About

Barbora Jenšík

I've been placing engineers since 2005. Recberry is what I built after watching good companies hire the hard way, again and again.

Founder of Recberry · Prague, since May 2015 · English, Czech, Slovak

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Barbora Jenšík, founder of Recberry
20+
Years in recruitment
500+
Engineers placed
13
Years — longest placement

How I got here

I started in recruitment in the UK in 2005 and moved to the Czech market in 2008. For most of that time I was the one companies called when the role was hard: niche skills, senior hires, roles that had been open too long. I've placed engineers into early-stage startups and into Skype, Avast, Barclays, and Kiwi.com — always as an outside recruiter.

Placing people was never the hard part. What kept surprising me was what happened after: the next role opened, and the same company started again from zero. Same unclear brief, same slow feedback, same agency fee.

So in 2015 I founded Recberry, and over time the work changed. Today I build the hiring process inside a company and hand it over. I call it Talent Engineering.

How I work

I don't walk in and tell you you're doing it wrong. Usually you're not — you're doing your best with a process that wasn't built for what you need now. I start by listening: where hiring hurts, what you've already tried, what your numbers say. Then I tell you what would work better, and what it costs.

If you tried something before and it didn't work, I'll ask what exactly you tried and what the data showed. Often it wasn't the same thing.

Most of my placements stay longer than 18 months. Some juniors I hired part-time became full-time team leads within a year and a half. That's the kind of hiring I want your team to be able to repeat without me.

Practical details

  • English, Czech, Slovak
  • Clients mostly in Czechia, Slovakia, Switzerland, the UK, and the US
  • Recberry s.r.o., Tupolevova 741, 199 00 Prague 9, Czechia
  • barbora@recberry.com
  • LinkedIn

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