OREANDA-NEWS. On 01 July 2008 was announced, that Amway company had been recognized as the best employer of Russia in 2008. Award "Best Employers of Russia" was introduced for the first time this year, based on the results of the 5th annual Moscow recruitment market research, under support of "Personnel Management" magazine. Over 1200 leading Moscow companies  - market leaders took part in the research to assess recruitment agencies. In their turn, recruitment agencies evaluated working practices of employers and nominated several best companies. Stability and predictability of company’s social policy, abidance by the Labor Code of the RF, which is especially important for the socially responsible company, abidance by moral and ethical standards, competitive wages, etc were major criteria for the nomination.

"What makes our company especially appealing for candidatures? I think that, first of all, it is the opportunities, that we provide for personal and professional growth of our employees", - said Marina Rudkovskaya, Head of the HR Department of OOO Amway. – "The Company has been dynamically growing on the Russian market, we have new positions, new lines of activity, new projects, responsibilities of already existing positions are also changing.  For a relatively short period of Amway operation in Russia, a lot of our employees have been promoted to leading specialists or heads of groups and even departments. Our Company has young, talented, enthusiastic specialists, for whom we organize various corporate events – from various trainings to Football Championships among 27 Amway European affiliates, Family Day for all employees and their families and many other events", - Marina added.

At present there are over 600 people working in the Russian affiliate of Amway (13 000 in the world). Each year the Company launches several Business Support Centers in Russian regions, therefore, the number of new jobs as well as possibilities of promotion for Company’s employees are growing.  In 2007 the number of positions in OOO Amway grew by 75%.