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Jūlija Kolmane

Riga

Summary

Lead Talent Acquisition Specialist with over 6 years of recruitment experience, spanning both outsourcing and in-house recruitment environments. Proven track record of successfully managing the full recruitment lifecycle across various industries, with a strong focus on IT and technical roles within the global market.

Her approach blends strategic sourcing, candidate experience management, and effective stakeholder collaboration to ensure timely and high-quality hiring outcomes. In addition to core recruiting responsibilities, she is experienced in onboarding new employees, has actively contributed to employee engagement initiatives, and has mentored new team members, helping them integrate and perform effectively. She is also skilled in generating and analyzing recruitment reports, offering valuable insights to support data-driven hiring strategies.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Talent Acquisition - Senior Partner

Ness Digital Engineering
07.2023 - 06.2025
  • Lead full-cycle IT recruitment for mid-to-senior level and niche technical roles across software development, infrastructure, data engineering and other domains.
  • Partner with senior leadership, hiring managers, and department heads to define talent acquisition strategies aligned with business goals.
  • Source, screen, and evaluate qualified candidates for various IT positions using job boards, social media, referrals, and direct outreach within global market.
  • Maintain and update applicant tracking systems (ATS) and ensure accurate candidate records.
  • Build and manage talent pipelines for high-demand skill areas and future workforce planning.
  • Organize and participate in job fairs and tech meetups to build talent pools.
  • Ensure compliance with hiring policies, labor laws, and data privacy regulations.
  • Develop and present weekly recruitment reports and hiring metrics to the responsible leadership.
  • Foster strong relationships with candidates to ensure a positive candidate experience and employer branding.
  • Participate in other internal initiatives, like organizing newcomers events, preparing educational materials, mentoring and supporting colleagues.

Talent Acquisition Partner

Ness Digital Engineering
10.2021 - 07.2023


Ness Digital Engineering, is a full-lifecycle digital engineering firm offering digital advisory through scaled engineering services. Headquartered in New York, Ness serves their customers across 13 innovation hubs in the US, Canada, Mexico, Eastern Europe, Germany, and India. Combining their core competence in engineering with the latest in digital strategy and technology, they seamlessly manage Digital Transformation journeys from strategy through execution to help businesses thrive in the digital economy. In 2022, global investment firm KKR acquired a 100% stake in Ness Digital Engineering. For more information, visit www.ness.com.

IT Talent Acquisition Partner

Helmes Latvia
09.2021 - 04.2022


Helmes- a sustainable, efficient, and top-ranked digital transformation and software partner to medium-sized companies, global enterprises, and international governmental organizations. For more information, visit www.helmes.com.


Responsibilities:

  • Manage end-to-end recruitment lifecycle from job posting to offer negotiation and onboarding within local Latvian market.
  • Maintain and update applicant tracking systems (ATS) and ensure accurate candidate records.
  • Build and maintain a strong pipeline of IT professionals for recurring technical roles (e.g., developers, system admins, cloud engineers etc.).
  • Ensure compliance with hiring policies, labor laws, and data privacy regulations.
  • Analyze recruitment metrics (time-to-fill, source of hire, offer acceptance rate) to identify areas of improvement and report performance to executive stakeholders and HR leadership.
  • Foster strong relationships with candidates to ensure a positive candidate experience and employer branding.
  • Responsible for different internal initiatives related to employee engagement activities.



Senior IT Recruitment Specialist

Strategic Staffing Solutions
12.2020 - 07.2021
  • Providing excellent customer experience.
  • Being brand ambassador while working on client behalf.
  • Candidates management: Searching potential candidates for specific roles using database, recommendations, Head Hunting, social media.
  • Interviewing and educating them about the position and ensuring their skills matches client’s expectations.
  • Managing interviewing process between client and candidate.
  • Giving feedback to client and candidate.
    Supporting them during the recruitment process, managing their expectations and motivation.
  • Closing process – ensuring candidate and client is satisfied.
  • After placement service.
  • Recruiting IT specialist around the globe.
  • Mentoring new employees.

Recruitment Specialist

Strategic Staffing Solutions
09.2019 - 12.2020


Strategic Staffing Solutions (S3) is a global IT consulting and business services corporation that delivers staff augmentation, total workforce management programs, outsourced solutions and direct hire recruiting with industry expertise in financial services, energy and utilities, oil, healthcare and insurance, telecommunications and retail distribution.

HR project administrator

Citadele banka
10.2018 - 09.2019
  • Full recruitment cycle for retail/customer service and junior specialist positions (beginning from job adv posting, candidates pre-selection, organization of mass and individual interviews/ assessment centers, and ending by granting job offers).
  • Responsible for on-boarding processes, training schedules and material preparations.
  • Organization of HR brand employer activities (Newcomer day, Career days, Open door days and cooperation with universities, etc.).

Client Manager

Citadele banka
08.2017 - 09.2018
  • Taking care of internal and external customer account questions.
  • Providing premier customer service to internal and external customers relating to general inquiries, deposit and eService needs.
  • Following organizational sales strategies for the delivery of banking products and cros-selling.
  • Handling incoming calls and requests, resolving customer service issues.

Education

Bachelor's degree - Psychology

Latvijas Universitate
01.2019

Skills

  • Talent Sourcing & Full-Cycle Recruitment
  • Candidate Screening & Interviewing
  • ATS & CRM Systems (eg, Jobvite, Workable, Bullhorn, Recruire)
  • Job Posting & Resume Evaluation
  • Offer Negotiation & New Hire Onboarding
  • Recruitment Analytics & Reporting
  • LinkedIn Recruiter & Boolean Search
  • Employee Relations & Engagement
  • Strong Communication & Relationship Building
  • Time Management & Multitasking
  • Adaptability & Problem Solving

Certification

  • "Stress Management"
  • Excel with LinkedIn Recruiter Assessment
  • Basics of Agile Project Management

Timeline

Talent Acquisition - Senior Partner

Ness Digital Engineering
07.2023 - 06.2025

Talent Acquisition Partner

Ness Digital Engineering
10.2021 - 07.2023

IT Talent Acquisition Partner

Helmes Latvia
09.2021 - 04.2022

Senior IT Recruitment Specialist

Strategic Staffing Solutions
12.2020 - 07.2021

Recruitment Specialist

Strategic Staffing Solutions
09.2019 - 12.2020

HR project administrator

Citadele banka
10.2018 - 09.2019

Client Manager

Citadele banka
08.2017 - 09.2018

Bachelor's degree - Psychology

Latvijas Universitate
Jūlija Kolmane