Kristina Diliberto
Didcot,Oxfordshire
Summary
Accomplished recruitment specialist with extensive expertise in talent pipelining, headhunting, and strategic hiring plans. Proficient in behavioural interview techniques and data-driven recruitment, ensuring optimal candidate sourcing and CV screening. Demonstrates exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, coupled with proficiency in ATS software and Microsoft Office suite mastery. Committed to enhancing recruitment strategies through technical job knowledge and salary benchmarking, aiming to drive successful client relationship management and effective salary negotiation.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work history
Expert Talent Advisor
Randstad Enterprise - Supporting Google
2025.11 - Current
- Supported high volume of open software engineer positions across Europe for Google.
- Collaborated with hiring managers to streamline recruitment processes based on staffing needs.
- Sourced relevant candidates through various channels and engaged them to assess interest levels.
- Conducted thorough candidate screenings to enhance quality of hires.
Talent Partner - Contract
Lendscape
2024.11 - 2025.06
- Salary & Bench-marking Project: Independently led salary and bench-marking project for current employees. Using Gradar, I evaluated and assigned IC grades to all company positions, aligning them with benchmark salary bands. Leveraging software, Figures, I developed salary bands for each role and level. HR now actively uses these insights to manage salary increases and annual bonuses.
- Graduate Program Hiring: Designed and executed graduate hiring program for engineering. Responsibilities included sourcing candidates and structuring assessment day agenda. Successfully hired eight graduates who will join in autumn 2025
- Offshore Hiring – South Africa: Facilitated hiring of new engineering squad in South Africa—Lendscape's first international team outside the UK. Identified local employment agency to support the hiring process and ongoing team growth. Successfully recruited a range of roles, including Software Developers, Automation Testers, Engineering Leads, and Business Analysts.
Senior Talent Acquisition Partner - Contract
Keyloop
2024.04 - 2024.11
- Strategic Workforce Planning: Partner with hiring managers to understand workforce needs and develop effective recruitment strategies.
- Candidate Assessment: Conduct in-depth evaluations, including interviews, skills assessments, and cultural fit analysis to ensure strong hiring decisions.
- Global Talent Sourcing: Proactively headhunt and engage global candidates through targeted outreach on job boards and professional networks.
- Data-Driven Recruitment: Leverage data insights to refine recruitment processes, enhance efficiency, and improve hiring outcomes.
- Acquisition & Integration Support: Assist newly acquired companies in establishing recruitment processes during the integration phase to ensure a seamless transition.
Talent Partner
Talent Heroes
2022.04 - 2024.05
- Embedded Recruitment Projects: Contributed to recruitment initiatives for Lendscape, 90POE, Asite, 3D Repo, Keyloop, Deepsea Technologies, and MOJU, supporting their talent acquisition strategies.
- Technical & Business Hiring: Recruited for diverse positions, including Software Engineers (Frontend & Backend), QA Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Relationship Managers, Business Analysts, and IT Support Engineers.
Talent Acquisition Lead
Avast
2021.07 - 2022.05
- Talent Acquisition Leadership: Led Talent Acquisition efforts for Avast's commercial groups, overseeing recruitment for IT, Sales, Customer Retention, and Engineering teams.
- Strategic Business Partnerships: Established strong relationships with group leads, providing strategic hiring support and regular recruitment updates.
- Recruitment Analytics & Reporting: Generated and presented weekly recruitment data reports to Senior Management to inform decision-making.
- Team Leadership & Development: Supervised and mentored two direct reports, supporting their professional growth and performance.
- Process Improvement & Employer Branding: Contributed to enhancing in-house recruitment processes, improving interviewing, onboarding, and employer branding strategies.
EMEA Technical Recruiter
Sophos
2016.08 - 2021.07
- High Requisition Load Management: Effectively managed high-volume requisitions within tight timeframes, delivering results in a strategic and efficient manner.
- Stakeholder Partnership & Recruitment Planning: Partnered with hiring managers to understand requisition requirements, advise on market conditions, and craft effective recruitment strategies aligned with business goals.
- Interview & Offer Process: Drove and advised hiring managers throughout the interview and offer process, securing approvals and successfully closing candidates.
- Senior Technical & Niche Hiring: Specialized in market mapping and direct search for Senior Technical roles, including rare specialisms and "purple unicorn" candidates for example Threat Researchers and Penetration Testers in UK, Hungry and Canada
- External Recruitment Partnerships: Defined EMEA recruitment PSL and collaborated with external recruitment partners during surge recruitment periods to ensure a unified and effective approach.
- New Function Development: Built out technical support and managed the Threat Response function in a new office location in Cork.
- Recruitment Project Management: Led a hiring project in Budapest for the growth of Sophos Labs, as well as the global incident response function across the UK, India, Vancouver, and the US, advising the Global TA team on best practices.
- Early Career Program Ownership: Managed the UK early career recruitment program, including interns and graduates, and provided guidance to the Global TA team on best practices for scaling the program to other regions.
- Event Representation & Networking: Represented the company at career fairs, university events, and industry networking opportunities to attract top talent including BlackHat USA and Bsides UK
- ATS & Recruitment Operations: Contributed to user acceptance testing and implementation of a new ATS, SuccessFactors while acting as the go-to person for recruitment ops within the EMEA TA team.
- Process Improvement: Worked closely with the Head of TA to streamline and simplify the recruitment process, implementing global recruitment templates for standardization.
- On-boarding Coordination: Collaborated with IT and HR to manage and enhance the new starter on-boarding process.
Global Talent Acquisition Coordinator
Sophos
2015.11 - 2016.08
- Interview Coordination & Scheduling: Efficiently scheduled and organized interviews for potential candidates, managing calendars and ensuring timely communication between all parties involved.
- Job Advertising & Branding: Drafted and posted job adverts across various platforms, ensuring alignment with company branding
- Employment Contract Management: Responsible for the creation and management of employment contracts, ensuring accuracy and compliance with legal and company standards.
Education
GCSE and A Level -
Fitzharrys School
AbingdonSkills
- Talent pipelining
- Behavioural interview techniques
- Headhunting expertise
- Technical job knowledge
- Data-Driven recruitment
- Recruitment strategy
- Strategic hiring plans
- Interview conducting
- Salary benchmarking
- Stakeholder management
- Salary negotiation
- Applicant tracking
- Candidate sourcing
- CV screening
- Exceptional communication
- Client Relationship Management
- Proficiency with ATS software
- Microsoft office suite mastery
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Expert Talent Advisor
Randstad Enterprise - Supporting Google
2025.11 - Current
Talent Partner - Contract
Lendscape
2024.11 - 2025.06
Senior Talent Acquisition Partner - Contract
Keyloop
2024.04 - 2024.11
Talent Partner
Talent Heroes
2022.04 - 2024.05
Talent Acquisition Lead
Avast
2021.07 - 2022.05
EMEA Technical Recruiter
Sophos
2016.08 - 2021.07
Global Talent Acquisition Coordinator
Sophos
2015.11 - 2016.08
GCSE and A Level -
Fitzharrys School