2. EDITORIAL CONTENTS
New beginnings invite to celebration and
joy, a huge opportunity to thank you: our Košice Invest - An overview of the
clients, candidates and suppliers for being successful 2010 edition - page 3
with us this year.
Plain Payroll - page 4
We want this to be the first step in a series of
pleasant surprises meant to keep you updated White Lies - page 5
with all HR trends and matters, to share with
you success stories, ideas and opportunities. Recruitment between X & Y- page 6
It has been quite a challenging year for most
Lugera News and Events - page 7
companies and that is why we thought some
tips on Payroll would help you identify
possible solutions to get the best results at
minimum efforts and costs.
The new edition of the Košice Invest proved
once again a successful event restating the
region's tremendous potential of growth and
development.
White lies in the interview? Find out who,
why and when.
We also challenge you to share with us
feedback and please do not hesitate to contact
us for any HR related matter that may be of
use for you!
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3. Košice Invest - An overview of the successful
2010 edition
What is Your experience with cooperation creative industry, infrastructure, logistics and
with city Košice regarding this event? transportation. While the last year's conference was
I really do appreciate that city management more general, because it wanted to bring investment
decided to invest into promotion of Košice as profile of the city, this one will be oriented on value-
an ideal investment destination. My added investments.
cooperation with Košice authorities is just
excellent. It is necessary to say that Košice Can you state SWOT of Kosice city, one feature per
Invest is only a part of the municipal FDI each?
marketing strategy, created by the FDI Joint Strength – Existing logistic, transportation, culture,
Working Group, of which I have the privilege social and business infrastructure.
to be a leader. We promote Košice on all Weaknesses – incomplete Bratislava – Kosice
significant European Investment and Real highway.
Estate Fairs (MIPIM Cannes, MAPIS Opportunities – huge number of university graduates
Cannes, Expo Real Munich, Real Vienna), we with perspective specialization
An interview by Katka Bittalova produce official Guide to Investment in Threats – loss of graduates, they find jobs in
Senior Team Leader with Lugera & Kosice on annual update basis, we have
official Investment PPT presentation updated Bratislava and abroad.
Makler Slovakia, Kosice on a regular basis, we organize meetings with
potential investors, existing investors, we are
using partner cities network to advertise
The new edition of the Košice Invest proved Košice, and last, but not least – title of
once again a successful event restating the European Capital of Culture 2013 awarded to
region's tremendous potential of growth and Košice also helps very much. Foreign
development. Rastislav Puchala, Director of investors now understand that their
American Chamber of Commerce, Košice, investment will not be located somewhere in
Slovakia, anticipated the success of the “the Wild East”, but in a city of culture,
conference. innovation and youth.
“Košice Invest 2009 turned out exceptionally What new aspects were brought to Kosice
successful. We not only had a huge turnout Invest 2010? What was different?
and a very positive feedback from New aspects could be defined in a few words:
participants, but it also brought many “Value-added Investments”. Conference was
negotiations with potential investors. Our about ICT investments, research, Rastislav Puchala, Director of American Chamber of
expectations this year go far beyond last development and innovation potentials, Commerce, Košice, Slovakia.
year´s anticipation.”
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4. Plain Payroll...
To outource or not to....?!
No piece of cake when it comes to payroll your core business activities. .It's all about being fast and accurate!
and we could easily count down the Payroll is not only about investing money
managers who can include payroll among Decrease amount of errors! in your people's salaries and training, but
their favorite task. That is besides us of Mistakes can cause you hard times both with your also about providing them with the right
course… internal employees and with the government. technical resources.
We do not intend to take you down the Outsourcing payroll services outsources risks of
laborious paths of the payroll or to make mistakes, which can be quite scarce having a team Keeping up with law updates!
your reading miserable by listing here stiff of specialists managing your account. Keeping things smooth is about keeping
terminology or payroll procedures. We just updated with regulations, withholding
want to make the so complicated means rates, and government forms on the state
and paths of payroll, SIMPLE. Step by and local levels. We do it on daily basis.
step, sometimes it can be cheaper and safer You can do it in-house too, but this means
to outsource than keep it done internally. investment in time and energy for your
Let's take a quick trip through the pros. employees.
