With over 15 years in talent acquisition, Andreea Lungulescu has remained hands-on while leading transformative global projects. Her career spans winning Global Innovation Awards at Wayfair and Zalando, establishing the hiring foundation for Wayfair’s Tech Development Centre in Bangalore, and—most recently—founding Germany’s most engaged recruiting community, Talent Crunch.
Through her Talent Transformation Portfolio™ and The Principal Recruiter platform, Andreea helps organizations optimize recruitment practices and individuals advance their careers. She blends deep operational expertise with innovation, data, and a refreshingly human approach.
Andreea’s work spans the full talent lifecycle. From sourcing and talent intelligence to internal mobility, leadership frameworks, and workforce design. And she brings something rare to the table: authenticity, curiosity, and a clear-eyed view of what recruiting will look like in the next decade.
In this episode, we explore what it really means to build the talent machine today:
Why “using ChatGPT” doesn’t make you AI-ready
Andreea challenges recruiters to go beyond prompts and understand automation deeply, or risk being left behind.How community beats fear
Her Berlin-based Talent Crunch network proves that collaboration and shared learning are the best antidotes to uncertainty in the age of AI.Why elite recruiters will rise to the top
The future belongs to those with passion, grit, and resilience. Three qualities no machine can replicate.How to think like a true advisor
From risk management to workforce planning, she believes recruiters need to understand where the money flows to earn real influence.Why “quality of hire” is recruiting’s holy grail
The metric everyone talks about but no one defines. And how it could be the one that saves us all time, money, and talent density.
Andreea brings energy, sharpness, and heart to the conversation. Her message is simple but powerful: AI isn’t replacing recruiters…it’s revealing who’s ready to evolve.
Episode 008 is out now!
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