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02.09.2011 Marina Velikoretskaya, RPA, Partner, General Director, Colliers International FM
How to select people I think, when a person is interested, when it’s apparent that he/she wants to work and possesses knowledge, developing the necessary skills is possible. All people have different personal traits. Someone enters the working rhythm immediately without any problems, while others need to get their bearings first. What’s most important is to see the talented people. Sometimes a person speaks well in the office but slips up at the property. Once we were seeking a head engineer. There were two candidates: one spoke very smoothly during the interview, we liked everything, while the other got confused, searched for words and couldn’t seemingly pull it up. But I decided we still had to watch them both at the property. The first – the one who said all the right things – was unable to demonstrate and explain fundamental things at the property. But the other – the one who broke down during the interview – was in his element at the property, immediately oriented himself at the site and didn’t just give an assessment of the situation, but also suggested several bits of practical advice. At the time, this was kind of a revelation for me. And now I’m absolutely certain that in our business people simply have to be watched at work. It frequently happens that people are able to present themselves well, yet they can’t handle their work. I quickly sense whether or not a person is one of ours. This isn’t just intuition, but also experience – in life and professiom – which helps choosing the right people.
Read in journal CRE Russia #17 (169)
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02.09.2011 The Big Move
In international practice governments have on many occasions undertaken and continue to undertake attempts to relocate government structures from capital cities to other locations. In some cases (like in Brazil or Kazakhstan) entirely new cities were built, while in others only some government agencies were relocated in order to alleviate the city center (Brussels). We asked international and Russian experts to speak about the experience of these large moves and what problems initiatives of this kind may encounter. Read in journal CRE Russia #17 (169)
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02.08.2011 Konstantin Kovalev, Managing Partner of Blackwood
Working through good connectionsI am ready to hire a man on someone else's recommendation, but I always send him to our HR department to test. Many people want to be managers, but in reality they are no more than secretaries. If this or that candidate finally agrees with that, then we continue to work together. We will never hire a well-connected person to just sit and get his salary. We have a commercial firm. Despite the fact that some friends and relatives of friends are our employees, I demand from them the same things as any other employees should do. In case of failure, I fire them. In this case, I tell those people "We are not inclined to torture you, but you should not torture us either."
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01.08.2011 Konstantin Kovalev, Managing Partner of Blackwood
Working through good connectionsI am ready to hire a man on someone else's recommendation, but I always send him to our HR department to test. Many people want to be managers, but in reality they are no more than secretaries. If this or that candidate finally agrees with that, then we continue to work together. We will never hire a well-connected person to just sit and get his salary. We have a commercial firm. Despite the fact that some friends and relatives of friends are our employees, I demand from them the same things as any other employees should do. In case of failure, I fire them. In this case, I tell those people "We are not inclined to torture you, but you should not torture us either."
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04.04.2011 Darren Blanchard: "People don't trust the system of hotel "stars"-grading"
Senior Director Business Development The Rezidor Hotel Group Darren Blanchard is confident that Russia has an opportunity for the development of economy class hotels that meet international standards. Read about it and the aging “star” hotel classification in his interview to a portal CRE.ru.
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03.11.2010 Sergey Kuznetsov: "We provide a ticket of admission to "alien" grounds"
First land auctions organized by RHD Foundation took place a year ago. So far there have been no completed projects, but according to preliminary calculations, construction times will possibly be cut by 11 months, thanks to removal of administrative barriers, as CRE was told by Deputy General Director of RHD Foundation, Sergey Kuznetsov.
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28.09.2010 What do they think the market participants about the resignation of Luzhkov
On Tuesday the market, as well as all capital as a whole, were excited by news about resignation of Jury Luzhkov holding a post of the mayor of Moscow more of 18 years. CRE has collected comments of key players of the market about how this event will affect the real estate market and whether will affect in general.
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30.06.2010 Valentina Stanovova: "Diversification, stability and quality are our main principles"
The year 2010 was when the Capital Group received its just rewards. The Capital Group was recognized to be the "Best Developer in Russia", according to the annual survey of worldwide developers, conducted by Euromoney, while the "Company" magazine awarded the Group the title "Developer of the Year – 2009". In April, at the Commercial Real Estate Awards the Company received the "Golden Brick" for their "Capital City", which was recognized as the best mixed-use complex. In addition, Capital Group was a finalist in the nomination for "Developer of the Year". Valentina Stanovova, senior vice president of the Capital Group told CRE how her development company managed not to freeze any projects, and how the crisis has confirmed the correctness of the principles on which the company keeps building its business.
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26.05.2010 Sergey Kalinin, general director of KR Properties
We assumed that by 2011-2012 market saturation would be achieved, and competition would require companies to fight for customers. The crisis has caused this competition to come earlier than expected.
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11.03.2010 Tomas Dukala: "The market is getting interesting once more"
The Russian economy is starting to show signs of recovery. The growth indicators in some sectors, such as oil and gas, are beating analyst expectations. What impact is this having on the real-estate market? Tomas Dukala, vice-president of Morgan Stanley, fielded these, and other important questions, in a recent interview.
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07.10.2009 Andrey Dovgal: "The future of problematic assets is highly exaggerated"
Today all attention has been focused on the investors. To a very high extent the future market development depends on the decisions that they make. Andrey Dovgal, real estate investments director of the Aton Investments Group told CRE why only few funds today are involved in direct investments and whether or not it is worth buying problematic assets
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28.05.2009 Vyacheslav Semenenko: “The social responsibility today is in outliving this period.”
One of the most prominent representatives of development business, Setl Group’s vice president Vyacheslav Semenenko, stood at the helm of St. Petersburg Construction Committee this spring. His main challenge is to make the city’s construction sector more investor-friendly. He is confident that the city must learn to work both with strategic investors and ordinary market participants. He shared his vision of the industry’s further development in his interview to CRE North-West.
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