PROOF POSITIVE THAT THERE IS NO HIRING FREEZE AT NOKIA
The leading Finnish job listing website, owned and run by the Finnish periodical Helsingin Sanomat and several other papers, has advertisements for a grand total of 1150 job openings at Nokia.
Anyone can check the Helsingin Sanomat website for themselves. The address of this website is
heti4.tieto.net
Tips for locating the Nokia help wanted ads:
After reaching the Helsingin Sanomat website, scroll down a ways until the screen has a yellow background and company names are listed on the left side in a column. Locate the four listings for Nokia:
1.Nokia Mobile Phones
2.Nokia Networks
3.Nokia Research Center
4.Nokia Ventures
Click on the "Nokia Mobile Phones" title. On the following page you will see, beneath the Nokia title in big, bold, blue letters, two links beginning with the word "Listaa", which means list in Finnish. Click on the upper "Listaa" link. On the next page, you will see the beginning of the jobs list for the Nokia Mobile Phones division. Right above the beginning of the list in the center of the page, you will see in black and white text the phrase "Sivu 1/4". "Sivu" means page, so, for the benefit of English speakers, the meaning of the phrase is "page 1 of 4". This provides information about the volume of listings for that particular division. (The link just to the right entitled "seuraava sivu" leads to the next page of listings, if there is one, or in this case, page 2 of 4, and so on. Once page 2 is reached, another link will also appear, "Edellinen sivu", leading the reader back to the previous page.) After checking out the job listings for the Nokia Mobile Phones division, return to the first page of the Helsingin Sanomat website and check out the job listings for the other three Nokia divisions the same way.
The number of pages listing jobs for each Nokia division:
Division Pages of Job Listings
Nokia Mobile Phones 4
Nokia Networks 14
Nokia Research Center 1
Nokia Ventures 4
Total Pages of Job Listings: 23
Total Number of Job Listings:
23 (pages) X 50 (jobs/page)=1150 job openings
Therefore no hiring freeze.
Why might this rumor have originated? Possibility: Nokia has regularly advertised jobs on a weekly basis in the Finnish paper Helsingin Sanomat, not to be confused with the website run by the same company. Nokia ceased advertising job openings in the paper with today's (1/7) edition. People connected with the paper last week may have noticed that Nokia was not buying any job listing space in today's edition while the paper was being edited and inferred, incorrectly, that this meant Nokia was in the midst of a hiring freeze. What appears to have happened is that Nokia has in fact stopped advertising job openings in the print edition of Helsingin Sanomat, but not on their website. Why might this occur? Because Nokia is adapting to a job hunting landscape changed by the advent of the internet. Perhaps it no longer made sense for them to advertise job openings in any medium other than the internet. After all, the people they need to hire must intrinsically be technologically savvy and must have internet/networking experience as a prerequisite for these jobs. It's really not important why Nokia stopped advertising job openings in the print version of Helsingin Sanomat. What matters to Nokia followers is that the company is looking to hire more than a thousand people at the present time and is obviously still in its growth trajectory.
The hiring freeze rumors have thus been proven to be wrong. |
