HR Strategy
& Policy
Gaining Talent
Working at TEI
We have been keeping working, producing, growing and forging ahead since 1985 in order to build an established aircraft engine industry in Turkey and across the world. Working at TEI, a leading organization in defense and aviation industry in our country, offers you not just the opportunity to have a job, but to become the hero of a journey without boundaries.
As a member of TEI family, you will have the opportunity to participate in manufacturing of hundreds of parts by the cutting-edge technologies, to be a part of various engine assembly and testing activities in several national and international projects and to contribute to the design works with advanced technology. Because we support all of our employees to develop while producing, and to add value to themselves, TEI and eventually to our country, while developing.
In addition to the professional development of our employees, we also care about the development of their social competencies, and offer them the opportunities to be a team member with a high motivation, who is conscientious, environmentally-conscious and has a developed sense of responsibility.
As TEI Human Resources, we are well aware that our employees are our greatest value. Therefore, we aim to provide the best service to our employees with our processes supported by modern human resources tools.
We believe that every dream can become a reality by an effective human resource and that we will mark the sky with every value that joins us.
Recruitment Process
As TEI Human Resources, our aim in recruitment process is to employ the candidates, who fit into the corporate culture and have the competencies required by the positions where human resource is needed, in line with the mission and strategic goals of TEI.
If the educational background, competencies, qualifications and experience expected from candidates match with a position according to the results of the relevant tests and human resources/technical interviews and the recruitment stages are successfully completed, then the candidates are offered with a job to join the TEI Family.
We announce our positions in our company to our candidates through the advertisements we share on TEI Candidate Application System, Kariyer.net and Linkedin.
After all the applications submitted to the job postings are carefully examined by our HR Department, we make phone calls with the candidates who have the desired qualifications and we both convey the requirements of our positions to our candidates and receive information about their resumes from our candidates.
In our recruitment process, we use scientifically developed tests and inventories with proven validity and reliability. We perform tests aiming to measure technical knowledge, foreign language level and personality traits of our candidates whose applications are considered suitable after the phone interview, and we use the results of these tests as evaluation criteria in our recruitment process.
As a result of the relevant exams and tests, we try to get to know our candidates who have knowledge and experience regarding the needs of the position by organizing human resources and technical department interviews, and we evaluate the coincidence of the education, competence, qualification and experience expected from them depending on the position.
We offer job to our competent employees who have successfully completed their recruitment steps to join to TEI Family and send them a letter of offer with salary and other benefit information.
We keep our candidate applications that are not suitable for the relevant position in our candidate database to evaluate them in future positions.
Exploring Talent
Performance System and Premium Application
Every year, corporate objective scorecard and the goals of senior management are determined in line with the strategic development plan of the company. Performance goals are broken down by the senior management starting from one-level down going down the line to lower levels. Goal and competency-based performance assessment system is used at TEI, which is integrated into SAP system. The goals of each employee are determined with the manager at the beginning of the year and entered on the system by the employee. Employees who start working at the first half of the relevant year are included in the performance assessment system for the year. At the end of the year, the figures on goal achievement are entered into the system by the employee, and the goal achievement score of the employee is determined by the system. The competencies are evaluated on the basis of titles, and measured at 3 levels. Depending on the competency rating of our employees, individual training and career plans are provided.
Career Development System
The major purpose of the Career Development System, which is implemented at TEI and involves all personnel (Engineers, Specialists, Technicians), is to offer our employees a career opportunity that will enable them to take themselves to higher levels based on mainly their performance and potential. Established for this purpose, the Career Development System shows the possible roadmaps starting from the very first days of recruitment by integrating the employees into their career maps.
Internal Posting Processes
At TEI, in addition to external recruitment for both technical and administrative positions, internal posting is also available for vacant positions. In case of any internal posting, the requirements and criteria of the position are specified. Our employees, who apply to internal posting, can also be subjected to some other tests in accordance with the requirements of the position and personal inventory, and interviewed. At the end of the assessment, our employees, whose applications are found eligible, are transferred to new departments or positions.
Preparing Talent for the Future
Development programs, where both the competencies and technical development of our employees are taken into consideration and the results of performance assessment serve as input and which aim continuous development, are executed.
Title-Based Personal Development Training Catalog
Every year, "Title-Based Personal Development Training Catalog" is created in accordance with the competencies expected from our employees on title-basis, and is planned to be achieved by the support of professionals.
Personal Development Trainings and various Technical Trainings are assigned to our employees as e-learning sessions throughout the year through TEI Academy, TEI's information, development and training portal. Our employees may select from the training catalog, open for general participation, and receive the training courses as they prefer.
Leadership Development Center
It is a comprehensive development program aiming to lead our business and human resources in the most efficient manner, raise leaders who keep our values alive, increase the intra-organizational cooperation, create a joint leadership culture and help the executive succession by raising new leaders, in line with the vision and strategies of our company.
Competency Management
There are 4 core competencies for all positions at TEI. Also expected competencies, level of these competencies and behavioral indicators are defined for each title by taking into consideration the business families and role structure. For this purpose, relevant competency sets are used in selection & placement, performance assessment, training planning and various processes.
Retaining the Talent
Employee Satisfaction Survey
In order to keep its qualified, open for improvement workforce which were gained from global markets that change rapidly where competition increases every passing day; and to ensure sustainable commercial and financial success, TEI aims to maintain employee engagement and satisfaction at the highest level. In accordance with this aim, TEI was granted with the "Employee Engagement Award" in 2017 in the Best Employers awards organized by AON Hewitt. Our company has maintained its upward trend in employee engagement and satisfaction also in 2018, taken the engagement and satisfaction score to an even higher level and been granted with the “Employee Engagement Special Success Award".
Employee Awards
TEI has a category of “Employee Awards” where employees can reward each other. Employees can nominate their colleagues for awards in predetermined categories through the forms they fill out during the year. Committees consisting entirely of volunteers evaluate the forms at the end of the year and determine the employees who deserve to be awarded. Employee awards are given to the owners at a ceremony held at the end of the year.
Opportunities Offered to Employees
Private Health Insurance service is offered for the spouses and children of each of our employees. Events such as Women's Day, TEI Summer Sports School, Traditional TEI Picnic and Traditional Iftar Dinner are organized for all personnel and their families throughout the year.
In addition, group tours to historical and touristic places of our country are organized at certain periods of the year.
At TEI premises in Eskisehir, there is a guest house with a capacity of 32 beds, restaurant, café, billiard hall and gyms in addition to playgrounds, 4 open ground tennis courts, volleyball and basketball courts, football fields and 68 lodging units.
There is a fitness center, an activity area (dart-table tennis-billiard) and a cafeteria in Social Facility and Dining Hall Building.
There are picnic areas, walking tracks and outdoor sports area with equipment on our green areas.
Our Employees
Our employees are valuable to us.
TEI is aware of the fact that we can achieve our targets by taking solid steps forward in the years to come with a conscientious, reliable, productive, responsible and creative workforce. We encourage our employees to generate works that make a difference with our working conditions that create satisfaction.
TEI employees create value not only for our company but also for the communities and environment they live in. They volunteer in cultural, education, sports and social responsibility projects, making contributions for development of our country as a whole starting from Eskisehir. TEI employees take part in activities that develop the entire environment starting from TEI premises.