Company Performance Metrics
- Eija Kiviranta: Co-founder, CEO - Chief Enabling Officer
At WorkPilots, we started in 2016 as a source of short-term tasks for young people in need of their first job experiences. Our first task-offering clients were mostly public sector and non-profit organisations in Finland. With them, our common aim was to help the young be empowered and able to start their path to work. Our role was to provide an
easy-to-use mobile solution where a) the young could access fast potential tasks and b) we make it efficient to manage by taking care of all transactions and related responsibilities, reliably and se-curely. Later our focus was expanded to other target groups too who need support, such as disabled with various disabilities, refugees, immigrants etc. We call these people ‘untapped potential’, meaning they could be of great potential for organisations (e.g. looking for on-demand help or future talents) but so far there has not been easy solutions to tap into this potential. Our social innovation is a ‘missing piece’ between building readiness (training/education) and finding a suitable job (e.g. sustainable employment/entrepreneurship). There is a big gap between these two and with our model and platform matches happen!
On the business side, we have worked with innovative and diversity-oriented organisations helping them to manage their growing and diverse extended workforce – including those new motivated untapped potential talents who can help your permanent staff whenever needed.
Over the years, our mission has evolved to include a broader concept of the rapidly changing and inclusive working life. The models we first used with young people have been utilized to bring benefits for many other groups in need of help (with finding their path to work) e.g. marginalized or disadvantaged. We help to create a new path to work starting from the first short term occasional tasks to better work opportunities leading to improved employment, social inclusion, sustainable earning and suitable work.
Today, our solution has evolved into a customer-branded SaaS mobile platform offering the same reliability and ease of use as before in matching the right people with the right tasks.
