🌴 The podcast tip no 1 summer 2022 comes with this quote:

”Growing up is fun, but being a grown up is not”

Hm, what is that!? And what the hell does it mean? 🧐
Listen to our CTO Hanna as she speaks up her mind with brilliant smart things in this pod on how to grow and keep the culture. As always, spot on. And yes, she is right. You never have to doubt it! ✨

🎧 link above 👆🏾

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😍 This is Blocket @ Women in Tech 2022!
This is also four out of six from Blocket Tech leadership team. As you see Blocket Tech contains very much of women, (women in hats) 🙌🏼
You might think we were in a photo booth the entire day, but we have actually worked hard handing out lovely and popular Blocket swags. The best part however; we met and talked to so many great, fantastic and lovely people ❤️ And to say there are no women in tech … well join us next year. There where thousands of them here! 🤩

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👋🏽 Meet Aaron; our brand new Chief People&Culture Officer! Four weeks in the Greenhouse already since time flies, but feels really longer.
Aaron, how has it been?
”The moment I stepped in to the office I felt a genuine warmth (literally, as many of you Blocketeers greeted me with a surprise breakfast in our cafeteria). The best welcome one could ask for❣️ Reflecting on what I’m most surprised about is also one of the facts that I appreciate the most - the honest reflections in all the meetings I’ve had so far. This honesty gives me the best possible prerequisite to create change. I’m also blown away by the positive feedback I’ve gotten during my first weeks. ☝🏽 This - the combination of warmth, genuineness, honesty, curiosity and an awsome feedback culture - that’s a pretty good start for a winning culture.

What will you bring to Blocket?
”I will contribute with new and brave perspectives be being myself. I think and hope that my professional background in combination with my life experiences will both inspire and help us find new ways of taking on challenges.”

Well YES! Being the unique you - we love that. Inspired already! 🙌🏼
Welcome to Blocket Aaron, we are super happy to have you in our red but green house. Let’s continue creating magic with people and culture ❤️

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👋🏽 This is Manisha! Two weeks ago she finnished her internship with @jobbspranget . Since then she is now hired as a TA partner! 🥳 Four months of learning way of working in Blocket Talent Acquistion team, four months of speaking swedish non-stop, four months of curiosity and questions that developed us as team. Meet a brave collaborator who has taken responsibility from day one in learning as much as possible - from ways of working, working culture, language to the importance of Friday fika 🧁. We are so impressed by you Manisha and so glad you wanted to join us.
Tell us, how was it? 
”My internship experience was amazing. It was a great oppurtunity to understand the Swedish work culture and environment and to get a job. I feel it's almost impossible to get into Swedish non-IT domain Job market without Jobbsprånget internship programme. Jobbsprånget helped me to extend my networking in Sweden. Also it really helped me to improve my speaking and understanding of Swedish language. I think I would have been still looking for jobs or I might have switch to different career like Teaching or Nursing jobs where it is little easier to get jobs compared to your desired career.
I love the diversity of culture in Blocket and I didn't feel like an outsider. I was given tasks and responsibilities that are on par with a regular employee. I received the great support from my team and my mentor.
As I have been offered a Job after my internship, I will be focusing on building my Career in Swedish Market and enhace my skills in HR domain.”

Super happy to have you onboard for real and thank you for hard work and everything we learn from you. Everyday! 🙏🏻❤️

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❤️ To the children in Sweden, for the children in Ukraine 🇺🇦

To help the the millions of children in danger, being forced to flee, Blocket has teamed-up with Rädda Barnen. We are opening up our platform for companies that are producing or selling children’s clothes, toys, or other children’s articles. During March, we will be providing them the possibility of opening a Blocket store, free of charge, where they can sell children’s articles, with lifted advertisement fees. The sales will be donated fully to Rädda Barnen ❤️

For every Swedish krona donated, Blocket will contribute with the same amount up to 200,000 SEK – meaning one krona becomes two – until the joint goal of 400,000 SEK is reached or throughout March. At the same time, we encourage our Blocketeers to contribute. You are as well very welcome to participate - donation instructions in the link above👆🏼

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🗽 This is Eric. Not the usual kind of Eric, but THE Eric! The Eric you want to have around. This month is his month since he is Blocket’s torch bearer of the month! 🙌🏼 Eric is our own coffee maestro who everyday serves his colleagues amazing barista love in a cup. During the day you hear ”Anyone up for some espresso, macchiato, latte, capuchino, americano? That is Eric 😍. Or you hear ”Eric, I am so tired today”, and Eric replies ”Can I make you a coffee?”. That is Eric ❤️

The motivation:
”This person is a true Blocketeer and the kind of person that solves problems with an impressive speed and brings great ideas to the table. Making sure we move forward in the right direction and a force to be reckoned with during our transition to a next generation marketplace.
This person is also a great colleague, always bringing a smile to the people around him and contributing to the warm fuzzy feeling at the Blocket greenhouse in a great way. To prove my point - who else offers to make the colleagues around them freshly brewed cappuccinos?”

☕️ And do not worry - we do have regular bryggkaffe as well if you prefer it. Or tea. And actually we do have läsk. A fridge full 🥤

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🥳 This is Mattias! The other day he was one of our consultants in one of our cool roles. Then the day after he actually became an employee. We l❤️ve when it happens!
But tell us, what happened Mattias? You came in, was to be replaced and then as the role was out on the career site, you applied. What made you leave the gig-economy?
”One thing I've learnt during my 25 or so years in the digital business space is that if you come across an exciting but difficult business journey, driven by great people with the end customer in mind, make sure that you get onboard. I'm thankful for the opportunity.”

Thanks for the advice Mattias! It is a keeper, and so are you. Super happy you wanted to become an employee in the world’s best company! 🙌🏼💚

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