Estonian Energy needs top specialists

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Estonia(n Energy) needs top specialists!

• Baltech Annual Conference
• March 13, 2008, Riga
• Riina Varts
• HR Director
• Eesti Energia

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We sell energy to two million customers in the
Baltic Sea region (vision of Eesti Energia Group
for 2015)

• Strategic goals 2010
• improving network quality
• new connections, products and markets
• expansion of the production portfolio
• prospects for growth in the electricity business

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To execute our strategy, we need top engineers

• YES,
• the top engineers currently employed at EE are
  mainly the developers and top spesialists in
  their respective fields,
• BUT
• most of them are over the age of 60!
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What types of engineers do we need?

• thermal power engineering
• electric power engineering
• electronics
• automated systems
• chemistry
• We need young people with
• motivation and ability to work and learn
• language skills
• training and work experience from abroad

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We have some concerns
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The state of health of technical (higher)
education is not all that good

• schools do not create enough interest in
  technical specialities
• the vocational education is only in a formative
  stage
• lack of systematic professional in-service
  training in the field
• high dropout rate in technology majors at higher
  educational institutions (nearly 40 in energy
  sciences)
• advanced age of TUT faculty members and lack of
  potential replacements

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What should be done?

• The state must really value science and research.
  Estonias advantages compared to other countries
  can only be based on knowledge.
• Besides IT, biotech and other new fields, the
  strategy for a knowldege-based Estonia must also
  focus on traditional sectors.
• The educational system must be seen as a whole
• interest in science and research and teaching or
  being a teacher starts in primary and secondary
  school
• The state, universities and private sector must
  work more closely together in order to agree what
  kinds of specialists we need.

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What should be done (2)

• The need for research and development activities
  in the energy field is huge. Old technology needs
  to be replaced.
• Estonian companies must better exploit scientific
  and research potential
• by ordering doctoral dissertations and proposing
  topics
• by recruiting scholarship recipients
• changing work processes based on the results of
  the research
• adopting technological innovations
• To ensure that there is an adequate source of new
  professors, it would be necessary to import
  knowledge and competence (and why not the
  professors themselves?) from abroad.

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What is Eesti Energia doing as an employer to
ensure engineering potential in the future?
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HR strategy 2010

• 1. Employee retention
• employee value proposition
• performance management
• motivation and reward strategy development
• 2. Succession planning
• key positions, key employees, internal career
  paths
• trainee programmes
• cooperation with educational institutions
• 3. Management development
• leadership standard
• systematic assessment and development of our
  managers

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What can we be proud of today?

• Since 1999, we have supported doctoral and
  masters degree students through the Tallinn
  University of Technology development fund
• doctorate grants (2 x 2700 EUR)
• masters degree grants (2 x 1700 EUR)
• Eesti Põlevkivi grants (5 x 1000 EUR)
• M. Jostov grant
• We have about 10 PhDs today
• about 15 people are studying in the doctoral
  degree programme, including our CEO Sandor Liive
  ?
• 3 TUT students are studying nuclear energy in
  Sweden (1 mio EEK / 67 000 EUR)

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Theres more.

• We rotate more capable employees within the
  Group, between companies and fields of activity
• We provide opportunities to learn and develop in
  the course of interaction with different foreign
  partners (Jordan, Germany, France, Finnish
  producers)

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Cooperation with educational institutions and the
Ministry of Education

• General educational institutions
• excursions
• presentations and meetings
• seminars in cooperation with the TUT student
  council on energy
• physics competition
• job shadowing in cooperation with Junior
  Achievement
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• Institutions of higher education
• cooperation agreements
• professional placement opportunities for students
• lecturers from EE
• ..
• Ministries
• equipment for physics classrooms all over Estonia
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Eesti Energia invests a lot into research and
development

• Technical and environmental research and
  consultation works
• 2006/07 23,662,000 EEK (1 600 000 EUR)
• 2005/06 13,375,000 EEK (892 000 EUR)

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• Theres a lot more to be done

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• Thank you!
• riina.varts_at_energia.ee