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Nokia

Strategic Partnership for Talent Acquisition

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Company Overview

Nokia, a global leader in telecommunications, initiated a partnership with Emerald in 2014 to enhance their talent acquisition efforts.

Challenges

  • Needed to hire a large volume of sales professionals across EMEA quickly
  • Required support for post-acquisition talent needs

Solution

Our collaboration with Nokia emerged from a strategic initiative—Project ‘Spring Refresh’. Aligned with Nokia’s CEO’s ‘Shift Plan’, this project aimed to hire 100 sales professionals across EMEA. Chosen as the retained supplier, Emerald’s impact was swift and profound. Initially tasked with 36 hires, our success propelled us to secure an additional 35 positions. In less than 18 months, we placed over 75 talented individuals into the ALU team on a global scale, before their acquisition by Nokia. Our efficiency and precision shone through with an average of 7 submitted candidates and 5 first interviews per hire—a testament to our strategic approach.

Result

  • Placed over 75 professionals in under 18 months
  • Enrolled into ‘project boost’ to refesh Nokia’s global sales talent with 60 new hires following the ‘spring refresh’ project”

Quote

“Emerald were chosen to deliver a number of key strategic hires for Alcatel – Lucent across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Alcatel chose Emerald because of their specialisation within the communications market place, combined with their knowledge and experience of hiring across this region. The team at Emerald were quickly able to establish a target list of organisations and individuals, and were able to make the hires in a short timescale. Nokia continues to partner with Emerald to build the region, and I would strongly recommend them for any key hires.”

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James Herriotts

Recruitment Director, EMEA & APAC (Alcatel - Lucent)

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Global Talent Acquisition and Employer of Record (EOR) for Pre-IPO and Private Equity backed technology businesses.

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