Digia Plc Press Release 29 April 2010
Digia's employer image soars
Digia came ninth in a survey charting how university students rate potential employers in IT sector. Climbing 13 places over last year, Digia was named the Highest Climber at the University Awards ceremony on Wednesday 28 April. Digia believes that students particularly appreciate its stable financial position and the personal development opportunities it provides.
A total of 7,969 students with technical, economics, IT and legal backgrounds responded to the survey, run by Universum. Some 27,221 ratings, of various employers, were collected.
Digia offers a diverse range of varied tasks
"I think that Digia is ranked highly because it can provide secure jobs based on its financial stability. Students are also attracted by the opportunities we offer for personal development. Because we do challenging, variable work using the latest technology, we continuously train our employees. We appreciate our employees' enthusiasm for continuous development," says Harri Paani, Senior Vice President in charge of Digia's Competence unit.
Digia aims to be flexible and agile, not only towards customers but also employees. Investing in the balance between work and family life, Digia offers it employees a broad range of leisure time activities and clubs.
Students are an important target group
Students are a key target group for Digia. The company has strong ties and cooperates with various universities. For example, this spring Digia and Lappeenranta University of Technology joined forces to train future Android experts in mobile phone product development.
Digia has actively participated in recruitment events organised at universities. For example, its trainee programme has been presented to students and the application process has reached the selection stage.
Social media used in recruitment
Digia currently has dozens of vacancies in various units. These include software developers, SharePoint specialists, Qt developers and Mobile Linux specialists. In addition to traditional recruitment channels, the company invests in online visibility and aims to increase its use of social media.
For further information, please contact:
Harri Paani, Senior Vice President - Competence Management
harri.paani (at) digia.com
+358 40 502 0410
Digia Plc in brief
Digia possesses a unique blend of expertise in enterprise systems, mobile devices, usability and web application design. The company offers its customers a fast lane towards the internet-based information processing of the new decade. Whether web services, core business systems or mobile applications are in question, through modern information technology and its inventive solutions, customers gain access to improved services, more efficient operations or increased sales. Digia's core business areas are enterprise solutions and mobile solutions. Digia employs nearly 1,500 experts in Finland, Sweden, Russia and China. The company is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki exchange (DIG1V).
www.digia.com