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How to Write a CV that Attracts Top Employers – Insights by Valeriia Virchenko, Head of Talent Acquisition at RedCore
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European Gaming Media joined RedCore and Valeriia Virchenko, Head of Talent Acquisition, at their SiGMA Central Europe booth in Rome to discuss a topic that resonates with every ambitious professional: how to write a CV that truly stands out to top employers.
As an accomplished recruitment leader with extensive experience across continents – from Europe to Latin America, Africa, and Asia – Valeriia brings a global perspective on what leading companies seek in candidates today. Under her leadership, RedCore’s talent acquisition strategy continues to attract and develop exceptional professionals across tech, marketing, and fintech.
Interview by Maria Emma Arnidou, HIPTHER – European Gaming Media
Valeriia, from your experience leading large-scale recruitment projects across international markets, what makes a CV truly stand out to top employers today?
First of all, thank you for the invitation. From my experience, what really makes a CV stand out is when candidates clearly show their results and impact. Top companies want evidence of what you achieved, not just a list of responsibilities. It’s important to include metrics or numbers – for example, not just “I managed a large team,” but “I led a team of 15 and increased results by 20%.” These details matter. Employers want to see how your experience directly helped solve problems or improved something within the company.
What are the most common mistakes candidates make when writing their CVs, and what advice would you give them to avoid these pitfalls?
This is a big topic, but in my opinion the most common mistake is that some CVs are simply too long. Hiring managers can only scan a CV briefly, so two pages, three at most, is enough. Writing a very long CV is a major mistake. Another point is simple but often overlooked: candidates really need to proofread their final draft. Small errors and little details matter because they show whether someone is attentive and pays attention to detail.
When reviewing applications at RedCore, what qualities or signals do you look for that show a candidate is ready to grow within a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment?
We mainly look for two things. The first is adaptability – people who can adjust quickly to change. The second is a genuine love of learning. We prefer hiring people with a growth mindset. How fast someone can learn new tools or approaches is very important for us, because our industry is extremely dynamic. If a person doesn’t like learning or isn’t open to new technologies, it becomes difficult to work together in such an environment.
On a CV, it helps a lot when candidates highlight this. If you started a new project, learned a new tool quickly, or solved a significant problem at work – mention it. These signals show us that you’re ready to grow with us.
RedCore is actively hiring specialists across various sectors – also C-level professionals. What can experienced candidates expect when joining your organization in terms of career growth and support?
We can talk about perks, benefits, high salaries – and of course we have all of that – but so does everyone. What I really want to highlight, especially for C-level candidates, is something different. If you look at our booth here at SiGMA Central Europe, you can see how big it is – because it houses the many brands : Mr. Booster, Frogo, PayPartners, and others. Each of these brands has its own C-level professionals, and these leaders grow inside our company.
What we offer C-level professionals is ownership and creative freedom: the opportunity to act like business owners. They can take a product from idea to market, understand what needs to be done, build the right sales strategy, and really drive the product forward. They get the freedom and responsibility of running a business, but in a comfortable environment and with minimal risk. You can focus purely on growth and vision.
And one more thing that’s very important for us: we always welcome C-level candidates to visit our booth at expos. We want to meet them, to get to know them, even if they are not actively looking for a new role right now. There are always opportunities, and we are always open to talent.
Finally, for those aspiring to join global companies like RedCore, what’s your number one piece of advice for crafting a CV that stands out and secures an interview?
Be very clear about your sector. If you work in fintech, iGaming, healthcare – mention it right away, because it immediately gives us an understanding of your background. These industries are not the same, and this context matters. The same goes for technical roles: if you’re a developer, list your full tech stack clearly. Which technologies, which tools – everything should be easy to find.
Structure and presentation are also important. It’s better to build your CV using a proper layout tool like Canva or Tilda, rather than leaving it as a plain Google Doc. Think of it like a user journey: recruiters and hiring managers should instantly know where to find the right information about you.
And finally, include a photo: a simple, professional portrait. Sometimes we see funny photos, and that’s not the impression you want to give when applying to a global company. You don’t need a studio shoot; even a phone photo taken against a white or grey wall is enough. People want to see who they might be working with in the future.
Thank you, Valeriia, for sharing your valuable insights on building a career-ready CV and giving us a closer look into RedCore’s approach to talent and professional growth.
