Mikołaj Wichowski

Recruiter

Berlin, Berlin, Germany9 yrs 1 mo experience

Key Highlights

  • Reduced average time to hire from 111 to 73 days.
  • Implemented diversity-focused hiring framework.
  • Led a team that hired over 50 engineers in 6 months.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Technical Recruiter with extensive experience in E-commerce and Fintech industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical RecruitingStakeholder Management

Other Skills

Analytical SkillsApplicant Tracking SystemsBoolean LogicBoolean SearchingCandidates SearchingCommunication skillsCompensationDirect SearchEmployer BrandingEnglishExecutive SearchHeadhuntingIT RecruitmentInterviewingJob Search

About

I'm a resourceful Senior/Lead Tech Recruiter, with over 7 years of commercial experience. ✔ Experienced in identifying and fixing problem areas across all steps in recruitment funnel and across key recruitment metrics ✔ Created hiring processes (job descriptions, interview plans, scorecards), guided Hiring Managers on best hiring/interviewing practices ✔ Meaningfully collaborated with stakeholders up to C-level ✔ Experienced in hiring recruiters, shaping the recruitment campaign strategy, and functional leadership (including 1:1s with the team) ✔ Was lucky enough to have been mentored by amazing recruiters, and had a chance to mentor some talented professionals myself ✔ Directly hired 300+ talented folks ✔ Thrived in various environments (from early stage startups to Fortune 500) 🏆 Key achievements: 🎖In my first 6 months in the role, I lowered the average time to hire from 111 days to 73 days (per requisition), and from 77 days to 47 days (per application). @Zalando 🎖I have initiated, developed and implemented a direct search framework focused on diversity and active hiring manager participation, that resulted in several key hires and wider adaptation across Talent Acquisition. @Zalando 🎖Lead a team of 9 tech recruiters that hired over 50 software engineers in 6 months (exclusively passive candidates) in a greenfield project. @Kyriba - First French-American fintech Unicorn 🎖 Computer vision/audio recognition/personal hardware space. Hired founding team members while competing for talent with the top tech companies in the world. @Stealth Berlin-based startup 🎖Being a sole recruiter, I helped build from scratch Marvell's first Polish Engineering site of 11. @Marvell Technology - low-level software/middleware for multi-core networking processors @: mikolajwichowski@gmail.com

Experience

Enpal

Senior Tech Talent Acquisition Partner

Feb 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Berlin, Germany

  • Partnering up with senior leaders on hiring (mainly) for Technical Product Management and Platform&Security roles.
  • Establishing hiring processes and best practices along the way.

Career break

Personal goal pursuit

Oct 2023Feb 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos · Berlin, Germany

  • Following my acceptance of Zalando's voluntary leave program in October 2023, I have decided to take some time off, and fulfill my life-long dream of backpacking travel through Asia, and am now attenting an intensive German language course, as I am looking for the right new professional opportunity.

Zalando

Senior Tech Recruiter

Jan 2022Oct 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos · Berlin, Germany

  • Lounge by Zalando is an online outlet which offers its shoppers exclusive access to a selection of over 2000 fashion and lifestyle brands at affordable prices. With over 6m active customers in 17 markets, it's a market leader, and the fastest growing part of Zalando.
  • Here, I'm partnering up with Hiring Managers up to C-level to deeply understand their business, hiring needs, and grow the Tech teams (Software, Data, Analytics, Applied Science, Product Management).
  • My key contributions:
  • In my first 6 months in the role, I lowered the average time to hire from 111 days to 73 days (per requisition), and from 77 days to 47 days (per application).
  • I have initiated, developed and implemented a direct search framework focused on diversity and active hiring manager participation, that resulted in several key hires and wider adaptation across Talent Acquisition.
Analytical SkillsCompensationTechnical RecruitingStakeholder Management

Kyriba

Lead Tech Recruiter

Jun 2021Jan 2022 · 7 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France

  • Here, I lead a team of tech recruiters scaling up the first-ever French-American Fintech unicorn's Engineering teams in France and Poland.
  • Don't hesitate to reach out!
CompensationTechnical Recruiting

Amazon

Tech Recruiter

Apr 2021May 2021 · 1 mo · Poland

  • Building a team working on Amazon Ring in Gdansk, Poland
CompensationTechnical Recruiting

