Nik Arkharov

+64 21 242 8942 | nik@sourcingintelligence.co.nz

Citizenships: Georgia, Russia & New Zealand
Resident: Tbilisi, Georgia (GMT+4)
LI: linkedin.com/in/Arkharov

ICT Recruitment Consultant & Internet Sourcing Ninja with 15 years of experience living and breathing in IT/Telco markets. For
me it’s not just a career path, but a way of life, that gives a unique opportunity to deal with lots of talented people, assisting
them to achieve their personal or business goals.

➢ ATS Knowledge: Greenhouse, BambooHR, JobAdder, Workable, Lever, Taleo, Avature, PageUp, Snaphire.

➢ Sourcing Tools: X-ray Search (Google, DuckDuckGo), Chrome Extensions, Boolean search techniques, Social &
Professional networks X-ray Search.

Professional Experience
Lightspeed Commerce www.lightspeedhq.com Tbilisi, Georgia
September 2021 – present (Contract)
Global Talent Sourcer, Product & Technology

Sourcing consultant for 6 Recruitment Business Partners (RBPs) in the business. Geography of sourcing: APAC, EMEA, NOAM.

My responsibilities include:
• Proactive sourcing: Pipelining, networking, headhunting, market mapping, etc;
• Upskilling sourcing consultants in the team; organising and running sourcing marathons with RBPs;
• Project work: Diversity Sourcing Strategies; structuring of the talent pipelining process in Greenhouse (ATS).

Some of the roles: SRE/DevOps, Software Engineers (Back-end, Full stack, Front-end, iOS, Salesforce, Security), Automation
Testers, Product Managers, Data Solution Architects.

Vend (part of Lightspeed from March 2021) www.vendhq.com Tbilisi, Georgia

January 2021 – March 2021 (Contract)
Talent Sourcing Specialist - SW Engineering

I provided talent sourcing advice to the head of recruitment and liaised with the hiring managers to learn more about specifics of
the roles they were hiring for. Geography of sourcing: New Zealand and Australia.

My other responsibilities include:

• Proactive sourcing: Pipelining, networking, headhunting, market mapping, etc;
• Representing company’s brand and culture;
• Writing creative content for candidates to attract more women to the business;
• Closing roles: salary and benefits negotiations with candidates and senior stakeholders.

Some of the roles: SRE Lead, Directors of Engineering, Senior Front-End Engineer, Security Risk & Assurance Specialist,
Application Security Engineer, Android Team Lead, Lead Engineer.

Navico www.navico.com Tbilisi, Georgia

December 2020 – June 2021 (Contract)
Sourcing Consultant - SW & HW Engineering

Talent sourcing advisor for different stakeholders in the business. Geography of sourcing: New Zealand, Australia, UK, Russia,
North America.

My other responsibilities include:

• Proactive sourcing: Pipelining, networking, headhunting, market mapping, etc;
• Representing company’s brand and culture;
• Writing creative content for candidates and job boards;
• Closing roles: salary and benefits negotiations with candidates and senior stakeholders.
Some of the roles: Head of the Architecture (SW & HW), Principal HW Engineer, Android Engineer/Lead (Embedded), Lead
Technical Writer, AI / ML Lead Engineer.

Cin7 www.cin7.com Tbilisi, Georgia

December 2020 – July 2021 (Contract)
Talent Sourcing Specialist - SW Engineering

I provide talent sourcing advice to different stakeholders in the business to make sure we will have a good chance to find the
candidates required in NZ and the UK.

My other responsibilities include:

• Proactive sourcing: Pipelining, networking, headhunting, market mapping, etc;
• Representing company’s brand and culture;
• Writing creative content for candidates;
• Closing roles: salary and benefits negotiations with candidates and senior stakeholders.

Some of the roles: Integration Engineers and Analysts (C#, SQL), Director of Customer Support, Engineering Manager – Cloud,
Account Executives & Sales Development Representatives, Senior C# Developer.

Foodstuffs (FS) https://www.foodstuffs.co.nz Auckland, New Zealand

January 2020 – August 2020 (contract)
Sourcing Consultant - IT

Liaising directly with Foodstuffs IT leaders I was responsible for:

- Recruitment strategy delivery for senior roles;
- Proactive sourcing: Using different methods of social media; first point of contact for applicants, carry out first stage
screening, and present short list to the hiring manager, headhunting;
- Closing roles: salary and benefits negotiations with candidates and senior stakeholders.

Roles: SAP Functional Consultants, Product Owners, Data Scientists & Engineers, Automation Test Leads, Solution Architects.
Geography of sourcing: New Zealand.

