{"id":1442,"date":"2020-09-15T10:31:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T08:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swida.sk\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2020-09-15T15:56:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T13:56:28","slug":"swida-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swida.sk\/en\/swida-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Swida Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of&nbsp;the&nbsp;main priorities in&nbsp;Swida is&nbsp;the&nbsp;quality training of&nbsp;people. Swida Academy aims to&nbsp;attract and&nbsp;select suitable candidates &#8211;&nbsp;newcomers. The&nbsp;ambition is&nbsp;to&nbsp;effectively pass on&nbsp;as much real experience as possible to&nbsp;our&nbsp;new colleagues. In&nbsp;August, 6 people graduated from&nbsp;this academy, under the&nbsp;leadership of&nbsp;our&nbsp;sales director Igor Mondek. We&nbsp;will share their opinions, perceptions of&nbsp;our&nbsp;company, or working career.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Pavol<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1499\" src=\"https:\/\/swida.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image00001xx-283x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swida.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image00001xx-283x300.jpeg 283w, https:\/\/swida.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image00001xx-768x813.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swida.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image00001xx-968x1024.jpeg 968w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>Pavol saw the&nbsp;job offer at&nbsp;Swida on&nbsp;the&nbsp;Profesia portal. After graduating from&nbsp;university, he&nbsp;sought employment in&nbsp;a&nbsp;wide range of&nbsp;job opportunities. &#8220;<em>Although I&nbsp;studied mechanical engineering, I&nbsp;still enjoyed something else, so&nbsp;I&nbsp;was looking for&nbsp;a&nbsp;new way that Swida might offer me.<\/em>&#8221;&nbsp;The&nbsp;published offer fascinated him with&nbsp;its motivational score, through which he&nbsp;can&nbsp;earn decently even in&nbsp;a&nbsp;short time. &#8220;<em>It&#8217;s&nbsp;not a&nbsp;fixed amount for&nbsp;which I&nbsp;will work 10 years, I&nbsp;have the&nbsp;opportunity to&nbsp;earn right from&nbsp;the&nbsp;beginning as I&nbsp;start.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Swida Academy was a&nbsp;big plus for&nbsp;him, he&nbsp;sees it&nbsp;as a&nbsp;sign that Swida has a&nbsp;future. &#8220;<em>As part of&nbsp;mentoring, Igor directed us mainly to&nbsp;effective expressions and&nbsp;correct terminology. The&nbsp;academy brought me a&nbsp;greater overview of&nbsp;logistics, as well as information about what Swida is&nbsp;dedicated to, what work processes it&nbsp;performs, how business works, and&nbsp;symbiosis in&nbsp;the&nbsp;department. If I&nbsp;had to&nbsp;describe Swida in&nbsp;one word, it&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;<strong>collective<\/strong>. This is&nbsp;what creates an atmosphere that is&nbsp;diverse every day. There are&nbsp;also different people who create the&nbsp;perfect team and&nbsp;I&nbsp;feel great here from&nbsp;day one.<\/em> &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He concludes: &#8220;<em>After graduating from&nbsp;the&nbsp;academy, I&nbsp;still don&#8217;t know exactly what I&#8217;m going to&nbsp;do, but&nbsp;I&#8217;m slowly finding out how it&nbsp;will go. From&nbsp;my colleagues, I&nbsp;have information and&nbsp;vision for&nbsp;the&nbsp;upcoming development and&nbsp;it&nbsp;is&nbsp;up to&nbsp;me how I&nbsp;will survive and&nbsp;whether I&nbsp;will be&nbsp;determined enough. <strong>The basis is&nbsp;to&nbsp;believe.<\/strong><\/em> &#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Alex<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1470\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\" src=\"https:\/\/swida.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image00003x-296x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swida.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image00003x-296x300.jpeg 296w, https:\/\/swida.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image00003x-768x777.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swida.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image00003x-1012x1024.jpeg 1012w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Alex learned about a&nbsp;job at&nbsp;Swida from&nbsp;her acquaintances. &#8220;<em>My godmother is&nbsp;working on&nbsp;dispatch, which helped me with&nbsp;the&nbsp;recommendation. I&nbsp;was interested in&nbsp;the&nbsp;offer precisely because of&nbsp;the&nbsp;dynamics and&nbsp;foreign languages. I&nbsp;said to&nbsp;myself that I&nbsp;would use my knowledge of&nbsp;English and&nbsp;put it&nbsp;into practice.<\/em> &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>She was very satisfied with&nbsp;the&nbsp;academy, highly appreciating its reworking and&nbsp;the&nbsp;quality of&nbsp;the&nbsp;workshops. &#8220;<em>Igor is&nbsp;an excellent mentor, he&nbsp;cared about everyone equally, and&nbsp;together with&nbsp;other colleagues, they&nbsp;gave us a&nbsp;lot of&nbsp;experience, which I&nbsp;liked. We&nbsp;tried to&nbsp;find our&nbsp;best characteristics of&nbsp;ourselves, realized them, and&nbsp;know how to&nbsp;use them in&nbsp;practice. We&nbsp;also named our&nbsp;negative characteristics, learned to&nbsp;work with&nbsp;them, transformed them into something better, and&nbsp;move on. I&nbsp;found a&nbsp;lot new about myself, for&nbsp;example in&nbsp;the&nbsp;typology of&nbsp;personality, where I&nbsp;was pleasantly surprised. <strong>They taught us to&nbsp;be&nbsp;ourselves and&nbsp;not to&nbsp;play anything.