BR Awards: Discover the shortlist for the Best Employer Initiative Category

The BR Awards jury had its second meeting this week and is ready to announce the shortlisted nominees for the 11 award categories.

In Best Employer Initiative, the nominees are:

Autonom – in 2017, the largest car rental company in Romania sustained educational initiatives in the community through its Foundation, encouraged employees to read by providing a physical and digital library and offered tens of hours of training to each employee.

DB Global Technology – developed a sustainable recruitment process and ran a massive repatriation project which aimed to bring back Romanian expats in the IT field by understating their needs and views on Romania’s evolution.

Mega Image – the most notable HR strategy in 2017 was targeting senior citizens for recruitment, who usually have a hard time finding jobs, and as a result increasing the number of senior employees aged 50+ by over 17 percent.

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Zitec ­– launched Makeit.software, a website dedicated to Zitec employees, where others can learn about the team, see the office and be encouraged to join; led to a significant increase in the number of internal recommendations, which became the most important recruitment source.

Tremend Software Consulting – developed a series of initiatives that make up a continuous learning program in advanced software engineering – Tremend Labs, tech talks, over 50 trainings/year and Cityhack, an experimental learning event with experts who gathered for a 24-hour hackathon focused on Internet of Things solutions.