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Efrat Dagan

Efrat Dagan

Founder & CEO, Workaround | Global Talent-Acquisition Leader 🚀

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Tel Aviv District, Israel
Joined September 2025

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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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Public speaking, mentoring and writing about work and hiring (frequent podcast guest and writer). podbean+2