Grow the company

After two years working in the recruitment of engineers, and a short sales experience in the consulting industry, I have been approached by one of the current Business Managers of the Lille entity. The context of my future mission was clear: there was no office in Lille! Therefore, I had to start from scratch, together with two Business Managers, and build the Lille entity. The challenge of quickly developing my skills, the mindset and the promise of career development within the Positive Thinking Company (which actually turned out to be real), were enough to convince me. So I joined this international consulting group in September 2018 in Lille, as the first Recruiter.

As expected, I took the responsibility of developing this new entity after only a few weeks. I then started to work with the Parisian management and I acquired skills in operations as an agency manager. After demonstrating my abilities in just a few months, I evolved as Human Resources Manager and strengthened my team with a Junior Recruiter.

A lot has happened since I joined the Positive Thinking Company! We’ve grown up, mastered challenges, and now I feel that I’ve developed a real emotional attachment to our Lille office. I would say it’s a bit like our “baby”! It’s both a personal and collaborative success. We have experienced significant growth right from the start, structured the entity to ensure its development over time and developed a strong mindset.

The three things that come to mind when I think of the Positive Thinking Company are:
Challenge: that’s basically what I’ve been through! I was offered a big challenge right from the start, that’s what I experience every day and what helps me grow.
Evolution & training: you have the opportunity to evolve very quickly, which is not the case in every company. The management is confident and supports you towards success. We are lucky to be constantly evolving both professionally and technically, especially thanks to the training programs offered.
Team spirit: and I have a slogan that perfectly represents our experience in Lille: “Alone we go faster, together we go further”. I’m part of a team where cohesion is above all, it’s a chance!

At the end of my engineering degree, I completed my studies with a master’s degree in management to develop a joint technical and sales competence. I then decided to join the Positive Thinking Company as a Business Manager in Geneva, a hybrid position at the intersection of technology and business, highly challenging and formative. Assuming responsibility very quickly, constantly evolving and being versatile were exactly what I was looking for in this position! After being recruited as a V.I.E. (French contract) in the first place, I am now fully part of the group sales teams, and I felt integrated since the day I joined the group.

My job is versatile and consists of “classic” sales missions (such as developing a client portfolio, prospecting, building client loyalty, supporting clients towards new solutions), as well as team management. My role is above all to align and coordinate the teams to respond to a customer challenge. The success I am the proudest of: having established a first significant partnership with a start-up from a major Swiss university incubator. This start-up is developing a revolutionary “low-code” software development platform, and it is thanks to the expertise and flexibility of the Positive Thinking Company that we have been able to support them in their growth on the Swiss market.

Today I work on different technological domains, with a particular focus on the Data & Analytics expertise. The Positive Thinking Company gives me the opportunity to choose the industries and companies that I am interested in, with which I would like to collaborate. Within the ecosystem, I have the chance to exchange a lot with the different entities, at an international level, especially with France & Germany around the Data expertise.

If I had to summarize the Positive Thinking Company in three words, I would say: Intrapreneurship, we are given the chance and freedom to do things; Evolution, a mindset that is shared at both co-workers and company levels; Teambuilding, both successes and failures are shared, which strengthens team spirit.

I started my adventure at the Positive Thinking Company as a V.I.E. (French contract) on November 2, 2010 (which doesn’t make me any younger!): it was initially a twelve-month contract, and I’m still here today, ten years later! I had initially been recruited at the Brussels entity as a Business Manager, and I was finally offered a great challenge: to participate in the creation of the Luxembourg entity and to launch the activity with one of the founders of the group. We built the entity from scratch, our team of consultants started to grow, and we recruited HR, back office and sales functions to continue the adventure and keep growing.

These ten years have been marked by challenges, evolution and growth: I have always had a new step to take in my career. After my first two years, I moved on to a position of Business Unit Manager, managing a sales team; in 2016, I was given the responsibility of managing the Luxembourg entity; in 2018, a new challenge with the launch of the World of Digits brand (part of the Positive Thinking Company ecosystem) in Luxembourg. I would say that there are no limits within the Positive Thinking Company! The company has supported me in the development of my skills each time I have taken on new responsibilities. My career has evolved as the entity has grown, which is why I am very attached to the Positive Thinking Company.

To sum up the Positive Thinking Company in three words: Challenge, as demonstrated by my own experience; Collaboration, since nothing I have undertaken would have been possible without the support of my teams; Friendship, because Luxembourg is a bit like a “family”, we are lucky to be able to forge links beyond the working environment (and that’s a chance!).

When the Corporate Recruitment team contacted me, I went through the entire website: I immediately loved it. The website was inspiring, I felt that there was a good atmosphere within the teams, the environment seemed stimulating, and also a dog was a Happiness Officer at the time, it was enough to convince me! This first impression was confirmed during the various discussions with the teams, and I chose to join the Positive Thinking Company in August 2018, to start a two-year V.I.E. (French contract) as a Business Support Officer in Brussels.

I had worked in Human Resources before, but I never worked in personnel administration. It was a great opportunity to discover a new aspect of this department. The environment within the Positive Thinking Company enabled me to learn a lot: I had a good knowledge base, but I quickly developed skills in Belgian law and regulations. Being naturally voluntary and proactive, I very quickly gained in responsibility and autonomy. Being a Business Support Officer means managing the daily integration of employees and their administrative follow-up, as well as being a central point of reference for all their questions.

During my first year as a V.I.E., the management trusted me and offered me a permanent contract (my first one!). Since then, I have had the chance to train a colleague (very rewarding by the way!). Despite all preconceived ideas, I never stay behind my screen for long! What I appreciate the most is the interaction with all the employees, the help and support I can give them on a daily basis.

If I had to sum up the Positive Thinking Company in three words, I would say:
Positive, because everyone supports each other event in difficult times and pulls each other up. Collaboration, because there is a lot of cohesion between departments, the hierarchy is flat and everyone is accessible. And Solution-oriented, because when faced with problems and emergencies, the whole team helps each other to find a solution “we will make it! ».