Victor SorokaSenior Talent Acquisition Manager EPAM Systems

7+ years in recruiting 5+ years in IT Author of “It’s all about recruiting” blog

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Project 1

Call Center / Business Process Outsourcing

Requirements: Build a team from scratch for newly created call center with focus on following markets: Portugal, Spain, France and Italy

People who live in Lviv, Ukraine and speak ...o Portuguese (Português)o Spanisho Frencho Italian

People who live in Lviv, Ukraine and …o speak Portuguese (Português) and speak Italiano speak Portuguese (Português) and speak Spanisho speak Portuguese (Português) and speak Frencho speak Portuguese (Português) and speak Italian and speak Spanish

Women who spoken Spanish and live in Lviv, Ukraine

Women who speak Spanish and are older than 18 and younger than 30 and live in Lviv, Ukraine

People who live in Lviv, Ukraine and are from … o Portugalo Spaino Franceo Italy

People who live in Lviv, Ukraine and used to live in… o Portugalo Spaino Franceo Italy

People who live in Lviv, Ukraine and studied … o Portuguese (Português)o Spanisho Frencho Italian

Project 2

New IT Project for customer from Germany

Requirements: Build an IT project team for new customer from Germany

People who live in Kyiv, Ukraine and speak German and work as … o Software Engineerso Software Developerso Programmers

People who live in Kyiv, Ukraine and speak German and graduated in …  o Computer Scienceo Software Engineeringo Computer programmingo Software programming

People who live in Kyiv, Ukraine and speak German and like … o Programmingo Javao Python programming languageo ….

People who live in Kyiv, Ukraine and speak German and …o work as Project Managers o works as IT Managerso work as Managers and like Developers.Org.Ua

People who live in Kyiv, Ukraine and speak German and …  o are Business Analystso like Business Analysto …..

People who live in Kyiv, Ukraine and speak German and … o work as QA Engineerso graduated in Software Testingo and like Test automation

Project 3

“CIS people” who live in USA

Requirements: Find Software Engineers who relocated to USA from CIS countries

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