Indika

Quite soon after setting our new ambition level to become a global franchise we realized we are in common trap of a company that has come to the level where it is not taking full use of its potential due to lack of people and it doesn’t have enough business to recruit new people.

We decided to break out from that vicious cycle and ensured that we start off 2007 with a blast. The first quarter was amazing and we could have recruited one or two new people right away. But we tend to be quite picky on who we select in our team. We had grueling disappointments with some brilliant minds who would have loved to join us but the decision to move in Sri Lanka was not financially feasible solution for them.

We interviewed a bunch of people but most of them were just not good enough for our demands. Then we took a leap of faith and decided to hire a guy who was an uncut diamond. He didn’t portray all the qualities we were looking for but we knew that he has potential. On the last meters he backed out due to the twisted news Western media portrays of Sri Lanka. There we were again, in ground zero.

Luckily we happened to get back in touch with a local graduate who was finishing his time in AIESEC, too. We were impressed by his thinking and strategic readiness he portrayed. He’s called Indika. He was hired without any further pondering. Getting fresh blood into the team had to happen; and better late than not at all.

So far he has proven to be an invaluable part of the team. He can provide us with views that we could have never thought of. He is active in asking questions and aiming to understand the business more and more. He comes up with very good ideas how to improve the company and he’s seemingly passionate of working with us.

This is another turning point. We are becoming a stronger and more vital team. Still, we’d like to have a couple of high-profile foreign talents to fulfill our current potential and to reach out to international markets on more than one front. It is our strategy. It is our destiny.

According to Indika, there are five F’s that excite him about working with Unleash Talent: ‘Freedom, friendliness, family-feeling, future possibilities, and flearning. What? Who said learning cannot start with “F”?’

There’s still room in this Fantastic team. Currently we’re screening talents from India, Hong Kong and Romania but only the world is our limit: the fresh brain that we need might be anywhere out there. Maybe you are the next?