Karina Kaluga

Commander
DISC Type : D

Recruiter, HR assistant at Practik

Kyiv, Kyiv City, Ukraine

Overview

Karina Kaluga is a human resources professional specializing in the full employee lifecycle, from talent acquisition to offboarding. She combines her recruitment expertise with a focus on internal HR processes, such as onboarding and employee relations, to build strong teams. She is a proponent of implementing a more structured, data-driven approach to recruiting.

Karina is a thoughtful professional who uses her public platform to reflect on the nuances of her industry. She is passionate about creating supportive and effective work environments by balancing the needs of people with overarching business goals. She actively shares her insights and journey while deepening her HR knowledge.

She openly questions the value of traditional interview questions, such as asking about a candidates strengths and weaknesses, advocating for more insightful evaluation methods.

Personality Overview

Strong-Willed

Impact-Driven

Very Quick

They prefer to be the ones controlling the conversation or defining the terms.  More than the product, they care about the impact of the product. They are not always relationship oriented.

Topics They Care About

Data-Driven Recruiting
Expressed a desire to systematically work with recruitment metrics like 'Time to hire' and 'Time to fill' to bring more structure and analytical rigor to her work.
Full-Cycle HR
Her experience spans the entire employee journey, from recruitment and onboarding at Practik and Can to probation period support and conducting exit interviews.
Candidate Assessment
She critically analyzes common interview practices, questioning the effectiveness of standard questions and exploring the psychology behind first impressions of candidates.

Media Appearances

Karina has no verified media appearances

Work History

11-2025
Recruiter, HR assistant at Practik
3-2024 - 11-2025
Recruiter at Cana

Education

2022 - 2026
Education details unavailable from State University of Trade and Economics

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Exp : 1 Location : Kyiv, Kyiv City, Ukraine Job Level : Junior Designation : Recruiter, HR assistant at Practik
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Insights For Selling To Karina

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Use phrases like ‘it’s your decision’, ‘strategic impact’ etc.
  • Speak about competitive differentiation that your product offers
  • Hold your ground without indulging in one-upmanship

DONT's

  • Do not hesitate from asking counter questions, just avoid challenging their authority
  • Do not spend too much time focusing on product tech or features
  • Don't try too hard to forge relationships with them

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Karina is

  • Confidence in impact is paramount to them, followed by a sense of achievement and ROI.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Karina

  • If they decide not to go ahead, they will say no without hesitation.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Karina move?

  • They can reach decisions fairly quickly if they are convinced.
  • Can Karina take some risk or not?

  • They don’t mind risks but can be quite binary about them.

You And Karina

Personality Compatibility


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