Hiring new talent for your start-up
EIGHT tips to recruit new staff to your start-up
40,000 researchers, students and staff makes Innovation District Copenhagen a great place to recruit highly educated workers. Over 450 local innovative start-up and scale-up companies find most of their employees from this massive base. In order to cover additional needs, the Innovation District Copenhagen secretariat has entered a number of strategic partnerships with free of charge recruiting services financed by City of Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark and the Danish State.
Here are eight tips on how to attract and retain highly educated staff. Locally and globally.
Be visible on your start-up community website
Copenhagen Science City start-up communities
The best staff are the ones who share your company’s outlook. Innovation District Copenhagen houses 20,000 students and recent graduates in Science, Healthcare and Medical Sciences. When they look for start-up jobs, they will browse your start-up community’s company listing.
Hire students and recent graduates
University of Copenhagen job portal
University of Copenhagen attracts international students to study programmes in Medicine, Science, Humanities and Arts. For your first academic employee, try a research collaboration or hire a student assistant to discover the value they add.
Find global talent using Artificial Intelligence
Copenhagen Capacity
Have your jobs and company exposed to hard-to-reach, highly qualified candidates. The Greater Copenhagen Career Portal is a free-of-charge matchmaking tool. Artificial intelligence matches your open jobs to a pool of over 7,500 highly educated international candidates who want to work in Copenhagen.
Get exposure at international job-fairs
Work In Denmark
The best global talents can pick and choose where to work. Work In Denmark will help Danish companies find international academic- as well as skilled labour- applicants free of charge. Have your hard-to-fill positions promoted at international job-fairs by posting your jobs to the WorkInDenmark portal.
Get help with the red tape
International House
When your company hires foreign talent, let International House help with permits, registration and job search for spouses. With advice on tax, day-care and schools, and with culture and leisure activities. All their services are free of charge.
Hold on to highly qualified internationals
Spouse programme
Holding on to your foreign staff members is hard if their spouse is unhappy in Denmark. Københavns Erhvervshus provides free-of-charge career programmes for accompanying spouses. Find programmes for Bachelor degree holders or higher and for spouses with lower educations or unused degrees.
Free recruiting and subsidized local employees
Business House Copenhagen
Get free-of-charge help to identify the qualifications your company should be looking for, find and screen candidates and identify subsidy programmes that lower the cost of recruiting and retaining employees. Business House Copenhagen has access to over 45.000 jobseekers in Copenhagen.
Find young medical technology specialists
MedTech careers
Post your specialized jobs in medtech to this free of charge portal operated by the Danish industry association, Medicoindustrien – MedTech Denmark. The portal targets primarily graduate students attending the STEM educations (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), in Denmark.
Take a trainee from US engineering school MIT
MIT-Denmark
Build a relationship with students from one of the best engineering schools in the world. The MIT-Denmark-programme invites Danish Companies and research institutions to host MIT students as full-time interns from 3 to 12 months across industries, regions, and organization size.
Use your location as a recruiting argument
Innovation District Copenhagen
Use our Innovation District Copenhagen interactive map to show potential recruits that your company is located in a hot-spot of co-creating. This is what your new staff will find within an 800-meter radius:
1 University Hospital
1 University College
2 University Faculties
6 Start-Up Communities
500 Innovative Start-Up Companies
40,000 researchers, students and staff
1.000 steps to the historical centre of Copenhagen.
