Meet our team and book an appointment to discuss how we can help you with recruitment or strengthening your employer brand. We have teams in both Tampere and Helsinki, but we are happy to meet you wherever you are.
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Jere Wahlman, Clients & Sales
Mobile: 040 222 7378
Email: jere.wahlman@choicehr.fi
Helping clients to find the best solutions
Jere is an experienced customer service, sales, and recruitment expert who has been working in the HR and recruitment field for ten years. You can contact Jere when you need professional help with recruitment or direct search in case of successful growth or adjusting your own organisation. We help you to define essential competences, suitable skills, culture fit or/and culture add, and to ensure that your employer brand image attracts the right talents!
Päivi Lehtonen, CEO (Clients & Sales)
Mobile: 044 328 82 00
Email: paivi.lehtonen@choicehr.fi
Workplace developer & CEO
Päivi is an experienced business professional with extensive experience in entrepreneurship, employment, and recruitment. She has worked in marketing and sales promotion as well as human resources and employee experience for over 18 years.
Päivi is passionate about business-oriented personnel acquisition, recruitment, and engagement. She is also a trained personnel assessor, workplace community developer (Community Pedagogy, AMK), and solution-focused brief therapist.
Outi Ahorinta, Talents & Clients Executive
Mobile: 050 541 3182
Email: outi.ahorinta@choicehr.fi
Recruiting and direct search / HR Consulting
Outi is an experienced recruiter and direct search professional who receives positive feedback from both candidates and clients. She believes in cooperation, with a focus on bringing the client and candidate together. Important themes for Outi are the candidate experience and a search process that meets the client's needs. Outi is a true master of hybrid recruitment which combines efficient job advertising and direct search.
Outi has completed over 1,000 recruitments for the industrial and technical sectors, FMCG, IT, sales and customer service, and engineering roles. In addition, she has worked as an interim HR manager and recruitment consultant in the IT sector.
Hanna Korpela, Chief Operating Officer / EX
Mobile: 050 546 81 33
Email: hanna.korpela@choicehr.fi
Employee Experience and Employer Branding
Hanna is an Employee Experience and project management professional with extensive experience in service business and operational management. She has also recruited for the sales and marketing sector and been responsible for staff training and development. Hanna's background is in commercial encounters, meaning promotions, events, experiential marketing, and related production management. Finding, engaging, and motivating skilled personnel also plays an important role in these tasks, as they are the brand's calling card!
Petra Tiirikainen, Revenue Growth & Marketing Lead
Petra is a human resources, marketing, and sales professional with over 10 years of experience. For Petra, strengthening the employer brand through openness and authenticity is key, as a true picture of the culture and work environment stands out and attracts the right people. It is important to her to ensure that the entire talent path within the organization—from marketing to recruitment and engagement—supports sustainable business and long-term growth
Teemu Myöhänen - Media producer and videographer / photographer
Creative concepts
Teemu is an entrepreneur and producer in the media industry, originally from Finland's Savo! His professional mission is to help leaders, experts, and professionals find the courage to be visible and interact in their own voice, in a way that suits them and in a style that supports their employer's brand. Teemu has extensive experience in video filming, photography, podcast and videocast recordings, and music production!
Aleksandra Garutti, Chief Commercial Officer
Recruiting and Direct Search
Aleksandra is an experienced recruitment professional and manager who has worked for many years in human resources, both in a growth company and in an established international giant. She has carried out hundreds of recruitments, direct searches, and hybrid searches—not least in the IT/ICT sector! Aleksandra is a respected and accomplished colleague who teaches you something new every day.
On parental leave! <3
Johanna Varjonen, Career Coach & HR professional (freelancer)
Johanna has years of experience in personnel assessment, human resources management, and skills development, and she has also worked as a vocational teacher and trainer. She is an expert in responsibility work, having supported an international listed company and led competence development and management in line with strategy. Johanna has also been awarded for her diversity work project at the Recruitment Gala. She specializes in strengthening employer image and has experience in developing the employer image of both a Swedish furniture giant and a technology company. Johanna's services include coaching, career coaching, and personnel assessment, which she offers in Finnish, Swedish, and English.
Jussi Lehtonen, BM, Direct search consultant
Jussi is an experienced finance and banking expert who has worked in both retail banking and corporate banking. Jussi has over 20 years of experience in the industry, ranging from entry-level positions in international organizations to demanding management and development roles. Jussi is also responsible for business development and business controlling.
Tero Ylönen, Chair of the Board
Tero has been an entrepreneur and business developer for over 15 years. Prior to that, he held demanding development and management positions in electronic financial management services, accounting, and reporting. Tero has also had an extensive career in marketing and advertising across Europe.
Wilma Vilen, Talent Attraction
Talent Attraction and Recruiting
Wilma is a professional in recruitment, direct search, and employee experience, and has been nominated several times for Recruiter of the Year at the Recruitment Gala. Wilma knows what it takes to create a positive applicant experience and coaches our clients in this important work. Wilma has carried out numerous recruitments in the banking and insurance sectors, technology and industry, and commercial and sales roles at both expert and management level. She consistently receives very high candidate experience scores!
On parental leave <3