FEATURE: NURTURING LOCAL PRESENCE
permanent employees. As they have
been trained as per our company
policies and best-practices, they
require little or no time to ramp
up their skills and rapidly turn into
contributing team members.
Developing a culturally
diversified workforce
The population of the Middle East is
extremely diversity as the region is
home to expats from all parts of the
world. Because of this, more often
than not things go better, deals close
faster and projects go smoother if
you “match-make” the customer
and service provider on many levels
including the obvious professional
requirements and less obvious things
like people’s backgrounds, cultures,
languages.
One of the subtle factors to Help AG’s
success is that we realised the value
of diversification of the workforce
from the onset and today we have an
outstanding mix of employees of 35
nationalities among 130 employees.
Paying employees sufficiently and
ensuring that they are content
in their jobs goes a long way in
addressing this challenge.
At Help AG, we have found that
looking abroad is also a good way to
find the right talent. While it might
mean having to provide higher
salaries, it is worth the investment to
ensure you employ the right people.
After all, the saying, ‘If you pay
peanuts, you get monkeys’ holds true!
Another initiative that we have
found to be particular effective has
been our internship program. Not
only does this give back to the IT
community at large, we have been
able to successfully absorb a number
of interns into our organisation as
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