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Stay tuned for more exclusive interviews from SiGMA Central Europe 2025, brought to you by European Gaming Media, your trusted source for insights at the intersection of iGaming, tech, and innovation.
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European Gaming Media
HIPTHER’s European Gaming Media Joins Forces with Frank Gaming in a Strategic Media Partnership
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HIPTHER’s flagship media outlet, European Gaming Media, is delighted to announce a new Media Partnership with Frank Gaming – the strategic nexus connecting game providers, casino operators, and industry leaders worldwide.
This collaboration marks a shared mission to accelerate partnerships, amplify exposure, and empower sustainable growth within the global iGaming ecosystem. Through this agreement, Frank Gaming will feature HIPTHER’s renowned international events across its platform, providing its expansive network with direct access to some of the industry’s most influential conferences.
In exchange, European Gaming Media will provide ongoing editorial and social media coverage for Frank Gaming’s key announcements, while Frank Gaming representatives will receive complimentary passes to attend HIPTHER’s premium events, including the Prague Gaming & TECH Summit, European Gaming Congress (HIPTHER Warsaw Summit), and the MARE BALTICUM Gaming & TECH Summit.
A Partnership Built on Shared Vision and Reach
Frank Gaming serves as a powerful connector within the iGaming ecosystem, driving measurable results through strategic networking, exclusive events, and actionable industry intelligence. Their ecosystem features over 500 verified suppliers, 250 active operators, 1,200 successful connections, and 50+ exclusive events – all designed to foster collaboration and growth.
The platform’s comprehensive toolkit includes a Supplier Directory, Strategic Networking, Industry Intelligence, Exclusive Events, Custom Marketing, and Strategic Advisory services, making it a go-to destination for gaming businesses seeking to scale with purpose.
As a leading media voice reaching over 300,000 monthly readers, European Gaming Media delivers trusted news, interviews, and insights across gaming, betting, esports, and tech innovation. The partnership strengthens both brands’ commitment to building bridges and driving excellence across the gaming value chain.
Statements from the Partners
Zoltán Tűndik, Co-founder of HIPTHER, commented: Our collaboration with Frank Gaming is a natural fit, rooted in a shared commitment to strengthening the core of the iGaming industry. We are focused on delivering crucial insights, and Frank Gaming excels at creating actionable connections. With a joint effort we can offer immense value, ensuring that the critical discussions taking place at our HIPTHER events are amplified across their robust network of suppliers and operators.
Julian Arabadjiyski, Frank Gaming strategic advisor added: Partnering with HIPTHER is a strategic step forward in our mission to connect innovation with opportunity across the global iGaming landscape. HIPTHER brings industry-shaping insights and global reach through their events and media, while Frank Gaming empowers suppliers and operators to turn those insights into growth. Together, we’re bridging knowledge and execution ensuring the right voices are heard and the right connections are made.
About Frank Gaming
Frank Gaming is the strategic nexus connecting game providers, casino operators, and industry leaders across the global iGaming ecosystem. With over 500 verified suppliers, 250 operators, and 1,200 successful connections, the platform accelerates partnerships and drives growth through strategic networking, exclusive events, and targeted intelligence.
About European Gaming Media
Part of HIPTHER, European Gaming Media (EuropeanGaming.eu) is one of the most trusted publications in the iGaming and gambling sector, reaching more than 300,000 readers monthly. The outlet delivers daily news, in-depth interviews, regulatory updates, and event coverage, shaping the future of gaming and betting across Europe.
About HIPTHER
HIPTHER is a global brand dedicated to connecting people and businesses through innovative media, PR, and events. With leading conferences and media outlets spanning Gaming, Tech, and Fintech, HIPTHER empowers industries through connection, collaboration, and creativity.
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HIPTHER’s European Gaming Congress 2025 Marks Record Attendance and Announces Marek Plota as Ambassador of the HIPTHER Warsaw Summit
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The 2025 edition of the European Gaming Congress (EGC) closed its doors in Warsaw with record-breaking attendance, a strengthened industry footprint, and an announcement that marks a new chapter for HIPTHER’s European expansion: in 2026, EGC officially evolves into the HIPTHER Warsaw Summit with renowned legal expert Marek Plota appointed as its first Ambassador.
