“We are looking for 40 new Talents” announces a colorful sign that a growing company set up outside Sony Mobile’s main entrance in Lund.
– It took just one hour from the announcement arrived at Sony Mobile to a company set up such flags, says Mats Ekstrand, CEO of Mobile Heights – an umbrella organization for telecom companies located next door to the mobile giant in Lund.
Sony Mobile has it tough in the tough competition in the mobile market. At the beginning of the week came news that about a thousand people given in Lund. Two days later, gave notice Ericsson 2200 of its employees in Sweden. The latter is not entirely unexpected, since Ericsson wants expertise switch when going from telecom hardware to digital services and software.
bad news for staff. But in Lund is no more reason to be depressed, believes Mats Ekstrand. Mobile Heights, which runs projects and supports research, moved into the premises six months ago. Since then, several companies, both small and great, come here and more may be going on.
– I have been contacted by international companies who wish to meet with me to see if there is an opportunity to establish themselves here or somehow attract people from Lund, he said.
– The wave of mobile telephony goes down. Next vague – Internet of things – will be on the other giant. It will require people.
In another part of house sits Fredrik Hedlund, who is president of Sigma Connectivity. The company was already expressed when it started hands on 185 of the mobile-savvy engineers who risked losing jobs at the last cutback at Sony Mobile. Today the company has 60 clients and it is the Internet of things, solutions that make it possible to connect gadgets online, which mainly applies.
– We have managed to use this expertise and experience for to help and connect to companies in the aerospace industry, in consumer electronics, in the security sector, in transport and logistics, explains Fredrik Hedlund.
TT: Are you going to hire more alerted engineers from Sony?
– We are hiring and looking for skills all the time.
In the corridor opposite sits civil engineer Daniel Ragnarsson. He has voluntarily left the Sony Mobile, and now works at Spiideo which produces an app that makes it possible for athletes to film themselves.
– It was time for me to do something new and exciting in a small company .
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