Career consultants opinions on what term of obtaining one position by an employee differ dramatically. Two years seem too little, five — too long. It means that that «golden term» for which an employee realizes his or her potential and gather enough experience for future victories is somewhere between these years.
Gars Telecom experience partially ruins this common approach. We have passed the edge when significant part of our staff reached their jubilee dates. However it would be wrong to say that our «dinosaurs» has played out — their ambitions and aspiration for development and self-realization are welcomed.
No sooner had we celebrated «10 years with Gars Telecom» of one of our account-managers Julia Dorokhina then our Vitaly Homyakov reached the date. We first met when he came to sell us the services of recruiting agency where he used to work. After the negotiations he stayed with us and managed to sign over 600 contracts and become Champion of the year twice in the next five years.
The discussion by our Managing Director about how to bring up and keep valuable team members, about headhunting do-s and don’t-s is in «2010 at a glance: the irreplaceable» publication (Russian).