Sochi 2014 Announces Its Supplier in “Staff Assessment Products” Category

Sochi 2014, News: Staff Assessment Products, One of the leading Russian HR companies – Detech – has been confirmed as the supplier to the Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Games in “Staff Assessment Products” category. The agreement was signed by Dmitry Chernyshenko, the President and CEO of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, and Svetlana Simonenko, Managing Partner of Detech.

As part of cooperation Detech experts will undertake competency assessments of Sochi 2014 staff candidates. They will be responsible for the vital task of helping to select volunteers for the Sochi 2014 volunteer program.

The Detech Company has been using innovative techniques for over 7 years, including interactive interviews with candidates and on-line competency tests, as well as unique motivational and personality questionnaires.

Techniques used by Detech will help the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee to implement a major program of selection and training for Sochi 2014 volunteers – starting on 7 February 2012 – and oversee the 26 Sochi 2014 volunteer centers.

In total, there will be 25,000 volunteers working at the Games across more than 20 functional areas of activity; including meeting the delegations at the airport and assisting the staging of the Games’ closing ceremony.

The Detech teaching system will be the part of Sochi 2014’s innovative recruitment program. Detech will work together with the leaders of the HR-market, such as Kelly Services, Adecco and Exect who specialize in a variety of different recruitment fields.

Kelly Services will be responsible for permanent staff recruitment and outsourcing. Adecco Group will provide temporary staff recruitment services to the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee and Exect Business Training will take charge of staff training for the Games.

Managing Partner of Detech, Svetlana Simonenko marked:

“We are honored to become a provider for “Sochi 2014” Organizing Committee. Personnel assessment methods that we propose for this ambitious national project are based on contemporary scientific psychological researches, best international practices and understanding of cultural specifics of our country.

The main goal of application of our methods is to increase personnel effectiveness by revealing personality traits and abilities of people. We are glad to help assess and select the right people of all levels for preparing and holding Olympic competitions.“

Dmitry Chernyshenko, President of Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, said:

“Staffing is actually one of our main tasks at present and within tight deadlines we have to select and train tens of thousands of specialists, so only the very best HR professionals will do for the Games! I’m therefore delighted that Detech Company has joined our team, as they have great capability to find and recruit young talent.

They are the perfect partner to achieve their main goal of selecting 25,000 Sochi 2014 volunteers. I have no doubt that with the help of Detech we will recruit a great team to help stage the most innovative Games in history!”

Worldwide IOC Partners, who support the 2014 Games in Sochi and the National Olympic Committees around the world, are the Coca-Cola Company, Atos, Dow Chemical, General Electric, OMEGA, Panasonic, Procter & Gamble, Samsung and Visa.

General partners of 2014 Games are Aeroflot, BOSCO Sport, MegaFon, Rostelecom, Rosneft, Russian Railways, Sberbank of Russia and Volkswagen Group Rus. Partners of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee are Ingosstrakh and PwC. Sochi 2014 Official Suppliers are Kommersant.

Publishing house and EF English First. Sochi 2014 suppliers are Abrau-Durso, Adecco Group, Exect Business Training, Kelly Services, Microsoft Rus, Russian Buses – GAZ Group and Scania-Rus.

Detech is one of the leading companies in personnel assessment and development within the Russian market. The company was established in 2004 to introduce international personnel assessment and development practices to Russia and CIS countries.

Detech provides a broad range of services which are represented by three key areas – discovering talent, preventing risks caused by human factor and transferring technologies in assessment and development. Detech adapts Western assessment and development tools for use in Russia, Ukraine and other CIS countries, and also develops its own unique methods based on researches in social, organizational psychology and psycho metrics.