Kiira Hjert-Bernardi •

WORK EXPERIENCE •

DARIGOLD

Senior Manager Talent Acquisition, Seattle, WA. 2022- 2023 Trained, mentored and managed a talent acquisition team in Seattle, WA and Boise, ID. Full cycle recruitment for corporate high-level positions and entry- level/high-volume roles. Responsible for filling positions by sourcing qualified candidates and assessing suitability for a specific role. Focused on equity analysis and building diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the recruiting and hiring process.

• Set yearly goals: time to fill, quality of hire, and cost.

• Ensured compliance in an applicant tracking system (ATS).

• Created best recruitment practices and guidelines for the team.

• Conducted market strategy research on trends, social media, and competition for annual initiatives.

• Worked closely with the marketing team on employer branding strategies.

• Continually networking and relationship-building with internal stakeholders and external candidates to build pipelines.

• Worked with HR department to track candidate interview experience, new hire onboarding experience, and employee satisfaction and engagement.

• Automated and documented processes to create consistency and efficiency across teams.

WELOCALIZE

Senior Manager Talent Acquisition, Perugia, Italy, 2019 –2021 Managed and mentored a talent acquisition team in Asia, Europe, and Americas on the full-cycle recruitment processes for multiple technology companies /Fortune 100 including Netflix, Amazon, Google, Apple Media, Facebook, and WhatsApp. Responsible for filling positions by sourcing qualified candidates and assessing their suitability for a specific role.

• Setting monthly, quarterly, and yearly goals for the team measured on a complexity scoring system (time, quality, and cost to fill each role).

• Ensuring team’s compliance in an ATS.

• Created best recruitment practices and guidelines for recruitment team.

• Conducted market strategy research on trends, social media, and competition for annual initiative.

• Helped form a recruitment strategy to forecast client’s needs.

• Continually promoting client brand through networking and relationship building. WELOCALIZE

Talent Acquisition Manager, Seattle, WA, 2017 – 2019 Managed a team of 9 recruiters in the US and Argentina on the full-cycle recruitment processes and human resource tasks. Oversaw the expansion of the recruitment team in response to an increase in business from existing accounts and newly acquired clients.

• Ensured each recruiter met and exceeded monthly, quarterly, and yearly goals.

• In collaboration with senior manager, created and implemented quantitative complexity scoring system to measure recruiter’s performance.

• Utilized creative sourcing: keywords, Booleans, locations, and demographics.

• Attended university job fairs.

• Trained reviewers to improve testing and screening processes.

• Increased social media visibility via Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. PROFILE •

Talent Recruitment is my passion. I am

an energetic, professional, organized

multi-tasker, who has a positive

attitude. I enjoy working with an

international team in a fast-paced

environment and learning new things.

I take pride in finding qualified

candidates to fulfill each specific role.

CONTACT •

8637 39th Avenue South

Seattle, WA, USA 98118

206-***-****

adyi74@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION •

UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA

Master of Science:

Cognitive Systems & Interactive Media

Barcelona, Spain

2010 – 2011

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Bachelor of Art:

Design & Visual Communication

Seattle, WA

2004 – 2008

SEATTLE CENTRAL COLLEGE

Associates of Fine Arts

Seattle, WA

2002 – 2004

•Kiira Hjert-Bernardi

WELOCALIZE

Talent Acquisition Specialist, Seattle, WA, 2014 – 2017 Provided full-cycle recruitment on multiple accounts including sourcing, interviewing, language and technical screening, onboarding and final offer letter. Personally, hired hundreds of candidates including over 30 who were subsequently hired directly by the client due to their quality of work and overall abilities.

• Exceptional candidate experience from start to finish.

• Coached candidates to identify and improve translation and localization weaknesses.

• Negotiation of annual salary, hourly rates, and other terms and conditions of employment with candidates, and gained commitments from candidates for current and future opportunities.

• Focused on the development of a robust talent pipeline for future roles.

• Developed various recruiting strategies and tools to identify qualified candidates.

• Maintained excellent customer service to our internal clients (account managers, project managers, hiring managers) by hiring top quality talent for open positions.

• Evaluated candidates’ strengths compared with job requirements.

• Weekly reporting of pipeline with management team.

• Communicated with peers by sharing recruiting best practices and providing accurate, thorough documentation of candidates in an ATS.

• Attended university job fairs.

AMAZON

Italian Merchant Risk Investigator, Seattle, WA, 2012 – 2014 Primarily investigated and evaluated buyer and seller fraudulent transactions.

• Took appropriate action to identify and minimize the risk posed by fraud patterns and trends for an online eCommerce platform.

• Communicated effectively with customer base: sellers, buyers, merchants, and internal customers.

• Achieved metrics on productivity and quality.

ZEROCHAOS

Italian Ads Quality Rater, Google, Seattle, WA, 2011 – 2015 Rated and provided feedback on Italian text and images for advertisements on internet web pages, as well as fact-checked and evaluated content.

WELOCALIZE

Italian Localization Quality Assurance Tester, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, 2012 Identified and logged relevant bugs on the Italian version of Xbox through internal database system. Also ran test cases and evaluated the quality of written text to ensure accuracy of localization. PACIFIC INTERPRETERS

Italian Medical Interpreter, Seattle, WA, 2004 – 2010 Provided Italian-English-Italian consecutive interpretations in phone setting and in-person during medicals procedures, including live surgeries.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN

Italian-English Interpreter, Multiple Locations, Italy, 2006 – 2008 Provided in person interpretation for a study abroad program traveling in Italy.

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