Forsman & Bodenfors recruits through Oddwork’s talent network

GOTHENBURG, 31 OCTOBER 2018

Ahead of the autumn, Eva Carlheim-Müller, HR Director at Forsman & Bodenfors, faced a tough challenge. The workload was already high in the company’s finance department when one employee went on sick leave and another was about to go on parental leave.

As the person responsible for recruitment at one of Sweden’s largest and leading advertising agencies, Eva was used to fast recruitment, but this time the right person had to be found immediately.

– We were looking for an experienced accountant who could also handle controlling, says Eva Carlheim-Müller. We also use a fairly unique financial management system that the person needed to master.

By then, she had known Oddwork for a few years.

– I had met Niklas Kekonius, one of the founders, together with Björn Lidberg, Senior Account Manager, and Elwira Garman, Talent Manager. I felt straight away that they had a different and exciting view of recruitment. They focused on the person and the personality rather than just skills. They said: “We want to find the right talent for you.”

When Eva Carlheim-Müller contacted Oddwork for help with the recruitment, she stressed that this particular time it “had to happen in the blink of an eye”. 18 hours later, Oddwork had presented the talent Katarina, who got the job and now works at Forsman & Bodenfors.

– She felt completely right from the start. She is a perfect fit for us, both professionally and as a person.

Katarina herself is also happy with how Oddwork treated her:

– I had a good dialogue with Elwira at Oddwork, and then everything happened incredibly fast. I met Forsman & Bodenfors the same day. I started working here the following week, and I still really enjoy it!

The recruitment could happen so quickly thanks to Oddwork’s way of working with Talent Relationship Management. Oddwork’s Talent Relationship Managers proactively and continuously build relationships with talent all over Sweden, to match them with the right opportunity at one of Oddwork’s partners as soon as it arises.

Instead of the longer process a recruitment can usually involve, Eva Carlheim-Müller got fast and efficient access to the right talent already in Oddwork’s talent network.

After the first recruitment, Forsman & Bodenfors has continued its recruitment partnership with Oddwork.

– It has worked really well! The candidates we have been able to choose between have always felt tailored to our company, which has made it easy to choose a talent to move forward with. And all three people we have hired through Oddwork still work with us.

In addition to the successful recruitments, Eva Carlheim-Müller believes Oddwork’s focus on employer branding is very much in tune with the times.

– Oddwork really knows employer branding. We are a white-collar organisation; we have no machines, our employees are our company. Oddwork fully understands that!