On February 11, 2010 the best employers of the year 2009, among them North-West Telecom, were announced at the fourth annual PR-BRAND Prize* ceremony.

North-West Telecom attempted to win the PR-BRAND Prize for the first time, submitting the corporate contest "NWT HR Brand" .

Taking into consideration the unique and topical nature of the participants’ works, as noted by the experts invited to the final, the Company management made the decision to present the contest as a project competing for the Russian nationwide PR-BRAND Prize.

The Prize was awarded in 5 nominations: Capital City, Northern Capital City, Region, Federation and World. Based on the three-stage project evaluation system, North-West Telecom won the silver award in the Federation nomination, probably the most difficult of the Prize’s nominations. Originally, 19 projects were declared in this nomination, of which 15 reached the final ( https://hrbrand.ru/projects.php ). North-West Telecom competed for awards in the Federation nomination with such companies as IBS, Intel Corporation, Uralsib, Kit Finance Investment Bank, JT International, Adidas Group and other major companies.

According to I.V. Tambovskaya, Director of NWT’s Personnel Management Department: “The efficient personnel management becomes increasingly important for business prosperity and profitability. The basic principles of the NWT Personnel Management Concept are to contribute to a better manageability, client orientedness and efficiency of the Company and to form NWT’s image of preferred employer. The silver award of the Russian nationwide PR-BRAND Prize was earned by representatives of different functional units of our Company such as personnel management, commercial, technical, IT and many others. Thanks to our joint efforts, NWT is recognized as one of Russia’s best employers”.

* The PR-BRAND Prize is an independent annual prize awarded for the most successful efforts to improve the company’s reputation as employer. This is a recognition of the company’s success in the business community, among experts and colleagues, customers and job applicants. The Prize is organized by the HeadHunter Group