
Efrat Dagan
Founder & CEO, Workaround | Global Talent-Acquisition Leader 🚀
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Tel Aviv District, Israel
Joined September 2025
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Summary
Experienced global talent-acquisition leader who scaled recruiting at major tech organizations: Efrat spent over a decade running recruiting and staffing programs for Google (including responsibility for Google Israel and multiple European offices, and work with Waze), then led talent for Lyft's autonomous-vehicles division and later Next Insurance. She brings deep operational experience in building recruiting teams, interviewer training, and large-scale hiring pipelines. ere+2
Founder and consultant focused on making hiring better: since founding Workaround she advises companies on hiring-process design, interviewer capability, candidate experience and hiring metrics — emphasizing alignment, consistency and measurable pipelines to reduce costly mis-hires. workaroundnow+2
Thought leader, speaker and mentor on the future of work: she writes and speaks regularly (Medium, ERE, podcasts) about interviewing, hiring practices and workplace design, and serves in advisory roles to startups and talent‑tech companies. medium+2
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20MinuteLeaders / 20 Minute Leaders interview (podcast episode transcript)
February 23, 2023Long-form interview covering career history (Google, Lyft, Next Insurance), perspectives on hiring and building teams (podcast episode with transcript).
“It's a 'do good' profession because you help people find jobs.” (Calcalist interview)
February 1, 2023Interview/profile covering Efrat's approach to interviewing, hiring processes, and candidate experience (published Feb 26, 2023).
Articles on hiring, interviewing and the future of work (author page)
Multiple articles and opinion pieces about recruiting best practices, interviewing and the future of work collected on ERE and Medium.