Scaling Mission-Critical Talent for Rapid Data Centre Growth

Their Challenge

NordicEPOD faced challenges of rapid growth, to meet the high increased workload from customer demands, to execute their part in multiple exciting data center projects. This was across a wide range of areas, where they required highly specialised professionals such as HVAC, Design, Electrical & Mechanical Eng, Structural, Testing and a Document Controller.

Expanding with permanent long-term growth was incredibly important, so it was key that they could trust Thor to introduce to them those with the right expertise and the correct personality and culture match to being a part of a growing dynamic company working in a fast pace and demanding industry.

Equally, in an industry with projects that have fast-changing reputations, spontaneous needs for Contractors arose. Key talent to start quickly was required and they needed to rely on the right partner to solve their challenge of engaging immediate resources that were available and could hit the ground running, delivering top performances and helping to train their team along the way to ensure company development and obtaining knowledge to remain in-house.

Our Approach

Building Trust: Meeting our client and visiting their site on multiple occasions has been fundamental to working closely with them, learning their culture, and representing their business in order to solve their needs.

Specialised Network: Our client could tap into our candidate network in Oslo/Greater Oslo area, as well as see first-hand Thor’s ability to proactively identify the best local candidates and successfully attract those who would relocate to the area for the opportunity. These candidates were highly skilled and in high-demand from competitors - however they chose our client because of our ability to present our them to the market as the place to be. Many of the candidates trust Thor to help them make their career move, as we have had a relationship for a long-time, or referred to us by recommendations from those we have helped before – exactly what makes our network the best!

Expert Service: Providing the combined services of our Permanent and Temporary/Contract Workforce solutions teams meant the client always had a solution. When needed we helped them to engage with top-level consultants, as well as local and highly-skilled candidates looking for long-term career changes. In some cases, these immediate resources alleviated stresses and deadline demands while they waiting for the right Permanent hire, and they even successfully hired a consultant on a permanent basis due to a perfect match!

Retained: NordicEPOD recognised the benefit of working closely on a Retained level. As a Retained exclusive partner, we were able to elevate our collaboration even further by providing details analysis of our retained searches, market feedback – and assign dedicated team(s) prioritising their needs in order to identify and attract the best, and usually the most passive of candidates. All while keeping the cost, more effective to be re-invested back into further hiring!

Consultative Approach: We worked closely with our client to tailor a recruitment process that matched their desires, and adapted to the market – where good candidates are not around for very long. By executing an efficient recruitment process, supported by recommendations and advice via interview preparation, transparent feedback, candidate prioritisation and offer management – our client was able to secure all of their first choice candidates, every time.

Results for the Client

10 Recruitments trusted to Thor

10 Recruitments completed (100% completion).

11 Offers for our Candidates and 10 Offers Accepted (91% first-time offer acceptance).

25 Candidates sent (avg. 2.5 candidates per role).

20 Interview requests (80% application to interview rate).

27 DAYS Average time from Start to Candidate Signing for Permanent Recruitments.

3 DAYS Quickest record of search started to Contractor secured.

"Thor has supported us with strong candidates for both interim and permanent positions across several engineering disciplines, and we are very satisfied with the quick turnaround and great support in finding local talent for our rapidly growing engineering team.

On one particular occasion, Thor really impressed us by providing an interim engineer for a vital project in record time. The candidate had great qualities and delivered beyond our expectations.

Thanks again for the continued support – looking forward to our continued collaboration this year."

- Head of Engineering