Olx group

Tech Recruiter

Feb 2021Jul 2021 · 5 mos · Poland

  • Building OLX's Pay&Ship project from scratch - lots of moving parts, engaged talent in PL, ROM, UA
CompensationTechnical Recruiting

Marvell semiconductor

Tech Recruiter

Jun 2020May 2021 · 11 mos · Cracow, Małopolskie, Poland

  • Only recruiter building Marvell's first Engineering hub in Poland from scratch.
CompensationTechnical Recruiting

Stealth startup

Senior Tech Recruiter

Nov 2019Jun 2020 · 7 mos · Berlin Metropolitan Area

CompensationTechnical Recruiting

Toolbox for hr

Senior Tech Recruiter / Functional Lead

Oct 2019Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

  • Toolbox for HR is a hit the ground running tech recruitment team. We are the best recruiters among developers and best developers among recruiters.
  • I shifted from being an Individual Contributor to a Lead (still very much hands-on in all phases of recruitment process).
CompensationTechnical Recruiting

Kitopi

Tech Recruiter

Oct 2019Feb 2020 · 4 mos · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

CompensationTechnical Recruiting

Codersfirst

IT Recruiter (Talent Analyst)

Apr 2019Aug 2019 · 4 mos · Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

  • Think of me as your personal career coach. My role is also to make your experience with CodersFirst go smoothly and support you through your job search, ultimately helping you secure the role you’ve been waiting for!
  • Here are some ways I can help you:
  • Providing insight into the job market
  • Polishing your profile
  • Prepping you for interviews
  • CodersFirst is on a mission to shake up the recruiting industry. Our team guarantee 100% transparency and introduce only the top talents to you so that you, as a hiring manager, can spend time on interviewing and hiring only when necessary.
  • ________________________________________________________________________________
  • On a mission with CodersFirst to build a whole new way of technical hiring helping programmers show their skills and providing companies with well-verified candidates ready for a final interview.
  • Website
  • www.codersfirst.com
  • Blog
  • https://medium.com/codersfirst
CompensationTechnical Recruiting

Accenture poland

3 roles

IT Recruiter

Sep 2018Mar 2019 · 6 mos

  • Independent end-to-end process ownership for Network/Security/Voice roles for Architecture, Engineering & Administration positions, System Administration and IT Project Management.
  • Close cooperation with Senior Management locally and globally.
CompensationTechnical Recruiting

Recruiter

Dec 2017Aug 2018 · 8 mos

  • End-to-end Recruitment Processes for Finance, Accounting, Customer Service and IT.
  • Permanent and temporary positions
  • Cooperation with Recruitment Agencies
  • Stakeholder management
  • Reporting, tracking
CompensationTechnical Recruiting

Researcher/Recruiter

Dec 2016Nov 2017 · 11 mos

  • Supporting different Recruitment processes including ones for Leadership
  • Running end-to-end recruitment processes 
  • Direct and executive search
  • Daily contact with various stakeholders from different countries and career levels internally and externally
  • Tracking and Reporting to Business
  • Using various Recruitment Tools (Taleo, HireVue, Extended DISC)
  • Process Improvement
CompensationTechnical Recruiting

Hill international

Researcher

Aug 2016Nov 2016 · 3 mos · Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

  • Recruitment (PL/ENG)
  • Direct Search
  • Executive Search
  • Market and Competition analysis
  • CV Screening and Selection
  • Conducting phone interviews
  • Taking part in face to face interviews
  • Making post-interview reports regarding Candidates
  • Psychometric tests' evaluation (HILL BEST FIT)
  • Sales activities (PL)
  • Market research, Identifying potential Clients
  • Contacting new and existing Clients via phone and e-mail
  • Preparing and sending Agreement Offers
  • Taking part in meetings with potential Clients

Pgb human resources

Recruitment & Sales Assistant

Feb 2016May 2016 · 3 mos · Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

  • Recruitment (PL/ENG)
  • Direct Search
  • Executive Search
  • Market and Competition analysis
  • CV Screening and Selection
  • Conducting phone interviews
  • Making post-interview reports regarding Candidates
  • Sales activities (PL)
  • Market research, Identifying potential Clients
  • Contacting new and existing Clients via phone and e-mail
  • Preparing and sending Agreement Offers

Education

University of Warsaw

Bachelor's degree — Management

Jan 2013Jan 2018

Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego im. Józefa Piłsudskiego w Warszawie

Bachelor's degree — Physical Education

Jan 2011Jan 2013

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