Traction on Demand www.tractionondemand.com Auckland, New Zealand

October 2019 – January 2020 (contract)
Senior Technical Recruiter

End-to-end recruitment for Salesforce and Bespoke lines of businesses in New Zealand, Australia and North America.
Some of my duties and responsibilities included:
- Developing talent sourcing strategy and employment branding campaigns;
- Proactive sourcing and talent mapping;
- Weekly reporting to the head office in Denver US.

Roles: Developers (Ruby, JS, Apex), Functional Consultants and Delivery Leads (Salesforce, Bespoke), PX Leads.

Eroad https://www.eroad.co.nz Auckland, New Zealand

November 2018 – Present (contract)
Recruitment and Sourcing Consultant

Manage end-to-end recruitment for Engineering and Product teams.

Some of my duties and responsibilities included:
- Developing talent sourcing strategy with hiring managers: adverts improvement, social media channels and professional
groups utilization etc;
- Proactive sourcing: Using different methods of social media; first point of contact for applicants, carry out first stage
screening, and present short list to the hiring manager;
- Talent mapping and talent pipeline for future hires.

Roles: Developers (Java, ReactJS, Embedded, Mobile), Testers (Automation), Engineers (Data, Site Reliability), Designers (UX/UI),
Solutions Architects, Product (VP, Managers).
Foodstuffs (FS)
https://www.foodstuffs.co.nz Auckland, New Zealand
June 2019 – September 2019 (contract)
Sourcing Consultant - IT

Liaising directly with Foodstuffs IT leaders I was responsible for:

- Recruitment strategy delivery for senior roles;
- Proactive sourcing: Using different methods of social media; first point of contact for applicants, carry out first stage
screening, and present short list to the hiring manager, headhunting;
- Closing roles: salary and benefits negotiations with candidates and senior stakeholders.

Roles: Senior Developers (Java, .NET, ReactJS), Technical Leaders, Principal Solution Architects (Cloud and Infrastructure).

Invenco https://www.invenco.com Auckland, New Zealand

March 2019 – June 2019 (contract)
Recruitment Business Partner

Manage end-to-end recruitment for Firmware and Software teams.

Some of my duties and responsibilities included:
- Working closely with Invenco’s leaders providing 360 recruitment support;
- Proactively providing recruitment and selection strategy, market insights, marketing maps and proactive approaches;
- Proactive sourcing: Using different methods of social media; first point of contact for applicants, carry out first stage
screening, and present short list to the hiring manager.

Roles: Firmware and Hardware Engineers, Cloud and Embedded Developers, Automation Testers, Project Managers, Product
Owners, Technical Writers.

Fisher & Paykel Appliances https://www.fisherpaykel.com Auckland, New Zealand

March 2019
Sourcing Consultant

Short-term assignment with F&P to build up pipelines for two senior roles (Financial & Engineering teams)
- Project briefing with F&P recruitment consultants
- Global talent mapping

Lendi https://www.lendi.com.au Sydney, Australia

June 2018 – April 2019 (contract)
Sourcing Consultant

This is a 100% remote contrast role. My duties and responsibilities included:

- Proactive sourcing: Using LinkedIn Recruiter, x-ray Search via DuckDuckGo for professional groups (google groups,
meetups, Git, Stackoverflow etc);
- Screening and assessing candidates (phone, Skype, other apps);
- Reporting to the VP of Recruitment.

Roles: Developers (React, Java, Scala, Node, Salesforce).

Journey Digital https://journey-digital.com/ New Zealand and Australia

July 2018 – January 2020 (contract)
Recruitment and Sourcing Consultant

Manage end-to-end recruitment for Engineering team.

Some of my duties and responsibilities include:
- Job briefings, advertising, proactive sourcing
- Booking interviews, salary negotiations, support with INZ paperwork

Roles: Developers (.NET, Angular), Designers (Creative), Sales (BDMs).

IAG New Zealand http://www.iag.co.nz Auckland, New Zealand
May 2017 – June 2018 (12 months contract)
Talent Acquisition Consultant

This role was to manage end-to-end recruitment for IAG's Customer & Digital portfolio.
My duties and responsibilities included:
- Working closely with IAG technology leaders, managing innovate hiring solutions to enable effective recruitment of IT
talent;
- Proactively providing recruitment and selection strategy, market insights, marketing maps and proactive approaches;
- Taking IAG brand to IT market; offering top talent their next career step and place in the future of the brand;
- IAG has plenty of great news stories with Customer & Digital revolutionizing the way in which we connect and do
business;
- Proactive sourcing: Using different methods of social media; first point of contact for applicants, carry out first stage
screening, and present short list to the hiring manager;
- Project work: Supporting Diversity at IAG, Talent Attraction Resources webpage (intranet).

