For Freelance/Contractor Applicants based in the EU
It is 2026 and recruiting still feels like a black box. There are enough candidates, enough recruiters and enough interviews happening. Yet companies still struggle to find and hire A-players. The result? Frustration, wrong hires, candidates treated like numbers.
Eleva Search is a boutique staffing agency founded by me, Cristina - built on the belief that great recruiting combines structured, data driven thinking with human connection. Exceptional hiring is about precision and strategy: understanding what a client truly needs and finding the gem hidden inside the noise.
I work with clients across Germany and Europe, and I'm looking for a motivated colleague to join me in placing mostly technical, and sometimes commercial, roles.
Tasks
- Identify and attract top-tier candidates through LinkedIn, AI-powered sourcing, and market research
- Understand what truly drives candidates, their ambitions, motivations, goals, and non-negotiables
- Reach out with personalized messages that earns the candidate´s attention
- Build strategic sourcing reports that give clients real market transparency and clear hiring direction
Requirements
Your A player qualities:
- You take ownership, challenging searches don't intimidate you
- 2-3 years of experience in sourcing, ideally for technical or engineering roles
- Organized, proactive, and comfortable managing multiple priorities
- Fluent in German (C1 or above) and English, with the confidence to engage candidates from junior to C-level
- Active sourcing is your strength, you know how to identify, approach, and engage top talent others overlook
- Curious and always learning, you thrive in startup environments where your ideas and initiative shape outcomes
Benefits
- Work from anywhere. Home office, coworking space or at the beach - what matters is the work you deliver, and how you get there is yours to decide
- Competitive compensation paired with a performance bonus designed around your actual contribution and what matters to you
- Flexibility to structure your days around your life, your energy, your priorities
- Operate in a quality-driven environment where recruiting is valued as the strategic function it is, with the depth, intentionality, and business impact it deserves
What makes Eleva Search different:
- Most recruiters operate on assumptions. We operate on data. We use market insights, talent mapping, and hiring analytics to understand where the real A-players are
- We believe in precision over volume, laser focused on identifying and attracting high performing candidates who fit the business
- We look past CV keywords to assess ambition, motivation, and long term alignment
- We have skin in the game. We work with a limited number of clients so we can move fast, and deliver with the care and quality that volume players can't
- If you would like to put a face to the name you can find me here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristina-ionita-b7b103179/
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