For the cons, we are looking forward to Paperwork in perfect order!
receiving your feedback. Got tired of checking where the documents
are and keeping track on who needs what?
It's all about money!
Sometimes in-house payroll service can Avoid payroll knowledge to walk out the
prove quite a money burner. Try to door!
calculate how many hours your employees It probably happened to you to invest in
spend on calculating wages, printing, training your people and see them walk
distributing pay checks and allowances, out, following their own dreams. Why
drafting tax documents, employment worry about replacing them?
agreements, addenda, filling in records,
updating registers, drafting reports, The list of benefits can never though add
drafting and recording all documents with Get everything you need in time! All the time! many further items and we would be glad if
the authorized institutions, etc. Quite a lot, It probably happened to you to think twice when you could share with us your payroll
aren’t they? approving the leave request of your payroll related experiences.
specialist and found it quite difficult to manage
Increase internal productivity! everything during his/her absence. Speed in the
Outsourcing allows you to keep the output will not depend on anyone's absence if the
internal HR team trimmed and focused on service is external by Carmen Sminticiuc and Monica Dona
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5. WHITE LIES
are some certain things they prefer to lie on: Think again! Could the lie hide a low self
exaggerating their responsibilities, avoiding esteem which is overbalanced by deliberate
some of the main difficulties encountered with exaggerations of the importance of their
the previous job, the aspects they want to studies or by the omission of the mistakes
improve or negative feedback received. Rarely made on their previous jobs?
do they dare inventing new jobs in order to seem
more experienced. Being objective, calm and detail focused
Teach me how to lie! From making a good helps you as a recruiter when facing white-
impression on others to dropping a small Generally, candidates prefer to word their lies. liars and are mandatory qualities in
innocent white lie , there has been quite a There are too few those who seek training in approaching the interview.
fascination with the topic on the current non-verbal lying. Discordance can nevertheless
competitive HR market lately. be spotted by the recruiter if attention is paid to by Livia Caciuloiu (Minea),
the apparently prepared answers and the Human Capital Consultant
It probably happened to you, too, to hide hesitations and disaccord between the verbal Lugera & Makler Romania
behind nice words and phrases, twisted and non-verbal language.
sentences and elaborated messages. Or you
probably stood puzzled facing your Last but not least, fear the candidates who lie
interlocutor's elaborate oratorical without actually aiming at lying. The long
phantasmagoria. runners, interiorizing their lies or the
manipulators are most of the time quite hard to
Once you tried it and it proved not only an get. Most of the time, they want to make a better
easy tool but also an efficient one, there is a impression than they could actually make, are
must for persevering. Lying is always insecure and back themselves up by imagining a
motivated, fed by desires and offers most of different variant which may be more appealing
the time the easiest way to reach your goal. Be for the recruiter.
it an addition, an exacerbation, an invention,
an omission or sometimes silence, it is always Now try to picture yourself during an interview
a LIE. with a candidate lying to you? You bite your
tongue not to scold him/ her and call him a liar
It should not come as a surprise: candidates lie and you probably get out of the interview room
in job interviews, in their resumes and in their thinking of what a waste of time the discussion
cover letters. Sometimes with a reason, was and how to give the candidate an early
sometimes without a purpose. Of course there rejection feedback.
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6. Recruitment between
People change, generations evolve, gaps
X and Y
interesting as possible. And besides their
deepen, rapid changing markets challenge us superlative technology skills, this next Refresh …organization mode
to rapid reactions. Under the fast labor market generation definitely animates the workspace, The high values commuting them on balance
reshaping, recruitment shifts gear from X to Y by bringing in passion and enthusiasm, high between work and family, on fresh,
mode. expectations from themselves and challenging tasks are keys plugging them in.
commitment to social responsibility. Rotating job assignments and promotions
The baby bust generation, of independent, could be only two of the engaging resources.
resourceful and self - sufficient individualists Be never though sure that you fuel their Exploit their crave for feedback, but avoid
has gradually handed over the relay to a tech – passion for career growth! That is because over criticism. Sometimes the reactions may
savvy generation Y, plugged –in 24/7, keen on these digital fellows enjoy assuming roles and not be what you are looking for. This is the
email communication and webinars addict. appreciate meritocracy as the single criteria generation that is anxiously looking for input
for advancement. Having grown up in multi- on every assignment and RECOGNITION.
