Through recruitment training programs, executed in collaboration with Saranen, Surveypal has found growth-oriented and motivated professionals. By hiring talent through recruitment training programs, Surveypal not only aspires to find employees who fit well into its work community, but also aims to support unemployed professionals by helping them return to working life.
Surveypal offers feedback management solutions. Together with Saranen, Surveypal has hired several professionals into its work community, who with their skills have filled vacant positions in both marketing and testing.
“At Surveypal, we have had a growing need to find new talent into our team. Naturally, we have certain skill criteria, but first and foremost we seek to find the right type of professionals, who fit into our diverse work community. More important than their skills are their personalities, motivation, and growth potential”, explains Jukka Wallasvaara, CTO of Surveypal.
"We have been very pleased with all of the professionals we have hired through the training programs – they are skilled and eager to learn new things."
Finding growth-oriented and motivated talent through training programs
Through its recruitment training programs, Surveypal has found growth-oriented and motivated professionals, who also fit into the work community."
In our recruitment, we use various recruitment channels, but through the recruitment training programs carried out by Saranen, we have made some extremely successful recruitments! We have been very pleased with all of the professionals we have hired through the training programs – they are skilled and eager to learn new things”, Wallasvaara summarizes.
In recruitment training program, a person who is unemployed, or run the risk of dismissal, can find a new direction in their career. The professional is given the chance to develop their skills or train for a completely new position through six months of practical on-the-job training. During this time, the person also develops their know-how in an industry-specific training module. The recruitment training programs are carried out in collaboration with the Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment and the TE Services.
”We value being able to ease the return of long-term unemployed to working life.”
”I find it surprising, how difficult it can be to find work in Finland, if you don’t speak Finnish – at Surveypal, our official company language is English, which means that finding the right talent is not delimited by language skills”, Wallasvaara continues.
“We want to offer our professionals the best possible development path”
Wallasvaara finds, that when a professional is given the freedom of testing and showing their skills, great results can be attained.
”At Surveypal, we focus on building an interactive work culture. We invest in people and in providing a genuinely good place to work. We want to succeed as a team, and as I see it, the most important thing for us is finding professionals, who fit into our culture and our work community and aren’t afraid to voice their opinions”, explains Wallasvaara.
The final positions of the employees hired through the recruitment training program at Surveypal have taken shape over the course of the training program, through discussion and drawing from the professionals’ experiences.
”We aim to offer the professional the best possible development path. Together, we weekly go over what they have learned and interactively share experiences and know-how.”
The latest team recruit through the recruitment training program is Shikha Varshney, who now works as a project manager at Surveypal.
”Initially, we were looking for a professional for a slightly different role, but it quickly became clear to us that Shikha had the skills of a project manager. Shikha is a great find, just as the other professionals we have found through the programs!”
”I would say a recruitment training program works for companies, that view job applicants with an open mind. Through the training program, it is possible to find versatile applicants, who you might not have originally looked for – we have been pleasantly surprised by the potential we have found”, Wallasvaara summarizes.
”Our collaboration with Saranen has been very smooth, and Saranen has added value to us in the different phases of recruitment and training. As a whole, the process has been easy and effortless, and the customer service has been just right – we’ve been contacted when needed and when relevant, and our interests have been the focus of all communication.”
Recruitment made easy through collaboration
”Our collaboration with Saranen has been very smooth, and Saranen has added value to us in the different phases of recruitment and training. As a whole, the process has been easy and effortless, and the customer service has been just right – we’ve been contacted when needed and when relevant, and our interests have been the focus of all communication”, Wallasvaara outlines the experiences of collaborating with Saranen.
”Mapping our needs in the beginning of the recruitment process has been particularly fruitful – in this phase, we have closely defined the profile of the talent we are looking for, after which a few carefully selected candidates have been presented to us. The choice of each presented candidate has been well founded”, explains Wallasvaara.
"Our wishes have been respected and heard. At the same time, we have also been presented with candidates beyond our hopes. The professionals presented to us have been well-rounded and versatile. What has also been great, is that the training program dates and content have been adapted to our needs”, Wallasvaara concludes.
