
Samantha Astorga
Samantha Astorga is a Senior People Partner and global HR leader with 12+ years of experience shaping people strategy, employee experience, and organizational growth across multiple industries like consultancy firms, oil & gas, pharma and tech, within international environments. Having worked across regions like Latin America and Europe, she brings a multicultural perspective with fluency in several languages, mixed with a wide expertise in key people processes with a data-driven approach, to build inclusive, high-performing teams.
Articles by Samantha Astorga
Best Applicant Tracking Systems
After spending three weeks inside 13 applicant tracking systems - posting the same job, routing the same candidates, building the same interview loops - the biggest surprise was how little the category name tells you about what these products actually do.
Best Applicant Tracking Systems for Staffing Agencies
After running the same 200-candidate placement scenario through 14 applicant tracking systems, the gap between platforms built for staffing agencies and those bolted onto corporate HR software was obvious within the first hour.