HOW DOES IT WORK?

We worked with Challengest on a contest to engage young people all around Europe in creating messages about the important topic of air pollution and health. Working hand in hand with Challengest team we jointly created the campaign – and the result was a powerful campaign that we were proud of, with lots of diverse, creative multimedia entries. Challengest’s wide network, its popularity, its experience in running these campaigns, all resulted in a very successful result. We were happy to work with Challengest.

I cooperated with Challengest extensively while being Head of HR of Tatra banka, member of the Raiffesien Group. When I was first introduced to Challengest, one of the key internal projects in the bank was to define Employer value proposition (EVP) and consequently design employer branding campaigns. What Challengest was offering totally fit into our EVP and actually into our Branding strategy. We were looking for a “outside-of-the-box” element, that would attract new talent while letting them work on real-life cases from the bank, providing us with a fresh look on problems we were often sort of stuck with. It worked like magic. Not only that the participants of the various challenges gave us in their solutions a different angel of view on our own projects and problems, but also we gained recognition in the market as open and innovative employer and moreover often we made job offers to the top participants of the challenges, which many acepted. Win-win-win. I highly recommend Challengest to any company. It is a fresh and different approach how to do employer branding while bringing different perspective to your internal products, problem, processes. Additionally, the people that worked at Challengest are people with great passion for what they do and every step of the way, it is obvious that they have a higher purpose in mind. And that is priceless with any vendor.

There are multiple reasons why we participate in challenges. It is clear to us that traditional recruitment methods are becoming less effective over time. On the other hand, why couldn't the interaction between potential candidates and companies be more engaging and fun? We try our best to create challenges, which are creative and solvers need to think critically. There is never a one perfect solution. We positively evaluate all thoughts and opinions, which are clearly explained and make logical sense. We also look at the formal aspect of the solution.

Thanks to Challengest we have multiple new colleagues. Their solutions were not just awarded with prices, but also served as a ticket to an interview, which substantially simplified the selection process. We learnt a lot about their potential from their solution. Solvers, who participated in job specific challenges (e.g. investment reporting), gave us confidence that they are genuinely interested in that particular topic. This adds to a quite easy decision for both us and the candidate. Solvers not actively seeking a job are also very valuable for us. We are happy to have the opportunity to show what working for Swiss Re is like in a creative and engaging way.

Challengest delivered more than expected. We attracted many talented students, received solutions which became source of interesting market knowledge and spread positive company branding among student's market segment.