Recruitment Meetup: Improving Recruiter–Hiring Manager Collaboration
Recruitment Meetup: Improving Recruiter–Hiring Manager Collaboration
Recruiter & hiring manager relationships can make or break a hiring process. Misaligned expectations, unclear feedback and slow decisions don't just frustrate recruiters, they can slow down the entire business.
Join 60+ TA professionals in Amsterdam for an evening and learn how recruiters and hiring managers can work better together through AI, practical ideas, and real examples.
Who is it for?
Primarily:
In-house recruiters
Talent Partners
TA Managers & Heads of TA
Talent Operations professionals
HR leaders working closely with hiring
We also welcome a limited number of hiring managers who work closely with talent teams and are interested in improving the way they collaborate with recruiters.
Registrations are subject to approval. We aim to keep the audience predominantly recruitment professionals.
What to expect
The recruiter perspective
The hiring manager perspective
Practical ways to improve collaboration
Real AI use cases
A live AI agent demo
Food, drinks & networking
Agenda
18:00 – 19:00 | Welcome, food, drinks & networking
19:00 – 19:05 | Welcome & introduction
We’ll kick off the evening and share some of the biggest recruiter and hiring manager collaboration challenges submitted by attendees during registration.
19:05 – 19:20 | Alla Pavlova
Pavlova’s Dog: Breaking the Conditioned Chase of the Hiring Manager
How recruiters can rethink their relationship with hiring managers, plus a practical example of using AI to turn an intake conversation into a structured debrief and job description.
19:20 – 19:35 | Joshua Hoffman
Are You Sisyphus or The Rock? A Hiring Manager's Perspective on Recruiting
What does good recruiter collaboration actually look like from the hiring manager’s side?
19:35 – 19:50 | Alla Pavlova & Willem Wijnans
Building an AI Agent in Ashby
A practical look at what AI agents can already do inside the recruiting workflow.
19:50 – 20:00 | AI Fluency Challenge
A short interactive session to test your AI knowledge.
20:00 – 21:15 | Drinks & networking
Aftermovie
Want a sneak peek? Watch the aftermovie from one of our meetups to see what it’s all about.
Speakers:
Alla Pavlova, AI Trainer, TA Industry Expert
Alla is a global Tech & Games Industries expert, specialised in crafting high-performing teams since 2008 and creating AI training programs for TA teams. Named the “Most Influential Sourcer in the Netherlands” in 2022, Alla has been working across the world in Europe, Singapore, China, Australia, UK.
She is an international speaker at the industry largest conferences like TRC, SOSU, WeAreDevelopers, and actively contributes to TA communities and founded her sourcing community on Discord. Alla’s goal is to empower recruiters and sourcers to become more valuable and trusted partners for the businesses.
Joshua Hoffman, Tech Leader, CTO
Joshua, an experienced engineer and tech leader, has been helping Amsterdam startups to build and scale their tech teams and production since 2015. As an early Red Hat engineer, Joshua consulted for organizations across North America, Europe, and Asia, and created Red Hat's award winning Virtual Training platform.
Next he served as Director of Infrastructure for Tumblr, leading the team that built Tumblr's open source data center automation tool Collins. At SoundCloud, Joshua served as Technical Director, leading the team that created the popular open source metrics platform Prometheus.
Willem Wijnans, Community & Education at Ashby
Willem Wijnans works with talent teams across EMEA and APAC to help them build more data-driven and effective hiring practices using Ashby. He leads community and education initiatives, hosting workshops, events, and deep-dive sessions focused on recruitment operations and hiring excellence.
The event is brought to you by:
Ashby
Ashby is what an ATS should be: an integration of sourcing automation, AI-supported outreach sequencing, native interview scheduling, a searchable CRM, and advanced analytics – all in one ATS++ system. That means better data, less context switching, and more streamlined workflows. Chosen by over a thousand companies, including Quora, Moss, Zapier, Taxfix, and Multiverse, Ashby stands out as the top-rated ATS for ambitious organisations and their hiring teams.
Matchr
A global embedded RPO partner helping high-growth companies and enterprises build diverse, high-performing teams. Clients include TikTok, Eneco, Heineken, and Miro.
Join us on Thursday, 17 September, 2026 for an evening of practical insights, peer exchange, and real-world perspectives on modern recruitment.