<\/strong><\/em> &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But she&nbsp;believes that her experience will be&nbsp;many years and&nbsp;she&nbsp;is&nbsp;looking forward to&nbsp;working with&nbsp;us. &#8220;<em>So far, I&nbsp;can&nbsp;say that I&nbsp;perceive Swida as a&nbsp;company with&nbsp;a&nbsp;vision, they&nbsp;know what they&nbsp;want and&nbsp;what is&nbsp;their goal in&nbsp;the&nbsp;logistics market and&nbsp;trade. Everyone wants to&nbsp;grow here, move forward and&nbsp;I&nbsp;think that is&nbsp;the&nbsp;reason for&nbsp;the&nbsp;success of&nbsp;this company. In&nbsp;such a&nbsp;short time, they&nbsp;have reached the&nbsp;top place in&nbsp;Slovakia in&nbsp;logistics, which is&nbsp;great.<\/em> &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She is&nbsp;convinced that Swida is&nbsp;the&nbsp;right opportunity for&nbsp;her career and&nbsp;she&nbsp;believes that she&nbsp;will be&nbsp;successful in&nbsp;performing work tasks and&nbsp;will improve both personally and&nbsp;professionally. &#8220;<em>I would like to&nbsp;continue to&nbsp;build good relationships with&nbsp;colleagues and&nbsp;I&nbsp;believe that I&nbsp;will be&nbsp;a&nbsp;<strong>valid member of&nbsp;this great Swida family<\/strong>. I&nbsp;look forward to&nbsp;this experience that awaits me and&nbsp;I&nbsp;hope it&nbsp;will last a&nbsp;long time. &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Lenka<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1476\" src=\"https:\/\/swida.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image00004x-300x273.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swida.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image00004x-300x273.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swida.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image00004x-768x700.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swida.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image00004x-1024x933.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>In Lenka&#8217;s&nbsp;situation, the&nbsp;Profesia portal again played an important role, through which she&nbsp;found out about the&nbsp;job offer. It&nbsp;fascinated her primarily because it&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;relatively young company, which also received the&nbsp;Diamond award of&nbsp;Slovak Business. As she&nbsp;claims: &#8220;<em>Another top for&nbsp;me was that it&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;dispatch company that organizes transports throughout Europe. I&nbsp;also enjoyed communicating with&nbsp;clients in&nbsp;English.<\/em>&#8221;&nbsp;Lenka has lived in&nbsp;England for&nbsp;the&nbsp;last 5 years, from&nbsp;where she&nbsp;recently returned. She&nbsp;completed the&nbsp;interview in&nbsp;the&nbsp;form of&nbsp;a&nbsp;Skype call, which she&nbsp;regarded as a&nbsp;sign that Swida is&nbsp;a&nbsp;company that is&nbsp;up to&nbsp;date.<\/p>\n<p>Lenka evaluates the&nbsp;graduation of&nbsp;the&nbsp;academy as follows: &#8220;<em>I really enjoyed the&nbsp;academy, it&nbsp;was great. It&nbsp;gave me the&nbsp;opportunity to&nbsp;get to&nbsp;know the&nbsp;company better, to&nbsp;perceive its strategies and&nbsp;goals, but&nbsp;also the&nbsp;functioning of&nbsp;individual departments. We&nbsp;have all learned a&nbsp;lot, whether from&nbsp;the&nbsp;dispatch or sales department. We&nbsp;also tried exemplary situations, we&nbsp;rehearsed and&nbsp;practiced a&nbsp;lot. I&nbsp;additionally evaluate the&nbsp;team very positively, we&nbsp;all helped each other.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>She would define Swida as a&nbsp;company that takes care of&nbsp;its employees and&nbsp;motivates them to&nbsp;perform.<\/strong> She&nbsp;also appreciates the&nbsp;interest in&nbsp;the&nbsp;employees&#8217;&nbsp;opinions on&nbsp;various issues, and&nbsp;last but&nbsp;not least, the&nbsp;young team is&nbsp;an advantage for&nbsp;her.<\/p>\n<p>Swida Academy gives a&nbsp;chance to&nbsp;every skillful candidate who wants to&nbsp;stand out in&nbsp;our&nbsp;company. Just as we&nbsp;put everything into it, we&nbsp;expect a&nbsp;promising candidate to&nbsp;show his potential and&nbsp;desire to&nbsp;learn something. We&nbsp;are&nbsp;glad that this &#8220;incubator&#8221;&nbsp;has proved its worth to&nbsp;us and&nbsp;the&nbsp;graduates of&nbsp;our&nbsp;academy form an integral part of&nbsp;our&nbsp;sales teams. We&nbsp;wish all newcomers a&nbsp;good and&nbsp;successful start in&nbsp;their new job. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of&nbsp;the&nbsp;main priorities in&nbsp;Swida is&nbsp;the&nbsp;quality training of&nbsp;people. Swida Academy aims to&nbsp;attract and&nbsp;select suitable candidates &#8211;&nbsp;newcomers. The&nbsp;ambition is&nbsp;to&nbsp;effectively pass on&nbsp;as much real experience as possible to&nbsp;our&nbsp;new colleagues. In&nbsp;August, 6 people graduated from&nbsp;this academy, under the&nbsp;leadership of&nbsp;our&nbsp;sales director Igor Mondek. We&nbsp;will share their opinions, perceptions of&nbsp;our&nbsp;company, or working career. Pavol Pavol saw the&nbsp;job offer at&nbsp;Swida on&nbsp;the&nbsp;Profesia portal. 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