Connectis has made a firm commitment to young talent. For some years now, the company has been developing a policy to incorporate young professionals into its workforce. It all starts with the selection of students who are finishing their professional training to join the company to do their internships; or, with the search for young talents who are taking their first steps in the job market.

“Offering an opportunity to young people who are finishing their professional training or who are at the beginning of their career is a responsibility for us. Young people who study IT aspire to be able to develop into IT professionals and work in companies like ours. For this reason, it is important that we create the experience that drives excellent results both for the Connectis teams that are already part of, and the clients and new talents”, says Noemi Sakitani, Director of Resources Humans of Latin America. This practice is aligned with the Connectis ESG policy, one of whose pillars is the attraction, retention and development of talent.

We interviewed three young professionals in Argentina, Brazil and Chile who told us about their experience at Connectis.

Franco Corvalan studied Programming at the National Technological University of Buenos Aires. He is 25 years old and just turned two in Connectis, time that “has flown by,” he says with a smile. “I studied Testing QA and test automation so I was looking for an internship with these functions because I like it, it attracts my attention and I wanted to develop professionally in that area.”

Deyvison Uchoa (25), Systems Analyst from the UniCarioca University Center and Postgraduate in quality testing and software development with methodologies, joined Connectis two years ago (his second work experience) because “I wanted to grow, to give the next step in my career, after developing a lot in my previous stage. And Connectis seemed like a very big company to me, with different divisions and great opportunities”.

“At Connectis we try to develop a work culture based, among other values, on autonomy because it is one of the elements that employees value the most and that has the greatest impact, both on personal satisfaction with work and on the work environment” says Noemi Sakitani. According to various investigations, teams with greater autonomy reach higher levels of performance and engagement.

For this reason, it is not uncommon for the three interviewees to highlight the levels of progressive autonomy that they have reached in Connectis as one of the most remarkable aspects of their experience in the company.

“Little by little I began to dedicate more time and attend to new projects. And then the responsibility increased because at first I only had to follow some guidelines, but later I had to start deciding if some cases could be automated or not, and have my own criteria. What I have valued the most is the freedom I feel to make decisions because that means recognition,” recalls Takechi. “When you enter as a trainee, they don’t send you to do what no one else wants to do. Here they teach you and you are always accompanied in a project. You are one of the others and you have the same responsibilities as the others, so it is a very good starting point,” he adds.

“I started by getting to know the environment, the client’s way of working, the people in the design rooms and the projects I would be working on. Now the projects I take on are bigger and bigger because I feel that the managers and the client trust me. Every day is a new challenge”, says Deyvison.

Belonging to the team is another factor highlighted by young professionals from their experience at Connectis. “My colleagues gave me a lot of confidence and I felt that I could ask anything. The experience was better than I imagined because they made me feel very comfortable: they told me about the company, about the equipment and the tools they used”, says Franco.

“For us it is very important that new collaborators feel part of the team as soon as possible, that this is a distinctive Connectis way of doing things and that it is replicated in different generations”, explains Noemi Sakitani. Indeed, the way in which these young people have felt integrated into the teams is an impulse for them to propose to make the new incorporations feel the same way.

“Now, when a new girl or boy comes in, I try to put myself in her place and imagine all the questions I would ask to answer them in the same way that my classmates did with me. Perhaps my fear was feeling that my questions could be silly, and I don’t want anyone to feel that way”, says Franco.

“From the first day, the group gave me a lot of support in any problem. I have made great friends and we always help each other. I think the team is what I would highlight most about Connectis. For this reason, I also began to train the new people who arrived”, says Deyvison.

Franco also values the fact that he can apply the tools he has studied. “For example, I really like everything that is automation and, little by little, my bosses added me to the projects that included it. It is that the team is helping you to meet those personal goals”. On a personal level, Franco spends a lot of time studying English and running to prepare for races. In the meantime, he has found an apartment to move into and become independent from the family home.

Takechi was able to reconcile the last year of his degree and the Master’s in Business Engineering (to obtain a double degree) while he was doing his internship. “At Connectis they gave me many facilities to assume the academic load and I could manage my schedules because I was meeting the objectives of the work”, he recalls.

Takechi Hernández (25) was looking for his professional internship in Industrial Engineering, which he studied at the University of Chile, when he found out about Connectis’s offer. “I spent a while waiting for them to accept me until in January 2021 I was able to enter. I already had good references because a friend and fellow student had followed the same path in the company”.

Deyvison thinks that in these two years at Connectis he has “evolved as a person and professional.” He has discovered Pilates and “I would recommend it especially for those of us who work on the computer, sit all day: it’s wonderful. When I don’t practice it, I feel my back tense”. He’s also engaged to his girlfriend, he says with a smile.

“We are very happy that our young professionals feel part of the Connectis team, that they can develop professionally and that they are satisfied”, concludes Noemi Sakitani.