Presentation Sari Suono

Hidden Competencies

- how to find a perfect employee?Sari Suono

Executive Vice President

HKScan Group

HKScan – the Nordic meat experts

• Net sales approx. EUR 2.0 billion (2014)

• Personnel about 7 700

• Number 1 in total sales in the Baltic Sea region

• Listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd

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Hidden competences –report by CIMO (Center for International Mobility) & Demos Helsinki, Finland

• First study 2005, follow-up 2014

Hidden competences = vast amount of skills and competences

developed through international experiences go unrecognized

Language skills, intercultural competences, tolerance, broad-mindedness

Report about international experiences in relation to working life,

recruitment and suggesting new ways to define learning outcomes of

international mobility and cooperation among the youth

• What next?

Educational institutions and authorities to engage with employers to make

hidden competences visible

To discuss and act about learning outcomes in order to make them visible

for employers

Tools and guidance for young people to identify and make their hidden

competences visible



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How to recruit ”perfect” people?!

What to look for in your Future Employee?

1. Positive energy

2. Ability to energize others

3. The edge, the courage to make tough yes-or-no decisions

4. Execute – the ability to get the job done

5. Skills and competence

”Visible” skills (CV, other)

Hidden competencies –curiosity! Being global, thinking globally.

6. Attitude

7. And – Passion – heartfelt, deep and authentic excitement about the

work!



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Why would they want us?!

What to look for in your Future Employer?

1. Growth opportunities

Company – curiosity makes companies grow

Personal – career paths, personal development

2. Three E’s

Ethics

Engagement

Excellence in performance

3. Compensation & benefits

4. Organizational culture & Values

Possibility to question – curiosity to challenge & improve

Company as an enabler

Values – do they feel as your own values?



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Personal view

1. Attitude – willingness to make the ”extra mile” happen Positiveness – is your glass half full or half empty?

Energy

Broad-mindedness

2. Curiosity

3. Networking Intercultural competences

4. CV Degree

Language skills in practice

5. Understanding global megatrends

6. Easy to have Read, search, be curious, study, learn to know people

7. Home, school, hobby – to believe & enable Support from your parent(s), teachers, coaches…

8. Passion



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Surprisingly, it is not the strongest species that

survive, neither the most intelligent,

- however the ones that fastest adopt new knowledge and

adjust to change.

by Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

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