Why work at Ekspress Grupp?
An important success criterion for a media organisation is its people. We operate in a sector where success clearly depends on its employees and their satisfaction. In line with the development of the field of media, we strive to provide more modern conditions and opportunities to our employees so that they can create the best journalism. Our quality work helps contribute to building a better society. We have great authority and responsibility that we need to use wisely.
Today, we employ almost 1100 people in three Baltic States. Since our wish is that the consumers of our media would be all people living in our home markets in all their diversity and differences, our staff must also be diversified.
We wish that each one of them would be proud of their work and development, and would know that all the activities of Ekspress Grupp would make the world a more open and better place.
We wish to provide development opportunities for our employees, a creative and challenging environment; flexibility; modern opportunities promoting work in order to create the best journalism. For employee development, we organise both internal and external training courses, allow participation in conferences, international journalist training programmes and study trips to international media groups. We wish to learn from the best and thus, our employees have visited largest media companies in Scandinavia, Great Britain and elsewhere in Europe.
For enhancing career prospects of Ekspress Group, Hans H. Luik scholarship, targeted at acquiring new work-related specific skills, is becoming more popular.
Independent journalism is the foundation of democracy and therefore we consider it important that our employees would be independent and free in their work. The people working on the front line of journalism – journalists – account for ca 60% of the Group’s employees, the rest work in support functions. They include designers, IT-people, editors, business development, marketing, advertising sales, distribution, finance and human resources departments, customer service, etc.
We all make our best to provide quality and independent journalism to everyone at any time.