A new generation of job hunters is defying cultural environments, they are more than the
crisis and challenging employers to invite the X generation interested in traveling and Minutes details …
bright and the best to join their teams, without From the first minute of interaction, to every
working abroad.
facing the intense competition which was the little project or assignment, give them as
key word by 2008. Gradually the Y generation Has crisis silenced down passion? much hints as possible. Bring loads of details
will dominate the workspace and a top Crisis has not completely shut the energy of in describing the positions you headhunt them
priority for employers now, should be to the X generation off. They kept alive the same for and get ready for intense coaching
reconfigure their recruiting, managing and self demanding attitude and they are now sessions. Figure out one to one internal
retaining these brilliant, but demanding more than ever interested in testing their programs, encourage them to ask for help
young people. limits. The current economic circumstances from their senior colleagues or supervisors
only made them slow mobility in their job – and keep it up with much enthusiasm all the
A whole new generation in adjectives hopping and taught them that it may not be a way through.
and multi-pack advantages right time for arrogance.
Technology focused, multitasking, self Both in recruiting and retaining the Millennial
confident, highly ambitious and flexible, the Patience must be learnt! Generation organizations should focus on
Millennial Generation have high Now that they put their dreams on hold and are finding the balance between work and life, as
expectations, request for feedback and willing to get what the job market can offer, it a deep resonator.
guidance and strive to keep their life as really doesn't mean that the Y generation will
transform into workaholics. by Monica DONA
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7. LUGERA NEWS & eVENTS LUGERA NEWS & eVENTS
Czech Republic administration. Grupon open their office in Bucharest
D o m a g o j i s
Carlo Albanese has responsible for the Lugera & Makler Romania recruits for
joined Lugera as sales and client Groupon, which are now ready to conquer the
C o u n t r y M a n a g e r, operations along with Romanian market. The company presents an
being responsible for recruitment projects. online audience with deep discounts on a
international business product or service. Act now, says the pitch: You
development. Carlo have only so many hours before this offer
started his career with expires. That's a familiar come-on, but it's
Adecco in Tuscany and New projects coupled with a novel element: You get the deal
was afterwards only if a certain number of fellow citizens buy
appointed on positions Howe Slovensko s.r.o. in Košice has chosen the same thing on the same day. It's a cents-off
within the Netherlands Lugera & Makler as their local recruitment coupon married to a Friday-after-Thanksgiving
and the Czech Republic. partner. Howe concentrates its business on shopping frenzy.
production of leather and leather components,
Business Processes Manager Romania manufactured for production of motor-
vehicle seats and automotive leather products.
Carmen Cucu is Lugera’s new Business Target groups of Howe are premium brands
Process Manager. Carmen joined Lugera after like Audi and Land Rover. The plant in Košice
11 years of experience in customer operations supplies leather to more than forty European
processes within Vodafone Romania and she is customers . The company currently employs
ready to assume new challenges. 450 people on various positions.
Lugera Croatia
Croatian office is heading
for a new start as it will be
managed by Martina Zec
a n d D a m a g o j
Bedenikovic.
