CAREERCRAFTED Talent leadership, delivered.

Interim TA Leadership · Embedded Delivery · Hiring Transformation

Talent problems are rarely talent problems.

Career Crafted helps scaling companies improve hiring quality, speed, stakeholder confidence and operational effectiveness through interim leadership, embedded delivery and practical talent transformation.

Interim TA Leadership Embedded Delivery TA Transformation AI Enabled Hiring Operations
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Trusted by teams at NIQ & Global Technology Businesses
900+Headcount Supported
260Annual Hires Owned
8×CV-to-Hire Efficiency Gain
45%Faster Time-to-Hire
26Recruiter Team Led
£1.1MAgency Spend Saved

What I do

Three ways I typically help

01

Interim TA Leadership

  • Team leadership & management
  • Workforce planning
  • Hiring governance
  • Stakeholder management
  • Performance management
02

Embedded Delivery

  • Hands-on recruiting for critical roles
  • Engineering, Product, Data, Design, GTM & Corporate Functions
  • Sourcing strategy & execution
  • Candidate assessment & pipeline management
03

Talent Transformation

  • Team operating model
  • ATS selection and implementation
  • PSL and vendor strategy with commercial negotiation
  • OKR setting
  • Hiring analytics and dashboard build
Charlie Toprak

About Charlie

Senior TA leadership without the long ramp.

Over a decade building and scaling hiring capability across APAC and EMEA, including senior TA leadership at Agoda and hiring experience across AWS and NIQ.

I help businesses stabilise delivery, improve hiring operations, and build TA functions that are measurable, commercially aware, and trusted by stakeholders.

NIQ

Selected impact

Proof points without the long read.

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45% faster time-to-hire Scaled hiring across Product, Design, GTM and Corporate functions.
8× CV-to-hire efficiency gain Built stakeholder ownership, reporting and delivery rhythm.
NIQ £1.1M agency spend saved Built TA capability, vendor strategy and new hiring hubs.

AI Tooling

Modern hiring deserves modern tooling.

I combine proven recruitment practice with AI-enabled workflows that improve consistency, efficiency and candidate quality.

▣CV review
against rubrics
◎Candidate
scorecards
◫Hiring manager
briefing packs
☷Interview guide
generation
◈Case study prep
for candidates
⌁Funnel analysis &
bottleneck detection
▤Recruitment
reporting
◇Market mapping &
talent intelligence

Start with a conversation

Need help with hiring?

Whether you need interim leadership, embedded delivery or support fixing something structural, let’s have a conversation.

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