In a nutshell:
An applicant must not only suit the company - the company must also suit the applicant. After a successful interview, we offer the applicant two trial days, during which he or she can get to know allsafe and his or her potential colleagues better - and allsafe also gets to know him or her better.
"Welcome to allsafe, glad you're here." The applicant seems a bit tense when we greet her in the entrance area. This does not improve when she learns that there are five people from the team at the upcoming interview. She smiles nervously: "Oh, so many? Yeah, no problem at all."
That's how most people react. In the feedback meeting after the application process, I often hear that it was a bit of a shock. But also that it was positive to meet so many people in the first interview. Because what many applicants forget: We don't just have to like you! You also have to decide in favor of us!
Reinforcement for the team
Allsafe is close to my heart. I'm not just an HR person, it's a family business and therefore a part of me. It's similar to soccer: I played professionally for 16 years and I always see parallels between a soccer club and a company: My coach is the supervisor and I as a player am an employee. Even as a soccer player, I tried to use the talents around me in the right way: How can I use players with their strengths where they will benefit the team the most? Which position might be a better fit?
As an employee, it is important to me to move my team, the company, forward. By finding the right person for the right job. To work together as a team in the long term. That's precisely why it's an advantage to get to know a large part of this team as early as the job interview: for you in the role of the applicant, too. This way, you not only get a feel for the internal interaction with each other, for the atmosphere at allsafe, but also have the opportunity to ask good questions - and receive valuable answers. Namely, those who are directly involved in the tasks and daily business.
On a trial course - do we fit together?
In my soccer career, the team was also a decisive factor when I changed clubs. During the trial training, we got to know each other - in the truest sense of the word. At allsafe, too, you can expect two trial days after the successful interview. On these days, you are actively involved in the company's day-to-day business, get to know all the employees and are allowed to pester them with questions. Everyone will take the time for you, just as they did during the job interview. After all, we place great emphasis on appreciation!
Whereas in soccer it is primarily the level of performance that determines whether a player fits in with the team, in a corporate context soft skills are at least as decisive as professional competence. Our quality of work at allsafe is at the highest level. At the same time, each employee has a high degree of freedom and personal responsibility. This way of working only works if you as an applicant fit in with the allsafe culture and can handle this freedom.
"My applicant is my customer!"
In my work as a recruiter, I also attach great importance to respectful and open interaction: For me, you as an applicant are my customer.
Our application process is not designed to "roast someone in cross-examination", but to get to know you. To get a feel for each other. So that not only I, but also all my colleagues are pleased when, at the end of the trial days, the final word is: We want you in the team! Then it's up to you: Have we convinced you to join allsafe? Then apply now.
Mona Lohmann
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