Orion Health NZ http://www.orionhealth.com Auckland, New Zealand

July 2014 – May 2017 (Contract)
Global Sourcing & Recruitment Consultant

I was responsible for accounts management (end-to-end) and discovering superstars in hard-to-reach places. Working on one of
our functional staffing teams, I was playing the role of detective — using all kinds of tools and resources to uncover the best
untapped talent in the world.
My duties and responsibilities included:
- Planning recruitment strategies according to Orion’s business needs covering APAC, EMEA and North America
- Define and implement staffing strategies to provide a qualified and diverse candidate pool, as well as improve staffing
processes and approaches;
- Source passive candidates through networking and direct sourcing - use linked in to set up projects and conduct Boolean
search;
- Evaluate skill level, conduct efficient and professional interview process, and drive offer process;
- Provide a great candidate experience and act as a candidate advocate;
- Propose and implement ongoing improvements to company recruitment efforts.

Dimension Data (part of NTT Group) http://www.dimensiondata.com Auckland, New Zealand

January 2014 – July 2014 (6 months contract)
In-house National Recruitment Advisor

As a part of a small, but hard-working and supportive P&C team I was looking after recruitment in Dimension Data New Zealand;
this included Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Dunedin and Christchurch Offices. I covered all business units and also acted as a
sourcing advisor for a number of hard-to-fill roles.

Downer NZ http://www.downer.co.nz Auckland, New Zealand

September 2013 – December 2013 (3 months contract)
In-house National Recruitment Advisor

As end-to-end recruiter with Downer I was mainly looking after roles in telecommunications. It was a high-volume position to
cover 70+ active roles across IT/Telco, Transport and Construction departments;

Madison http://www.madison.co.nz Auckland, New Zealand

May 2011 – February 2013
ICT Recruitment Consultant

Specialised in placing candidates with the following skills: .NET, Java, C/C++, Python, PHP (Developers, Testers, Support), Oracle,
Unix/Linux, (Project managers, Analysts, Engineers, Support).

SOS Recruitment http://www.sos.co.nz Auckland, New Zealand

July 2009 – May 2011
Recruitment Consultant
As an Recruitment Consultant I specialised in placing candidates with the following skills: Software Developers, Network and
Systems Engineers, Dental Assistants/Hygienists/Technicians, Dentists (Generalists and Surgeons), Office Administrators and
Sales Representatives.

3R Recruitment Company http://www.3r.ru/about Moscow, Russia

July 2008 – June 2009, Senior ICT Recruitment Consultant
January 2007 – June 2008, ICT Recruitment Consultant

Specialised in placing candidates with the following skills: Network Engineers, System Engineers, Software Developers, Technical
Pre-sales Managers, Technical Directors/Leads and Business Analysts.
Account management: Local and European IT/Telco vendors (Ericsson, DELL, Lenovo, Alcatel-Lucent, Fujitsu-Siemens, GE Energy,
IBM, Skolkovo).

Flex Resources http://flexsearch.ru/go/eng Moscow, Russia

April 2005 – August 2006
Administrator & Candidate Manager

When I joined Flex in 2005 it was a fast growing recruitment company specialising in the areas of Accounting and Finance,
Pharma and Information Technology. I loved the idea of working in "People business" and specifically in IT. I was responsible for
admin department management and coaching along with sourcing candidates for a range of sectors to deliver exceptional people
for some top-notch businesses on the market.

SAP http://sap.inist.ru Moscow, Russia

July 2004 – January 2005
SAP BO Consultant

Back in 2004 SAP had six IT business partners to support its "Business One" (SAP BO) solution in Russia. I joined one of them
straight after Uni. We were a young team of 6 developers, technical pre-sales and marketers and I loved the idea of using
modern ERP systems for small and medium businesses management. I was responsible for SAP BO sales, pre-sales and support.

Education
• Sourcing Certifications https://sourcingcertification.com/certification I am currently preparing to pursue the Certified
People Sourcing Professional (CPSP) exam, 2022.
• Black Belt in Internet Recruitment https://www.socialtalent.co Social Talent, Dublin, Ireland. Certificate, 2016, 2022.
• Power Searching with Google http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com Daniel Russell, Senior Research Scientist.
Google course, 2017.
• Boolean Strings http://booleanstrings.com Training Library – Online Sourcing Classes, 2015.
• Open Polytechnic, http://www.openpolytechnic.ac.nz Full-time Course: Web Design and Development February 2013 –
June 2013, Graduated with grade “A”.
• Academy of Labour and Social Relations, Moscow, Russia http://www.atiso.ru Candidate of Science, Economics, 2008.
Bachelor’s Degree in Management, 2004.

Hobbies
Web Development (HTML/CSS, JavaScript) for non-profit organizations; Community gardening and restoration projects; Reading,
bush walking, fishing, cooking, spending time with my family.