Martina is handling
permanent placement
projects and temps
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8. Vacancies @ LUGERA
Sales Representative – Beograd, Serbia, Key Expert – Team Leader - Priština, Kosovo; Commercial Assistant – Pitesti, Romania; Junior
Accountant Treasury – Cluj Napoca, Romania; Accountant – Brasov, Romania; C++ Developer, Brasov, Romania; Junior Accountant Accounts
Receivable, Cluj Napoca, Romania; Accountant, Bucuresti, Romania; FEA - CAE Engineer, Brasov, Romania; Senior Accountant-General
Accounting, Cluj Napoca, Romania; Junior Specialist Accounting&Finance with Italian in IASI, Iasi, Romania; Quality Engineer, Pitesti,
Romania; Analist, Bucuresti, Romania; Manufacturing Engineering Manager, Iasi, Romania; Account Manager, Bucharest, Romania; Planning
Manager, Iasi, Romania; Business Development Specialist, Warsaw, Poland; Tax Advisor, Warszawa, Poland; Kierownik sprzeda¿y ds. sieci
handlowych, Kraków, Poland; BAAN Manager, Tczew, Poland; Account Manager Poland - Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; Sales Consultant, Kraków,
Poland; Lawyer, Warszawa, Poland; Senior Validation Engineer, Warszawa, Poland; Sales Engineer, Poland, Poland; CNC Operátor - Nastavovaè,
Rožòava, Slovenská republika; Referent logistiky a nákupu - Account Manager, Rožòava, Slovenská republika; Manažér výroby s nemeckým
jazykom, Poprad, Slovenská republika; Manažér výroby s nemeckým jazykom, Poprad, Slovenská republika; Training HR Specialist, Ostrava,
Èeská republika; Process Engineer, Kechnec, Slovensko; Senior Quality Manager, Kežmarok, Slovenská republika Špecialista IBM SW, Košice,
Slovensko; Customer Care Specialist for UK, Bratislava, Slovakia; Junior Validation Engineer, Trenèín, Slovenská republika; Assembly
Technologist, Kechnec, Slovensko; Asistentka vedenia spolocnosti/personalistka, Topo¾èany, Slovenská republika; Customer Technical Support
Engineer, Dubnica nad Váhom, Slovak Republic; Materials Project Manager, Dubnica nad Váhom, Slovak Republic; Production Supervisor,
Kriváò, Slovenská republika; Operátorka - šièka (ref. èíslo – 9321), Košice, Košický kraj Úètovník/-èka, Banská Bystrica, Slovenská republika;
Špeditér, Banská Bystrica, Slovenská republika; Application Developer, Bratislava, Slovenská republika; Cognos/TM1 Developer, Bratislava,
Slovenská republika; JAVA Developer, Bratislava, Slovenská republika Quantitative Analyst, Bratislava, Slovenská republika; Nákupca / Obchodný
zástupca, Trnava, Slovenská republika Application Engineer - Java VBA, Bratislava, Slovenská republika; Asistentka konate¾a spoloènosti,
Bratislava, Slovenská republika Doctor-Specialist for clinical research, Modra, Slovenská republika; System Administrator Windows, Košice,
Slovenská republika Project Manager for IT and TELCO, Košice, Slovakia; Projektový manažér - vývoj elektromotorov, Košice, Slovenská
republika; Network Engineer, Košice, Slovenská republika; Obchodno – technický zástupca, Košice, Slovensko; Produktový manažér, Košice,
Slovenská republika; Chief Accountant, Poprad, Slovensko; Obchodný manažér pre aditíva, Slovenská republika + Èeská republika, Slovenská
republika; Sales Administrator, Bardejov, Slovenská republika; Technológ výroby, Rožòava, Slovesnká republika; System Administrator Linux,
Košice, Slovenská republika; Obchodný manažér, Košice, Košický kraj; Obchodný manažér, Košice, Košický kraj; Merací technik
elektrotechnického laboratória, Kežmarok, Slovenská republika; Kvalitár - Merací technik, Kežmarok, Slovenská republika; Zasielate¾ -
Disponent, Košice, Slovenská republika;Referent logistiky a nákupu - Account Manager, Rožòava, Slovenská republika; Hardware Retrieval
Specialist, Bratislava, Slovak Republic; Obchodno-marketingový manažér, Galanta, Slovenská republika; Project Implementation Specialist
10am-7pm, Bratislava, Slovak Republic; Design Engineer, Trenèín, Slovenská republika; Implementation Specialist, Bratislava, Slovak
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