Succeed in a changing labor market – Business Vantaa brings solutions to every employer
Today’s working life is transformed by a lack of talent, the ageing of the population, and a multilingual labor market. Success and progress are increasingly dependent on how well companies recognize talent, lead diverse teams and recruit based on skills and factual job position requirements. Business Vantaa offers free services and expert support when you want to develop recruitment processes, language practices, onboarding and leadership skills, as working life becomes more international.
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Business Vantaa offers free services and expert support for businesses that want to improve their recruitment, onboarding and leadership practices as working life becomes increasingly international. The services are aimed at all companies regardless of size and industry.
- The services help recruiters, HR professionals, managers and executives in leading diverse personnel.
- The ability to adapt to labor market changes requires pausing and evaluating established practices.
- The campaign videos are helpful for recognizing unacknowledged assumptions and they support discussions on developing the work community.
- Coaching sessions for developing recruitment, onboarding, language practices and managerial skills are available.
- Business Vantaa’s experts help organizations to evaluate the current situation and find the right services, all free of charge.
Who will benefit from this website?
All services for employers that are listed on this site are free of charge, and they are available for companies regardless of size, industry and location.
This site serves especially:
- recruiters, who want to ensure the availability of skillful workforce
- HR experts, who want to develop recruitment and employer practices
- managers, who lead diverse and multilingual teams
- directors and the executive team in charge of the company’s direction, progress, competitiveness and performance.
Why is this the right time to pause and reflect?
Labor market transformations don’t happen overnight, but the ability to adapt to change depends on making timely decisions. Everyday decision-making is usually based on habits and status quo, unacknowledged assumptions and stereotypes, or hurry – not always on the actual need for talent.
Pausing helps you to:
- identify areas and targets of development and address them before they prohibit progress and growth
- utilize the potential of international talent
- enhance the company’s appeal and ability to attract and retain employees in a labor market characterized by transformation.
Do you recognize typical challenges?
In the videos, we delve into situations where the aim for growth and internationalization collide with, and is hindered by, habitual practices, assumptions and hesitation.
- Hiring decisions are not based on talent but on presumptions and unacknowledged stereotypes regarding the applicant’s name and background.
- Fluency in Finnish may be listed as one of the requirements in the job posting, although the position can be handled without fluent language skills. The requirement is often based on habit, not on factual job position responsibilities and demands.
- A diverse work community is managed without proper guidelines. The lack of a common strategy leaves supervisors and managers alone in figuring out proceedings, and solutions vary from team to team.
- Moving forward is hindered by uncertainty as to how the team will adjust and whether personal skills will be adequate.
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Utilize the videos for team days and development days
The campaign videos can also be used for organization development purposes, for example as part of team days, manager days or development days. The videos are made to be easily approachable conversation starters and aid in looking at everyday practices through new lenses.
The videos help teams to:
- recognize how unacknowledged assumptions affect recruitment and decision-making
- pause and reflect on language skill requirements, new employee onboarding and general practices
- verbalize emotions, uncertainties and queries related to transformation
The videos aid in starting a discussion on how the organization operates, why it functions as it does, and what could be done differently.
The Business Vantaa experts are here to support you
Would you like to discuss matters relevant to your organization, or find appropriate services that facilitate growth and development? Business Vantaa’s experts will help you to advance – all free of charge. Please don’t hesitate to contact us atbusiness.vantaa@vantaa.fi – we promise to respond within 48 hours!
Contact:
Piia Pentti
Senior Specialist
Vantaan kaupunki
+358 40 593 8112
piia.pentti@vantaa.fi
Federico Ferrara
Senior Specialist
Vantaan kaupunki
+358 40 587 7759
federico.ferrara@vantaa.fi
The International Recruitment C6 Alliance
The campaign is part of a collaboration project between Work in Finland, The Helsinki Chamber of Commerce and Finland’s six largest cities. The purpose of the project is to support employers in international and responsible recruitment, and enhance their competencies as working life becomes increasingly diverse. Read more about the C6 Alliance project in Vantaa.
