Work in Estonia Talks with Brett Lemsalu and Irene Creci from Wise. Brett Lemsalu is an Estonian who works at Wise’s Tallinn office as the People Advisers Team Leam. And Irene Creci grew up in Italy, studied in Finland, and now has worked in Tallinn at the company Wise for 7 years. She fills the position of Implementation Lead, which means she is leading a team of implementation managers to help banks and non-bank partners implement the Wise solution in their online and mobile platforms. We also chat about: •Why did Irene decide to move to Estonia, if it was a big black hole for her? •What mak ..read more

Work in Estonia Talk with Gerda Markus and Rahul Bhola from ABB. Gerda Markus is an Estonian whose role at ABB is to lead Talent Acquisition & Advancement and to coordinate University Relations, Employer Branding & Early Talent programs in Baltics. And Rahul Bhola grew up in India. 7 years ago he spotted an ad on a local tuk-tuk back home, which led him to come and study in Estonia. Today he has graduated and he has spent 4 of these years working in ABB. He is currently working as a mechanical design engineer. We also chat about: •Why does ABB believe so strongly believes that diverse ..read more

Work in Estonia Talk episode with Kairi Tamm and Daniel Carvalho from Glia. Kairi Tamm is an Estonian who works at Glia as the People Operations Manager, and Daniel Carvalho grew up in Portugal and now works at Glia as an Engineering Manager. He has been living in Estonia for 5 years and says his primary motivation to move to Estonia was his Estonian wife. He also says: snow in Estonia is not the problem, but the cleaning is. Other topics we chat about: • Why did Daniel become an Estonian expert at the bathroom? • What should every Estonian know about Portugal? • Ways that Glia makes everyone ..read more

Work in Estonia Talk episode with Marge Rehepapp and Alex Ball from Ericsson. Marge is an Estonian who works at Ericsson’s Tallinn office as the People Lead, and Alex Ball grew up in the UK. He works at Ericsson’s Test Development Department as an Automation System Architect. 7 years ago, during a spontaneous summer visit to Estonia, he met someone special who later became his wife. Today he’s been living and working in Estonia for many years and says he’s happy that he took the leap and decided to move here. We also chat about: •What is the “living in Estonia puzzle” and how to put it togethe ..read more

Work in Estonia Talks with Brett Lemsalu and Irene Creci from Wise. Brett Lemsalu is an Estonian who works at Wise’s Tallinn office as the People Advisers Team Leam. And Irene Creci grew up in Italy, studied in Finland, and now has worked in Tallinn at the company Wise for 7 years. She fills the position of Implementation Lead, which means she is leading a team of implementation managers to help banks and non-bank partners implement the Wise solution in their online and mobile platforms. We also chat about: •Why did Irene decide to move to Estonia, if it was a big black hole for her? •What mak ..read more

Work in Estonia Talk with Gerda Markus and Rahul Bhola from ABB. Gerda Markus is an Estonian whose role at ABB is to lead Talent Acquisition & Advancement and to coordinate University Relations, Employer Branding & Early Talent programs in Baltics. And Rahul Bhola grew up in India. 7 years ago he spotted an ad on a local tuk-tuk back home, which led him to come and study in Estonia. Today he has graduated and he has spent 4 of these years working in ABB. He is currently working as a mechanical design engineer. We also chat about: •Why does ABB believe so strongly believes that diverse ..read more

Work in Estonia Talk with Janika Liiv and Shushanik Gevorgyan from Comodule. Janika Liiv is an Estonian, who is currently working as the Software Product Lead, and Shushanik Gevorgyan is an iOS Engineer, who moved to Estonia from Armenia. Shushanik shares her experience living in Estonia and how she decided to give Estonia a try after putting together a pros and cons list. Janika shares Comodule’s mission and also her favourite nature spots to experience in Estonia. We also chat about: •What does Shushanik like most about Estonians? •How to get invitations from Estonians? •Tips on what not to ..read more

Work in Estonia Talk with Laura Viilep and Bruno from Mindvalley. Laura Viilep is the head of Global events at Mindvalley. She joined the team 10 years ago and helped to build up their Estonian office.Bruno Azenha is a full-stack engineer from Brazil, who didn’t initially plan to move to Estonia. Instead, he started working remotely from the Estonian Mindvalley office while waiting for his Malaysian visa to arrive. After staying here for 1,5 years, he's not planning to move to Malaysia anymore and is convinced that moving to Estonia was the best decision. We also chat about: •How did Bruno fal ..read more

Work in Estonia Talk with Anni-Bessie Kitt and Gökçen Özder Öcal from Arvato Financial Solutions Tech Center. Anni-Bessie Kitt is an Estonian who is working as the Tech Center Lead & Management Board Member. Gökçen Özder Öcal has lived in Estonia for 2 and a half years and is working as a Team Lead and Senior Software Engineer. She and her family moved to Estonia from Türkiye. Gökçen shares how she started to do her research about Estonia after her husband got a job here and they were impressed with what they found out. We also chat about: •Work and life balance in Estonia •Tips for hiring ..read more

Work in Estonia Talk episode 2 with Liis Tõnisson and Samuel Robson from Bolt. Liis Tõnisson works as Head of Global Mobility. Her tasks revolve around the immigration and relocation of newly recruited international employees. Samuel Robson is originally from Australia, moved to Estonia a year ago, and is currently the Global Safety Manager at Bolt. In our chat, we talk about how did Sam’s relocating experience looked like and what are the things Bolt did to soften his new start. He even said moving to the other side of the world felt like a vacation compared to his previous moving experiences ..read more