Istanbul, Türkiye
For leaders and professionals navigating decisive moments in their careers, engagement typically begins with a strategic conversation. My background is in recruitment and executive search, where I have conducted over 10,000 interviews since 2007. This experience has given me a deep understanding of leadership hiring, talent dynamics, and career transitions. After interviewing leaders and professionals across industries for nearly two decades, I developed a strong pattern recognition around leadership trajectories, decision-making dynamics, and career turning points. This perspective allows me to look beyond surface narratives and identify the structural forces shaping careers and talent decisions. Today I work as a Principal Consultant, advising organizations and senior professionals on leadership positioning, international career moves, and strategic talent decisions. My work sits at the intersection of strategic workforce advisory and leadership transition consulting. Most engagements involve mid-to-senior professionals and emerging leaders navigating complex career transitions. This practice is designed for leaders and professionals navigating decisive moments — executive transitions, organizational restructuring, first-time leadership responsibilities, or complex career redefinitions where shortcuts are not an option. Engagements include strategic career design, leadership and workforce transition advisory, assessment, and organizational change initiatives. The work is context-driven, moving naturally between individual advisory engagements and broader organizational dynamics when needed. My approach is grounded in careful observation, deep listening, and long-term thinking developed through years of interviewing and advising leaders across industries. Rather than offering prescriptive answers, I focus on helping individuals and organizations clarify the underlying dynamics of their decisions and navigate complex transitions with clarity and sound judgment. Quick fixes, ready-made formulas, and transactional engagements are intentionally avoided. This is not operational CV preparation or formulaic coaching, but strategic transition work built on judgment, experience, and thoughtful dialogue. Selective advisory engagements | Based in Turkey, working internationally Professional inquiries: 📧 [email protected]
As an Interim Consultant • My role specializes in understanding clients and helping organizations work more effectively while focusing their core competencies. • As an Effective Recruiter assessing the candidate pool, conducting competency based interviews, feedback and reporting. • Providing Professional Coaching to corporate functions as well as individuals in terms of career management & leadership. 🆙 My experiences are mainly in the following areas: • Mass Recruitment/Leadership & Talent Recruiter/Interim Projects • Assessment/Interview/Feedback • Talent Management • HR Audit & Organizational Design • Career Strategy & Career Consulting • Employer Branding • Cultivating Culture • Coaching & Mentoring • Blogging
Kariyer Geçişi ve Liderlik Danışmanı (Outplacement & Üst Düzey Yönetici Koçluğu Desteği) Büyük ölçekli ve yüksek gizlilik gerektiren kariyer geçişi ve liderlik danışmanlığı programları kapsamında; yeniden yapılanma, küçülme, organizasyonel dönüşüm ve şirket kapanışı gibi kritik dönemlerde kurumlara ve bireylere destek veriyorum. Çalışmalarım, mavi yaka, beyaz yaka, yönetici ve C-level seviyesine kadar uzanan geniş bir kitleye yönelik, uçtan uca outplacement ve kariyer geçişi desteğini kapsamaktadır. Bu kapsamda sorumluluk alanlarım: Organizasyonel çıkış ve kapanış süreçlerinde sahada (yerinde) kariyer geçişi desteği sağlamak; çalışan ayrılışlarının yapılı, saygılı ve profesyonel biçimde yönetilmesine katkıda bulunmak. Adaylarla birebir kariyer geçişi görüşmeleri yürütmek; kariyer stratejisi, CV konumlandırma, mülakat hazırlığı ve belirsizlik dönemlerinde karar desteği sunmak. Tüm süreçleri gizlilik sözleşmeleri ve KVKK başta olmak üzere veri koruma yükümlülükleriyle tam uyumlu şekilde yönetmek; onay ve dokümantasyon süreçlerini yürütmek. Farklı fonksiyonlar ve kıdem seviyelerindeki profesyonellerle çalışarak, kariyer evresi, istihdam riski ve iş gücü piyasası dinamiklerine göre yaklaşımı uyarlamak. Seçili çalışan grupları için online grup eğitimleri ve atölyeler tasarlayıp sunmak; istihdam edilebilirlik, kariyer netliği ve geçişe hazırlık konularında destek sağlamak. Bu çalışmalar boyunca hem kurum paydaşları hem de bireylerle yakın çalışarak, kariyer geçişi süreçlerinin insani duyarlılık, profesyonel disiplin ve kurumsal sorumluluk çerçevesinde ilerlemesini hedefliyorum.
• Responsible for headhunting, HR Audit and organizational restructuring.
• Recruit, manage and coach 500+ professionals, successfully inspiring team members and corporate clients to fulfill their career goals. • Passionate about helping people break barriers and grow professionally despite the background as a Career Consultant. • 13+ years of large-scale team management, recruitment, mass recruitment, headhunt, consulting, coaching in several prestigious organizations of various industries. • Have worked as a Contractor Consultant in Çalık Enerji for a Mass Recruitment Project between Jul 1st-Dec 31st 2017. During this period, have recruited 60 professionals for engineering & executive positions. Top focus areas as follows; Coaching: • Providing Professional Coaching to corporate functions as well as individuals in terms of career management & leadership. • Career Transition • Linkedin Strategies • Interview Preparation • Social Networking • Offer Negotiation • Career Development and Design Recruitment: • Creating the candidate pool, conducting competency based interviews, feedback and reporting. • Keep candidates and Line Managers informed at all stages of the recruitment process. • Meeting job seekers to assess their skills and experiences, their career goals, and their suitability for different positions. Talent Management: • As a Professional Assessor, organize and conduct ACDC processes for potential employees and make feedback sessions, prepare and follow up their organizational developments in alignment with Performance Management & Succession Planning Processes of the related company. HR Audit: • Ensuring the effective utilization of the organization’s human resources. • Helping the HR Department & the Company understand how to improve itself. • Being an act of "due diligence" for potential investors and stakeholders of a company. • Maintaining or enhancing the organization and the department’s reputation in the community. • A basis for improvements in the future.
• Developing and delivering effective recruiting strategies • Managing the recruitment and selection processes of the company effectively and providing right solutions on time in terms of humans resources needs of the business functions of the company • Build recruitment needs and optimize&manage all recruitment process, job branding • Sourcing internal and external candidates according to relevant job criteria, mining databases networking, internet recruitment activities • Leading job briefing/recruitment meetings with Hiring Managers • Build and improve network to find talent for future organization • Utilize social and professional networking sites to identify and source candidates • Provide feedback and coaching to line managers on selection/ interview techniques • Keep candidates and line managers informed at all stages of the recruitment process • Provide expert advice and guidance to line managers on current market conditions and how to recruit the best talent for their roles • Leads and provides support/guidance to Human Resources Specialists (recruited: 33)