Career

The most frequent forms of additional training are: seminars with top experts and instructors for particular fields of knowledge and skills (for organisational and especially managerial competencies), postgraduate studies, attending leading business schools and other forms of specialist training.

Podravka is interested in top quality people from the following disciplines: economy, food technology, pharmacy and biochemistry, law, computer and information technology, chemistry and chemical technology, psychology, medicine and mathematics.

As we receive candidate offers in the Employment and Personnel Development Department, we list them into our data base of potential employees from which we select those that best fit identified job requirements. The selected candidates are then invited for an interview and psychological testing, and the most successful of them will be invited to another round of interviews.

We would gladly welcome such initiative from candidates and up to now there have been occasions when meetings with future associates and place of work were required from the candidate.

The Director of the Sector and/or Department announcing the vacant job and an expert from the field of Human Resource Management conduct interviews with candidates.

In the previous period Podravka employed a number of young experts with university qualifications from economics and food technology disciplines. The employment trend in the following period is not expected to drop, which means that there will be a certain number of new employments.

Selection is carried out so we can learn more about the candidate, his knowledge, capabilities and motives and find a person whose characteristics will best fit the job requirements.

During the interview we tend to collect information which indicates future candidate behaviour on the job, and at the same time the candidate is given a chance to learn more about the job he/she is interested in.

If you are interested in working at Podravka, send general information about yourself: an offer, CV, copy of your school-leaving certificate or diploma, copy of your certificate of citizenship or identity card and certificate copies of any completed courses (languages, computer literacy and other which may be useful for the job). This is how you enter the data base of potential employment candidates from which we recruit future employees. You can also send your CV via our web pages.

In the employment process Podravka pays special interest in the acquired knowledge and skills, personal development plans, results achieved during studies or work so far, desire for success, willingness, enthusiasm, creativity, drive, entrepreneurial spirit, communication skills, openness for learning and professional development.

 Our company has a well planned and detailed internship period. There are particular mechanisms for gaining in-depth understanding of the company, its culture, people, processes and training programmes that along with the development of communicational competencies also develop an educational culture at the very start of a career. The manner of job induction for a young expert with tertiary qualifications getting employed for the first time has crucial impact on his/her further professional development. Therefore, internship in our company is well defined, structured and organised in order to achieve successful induction.

The internship programme consists of two basic modules:

• General internship programme

• Specialist internship programme where equal importance is given to acquiring expert-specialist knowledge as well as gaining in-depth understanding of the company, its organisation, culture, corporate standards and procedures, and also the people who work there.

The general POMAK programme is divided into two basic modules:

FBA (Fundamentals of Business Administration Programme), covers the so-called “hard” managerial competencies and consists of submodules covering the field of financial, marketing, strategic, global and general management.
Submodule lecturers are full time professors from the Faculty of Economics of Zagreb as well as foreign professors and lecturers from different schools of business, MBA programmes and similar.

LEADER has been developed for the purpose of developing so-called „soft“ managerial competencies and skills, covering submodules from the field of leadership, motivation, management, communications, negotiating and other.

POMAK participants are higher and top level management of the Podravka Group who are assessed and recogniesed as having high developmental potential.

 POMAK is certainly the leading programme for developing managerial competencies but other programmes such as programmes for the development of Sector Directors and seminars for building key competencies are organised regularly.

"POMAK is Podravka’s Management Academy established in 2003. Led by the company’s strategic guidelines and recognizing corporate policy guidelines, our company, in cooperation with the Faculty of Economics of Zagreb, has established a training programme for managers under the name: Podravka Management Academy - "POMAK". The purpose of this training  programme is to better fulfil demands that the present market economy conditions place before the company.

English is the second official language of the company, thus the company standard is defined by exams based on the European Council ALTA (Association of Language Testers in Europe) standards and the level of English language fluency is certified by taking the Cambridge ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) exam.

The education system covers all employees with tertiary qualifications from day one at the company.

Each year personal development activities are planned by monitoring employee competencies connected to current job requirements in order to give employees many opportunities for realising their full potential and career prospects in compliance with personal interests.

Podravka's corporate culture supports innovation, loyalty, learning initiative, entrepreneurial spirit and the desire to achieve success.