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After 2 years of searching: Riverstate lands a direct hit for C# and .Net developer position in 2 months.
When was the last time you were in a travel agency? Even in a pre-COVID-19 (and hopefully post-COVID-19) world, traditional travel agencies are no longer as ubiquitous as they once were. More and more people are moving across channels, using comparison portals and booking their trips online. To keep up, travel agencies must digitize their offerings and combine expert advice with intuitive online portals that present the best deals in real time. This is precisely what paxconnect helps with. With paxlounge, companies can process their offers in just a few seconds and make them available to their customers immediately on their desktop, smartphone, or tablet. The dynamic offer websites are individually customizable and blend seamlessly into the corporate image. With automated add-on services such as rental cars or insurance, travel agencies can further increase their revenue. The COVID-19 crisis has of course not left a mark on a company in the tourism industry, but for paxconnect it has also opened up new opportunities: “Many of our customers see our company as a solution, especially now during the crisis, and are taking the opportunity to digitize in preparation for the future,” explains Joachim Monski, Managing Director of paxconnect.
The digitalization of the tourism industry is an ongoing process that requires a great deal of agility and creative ideas. Accordingly, paxconnect’s products are constantly evolving. To support this, the company was looking for a C# and .Net developer for its Cologne office. The search soon received professional support through unsolicited applications from recruiting companies – but even this initially didn’t improve the situation.
“It’s astonishing how many recruitment firms have presented us with candidates on their own initiative and achieved virtually no results within a year,” recalls the managing director. “We were so busy with them, and often found that the candidates hadn’t even been pre-screened and had completely different ideas.”
The experience made the paxconnect team more cautious when selecting professional recruiting assistance: “We’ve found that quantity isn’t enough, and truly suitable candidates only make it into the shortlist if the collaboration with the recruiter is focused on quality from the outset. And that’s exactly what we experienced with Riverstate.”
The paxconnect team’s confidence that Riverstate was the right partner for a successful search was primarily due to their unique approach compared to other recruiters. “Riverstate’s exclusive concept, with its setup day and innovative approaches, isn’t an added extra, but rather the standard for every search,” says Joachim Monski. “This creates credibility right from the start, because we thought it would surely work for us, too.”
And it worked: “In the end, things moved really quickly with Riverstate,” explains Joachim Monski. “We tried for almost two years, but with Riverstate’s support, we found what we were looking for within two months. It was a perfect fit with the very first candidate.”
This success is thanks to the preparatory work on the setup day, during which Michaela Rütten and André Ladendorf thoroughly analyzed the company’s professional and human needs in a joint discussion. In the paxconnect team, which places great emphasis on joint events, employees value team spirit above all else. Accordingly, newcomers should also fit in on a personal level. “We place great value on work-life balance, but in return, we expect a high level of personal responsibility and entrepreneurial participation,” explains the managing director.
These factors were also incorporated into the candidate profile created on setup day. “Riverstate acted very professionally on setup day, which was reflected in the pre-selection process,” says Joachim Monski. “The service was good; our recruiter, Michaela Rütten, supported us professionally from start to finish.”
With Riverstate’s support, the two-year search for a C# and .Net developer finally came to a successful conclusion, and paxconnect can once again devote itself fully to its digitalization mission. Should challenging positions arise again in the future, Managing Director Joachim Monski is confident: “We will definitely work with Riverstate again in the future.”
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