Taking care of your recruitment

Our approach to recruitment comes from a slightly different perspective: as a partner. We believe that a sustainable and productive recruitment process starts with a shared understanding and communication between our client company and us.

We offer personalized services with expertise across a wide range of industries. Our consultants serve clients anywhere in the Nordics.

Get to know our consultants

Operaria is a group of entrepreneurs and recruitment experts who have had careers in various industries. Alongside our recruitment work, we are sparrers, data analysts, and creative content creators. Knowledge-hungry people striving for self-growth. Mothers and fathers. And Sailors. Our strength lies in being human-oriented. Our interviews with professionals seeking new opportunities are in-depth and consist of discussions about personality, skills, uncertainties, plans, and dreams. Their aim is not only to fill one open position but, more comprehensively, to establish a fruitful and viable relationship. How we work with experts helps develop your company’s positive employer brand.
Operaria is specialized in recruitment and headhunting for the Nordic market. In recent years we have placed experts in companies in Denmark and Sweden, among others.

Operaria Markus
Markus Fabricius

Phone: +358 400 603 327
Email: [email protected]
Connect with Markus on LinkedIn!

Operaria’s owner Markus is a highly experienced professional in sales, marketing, and demanding customer service.

During his career, he has worked in the shipping industry management, as a board member, and a CEO in the media industry. He has also been involved in several international startup projects. During his studies and early career, Markus worked as a freight forwarder and even as a garbage truck driver; so far, this is the only time having a truck driver’s license has been of use!

Markus is an experienced human resources manager and service design developer for whom continuous self-development has always been a natural part of his career. He completed his Executive MBA studies in 2007 and since then has completed yearly courses in personnel assessment methods typical of the human resources industry to continuously develop his skills.

Harri Tuomela

Phone: +358 40 5490192
Email: [email protected]
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Harri comes from the heavyweight division of industry and is an experienced leader also in the field of subcontracting that serves industry.

Harri, who worked as an owner and manager in the SME sector, has a background in logistics and production management, among other things.

In his career, Harri has worked in international research and development projects, in management team and board positions, and managed demanding international project business, where customers are large international process industry companies.

Harri’s background provides a good starting point for serving his customers in the comprehensive development of the company’s business. Recruiting personnel for key positions is a central part of this whole. Harri is also an experienced manager of people and shift work himself, and is therefore able to relate to the diverse recruitment concerns of his clients.

In his free time, Harri enjoys various forms of exercise. Running and gym are part of the normal weekly rhythm, and in the summer, golf sweeps away this “Northern boy”. Harri is interested in always acquiring new skills. He still has basic skills from karate that he used to practice, and his self-made violin from construction hobby.

Jussi Tuisku

english

Phone: +358 50 314 3500
Email: [email protected]
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As an executive search consultant, Jussi is driven by one core motivation above all else: finding the right people for the right roles – in a way that genuinely advances the client’s business.

His strong background in general management, international assignments and demanding turnaround situations enables him to quickly understand what an organization truly needs, both now and in the future.

Jussi has extensive experience in building teams and recruiting leaders across a wide range of industries, including retail, recycling and circular economy, technical building services and facility management, export-driven businesses, steel trading and steel construction, as well as shopping centers, real estate development and property-related businesses. His expertise also covers key roles within sales and marketing, partner searches, and international recruitment projects, particularly in Ukraine and Estonia.

For Jussi, executive search is a trust-based partnership. Success is measured not by filled positions alone, but by smooth day-to-day operations and sustainable, long-term results.

Outside of work, Jussi values family, nature and an active lifestyle. Traveling holds a special place in his life – with Spain being especially close to his heart as he spent his childhood there. A culture and language he is always happy to return to.

Nadiia Senkevych

english

Phone: +358 50 476 59 70
Email: [email protected]
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Nadiia has a strong grasp of what attracting talent requires in the competitive labour market. At the focus of her work is inspecting an organization’s demand to find the best possible matches for the most sustainable outcome.

Nadiia has extensive experience of HR personnel processes, operational efficiency, onboarding, HR-administration, and HRIS. She has built her career in a variety of roles within international IT companies and medical supplies distributors -– and has thoroughly enjoyed it all. Through recruitment and direct search, she has concretely played large part in turning a Ukrainian startup of 5 people into a nationally recognized, mid-sized 120-persons company.

Nadiia likes cycling, hiking in parks and forests, and swimming on weekends. She also enjoys reading books, traveling and cooking, meeting new people, learning new things, and developing new skills.

Marcus von Schantz

Phone: +358 40 750 4866
Email: [email protected]
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Marcus is an experienced finance manager, tax expert and SME manager, who has been responsible for diverse financial matters in international and domestic organizations in his career.

He has been closely involved in the launch and development phases of startup companies, as well as in the localization of the business operations of larger international companies to the Finnish market. Multidisciplinary and multicultural change processes and their management are among Marcus’s core strengths.

Marcus worked for twenty years as an entrepreneur in a medium-sized accounting firm that offered comprehensive financial management services. Marcus, who calls himself a mixed business worker, not only has a strong educational and experience background in corporate law and accounting, but also a deep understanding of, among other things, the personnel processes of SMEs. Recruitment and various personnel strategies have been part of Marcus’ job description for 25 years.

