In its further expansion beyond Greece “Career”who manages the site cariera.grbut a takeover by a Greek tech company will also lead to new hires providing job search services their companies Careerist based in Chicago and for sale Apollo Foundation. Thus, a Greek company with more than 25 years of activity will take advantage of more than 15 new recruitment websites in Europe and Asia, creating a platform with vacancies in 10 different countries. That is, through this movement how does he explain “K” Managing Director “Career” Theophilos Vasiliadisthe Greek company will be able to offer more positions Job to a large number of knowledge workers (knowledge workers), a term that mainly refers to IT professionals who work remotely on behalf of large multinational groups.

“For IT engineers who are located in Greece and work remotely, a job offer from foreign companies is interesting,” Mr. Vasiliadis explains the “K”. However, the new jobs outside of Greece that kariera.gr will be able to offer are not only IT, but also tourism, energy and healthcare. These are some of the industries included in the fifteen sites that the company is acquiring CareerBuilder companies in the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway, Vietnam, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.

“Especially in the tourism and information technology sectors, where there is a lot of worker mobility, the job shortage is particularly large, while the gap in the manufacturing sector is also significant. The impact of the demographic problem is strong and especially evident in employment in sectors such as tourism, where there are many young workers,” explains Mr. Vassiliadis. To date, the development and transformation of kariera.gr into a service hub for job search and talent search is accompanied by an investment of 3 million euros.

The company, which is 51% owned by the brothers Aristotelis and Stefanos Panteliadis, is expected to show a consolidated turnover of around 30 million euros and an operating income (EBITDA) of 4-5 million euros this year, with the specific figure not including planned investments. Since acquiring CareerBuilder’s facilities, the company is hiring at least 20 new employees and currently employs about 120 people. “Career” at the group level will have more than 300 employees and offices in 10 cities. At the same time, it invests in the production of standard educational content, as well as in the creation of communities with events aimed at networking between employers and employees or job seekers.

“We want to put the concept of community at the heart of our activities in order to provide the tools and skills needed in the world of work,” says Mr. Vasiliadis. The Career has evolved in recent years through a series of acquisitions involving the company Human factorwhich provides software for personnel management, and Workathlonwhich specializes in the needs of employers in the field of tourism.