Paulina Ferenc

HR | EB | Wellbeing | Talent Acquisition Lead at Volvo Group 🍀

Wroclaw Metropolitan Area

About

Hi! I’m Paula – an HR enthusiast, employer branding fan, and wellbeing advocate at Volvo Group Poland. ☘☘☘ I love creating an environment where people can spread their wings, be themselves, and genuinely enjoy their work. As a Talent Acquisition Lead, I’m responsible for recruitment and onboarding. I make sure that new colleagues start their journey at Volvo Group with confidence and that everyone has the space to grow and feel comfortable in their role. For people. With people. About people. 🍀 https://jobs.volvogroup.com/

Experience

  • Volvo Group (Full-time · 4 yrs 5 mos)
    • Talent Acquisition Lead
      Sep 2025 - Present · 10 mos

      - Leading people, complex projects, end-to-end recruitment areas, onboarding initiatives, and coordinating Employer Branding (EB) activities - Coaching, reviewing and delegating work - Problems faced are difficult and often complex - Translates strategy and processes into actionable plans and tactics. - Proven tract record in successfully utilizing candidate attraction strategies to hire best talents - Provide recruitment data, labor market insights and analytics

    • Senior Talent Acquisition Partner
      Feb 2022 - Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 8 mos

      Mainly: IT area - Providing recruitment process end-to-end - Through close partnership with hiring managers, driving the process to attract future colleagues and ensure their outstanding candidates’ experience - Support to Hiring Managers in the full cycle of the recruitment process - Working closely with HRBP, the employer branding department, in advising, partnering and implementing interesting ideas - Conduct recruitment processes for the Polish market - Identify qualified candidates through various sourcing channels - Verify candidates’ soft skills and their Volvo’s culture-fit - Taking care of new employees through their pre-boarding experience - Taking part in additional projects, workshops, job fairs, and international initiatives - Organizing creative activities in support of the recruitment process Additional projects: - Recruitment Project Coordinator of Drive IT Program 2022 - ( https://driveitwithvolvo.pl/ ) - Recognition in 2022 for recruitment successes in the SAP area

  • Experis Poland (4 yrs 8 mos)
    • Senior IT Talent Recruiter / IT Projects Coordinator
      Apr 2021 - Feb 2022 · 11 mos

      - Communication and collaboration with other team members - Overseeing the execution of tasks of team members working on the project, related to Client and Candidate service, recruitment, administration - Planning, work distribution and coordination of activities of individual team members working on the project - Taking care of proper and regular information flow within the team/ branch/region - Managing recruitment projects - Implementing Candidate Journey standards - Verifying and assessing professional qualifications of Candidates - Actively identify and establish relationships with key Candidates

    • Senior IT Talent Recruiter
      Oct 2018 - Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      - Conducting recruitment processes for IT sector - Leading interviews - Building candidate database - Building and maintaining relationships with clients and candidates - Preparing reports for clients - Participating in business meetings - Acting as a point of contact to assigned clients

    • IT Talent Recruiter
      Jul 2017 - Oct 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

      - Recruiting IT specialists - Selecting, screening and phone interviews with candidates - Building and constantly expanding candidates' base - Taking care of building long-term relationships with candidates - Building relationships with external clients - Conducting and supervising all recruitment processes, delivering candidates, scheduling interviews, making job offers - Hiring – preparing contracts, negotiations with candidates, signing contracts

  • Junior Recruitment Specialist at NBCR Sp. z o.o.
    Jan 2015 - Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    - Coordinating recruitment processes (IT area) - Preparing and coordinating selection and recruitment process for Polish and international companies from various areas; low-level, mid-level, high-level positions - Conducting recruitment interviews (phone and face-to-face interviews) - Developing and managing candidates' database - Preparing job descriptions, posting job advertisement - Building relationships with external clients as well as with candidates - Maintaining documentation according to internal company’s standard

  • Junior Recruitment Specialist - intern at Neonet S.A.
    Jun 2014 - Aug 2014 · 3 mos

    - Selecting applications - Leading phone interviews with candidates - Supporting consultants in realized recruitment processes