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With the aim to find new team members, HR Manager Ave Nermann and Office Assistant Annett Pärs of MDSC Systems attended a recruitment event organised by the Unemployment Insurance Fund Eesti Töötukassa on 9 September. They spoke with several very good candidates, and some contacts made that day have already translated into follow-up meetings.

As our booth drew massive interest, with at least 100 job seekers stopping by during the two-hour event, we asked Ave Nermann for advice how to attract job seekers. Altogether, Maru group company MDSC Systems team needs over 20 new assembly workers to keep up with the expansion of container solutions production.

Here are five key learnings from the job fair by HR Manager Ave Nermann: 

• Always be welcoming. This is the most important thing, as you can ruin your company’s reputation by as much as a grumpy „Hello!“. People have questions, and you are there to answer them. You must also answer the questions of those who don’t seem to be the right match.
• Make it visual. You are a walking billboard, so make yourself a representative of your company. Wear your brand on T-shirts. Set up banners.
• Double your print-outs. If you think you can get away with 50 sheets of print-outs, take another 50 with you – that’s exactly what we wished we had done after running out of our flyers after the first hour. (Sorry, trees! Job seekers just need some privacy studying the one-pager. Luckily, asking people to take photos is plan B.)
• Give answers, not evasion. Candidates want direct answers. The top three questions we heard were about location, type of work (and if it’s suitable for women), and pay. Be ready with honest, specific answers.
• Highlight your competitive edge. What makes you a great place to work, and does it matter for candidates? For us, job seekers valued the chance to work a single shift (no nights), have an easily accessible location via a city bus, and work indoors. And it was much appreciated that for heavy loads, MDSC uses a crane, not humans.

MDSC is known for our Maru Defence and Rolling Unit brands, which create mobile expandable spaces for global markets.

 

At the Töötukassa Tallinn job fair, MDSC Systems was represented by HR Manager Ave Nermann and Office Assistant Annett Pärs.