Irina Sokolova
Recruitment Specialist at Yandex
United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolIrina Sokolova is a recruitment specialist with 8 years of experience focused on sourcing and supporting IT talent across Russia, the UK and international markets. She has led full-cycle hiring for engineering teams (iOS, Android, Java, Python, DevOps, QA, .NET, 1C and more), implemented HR metrics tracking, and run candidate assessments and onboarding programs. At Hitch by red_mad_robot and later red_mad_robot she combined hands-on sourcing via LinkedIn, Telegram, HH and AmazingHiring with people-centric candidate care and internal 1:1s and exit interviews. Her background includes analytic market reporting and organizing employer-side initiatives that improve retention and hiring predictability. Now based in the United Kingdom and currently recruiting at Yandex, she brings a blend of operational rigor and empathetic candidate experience. Colleagues describe her approach as detail-oriented and warmly supportive—helping engineers find projects where they can thrive.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Санкт-Петербургский Государственный Университет
Chinese, French, Russian, English
Github Skills (5)
mining5
python3
machine-learning3
data-mining3
data-science2
Github contributions (1)
IljaNovo/ProjectOfDataMining
Jun 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:29 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
pythonminingdata-sciencedata-miningmachine-learning
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