Winners '23 | Best Employer Brand Awards

Best Employer Brand Awards Adria 2023
Winners in each category

2023

GRAND PRIX ADRIA

Hrvatski Telekom has won Grand Prix Adria 2023 🏆

Hrvatski Telekom is a winner for the second year in a row! They have made a tremendous effort to build their employer branding around employee growth, strong internal communication, increasing employee and customer satisfaction and introducing many employee engagement programs around CSR activities, interesting internal events, bringing creativity into their everyday's work. Congratulations!

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Grand Prix Croatia

Grand Prix
N. Macedonia

Grand Prix Serbia

Grand Prix Slovenia

An amazing year for Grand Prix winners on a country level - Congrats to A1 Hrvatska, A1 Makedonija, NELT Group and Lidl Slovenija.

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Anamarija Minarski
Best Employer
Brand Manager

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Jelena
Jelušić
Employer Branding IMPACT Award

LARGE COMPANIES

A1 Hrvatska & A1 Makedonija

Year by year A1 Hrvatska and A1 Makedonija have been introducing improvements and strengthening their activities with the aim to improve employee experience. Their focus is on STEM community, skills of the future, creating strong culture and CSR around sustainability topics and women in tech. Excelling in many employer branding areas, A1 is a dedicated employer to creating great workplace.

MEDIUM COMPANIES

Singular

Singular has made an tremendous effort to build their employer branding around connecting employees, strengthening their culture, supporting personal growth and exciting working environment.

SMALL COMPANIES

Intellias

Their projects are sharp and innovative; their teams are kind and respectful. With a well structured EVP and well executed programs, Intellias aims to create an inspired workplace with a culture based on support, respect, and empathy.

EMPLOYER BRAND

MANAGER

Anamarija Minarski
Hrvatski Telekom

Anamarija is leading Talent Acquisition, Performance & Development department at Hrvatski Telekom which managed to achieve record high engagement and employee satisfaction rates, lower attrition and improve on many HR KPI's. Among many strong projects we can highlight amazing growth programs, The Power of AI event, excellent internal communication programs and her dedication to building a great team.

EMPLOYER BRAND

TEAM

Singular

Small yet dynamic team of four women work tirelessly to ensure that the Singular brand enjoys a strong and positive reputation both internally and externally. Their focus is to make Singular a highly desirable employer, widely recognized and respected.

Congrats Elena, Ljubica, Tamara, Aleksandra!

INNOVATIVE EMPLOYER BRANDING ACTIVITY

Zagrebačka banka

Zaba Kids week is an initiative dedicated to children of their employees, with organised sports activities, educational workshops and games designed especially for children to prepare them (mentally, physically and emotionally) for starting a new school year after a long summer break.

DIGITAL

COMMUNICATION OF EMPLOYER BRAND

A1 Hrvatska

To keep the employees informed and engaged, they rely on many different channels, apps and formats, with special emphasis on digital channels. One of the foundations of A1 Hrvatska digital media presence aimed at employer branding is positioning the company as one of the most desirable employers and digital company with top notch tech solutions for customers.

We are confident you haven't missed their great content on their career pages, LN, IG or YT...

BEST INTERNAL COMMUNICATION

Hrvatski Telekom

Hrvatski telekom can be proud as their "Proud of HT" won the internal communication category.

Focusing on the element of pride, „Proud of HT“ isn’t only a campaign but a matter of corporate culture and a broader recognition and appreciation program.

BEST EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION

Singular

We BeneFit campaign aims to position Singular as a top company where employees have all the resources and opportunities to grow professionally and explore their passions with the company's support.

BEST EMPLOYER BRAND EVENT

Hrvatski Telekom

Throughout the The power of AI campaign, HT employed various engaging activities such as AI quizzes, AI Hackathon, AI Podcasts, along with educational resources to ensure that employees had access to AI knowledge and tools.

BEST STUDENT
PROGRAM

Loreal

Loreal offers many student programs and opportunities around Loreal for Youth platforme with the aim to accelerate unique talents, enabling them to learn and unleash their potential.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVELOPMENT AND ACTIVATION OF EMPLOYER BRANDING

INA

INA has done extensive employer branding project in it's retail segment and created a communication strategy that supports attraction, engagement and retention in IMS (INA maloprodajni servisi)

BEST EMPLOYEE
GROWTH PROGRAM

Hrvatski Telekom

Curated to fit everyone's development needs, learning journeys are structured around HT programs with impact on every employee, from 30 under 30 programs, transformative programs to improve customer service, to leadership development, learning impulses and well-being. Impressive effort by HT team.

INTEGRATION OF
EMPLOYER BRAND AND CORPORATE BRAND

NLB

This was the most extensive application and probably the biggest employer branding project - done in NLB; focusing to developing employer branding strategy and integrate corporate and employer brand.

CSR EMPLOYER BRAND ACTIVITY

Hrvatski Telekom

‘World of Equal Opportunities’ is a platform focused on raising awareness for all individuals/groups that have unjustly been marginalized.

BEST EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE

Intellias

IntelliHUB is an online platform, where people can access all services and opportunities that Intellias offers, including professional opportunities, vacancies, referrals, rewards, internal marketplace, careerhub, join expert communities and many more.

BEST WELL-BEING PROGRAM

Lidl Slovenija

Lidl Slovenia has a well-being strategy - Dober lajf (Good Life) strategy combines four pillars: Dobro počutje (Feel Good), Dobra ekipa (Good Team), Dobri dodatki (Good Benefits) and Dobra kariera (Good Career). Dober lajf was good enough for us to give them a Dober score.

EMPLOYER BRANDING
IMPACT AWARD

Jelena Jelušić

We're introducing this special award or "lifetime achievement" as we like to call it, as a way of promoting contributors and influential people in our region.
It is our way of saying thanks to outstanding contribution to employer branding and employee experience.

Jelena is our first recipent; founder of INSPO Consulting, assisting companies to create a workplace where people want to work.

Watch out, you might be next! 😉