Iriana Blanco
About Iriana Blanco
Iriana Blanco is the Recruitment Team Lead at Endava in Monterrey, Mexico, with extensive experience in IT recruitment and human resources management across multiple countries.
Current Role at Endava
Iriana Blanco serves as the Recruitment Team Lead at Endava in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México. In her current role, she leads the recruitment team and acts as a career coach. She also serves as an escalation point for negotiation issues or hard-to-fill positions, develops reports outlining recruiting activity, and conducts bi-annual performance reviews for all Technical Recruiters.
Career Journey
Iriana Blanco has held several roles in the recruitment and human resources field. She began her career as an HR Intern at PDVSA Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. in 2013. She then worked at Centro 99 and Ceramicas Las Mercedes as an HR Recruiter. She spent time at Rusticeramica as an HR Manager before moving to Garonz Egypt as an IT Human Talent Manager. She then joined Blue Studies International as HR Recruiter and Valatam as IT Recruiter. Iriana transitioned to Endava, where she worked first as a Recruitment Business Partner in Miranda, Venezuela, then Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, before becoming the Recruitment Team Lead.
Education and Certifications
Iriana Blanco received her education at Universidad Rafael Urdaneta, where she achieved a degree in Psychology. She furthered her studies by earning a Master's Degree in Human Resources Management from Universidad Rafael Belloso Chacín. Additionally, she completed a training program in leadership and strategic management from the same university. She is also a certified Tech Recruiter, with a focus on IT recruitment, since 2017 and is bilingual with an upper-intermediate level of English.
Expertise in IT Recruitment
Iriana Blanco specializes in IT recruitment, having managed recruitment processes across countries such as Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico, India, and Ukraine. She has a solid knowledge of recruitment KPIs and has successfully recruited a diverse range of IT profiles including Frontend, Backend, FullStack, and Mobile Developers, as well as Salesforce Developers, Solutions and Software Architects, UX/UI Designers, Functional, Performance, and Automation Testers, DBA, Cloud and DevOps roles, Applications Management Engineers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Wintel Support, Linux Support, Security, Service Desk, Storage, Network Engineers, DevSecOps, Project Managers, Agile Roles, and Business Analysts.
Responsibilities and Key Functions
In her role at Endava, Iriana Blanco carries a range of responsibilities. She leads the recruitment team, manages market research for potential business opportunities, and coordinates recruiting activities. Blanco develops detailed reports for stakeholders and oversees the bi-annual performance reviews for technical recruiters. She also acts as an escalation point for difficult negotiations and hard-to-fill positions, ensuring effective resolution of issues.