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Talent Spotlight – Anna Fultz (No. 1 – 2026)

Welcome back to Talent Spotlight – where very month, we shine a light on standout...

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March 12, 2026

🏆 Talent Spotlight – Anya Voronova (No. 6 – 2025)

Welcome to Talent Spotlight – where very month, we shine a light on standout talent...

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June 29, 2025

🏆 Talent Spotlight – Harveen Kaur (No. 5 – 2025)

Welcome to Talent Spotlight – where very month, we shine a light on standout talent...

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June 18, 2025

Playbook

Special Edition Workshops – HR Leaders Summit 2025 (2. Project Management)

Welcome to Talent Spotlight – the latest addition to Talent Crunch Berlin! Every month, we...

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August 11, 2025

Special Edition Workshops – HR Leaders Summit 2025 (1. Burnout)

In July 2025, Talent Crunch partnered with WeAreDevelopers to host their official workshop series at...

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August 9, 2025

Employer Branding Playbook: LinkedIn Strategy, Employee Advocacy & Review Management

4 Employer Branding Strategies That Actually Work: Workshop Findings from 80+ Talent Professionals We found...

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June 18, 2025

Up coming events
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SIGNAL – The Talent Imperative

Description Talent is at the heart of company success. Yet right now, cultural complexity, compliance...

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November 13, 2025

Pay Data Drop: Salary & Employee Benefits – Reports + Reality

Description What happens when three major compensation reports drop on the same night 🧐? We...

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October 29, 2025

Notes, news, vents and more

Building the Principal Recruiter Ecosystem: Transformation Services + Community + Coaching

What this post covers: the story of accidentally building Germany’s most comprehensive Principal Recruiter ecosystem...

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September 8, 2025

AI for Senior Recruiters in 2025: What Gets Automated, What Stays Human – 2

The first part of the series looked at the (Entry-Level) Recruiter role and it also...

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July 21, 2025

Your AI-Ready Recruitment Framework

Why 85% of Companies Aren’t Ready for AI in Recruitment Reflections from my presentation at...

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July 7, 2025

Applying Software Evolution Paradigms to Talent Acquisition

Why Andrej Karpathy’s software evolution framework reveals a very important transformation for talent acquisition approaches....

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June 24, 2025

AI for Recruiters in 2025: What Gets Automated, What Stays Human

AI in Recruitment: What Changes for You: From Recruiter to Principal In short: here’s what...

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May 26, 2025

The Berlin Job Offer That Changed My Life – A Recruiter’s Tale of Risk & Reward

Every time I tell this story, I get goosebumps. Every. Single. Time. This is not...

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March 17, 2025

How to Build and Scale Communities: 5 Field-Tested Strategies from 3000+ Members

After breaking down everything I learned from building Talent Crunch – Berlin, one thing became...

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February 11, 2025

85 Problems with AI Recruitment today: A Principal Recruiter’s Reality Check of Josh Bersin’s AI Revolution

In his recent podcast “How AI Will Revolutionise the HR Department, in Detail” Josh Bersin...

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December 18, 2024

Why Smart Sponsors Invest in Talent Communities: The 2025 Playbook for HR Tech Community Growth

Why community sponsorship is reshaping HR tech marketing The power of authentic community engagement in...

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December 15, 2024

The Allocation Economy – The Future of Talent Acquisition 2025: AI Agents, Skills-Based Hiring & Blended Workforce

Recently, I was asked to share my insights on talent acquisition trends for 2025. The...

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December 15, 2024

Communities VS. Conferences: why ongoing engagement beats one-off events

Communities and conferences both play a role in the talent (acquisition, development, management, etc.) world,...

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December 10, 2024

A Step-by-Step Framework for Understanding Skills and using them for Career Growth

You know what separates the career superstars from the rest? It’s not their technical (or...

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November 21, 2024

16 Recruitment Inefficiencies Draining Your Budget and 14 Solutions to Fix Them

Introduction: the hidden costs of recruitment inefficiency In my 14+ years working with talent acquisition...

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October 26, 2024

10 Skills required for Event planning and Community management

In my previous deep dive into the world of community event management, I shared the...

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October 7, 2024

The 7 Steps Guide to Community Event Management – From Concept to Execution

We’ve all attended community events, maybe webinars, panel discussions, dinners or networking mixers, and left...

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October 7, 2024

DEVELOP.ME – Carving out Bold Careers

Do not wait to be noticed. Make it impossible to be overlooked. This was my...

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July 21, 2024

Forget the Traditional Career Paths in Talent Acquisition – Here’s to new age roles

Description As seen at Tech Rec Conference – Berlin November 2023 “What’s next for us...

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March 10, 2024

Unifying Insights: A Comprehensive Guide to Career Advancement for Principal Recruiters

In my commitment (to be read: “mission”) to empower Principal Talent Acquisition Partners with essential...

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November 29, 2023

Navigating Career Growth as a Woman (Part 3) – Personal Branding, Networking, Emotional Intelligence

In the previous two articles of this series, I shared my opinion and experience on...

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November 29, 2023

A Career Path for Recruiters – A Framework for Aspiring Principal Talent Acquisition Pros

Have you ever researched the career paths for Recruiters? I did. It was a maze....

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November 13, 2023

Adaptive Recruitment – a Case Study on a Scalable Flexible Workforce Initiative (FRI)

Have you ever faced the challenge of peak hiring demands in one domain while experiencing...

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November 5, 2023

Redefining Talent Acquisition: A TRC2023 Workshop Synopsis on Strategic Career Design

Insights from the Front Lines – the review of the workshop “Crafting your Future –...

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November 3, 2023

Talent Acquisition as a Revenue Driver: Challenging the Cost Centre Myth

This post is born from my “myth busters” syndrome. It is not my usual content,...

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October 20, 2023

A Case Study on Elevating Hiring Experiences – Revamping Talent Acquisition for Better cNPS

Imagine if every candidate who applied to your company became a raving fan of your...

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October 12, 2023

The Skills of a Principal Recruiter – End to End Recruitment excellence (Part 1)

Diving deeper from the initial post, this article unravels the multifaceted responsibilities that define the...

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October 12, 2023

The Importance of a Principal Recruiter Career Path – for Talent Executives and Individual Contributors

I have a true passion for my profession and therefore, a few months back, I...

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September 23, 2023

14+1 Lessons from my journey into building the TA community – TA Crunch – Berlin

Here is my “work after work” adventure – how’s the path so far, what were...

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August 1, 2023

Navigating Career Growth as a woman (Part 2) – my steps towards becoming a Principal

Welcome back :). This is the 2nd part of what became a 3-part series about...

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August 1, 2023

Navigating Career Growth for Women in the Workplace – Sponsorship and Mentorship (Part 1)

Yes, there is a lot of research, data, blogging, vlogging about the topic of “how...

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August 1, 2023