Dasha Somova
About
Dasha Somova is from Poland. Dasha is currently Senior People System Specialist at Backbase, located in Cracow. Dasha also works as HR Advisor at Careerswift, a job Dasha has held since Apr 2025. In Dasha's previous role as a Head of Talent at Replika, Dasha worked in until Sep 2025. Prior to joining Replika, Dasha was a Head of HR at Let's Enhance and held the position of Head of HR at Remote. Prior to that, Dasha was a HR & Recruiting Manager at Very Good Security, based in Kiev Region, Ukraine from Jun 2019 to Aug 2021. Dasha started working as Senior IT Recruiter at Very Good Security in Kiev Region, Ukraine in Mar 2018. From Aug 2017 to Mar 2018, Dasha was Recruitment Team Lead at Ignite Outsourcing, based in Kiev Region, Ukraine. Prior to that, Dasha was a Team Lead/HR Generalist at CyberVision, Inc., based in Kiev from Oct 2016 to Jul 2017. Dasha started working as IT Recruiting Consultant (Global) at CNA International Executive Search in Feb 2015.
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Dasha Somova's current jobs
- Managing and improving core employee lifecycle processes (onboarding, offboarding, transitions, etc.); - Maintaining compliance and data accuracy across systems and documentation. - Translating operational needs into system improvements by working closely with stakeholders and vendors; - Advising on system connections, data flows, and architecture at a high level; - Leading or supporting initiatives to streamline manual processes using AI (e.g., chatbots, generative documentation, automated workflows).
Supporting the development and market adaptation of AI-powered job search tools. Key responsibilities include: - Providing HR insights to tailor the platform to real candidate needs. - Participating in user testing and feature validation. - Advising on resume optimization, interview preparation, and job search strategies. - Engaging with early users and the HR community to ensure product-market fit. This role bridges practical human expertise with AI automation to create a smoother, smarter job search experience.
Dasha Somova's past jobs
- HR: Onboarding & Offboarding, Performance Management, Compensation & Benefits, Training & Development (implemented from scratch). Developing HR policies and procedures. Tracking key HR metrics. Designing and implementing strategies to boost employee engagement, motivation. Managing employee relations, resolving workplace conflicts, and fostering a positive work environment. Consult leadership team to help them build trustful relationships in teams. - Talent Acquisition and Recruitment: worldwide recruitment, workforce & hiring budget planning, developing TA strategy, interviewing, coaching hiring teams. - Internal Communication: establishing feedback mechanisms and conducting employee satisfaction surveys; creating clear content that conveys key updates, company news to employees; collaborating with leadership to develop and deliver executive-level communications; managing and optimizing various communication channels. - Team Management (2 ppl).
Recruiting Management: developing a talent acquisition strategy; growing and coaching a diverse and high-performing team, evaluating and refine global sourcing and selection procedures; defining and drive TA metrics; manage employee referral program; determining, building a scalable and efficient recruiting process, from sourcing to offer approval; hands-on full-cycle recruiting; headcount planning; consulting hiring managers, interviewers, and executive team. HRBP: onboarding, developing HR&Recruiting policies, designing and implementing structuring compensation and benefits packages, managing and resolving employee relations issues, performance management, work relationship improvement, promotions, salary reviews, conducting 1:1s with employees. Employer branding: developing employer brand strategy from scratch, working with UA media channels and resources, preparing speakers for external events, managing social media activities.
Full Cycle Recruiting: ï‚§ developing job descriptions; ï‚§ designing and implementing the overall recruiting strategy; ï‚§ sourcing and attracting candidates by using different sources; ï‚§ screening candidates and conducting interviews; ï‚§ onboarding new employees; ï‚§ managing the work with recruitment agencies; ï‚§ market review (salaries, statistic etc.); ï‚§ designing recruitment policies.
Team management:  tasks distribution;  development the recruitment strategies;  setting team goals;  designing and implementing improvement plans;  monitoring a team performance;  coaching and training team members. Full recruiting process:  developing job descriptions;  designing and implementing the overall recruiting strategy;  sourcing and attracting candidates by using different sources;  screening candidates and conducting interviews;  onboarding new employees;  organizing the work with recruitment agencies. Pre-sale activities:  Making a market analytics and salary reviews;  participation in calls and meetings with clients;  consulting;  designing recruitment process due to client’s needs.
- Full-cycle recruiting process: from opening the position to the first working day of the candidate. - Identifying hiring needs, developing the position descriptions, hiring plans, - Working closely with various departments, increasingly in a consultancy role, assisting line managers. - Designing and implementing the overall recruiting strategy. - Conducting interviews using various reliable personnel selection tools/methods to filter candidates. - Partnering with hiring managers to determine staffing needs. - Coaching and helping develop team members. - Preparing, updating human resource policies and procedures. - Retention and termination employees. - Conducting salary reviews.
As CNA consultant, I deal with IT recruitment in various countries from Ukraine to Thailand. From day to day, I cooperate with my colleagues from offices in Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, etc. I am responsible for the whole recruitment process: research, conducting or coordinating interviews, checking references, relocation issues, etc. - Full recruiting process: from opening the position to the first working day of the candidate. - Participation in pre-sales: consulting and supporting clients, preparing markets overviews. - Client service activities: clarification of job details, communication during all recruitment stages, intermediation between the client and the candidate, solving of all acquiring issues. - Relocation process: discussion between client and candidate, help with preparing documents, search for the most appropriate ways of relocation, support of the candidate in all stages. - Global recruiting: searching candidates inside the country (Canada, Hungary, Czech Republic, Ireland, England, Thailand, Germany, Bulgaria, Belarus, Russia). - Marketing and PR activities: publication of vacancies on job boards, websites, posts in social networks, etc. - Working with Junior Developers as a Consultant.
- Sourcing and attracting candidates by using databases, social media, etc. - Conducting interviews and filtering candidates for open positions. - Develop and update job descriptions and job specifications. - Screen candidate's resumes and job applications. - Conduct interviews using various reliable recruiting and selection tools/methods.
- Interpreting and translation of documents - Organization events (conferences for 800 people) - Writing articles, announcements, motivational letters - Preparing presentations and their translation into Russian, Ukrainian and English languages​. - Organization of trips: preparing documents, analysis tenders of hotels and locations, working with tour agencies.