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Dominique Ripoll, Head of Human Resources

Recruitment and selection at the IMT

Insight in Brief

At IMT, we place great emphasis on sustainable and qualitative growth. Starting with our application process, we involve not only the technical management but also potential team colleagues and guide our applicants through the world of IMT.

As a certified family-friendly company, we attach great importance to ensuring that our employees feel at home with us, in addition to the range of exciting projects on offer. We encourage our employees and offer them a wide range of benefits.

Introduction

About me

I have been working as the HR Manager at IMT for almost 8 years and, in addition to my wide range of duties, I am also responsible for the recruitment and personnel expansion of the company. In my function, I work very closely with our technical departments as well as our CEO, and I am perceived as a valuable sparring partner. I am supported by employees who contribute significantly to the success of the company through their high level of commitment and specialist knowledge.

In addition to two training courses in the HR field, I am now completing the Dipl. HR-Leiter NDS at the Academy of St.Gallen until 2022, in order to consolidate and further expand my many years of experience. IMT supports me financially in this, which I highly appreciate. The fact that IMT attaches great importance to employee satisfaction and individual training encourages me every day in my interesting work as an HR Manager.

How does IMT find the best talents in the applicant market?

The applicant market and its challenges

The fact that the labor market is increasingly competitive and it is difficult to find the best talents is not a new condition and so we had to draw the right conclusions in the past to set the course for sustainable growth. The fact that the management took the important step of opening a branch office in Schwerzenbach (ZH) in addition to our headquarters in Buchs (SG) enabled us to attract qualified professionals in the Zurich area to IMT. We focus on engineers (FH/Uni) in the fields of software, mechanics, electronics, or control engineering (see IMT's career page). In order to ensure our qualitative growth, we are present on the job market all year round.

Furthermore, since we want to make an important contribution to the future skilled workforce in Switzerland, we train apprentices in the fields of electronics and IT at our main location in Buchs (SG). Depending on the possibility, we give apprenticeship graduates the opportunity to stay with IMT and accompany them in their further career steps.

In addition to classic job advertisements on selected job portals and visits to the contact exchanges of regional universities of applied sciences, we also maintain close cooperation with selected professional personnel partners. Our personnel recruitment measures are rounded off by supporting existing employees, who benefit from our “employees recruit employees” offer.

The requirements of our applicants have changed in recent years. In addition to the desire for exciting development projects in their daily work or their own professional development, there is also the desire for more flexible working hours, health promotion measures, and possible workload reductions for a balanced relationship between private and professional life. We meet these requirements and offer our employees a broad and varied range of options on an individual basis.

For us, the focus has always been on qualitative rather than quantitative personnel growth. Only if we manage that a team harmonizes humanly and professionally, the best performances can be achieved and exciting interdisciplinary projects can be realized for our demanding customers.

In order to ensure this, we have divided our application process into 3 sub-areas.

  • The first round of HR talks
  • The second round of talks
  • Trial day on site

 

Out of the approximately 600 applications received each year, in addition to an initial general interview with HR, we organize a second round interview with the potential team leader for the most suitable profiles. This gives applicants, but also us as a company, an initial overall impression of each other. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, we are also very flexible about which interviews are organized on-site or digitally over MS Teams for example.

If both parties are still interested, we organize a whole trial day at IMT, where candidates also have the opportunity to get to know the team and the working atmosphere in the office, as well as a lunch with the team. Candidates get an insight into current projects and work on a small professional task, which serves as a basis for a professional exchange with the specialist manager, the respective specialist team, and HR.

We do not take this effort on the part of the candidate for granted and give every candidate who visits us on a trial day a financial reward for their valuable time.

 

The success of a long-term cooperation does not end with the signed contract

Every new team colleague will also be looked after in the best possible way until his or her first day at work. Any questions regarding the employee handbook, the first working day as well as the induction by the specialist manager and the personal *Göttis* (mentors) during the probationary period are discussed in advance and organized internally with our specialist department and IT.

IMT employees are kept up to date via our intranet “imt.inside” and new employees are welcomed with a personal postcard.

At IMT, we maintain a first-name-basis culture from the first day of work and want to convey our appreciative and open nature to potential employees from the very beginning. IMT is certified as a family-friendly company, we place great importance on offering flexible working hours, part-time positions where possible, as well as a future mix of home office and physical on-site work. Our employees await a wide range of employee benefits which are continuously being expanded.

Our very low fluctuation rate and the high number of long-term employees show us that the mix of exciting projects, the opportunity to develop oneself at IMT as well and the central and individualized support are bearing fruit.

 

Summary

We strive to ensure that our interdisciplinary teams harmonize on a human and professional level. This is the only way to achieve top performance and realize exciting projects for our demanding customers. Our employees are the most important asset of our company. Healthy employees are crucial for a sustainable, successful company.

With this in mind, we attach great importance to ensuring that our employees feel comfortable in an appreciative and exciting working environment and can develop with us.

If you would like to become part of our dynamic and open team, I look forward to receiving your application. Since the German language is a mandatory requirement, we publish our job profiles and accept applications in German only. You can find open positions on our career page and send your application by e-mail to karriere@imt.ch.

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