Quo Vadis Estonian Talent?! – Talents Back Home lessons learned

17 December, 2012

Peter Gornischeff

Team

Peter Gornischeff

Director of Services, Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Martin Kõiva

PartnerCherry Media, CEO

Artur Elme

PartnerSEB Enskilda, analyst

Kair Käsper

Partner

VURR, partner

Martin Murruste

PartnerSüda Maja, analyst

Portaaliga liitunuid talente

741

Timeline of the project

2009 20122010 2011

ImplementationQuo vadis, Estonian

Talent?!

End of the formal project

Survey

Development

Kick-off

Portal

Working model

Employer

Look for Talent

Add vacancy

Talents base

TalentLook for

vacancies

Add profileOffers at e-mail

Employers

New functionality

Subscribers at the portal

Employers23%

77%Together

965

Talents

Conclusions

Actuality● Strong resonants in society and intensive feedback

● Massive media coverage, exhibitions, concersts, ads etc

Problems at organisational

level

● Entrepreneurs’ personnell policy (0,5-1 years advance)

● Usually the foreign expertise is not understood

● Integration and adaption problems

Problems at Governmental

level

● Too much bureaucracy when coming back

● No good statistics, no good information for Talents to get assistance

Problems Talents facing

● Practical issues like getting living/working permit for their husbands/wiwes, vacancies at kindergarden etc

For future action

1

2 Governmental Talents policy – Estonia must become attractive to all kinds of Talents

Talent consultation and information

Thank You!

Contact:

Peter Gornischeff, Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

peter@koda.ee