Maria Dorovskikh joined the Prysmian Group through the 2rd wave of Build the Future, in 2013. Find out what she does within the Group and what her experience is.

What do you do and why is it important?

Human Resources in North Europe Region. HR in Prysmian has quite a big impact on the company's performance acting as a Business partner. HR is not only facilitating the everyday processes but also developing our People potential and has a control over the Fixed Costs. My role in the region enables me to give support to the countries on the coordination and execution of the HQ HR initiatives.

What is your team like?

I'm lucky to work with and learn from the real professionals with 10+ years in HR. It's quite an international team as well—Russian, Estonian, Norwegian, Finnish and Italian.

How have you developed in your role?

From January I also started to support HR activities in Denmark. It's a great on-job experience for me and I’m happy to be available to our employees in all HR related matters at the plant.

What is the best thing about your job?

I manage to get an overview of the processes from the regional, country and Business Unit perspectives.

What has been your most rewarding project so far?

Regional employer branding for the Graduate campaign and Prysmian employee stock option plan (YES).

What is the international environment like?

There's only 1 Swedish person in my Swedish office. The rest are internationals—from Argentinian to Turkish. I also commute between Sweden and Denmark almost daily.

What does your future look like?

Every graduate's future is quite dependent on the Company's needs in certain location. I'm open to the new opportunities. I'd like to develop further in HR to create a value for People and Business.

Why would you recommend Prysmian to a young talent?

Prysmian is a great school for those who are young and motivated. You’re welcome to make your contribution, speak up and be a part of the team despite of your age and often lack of practical experience. You can learn and develop and you can make the difference.

Cesare Biggiogera, Prysmian CEO in Russia, has been Maria’s mentor since she joined the company.

Cesare, which are Maria’s skills and how a young talent could contribute to the business?

Maria is a very dynamic, curios and resilient person, she does not like to stay idle and she is very open to business experiences at 360 degrees. When she was in Russia she spent also time in night production shifts and in sales back office taking care of customer claims, not at all an easy job but it makes you touch immediately the real business life. In my opinion it is very important that a young talent starts soon a process of learning by doing and become immediately responsible and liable of a job. This will dramatically shorten the distance between theory and practice transforming a talent in a professional talent.