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SmartRecruiters Appoints Sarah Wilson as Head of People
[December 13, 2017]

SmartRecruiters Appoints Sarah Wilson as Head of People


SmartRecruiters, the Hiring Success Company, today announced the appointment of Sarah Wilson as Head of People. Sarah has over 15 years of experience in Recruiting and HR, and will oversee all hiring, onboarding and human resource management.

"Sarah understands that people build businesses," says founder and CEO Jerome Ternynck. "As Head of People at SmartRecruiters, she brings invaluable experience, savoir faire, and that intangible human element that no algorithm can replicate. I could not be more excited to partner with her to accelerate our company's success around the world."

Before coming on board, Sarah spent over a decade building and improving HR departments across her native Canada. From media giant Rogers Communications to, most recently, Indigo, "Canada's Biggest Bookstore," she streamlined processes by embracing emerging HR tech early on. When she spoke at SmartRecruiters' Hiring Success '17 conference, it was as Indigo's Director of Performance Management-a satisfied customer of SmartRecruiters.

Less than a year later, she left what she says was a mostly managerial role to help grow her preferred professional tool, SmartRecruiters, in the Bay Area startu world. It's been "much more hands-on," she explains. "Whereas I functioned mostly as a manager before, it's great to be building again, knowing that when something is finished, I was part of the process that got it off the ground."



Besides going back to getting her hands dirty, the startup environment offers its own opportunities and challenges.

"To run the gamut of HR at a tech company is about challenging convention," she explains, "it's about considering things in new ways, which makes it very interesting."


By this point in her career, the veteran recruiter has seen it all, from organizing active CVs in filing cabinets to witnessing how quickly Applicant Tracking Systems have given way to the far more tactile and responsive Talent Acquisition Systems. And yet, in a sector fast moving into machine learning and AI, for Sarah, there will always be a human element.

"Every company says they care about candidate experience," she says, "but at SmartRecruiters, it's actually true."

"It's exciting to see a former advocate and customer of SmartRecruiters so eager to bring hiring success to our growing organization," says Rebecca Carr, VP of Product. "I look forward to watching her help us-as we help our customers-win in this ever-changing talent economy."

About SmartRecruiters

SmartRecruiters' Talent Acquisition Suite is used by high-performance organizations like Visa, Skechers, Atlassian, Equinox and Alcoa, which want to use recruitment to their competitive advantage. Unlike the first-generation applicant tracking systems it replaces, SmartRecruiters provides an amazing candidate experience, engages hiring managers in a collaborative hiring process, and empowers recruiters with powerful tools to run the recruitment process.

For more information, follow us at @SmartRecruiters, on LinkedIn (News - Alert) or on https://www.smartrecruiters.com.


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