Ilan Shenkar

Experience

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  Israel Defense Forces

  May 2007 - May 2010

  Content Specialist

  Was part of a unit that introduced video for instruction and training purposes in the military. What did I do there?✅ Production of instructional video content, both as part of a production team and a one man show.✅ Training and coaching new team members.✅ Collaboration with animators, editors, and learning and development teams.✅ Simultaneously managing various projects.

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  Union of Local Authorities Israel

  Nov 2012 - Jul 2013

  Project Manager

  Union of Local Authorities Israel is a non-profit that coordinates and represents the interests of municipalities in Israel.As Project Manager in the education and youth department I had the following responsibilities:✅ Qualitative and quantitative research for new legislative initiatives.✅ Draft new legislation initiatives and gather feedback from relevant partners.✅ Content writer of the department PR activities.✅ Apply for grants for European Union.✅ Coordinator for department committees. Show less

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  Israeli National Labor Federation

  Aug 2014 - Sept 2018

  Labor Relations Specialist

  Israeli National Labor Federation, a trade union in Israel, represents employees in various sectors in a monthly membership model. My role included:✅ Managing relations with stakeholders such as industry associations, employee leadership, staffing agencies, and government officials.✅ Plan and execute campaigns to attract new members, reaching 250% growth in new memberships in 4 years and securing meaningful income.✅ Design an existing service to address immigrant workers' needs impacting thousands of members' income, satisfaction, and training needs.✅ Growing activity from 1 to a department of 6 employees. Show less

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  MonteVideo Communications

  Oct 2018 - Dec 2021

  Founder and CEO

  Montevideo Communications was a design studio for digital media products specializing in services for the public sector and nonprofits.What did I do there?✅ Grow a bootstrap business from scratch into a team of 12 designers, marketers, and content professionals and additional service providers✅ Own company PnL and direct the company business and professional affairs.✅ Grow sales through digital marketing, B2B contracts, business networking, tenders, and grants.✅ Pivot company from video production to digital media products during COVID-19 lockdown achieving company stability. ✅ Implement an on-the-job training program for juniors in creative roles.*Program granted from IVN seed fund.✅ Develop a transparent, flat culture that the team loved. Show less

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  Yandex

  Apr 2022 - Jul 2023

  Head of Career Center & Partnerships

  Worked in Yandex Practicum, an EdTech product that helps motivated individuals to shift their careers into technological professions.Worthy accomplishments:✅ Develop an online career center to support students in training programs.✅ Develop an ecosystem with industry partners, alumni and students.✅ Communicate with business stakeholders, product team, and users to learn, build, share and iterate the product in a balance that serves all parties.✅ Launch experiments to increase the employment rate, and customer satisfaction rate.✅ Prioritize projects with agile methodology and manage a team accordingly.✅ Lead and support the customer-facing team. Show less

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  Ilan Shenkar - Impact at Work

  Jul 2023 - now

  Impact and Innovation Consultant

  I'm developing an R&D lab that focuses in impact and innovation in the employment supply chain, which includes education, training, human resources and social services.How can you benefit from me?🎯 Enrich your people with lectures and workshops about future of work related issues.👨‍🔬 Gain actionable insights by research performing root cause analysis of complex problems.💡 Validate possible solutions and POCs for problems through in depth interviews, surveys and A/B testing.🦄 Develop new designs and reshape existing services, products and businesses from flowcharts to customer journeys to operational no-code prototypes.🧠 Implement and educate about the solution by developing new content for training and marketing purposes. Show less

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  Wolt

  Sept 2023 - Jul 2024

  Talent Acquisition Lead - High Volume Hiring

  Lead and support talent acquisition team of 5 to reach ambitious hiring goals under uncertain conditions.Supported hyper-growth in high volume hiring of retail and support employees by digitizing operations and processes with tools such as Calendly, Monday.com, Zoom webinars.Managed multiple service providers such as marketing agencies, hrtech providers, job boards, placement agencies to reach our goal Identified and outreach partners from nonprofits and online communities to attract relevant candidates.Reported daily and weekly to global and local management. Show less