In his free time, Marcus enjoys boating, sports and traveling. Marcus, who lives in archipelago of Espoo with his wife, teenage son and his cat always spends part of the year in Hanko and under the Spanish sun.

stefan forsberg
Stefan Forsberg

svenska english

Phone: +46 708 177 584
Email: [email protected]
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Endurance is his word of honor. He always goes the extra mile to attract the top talent for his clients, and he looks under every stone. Stefan gained his comprehensive knowledge from executive and operational roles within Nordic and international companies. He has a broad network of global contacts and has completed several international stints.

Paul Olson

 english

Puhelin: +47 482 20378
Sähköposti: [email protected]
Verkostoidu Paulin kanssa!

Paul has extensive experience from international leadership and management roles, including global teams.

A professional headhunter with a Doctor’s Degree in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy. He uses his international experience to help business leaders create successful organizational change and accelerate leadership development. Paul is our anchor when it comes to evaluate personalities and to identify leading edge talents.

leif törnblad
Leif Törnblad

svenska english

Phone: +45 40 30 418 98
Email: leif@törnblad.dk
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Leif’s academic background is an MSc in Economics and Politics from the University of Copenhagen.

After a successful career with international and Nordic companies at the executive level, he went into executive search and management consulting. Leif has particularly excellent knowledge of working with Danish/Swedish companies in the Öresund area. Leif has a good sense of matching the right candidate for the right job and does it effectively.

Lisbet Steen

 english

Phone: +45 20 34 33 22
Email: [email protected]
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Lisbeth is driven by a clear focus on supporting business strategy, strengthening leadership and developing organizations in ways that contribute directly to the bottom line.

She believes that even small, well-targeted initiatives can create significant value – as long as the right priorities are chosen and progress is made measurable.

Through roles in strong, value-driven companies, Lisbeth has built solid experience in HR and leadership development. Having worked in organizations with a full value chain, she brings a holistic understanding of how strategy, leadership and day-to-day operations connect – from executive decision-making to the operational engine room.

Lisbeth is passionate about leading and driving transformations that strengthen culture, structure and results simultaneously. As a certified executive coach, she applies a coaching-based approach in leadership development, executive search assignments, sparring and the resolution of complex HR challenges.

As a person, Lisbeth is curious, results-oriented and highly committed. Her direct and down-to-earth approach, combined with a strong belief in matching the right talent with the right responsibilities, forms the foundation for sustainable, long-term impact.

The basis for collaboration is that we understand your industry

”Our customers often ask what we know about their industry. It’s an important question as a client’s business and its development always form the basis for any recruitment in a profit-oriented company.”
–  Juha Aaltonen

To select the ideal candidate for our customers, we need to dive deep into their company’s story, business operations, organizational culture, and future goals. It helps that we speak the same language as our clients. By this, we don’t mean language in its traditional sense, although our services are available in Finnish, Swedish, and English. What we are referring to is our industry-specific expertise, which as a common starting point helps us understand one another when we discuss your needs and prospects. Just some of the fields we represent are managament, wholesale and retail, manufacturing, and the tech industry.

Learn more about our recruitment process

Join our team

We strive for growth and are always looking for colleagues and partners to join us! Become a recruitment consultant in our multidisciplinary and location-independent recruitment firm.

If you have already established a career in your industry and feel you have a vision and a desire to help professionals and companies in your field, keep reading. Do you understand what growth, competitiveness, and success in your industry require? Are you entrepreneurial and ambitious in entering lasting partnerships, whether it be a new employment relationship or a business partnership? You may have built a network during your career and see in it the potential to create your own customer relationships. You see the challenges ahead as opportunities to experience something new and show your grit. For you, sales, above all, is about listening to the customer and providing workable solutions. However, you also have the ambition and perseverance to acquire leads and build your own sales funnels. Failure doesn’t discourage you but makes you try twice as hard the next time.

If you identified yourself in the previous description, we want to get to know you. Here’s your chance to either jump on the entrepreneurship bandwagon or design your career within recruitment. With us, you will not be alone. You will have a supportive work community, comprehensive onboarding, familiarization with our recruitment systems, and protection of your customer data. We will provide marketing support, and, if necessary, resources to expand your area of expertise, and service offering. We are a fair employer and partner, which is also reflected in our remuneration model. When you work as an entrepreneur under the Operaria umbrella, you always keep 75% of the amount you invoice.

You don’t have to fit in a specific predetermined mold. However, we hope you share our values ​​and have a people-oriented, empathetic service attitude. Each of us has at one time or another applied for a job, so we understand the massive impact job search has in everyday life. That’s why the job seeker is always at the core of our recruitment process. Perhaps during your career, you have also been responsible for managing projects, leading a team, and gained experience managing staff and competencies. Your experiences will help you position yourself as a recruitment business decision-maker or a job-seeking expert, so you can identify with the emotional states associated with situations of change.

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Seeking a solution for your recruitment challenge?

We can help. We respond to contact requests via email or with a short 10-minute phone call.
Let’s figure out what kind of strengthening your team or recruitment process would benefit from.

Contact directly

Markus Fabricius
0400 603327
[email protected]

Jussi Tuisku
+358 50 314 3500
[email protected]

Harri Tuomela
+358 40 5490192
[email protected]