Held across two content-rich stages – the Compliance & Operations Lad and the TechXperience Stage – alongside the hands-on HIPTHER Academy Workshops, EGC 2025 delivered its most ambitious program to date. Attendance has now tripled compared to its reintroduction in 2023, establishing Warsaw as one of the most dynamic conversation hubs for gaming, compliance, and tech in Europe.
A European Outlook With Global Relevance
The Compliance & Operations Lab brought together regulators, lawyers, and industry specialists for a panoramic review of the evolving European ecosystem. Discussions spanned the Polish market’s legal framework, cross-border compliance from Paris to Berlin, key CEE territories, the Czech Republic and Romania, and an outlook on emerging priorities in the Baltics. Experts also explored global trends with a timely update on several LATAM jurisdictions.
A highlight of the Agenda was the IMGL Masterclass – “Regulators, Legislators, and the Power of One Voice: A Legal Strategy for Industry Unity” – which explored the future of collaborative governance and harmonization.
Fintech, taxation, licensing, and responsible gaming standards added essential layers to a program designed to help operators and suppliers navigate an increasingly interconnected regulatory landscape.
Tech, Innovation, and the Human Factor
On the TechXperience Stage, conversations shifted to the future:
– AI for competitive advantage
– The evolution of esports and startup innovation
– AEO & SEO trends redefining discoverability
– Personalization and the new player journey
– Cyber resilience in iGaming
– Strategic Event Preparation in B2B PR, Marketing & BizDev
These sessions brought together marketing leaders, technologists, founders, and innovators across iGaming, fintech, digital entertainment, and cybersecurity, underlining Warsaw’s emerging status as a cross-industry meeting point in Europe.
A Key Voice: Marek Plota’s Impactful Participation
Throughout the Congress, Marek Plota – Founding Attorney at RM Legal & Gaming in Poland – played a leading role as both moderator and speaker. His contributions spanned Poland’s gambling framework, European lessons for CEE markets, and strategic taxation and licensing standards. He also brought legal depth to the IMGL Masterclass, adding critical clarity to one of the most pressing topics for operators in the region.
Marek’s widely respected presence across national and international gaming markets, combined with his years-long collaboration with HIPTHER as panelist, moderator, sponsor, and advisor, made this year’s Congress a natural moment to formalize the partnership.
Introducing the Ambassador of the HIPTHER Warsaw Summit
HIPTHER is proud to announce Marek Plota as the Ambassador of the HIPTHER Warsaw Summit, beginning with the 2026 edition.
In his own words: “It’s a real honor to serve as an ambassador for the Hipther Warsaw Summit and the European Gaming Congress. My collaboration with Zoltan Tundik and the Hipther team goes back many years as a panelist, moderator, sponsor, and above all, as a friend. These events are truly unique in the global gaming and gambling conference calendar — intimate, insightful, and refreshingly personal. Unlike the vast expos, Hipther events give people a genuine chance to meet, talk, and exchange ideas without walking 50,000 steps from one meeting to another. We are already looking forward to the next editions and to working together to make these conferences a true must-have for everyone in the industry.”
Marek is a founder and a head of the legal team at RM Legal Law Firm and Gaming In Poland, jointly providing multidisciplinary and multijurisdictional support for leading international gambling operators in the Polish, European Union, and African markets. His gambling practice includes regulatory support at the pre and post-licensing stage, IT, and taxation services, as well as the unique service of performing a function of a gambling representative. RM Legal is the only law firm in Poland representing offshore companies operating legally in the Polish gambling market. Apart from gambling Marek specializes in corporate commercial law and international investment projects.
A New Era for Warsaw, Europe, and the Global Market
The transition from EGC to the HIPTHER Warsaw Summit marks a strategic evolution with HIPTHER enhancing the region’s growing importance: Poland now stands as a crossroads of regulatory influence, iGaming innovation, and international market expansion – connecting Western Europe, CEE, and fast-emerging global markets, from Africa to LATAM.
In 2026, the HIPTHER Warsaw Summit will continue shaping the conversations and connections that define the future of gaming and tech.
HIPTHER looks forward to welcoming the industry back to Warsaw next year for an even bigger, more influential, and more globally connected event – assisted by the expertise and vision of its new Ambassador.
