Did you know that 90% of job seekers apply for wrong jobs deliberately, yet not knowing doing something wrong. According to research published February 22, 2025 (https://www.apollotechnical.com/cost-of-a-bad-hire/) about 74% end up being hired wrongly, causing tremendous stretch to budgets, according to some research the direct cost is up to 10-20x the salary, and taking huge mental toll on job seekers, the rest of the team, business owners and even recruiters.
Sure, different studies find different financial costs associated with wrong hires. While doing preliminary research for Sparkly.hr as a business with experienced HR expert and HR trainer Ms Keiu Kaitsa, we identified 11 layers of different measurable sources of distress. Our CEO’s interviews with several big corporate CEOs have revealed that some have even company policies that even restrict them to introduce new candidates to existing teams prior assessing that new candidate is 100% fit due to potential emotional distress threat to current team members. Smaller organisations and startups can’t afford such heavy processes, long waiting time and expensive assessments – they need to grow rapidly with right people immediately. And this is exactly what Sparkly.hr strives to achive.
While majority of recruiters rely and depend on CVs mostly, Sparkly.hr believes this is completely wrong approach for several reasons. This approach leaves out high-school graduates, early students and quite often also perfectly capable people at job market – as their actual value is not properly measured or understood.
Sparkly.hr CEO Mikk Orglaan is been presenting a keynote about how current schooling system produces “mediocre and unpassionate” employees and how to overcome this problem that touches directly so many job seekers and business owners. The facts that 90% apply for wrong jobs, and 74% gets hired wrongly speak for itself. It’s the utmost time to do something about it. And here’s where Sparkly.hr can help.
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The keynote has variety of setups, from 7 minute light intro to 45 minute workshops. The longest 1.5 hour workshop was presented during Investeerimisfestival 2025 in July.
Within workshop format the audience can do free or discounted assessments about themselves and few profiles are analysed during the workshop to educate the audience.