2004: Recruiters gone soft
In a small student apartment outside of Helsinki, 2704 kilometres from Brighton, a couple of students named Lucas Geisler and Tomas Valkama decided to change the recruitment industry.
In the early days, almost every organisation on earth relied on hard skills as the only means of assessing and selecting potential employees. Why? Because it was quick and easy.
Our founders thought this was the wrong approach...
Studentwork was focused on students and young graduates who lacked long CV's, but had the right abilities and traits to succeed in a role. We believe that people should be valued based on how they are as human beings (soft skills) and less on what's in their CV (hard skills).
Science clearly shows that soft skills are the best predictor of future job performance. The founders knew that success rates would go bananas (in a good way) if they could combine assessments, structured interviews and onboarding in an easy and human centric manner. They were right.
The pursuit of higher validity and predictability would , a few years later, take Lucas to Gatwick Airport to meet Dr. Alan Redman for the first time.