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“Movers and Shakers” is a dynamic monthly column dedicated to exploring the latest trends, developments, and influential voices in the iGaming industry. Powered by GameOn and supported by HIPTHER, this op-ed series delves into the key players, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes shaping the future of online gaming. Each month, industry experts offer their insights and perspectives, providing readers with in-depth analysis and thought-provoking commentary on what’s driving the iGaming world forward. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or new to the scene, “Movers and Shakers” is your go-to source for staying ahead in the rapidly evolving iGaming landscape.
By Claudia Heiling, Co-Founder & COO, Golden Whale
For years, iGaming has considered itself a data-driven industry. We’ve all spent time refining segmentation, optimising CRM journeys, mapping behavioural signals, and building increasingly complex player models. And with machine learning now widely available, whether bought, built, or borrowed, it would be reasonable to assume that the industry is already fully realising the benefits of AI.
But speak to most operators, product teams, or data leads and you’ll hear a different story.
There are models running somewhere – and usually several. There are predictions being generated. There are dashboards, reports, and insights circulating. Yet the business impact often feels inconsistent. Some initiatives deliver a clear uplift; others stall or never make it past a proof-of-concept stage. Projects that shine in testing environments don’t always translate into live, reliable operations.
The issue is rarely the model. And it’s rarely the data team. The gap is operational.
It’s one thing to build machine learning models. It’s another to make them function as part of the daily working rhythm of an iGaming business.
The operators and providers seeing the strongest and most reliable gains are the ones who treat AI not as an experiment, but as a capability: something that must be designed, deployed, monitored, re-trained, and continuously improved. This is closer to how we already treat core game operations, promotional systems, risk tooling, or CRM orchestration. It’s iterative, structured and ongoing.
In practice, that means building the frameworks around the models, not just the models themselves. Continuous data flows. Automated re-training. Real-time deployment pipelines. Feedback loops that allow systems to learn not just once, but constantly. When we work with iGaming clients who have embraced this operational mindset and leverage our ready-to-deploy MLOps system built for iGaming, the impact becomes both compounding and predictable.
The other shift happening is cultural. There has been a lingering expectation in some corners of the industry that AI will replace manual decision-making entirely and that it will “take over” processes like CRM optimisation, fraud detection, or product adjustment.
That’s neither realistic nor particularly desirable.
iGaming is too contextual, too human, too dependent on craftmanship and intuition.
The real value of AI is in augmentation: giving teams better visibility, faster feedback, and stronger evidence on which to base decisions.
In organisations where this mindset has taken hold, you see a different dynamic.
CRM teams run more experiments, more often, because they aren’t spending time rebuilding segments from scratch. Analysts spend less time on manual spreadsheet simulation and more on strategic exploration. Live-ops managers can respond to player behaviour as it changes, not after the weekly report comes in.
AI becomes the layer that enhances judgement, rather than replaces it.
And when AI is integrated technically and culturally, the commercial outcomes are hard to ignore. In setups where continuous learning pipelines are properly established and aligned with live operations, we’ve seen engagement and retention metrics improve dramatically and sustainably, with activity and revenues rising by 100–200%, while bonus and incentive costs drop by 20%+, driving growth and both securing and expanding market share. Operational teams benefit too, with workflows becoming smoother and less manual because the system is handling the constant data processing and iteration.
The improvements don’t come from having more complex algorithms. They come from having a structure that allows those algorithms to perform reliably, adapt to change, and keep learning over time.
This is where the conversation about AI in iGaming is quietly changing.
It’s no longer dominated by model performance or dataset scale, rather it is focused on repeatability, reliability and learning speed.
The distinction matters because it separates having AI, from running AI.
And the operators and providers who get this right aren’t just improving performance in the short term. They are building organisational momentum, a capability that compounds over time and is very difficult to replicate quickly.
In a sector defined by tight margins, competition and rapidly shifting player expectations, that advantage is significant.
So, if there is a “next step” in the industry’s AI journey, it’s not a more complex algorithm. It’s not a bigger data pool. And it’s not a new suite of predictive dashboards.
It’s the ability to learn continuously, responsibly and at scale.
Because in iGaming, as in intelligence, data alone doesn’t win. What wins is the ability to turn learning into action again and again.
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