Hidden Competencies - how to find a perfect employee?

1. Hidden Competencies
- how to find a perfect employee?
Sari Suono
Executive Vice President
HKScan Group

2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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