Technology companies recruit dozens of soldiers from specific units using member method brings member • "To some extent the IDF performs screening and screening of candidates for us"

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Military service in high technology units allows people serving together to develop working relationships and for years to lead joint projects. As a result, a post-liberation phenomenon was created - those people choose to continue to cooperate in citizenship as well. Various high-tech companies rely on the employment of their employees' friends, soldiers and former officers from the technology and intelligence units, thus producing high-quality personnel. One can find companies in the landscape of Israeli high-tech where almost all personnel come from the same unit.

CyberZen's cyber company, for example, employs more than 200 employees, most of whom are unit 8200. "The competition for employing talented high-tech people is more difficult than ever," says Gal Nof-Eitan, a human resources manager at the company. "The relationship we have with the 8200 unit and the desire of the employees to attract their talented members to the company gives us access to a pool of quality candidates and the opportunity to recruit them more easily. The founders of the company were formerly technological units in the IDF, so in the beginning the company operated as a startup they joined the company. Members of the unit they knew personally. Thus, with the member method, a member brings together the group that led the company in its early years and created a continuity in the private market for the military unit. We maintain a continuum in recruiting employees who are candidates for release from the IDF, receiving inside information from their members who are already employed by us.

"In the day-to-day routine, the military past is less noticeable, because after the release as time goes on, people enter the pattern of citizenship. But in the past, the commonalities of the workers are discerned through dealing with times of stress or crisis. Military and conduct such events as a cohesive group. Other elements drawn from the military culture are the way processes are managed, the dynamics of the work style and the ongoing questioning culture, "adds Nof-Eitan.

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Leah Gidberg, human resources manager at Cyber ​​Guardicor, also agrees. "To some extent, the IDF performs screening and screening for us. A large part of the company's employees came from an elite technology unit. The same people succeeded from long pigeons, went to the highest level of technology training and worked in a complex and advanced technological environment. As part of the freshly recruited recruitment process, we tend to ask one of our programmers about an existing technology challenge to understand exactly what they will do before they decide which company to join. This is common to most of the unit's residents looking for a challenge, they will not compromise on the nature of work, let alone feel comfortable, and prefer to work when surrounded by great people. An organization that employs a high number of technologically talented and powerful people is (and rightly) regarded as an organization with interesting technologies, and a range of powerful people to learn from while doing so.

Gidberg notes that the fact that the newcomers know employees at the company helps them to be recruited. "They can find out about the company with people they trust," she explains. "This process also produces instances where employees who in the military past had a commander-in-chief relationship rolling to work together in citizenship continue with awe at work as well."

"To some extent, the IDF does the screening and screening of the candidates for us."

At the start-up company "WekaIO", they set themselves the goal of becoming a home of technology unit veterans in the intelligence corps. Nir Makovsky, the company's development manager, explains that "Me and the rest of the company's founders have a common military past in the same unit. So when we founded the company, it made sense to contact an accessible workforce for us - people who served with us. The development management and team managers come from the same unit. The military service allows you to immediately recognize the quality of their people and their capabilities, which allows us to fulfill our desire to recruit the best. In addition, a member system brings a member, high-tech practice encourages this phenomenon and so we sometimes look Entire groups of workers who were on the same team in the military move to the same Company and employees on the same development team. "

"Looking at the routine, service in a technology unit in the Intelligence Corps, the soldiers have the mentality of cracking complicated and ambitious projects - exactly what we have in a company that develops solutions for working with massive amounts of data. Small and limited, so applicants contact us directly because they are interested in our product and know the founders of the company - even if not on a personal level, through friends, "adds Makowski. "There is no doubt that the military is today the best source of recruitment for us and for many startups in the industry - very high level training and high quality personnel. People who come from the same unit speak the same language, have a common history and similar values. I am not saying this is a necessary condition for getting a job With us. "