer - Culture Awareness Trainer - DEI Program Lead - Candidate experience - Strategic diverse and inclusive sourcing - Stakeholder management 🧡 CERTIFICATE - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: DEI Strategies for Business Impact (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE - Judge Business School)

Experience

13 yrs
Total Experience
1 yr 5 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 8 mos
Current Experience

Cint

Senior Talent Partner - DEI champion

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · Remote

Adevinta

Global Talent Partner - DEI Specialist

Oct 2023 – Sep 2024 · 11 mos · Barcelona, Cataluña, España

  • (1 year contract)

Bitpanda

Senior Talent Partner - Product&Tech - DEI Specialist

May 2022 – Mar 2023 · 10 mos · Barcelona, Cataluña, España

  • Talent partner for the tech and product teams in Spain, Austria, and the Netherlands, building inclusive hiring strategies to ensure high quality and equity standards by reshaping the hiring and interview process. Holding leaders and HM accountable with data and metrics weekly updates.
  • DEI Partner for TA and the Hiring teams, leading recruitment strategies to improve diversity in our talent pools and equity in our processes. Creation and implementation of the DEI principles. Interviewer trainer.
Inclusive hiring strategiesData and metrics accountabilityDEI principles creation and implementationInterview trainingDiversity and InclusionTalent Acquisition

Vistaprint

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner - Product&Tech - DEI Specialist

Mar 2020 – May 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Barcelona y alrededores

  • Partnering with leadership and engineering teams in the Netherlands, Germany, UK, and the Czech Republic, building personalized strategies to hire top diverse talent, analyzing demographic data and HR metrics.
  • Creating and implementing DEI high-impact projects and initiatives across the TA and HR teams, leading recruitment and sourcing strategies, team training, and interview training, and ensuring an equal candidate experience building a whole structured common hiring process.
DEI high-impact projectsRecruitment and sourcing strategiesTeam trainingCandidate experienceDiversity and InclusionTalent Acquisition

Adevinta

Tech Talent Advisor

Jul 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos · Barcelona y alrededores, España

  • (Formerly Schibsted)
  • Recruiter and advisor for the tech SW Engineering teams in Barcelona, London and Paris, improving our hiring principles and best practices by leading several TA projects such as candidate experience, hiring process standardization, early careers, D&I and team training. Responsible for the full 360Âş recruitment process, from sourcing to offer negotiation, partnering with hiring managers and leadership, as well as HR,and legal.
  • Looking for the best tech-diverse SW Engineers, Data Engineers, DevOps Engineers, UX/UI, Product Managers, and Engineering Managers.
Full 360Âş recruitment processHiring principles improvementCandidate experienceDiversity and InclusionTalent Acquisition

Seat:code

TA Specialist and tech Recruiter

Feb 2017 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Barcelona y alrededores, España

  • (implant)
  • Building the engineering and product team from scratch for the new tech Barcelona lab, partnering with the Seat headquarters HR team.
  • End-to-end recruitment from job posting and talent attraction (Data, Mobile and BE Engineers, Product designers, and PM’s) to offer negotiation.
  • Interview ideation and standardization advisor, candidate experience best practices, onboarding process, employer branding.
End-to-end recruitmentCandidate experience best practicesOnboarding processEmployer brandingTalent Acquisition

Hays

Technical recruiter & consultant

Mar 2015 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Barcelona y alrededores, España

  • IT and e-commerce Recruiter and business consultant
  • Tech recruitment focused on Development profiles (Java, Scala, Python, JavaScript, Android, iOS, PHP, Hadoop, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, ...) and DevOps (AWS, Docker, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, CI, CD, ...) QA / Software Test Engineers and Management profiles (CTO, Software Engineering Managers, Tech Lead, ...) from the first contact till the salary negotiation (Job Description, posting, sourcing, interviews, …).
  • Business development (contacting clients, hiring managers, technical Readers, and directors, by phone and face-to-face meetings, opening new accounts, and doing follow-up).
  • Doing follow-up of the candidates.
  • Trainings.
  • Meetups and Events.
  • Managing the new trainees of my team, monitoring them and doing the training for them, and being responsible for their development.
Tech recruitmentBusiness developmentTrainingManaging traineesTechnical Recruiting

Amaris

Technical Recruiter

Mar 2014 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr

  • Tech recruiter (developers, analysts, testers, architects, administrators, Project Managers, and Technical Directors) and engineering (mechanical, electrical, and industrial engineers)
  • Direct sourcing on main national and international Job boards and Headhunting
  • Phone and F2F interviews
  • Writing and publishing job offers
  • Training of Recruitment Officers
  • Collaboration with my team and supervisors on projects to develop the entire HR platform, including training, our internal (self-developed) project management, task management, and BI platform.
Direct sourcingPhone and face-to-face interviewsTraining of Recruitment OfficersTechnical Recruiting

Creu roja a catalunya

Training, Learning and Development Specialist

Oct 2012 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Barcelona

  • Lead the creation of a training and recruitment session for the daily groups (8 to 10 people), candidates and volunteers
  • Individual and group interviews to assess the different skills profiles (from nurses and doctors to social integration, psychologists, international cooperation ...)
  • Assessment and evaluation
  • Documentation and reports
  • Performance evaluation
Training and recruitment session creationAssessment and evaluationDocumentation and reportsTraining and Development

Education

University of Cambridge

DEI Specialist Executive Education

Mar 2023 – May 2023

Universitat de Barcelona

Grado en Psicología — Recursos Humanos

Jan 2008 – Jan 2013

UniversitĂ  degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

Grado en Psicología — Beca Erasmus

Jan 2010 – Jan 2011

InstituciĂł Cultural del CIC

Bachillerato — Social-Económico

Jan 2006 – Jan 2008

Schweitzer Schule Barcelona

Jan 1994 – Jan 2006

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