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The local business sector has long been complaining about the problems that many companies are encountering when in need to recruit new people. “Express Trailers is no exception and we have been experiencing these same problems when we happen to be seeking both blue collar and white-collar roles,” says NICOLE VELLA, Human Resources Manager.

The most difficult departments to source candidates for are the finance department and fleet maintenance namely welders, mechanics and VRT testers.

“Whereas applicants for positions within our finance department are low in numbers and the salary expectations have increased substantially, the problem with the fleet maintenance is that skilled workers requiring a certain physical aptitude and the necessary certifications are hard to find,” noted Nicole Vella.

“It is becoming increasingly apparent that although the vacancies are there, not many seem to be taking up these trade skills when young, and this limited number of applicants available in the local market has signalled a serious shortage which can no longer be ignored,” she added.

Whilst acknowledging this problem, Nicole explained how to address this difficulty, different techniques and strategies have had to be adopted.

“For difficult roles we are employing foreign applicants who contact us when they are still abroad. Many of these skilled workers tend to come from outside of the EU and therefore, the work permit process could be a lengthy one to complete. The upside of this situation is that such applicants tend to be not only already experienced but would also hold the necessary certifications.”

For finance roles, Ms Vella explained that the company is having to resort to outsource certain work to non-employees to fill in the gaps, until permanent staff have been sourced and employed.

“Finding and recruiting truckers, on the other hand, does not present the same difficulty, obviously because trucks are the thing, we are most known for and a driver is the most popular role at Express Trailers,” pointed out Nicole.

“In fact, we usually receive applications even when no vacant positions are open! However, even here, the local market is becoming increasingly competitive as well.”

Current Vacancies at Express Trailers include a Forklift Operator, a VRT Tester, an Account Clerk, a Bond Operations Clerk, a Sales Clerk and a Customer Care agent for Express Trailers’ online shopping platform ShipLowCost.

Company recruiters and HR managers will all agree that keeping employees incentivised remains an ongoing challenge.

“At Express Trailers, we do this through regular appraisals and salary reviews, we offer health insurance cover, we seek to improve remuneration packages and we encourage our people to grow professionally by offering them more training and development opportunities. I would say that personal professional development is becoming more in demand, and we are happy to be offering such an opportunity to our employees.”

There is an intense programme of training opportunities in store for the coming months. In fact, besides the regular refresher training courses that are mandatory for certain licences, a training plan on Cyber Security is being drafted to increase awareness about this very crucial subject.

The area of Human resources remains very dynamic but also very a very demanding one and Nicole acknowledges how these past two years especially, the pandemic has caused many shifts and changes both internally and externally and this brings about a certain level of fatigue.

“Our main concern now has become everyone’s general well-being but thankfully we are now in a position to start hosting more social events and this is allowing us to interact together again in a more relaxed environment which helps us to cultivate a more positive culture and a stronger morale at work,” concluded Nicole Vella.

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EXPRESS TRAILERS Sr.l.u., as controller of the personal data pursuant art. 13 and 14 of the UE Regulation UE 679/2016 – General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), in compliance with the obligations dictated by the legislator for the protection of privacy, with the present wish to inform you of the use of your personal data and of your rights, communicating the following:

  1. CONTROLLER:


The controller is EXPRESS TRAILERS S.r.l.u., Fiscal Registration 00472780105, with registered office in Via XX Settembre, 5/7 sc. sx – 16121 GENOVA and Operations Office in Via Milano 40C/7 sc. B – 16126 GENOVA

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Non-specific personal data (identification, accounting, financial, etc.).

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The source of the data referred to in point b is: Data provided by the interested party.

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Possible consequences of failure to provide personal details: NON-EXECUTION OF THE CONTRACT

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Exclusively for the aforementioned purposes, the data will be made known, in addition to the internal personnel units responsible for this, also to external collaborators in charge of their processing, whose list is available at the owner’s headquarters, by way of example only: consultants of the job, tax experts, transporters, agents etc …

  1. TRANSFERS OF DATA


Any transfers of Personal Data to Recipients outside the European Union will be performed only to execute the contract.

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All personal data provided will be treated in accordance with the principles of lawfulness, correctness, relevance and proportionality, only with the methods, including computerized and online, strictly necessary to pursue the purposes described above. In any case, personal data will be stored for a period of time not exceeding that strictly necessary to achieve the indicated purposes. The personal data for which conservation is not necessary or for which storage is not required by current legislation, in relation to the stated purposes, will be deleted or transformed into an anonymous form. It should be noted that the information systems used to manage the information collected are configured, originally, in order to minimize the use of the data.

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Please note that the interested party has the right to access the data concerning him / her at any time by directing your request directly to the Data Controller, using the contact details below:

EXPRESS TRAILERS S.r.l.u., with registered office in Via XX Settembre, 5/7 sc. sx – 16121 GENOVA end Operations Office in Via Milano 40C/7 sc. B – 16126 GENOVA – Tel. +39 010 2758006 – EMail info@expressgroup.it

In the same way, you can exercise the following rights with respect to the processing in question:

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  • Right to object to processing (Article 21)


If the treatment takes place with the purpose of profiling, marketing, historical, scientific and statistical treatments




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