C AREER AND EDUCATION
M OE makes it possible We want to support all our colleagues in their journey, regardless of their career intentions. Here, four employees tell the story of their unique career paths and their experiences with MOE as employer.
Jens Kastvig Business Manager Fire Safety Engineering Copenhagen
Elena Pérez-Rebollo Project Director MOE Tetraplan Copenhagen
Fire safety certifications
A MOE manager
In 2012, Jens Kastvig began working in MOE as our first full-time fire safety consultant. A business area that in 2020 became its own business unit. Additionally, Jens was the first fire safety consultant in MOE to be certified. An experience he has subsequently used to guide several other colleagues through the process of certification.
Elena Pérez-Rebollo works with city and traffic planning. She started working in MOE a little more than 10 years ago, and since then she has gone from being a design engineer to project manager to project director. Before she became a project director, she participated in our intense, one-year educational programme, as part of MOE Management Talents.
I offer my help to others, who wish to be certified in the hope that I can support them and make the process feel more safe. A certification is something that is connected to a fair share of prestige and, similarly, it might be a bit of a defeat, should you not succeed. It has been important to me that no one feels unnecessary pressure or nervousness. It should be a safe process.
We live in a result-oriented society with increased focus on career advancement. However, MOE Management Talents also focused on personal growth and the ability to define your own needs and desires for career development. In more ways than one, it was a personal journey that led us to locate our own motivation. Consequently, not everyone will leave the course determined to eventually possess a top management position.
In MOE, we also contribute to the certification system itself. As members of the steering committee, we help form the new certification system and write the rules, while we help prepare new guides for timber constructions. Together, we work to expand our knowledge both nationally and internationally for example through collaborations with Artelia. There is a big demand for our consultancy services and I dare predict that within three to five years, we will have grown to 150 employees.
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As a company, our primary resource is people. Thus, it is necessary for us to be good at working with and understanding people. The management course provided me with some useful tools to meet different personality types and to better handle different professional challenges. Moreover, I learned valuable lessons regarding motivational management.
