Catalyst Solutions

Catalyst Solutions is a full-service company with 15 years of experience in recruitment, talent attraction and employer branding.

Catalyst Solutions manages Hipo.ro, a career website focused on young professionals, students and graduates, but also online projects and career events: Angajatori de TOP, DevTalks, DevHacks, DevCon, DevAfterWork, Internship&Trainee Marathon, Top Talents Romania, Finance Recruitment Day, NextGen, Virtual Fair for Graduates, Career Guide, Angajatori de TOP Virtual and The Most Desired Employers Survey.

We have the privilege of working with some of the most well-known top companies in the world: IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Deloitte, EY Romania, HP Inc, Ursus Breweries, Hilti, Unilever, P&G, Coca-Cola HBC, L'Oreal.

Joining us, you will have the chance to work in a professional enviroment, with a young and passionate team in: Sales, Employer Branding&HR, Digital Marketing, PR&Social media, Project management and Finance.

Find out more about our openings and join us today!

HiPo.ro is a career website focused on young professionals, students and graduates. The career portal represents the area where the best employees and the best employers find their perfect matches. Hipo.ro offers your company the opportunity to access optimal online career search tools which reveal the best qualified candidates.

With 14 years of tradition, Angajatori de TOP is No.1 career fair in Romania. It’s a one or two-days career fair, which takes place yearly on a national scale.
The career fair offers you a great opportunity to connect with a large pool of candidates in a short amount of time and helps your company raise awareness and create a strong employer brand among passive and active candidates. Angajatori de TOP brings together each year over 250 of the biggest employers and 35 000+ candidates, in Bucharest, Timisoara, Constanta, Ploiesti, Craiova and Pitesti.
In Bucharest and Timisoara editions, preselected candidates attend over 60 conferences and workshops, which allow your company to connect with the right audience (Bright students, Engineers, IT&C Enthusiasts, Foreign Languages). For IT&C candidates we organize a series of technical conferences and laboratories: TechTalks

DevTalks, designed as a two days event, DevTalks is the largest IT conference for the developers’ community and gives you many opportunities to network, learn and explore topics approached by local and international guru developers that will shape our future on IoT, AI, Robotics, DevOps, Web & Mobile, Project Management and Java.
The main purpose of DevTalks is to contribute to the development of the Romanian IT community by encouraging innovative projects, supporting diversity and the involvement of women in technology.

The gadgets that will make the experience a lot more fun, the IT companies that will create great experiences at their booth, the tech startups that will pitch on the Stages, are just a part of how DevTalks looks like! The event takes place in Cluj and
Bucharest.

DevHacks is a 24h hackathon that focuses on the intersection of the technology and society. Our mission is to bring together a

diverse range of perspectives, from young IT professionals to seniors, from developers to designers and to ignite the flow of ideas between different participants.
Since 2015, our focus is to gather our forces to develop smart ideas for a better society. So, last year our teams have developed applications that help companies to delegate better the tasks or help hypermarkets to provide better services for the customers though the delivery and security service.

Our goal is to empower people through technology to solve problems and face day by day challenges. Developers, designers, freelancers, entrepreneurs and students are invited to code, have fun, and bring their ideas to life in 24hours. Top mentors from the IT&C industry will be part of the DevHacks’ experience and will help the teams with their feedback throughout the competition. Moreover, the participants will get the chance to code for leading tech companies in Romania.

DevCon is a premium event designed around an umbrella concept, delivering a series of one-theme focused, stand-alone

conferences that put in the spotlight the hottest trends & technologies of the moment for the local IT community in Bucharest. Inspired by the DevTalks Romania network, DevCon represents a new approach designed as a technical masterclass for the IT professionals with dedicated days of in-depth talks and hands-on presentations on 4 different topics: AI & Machine Learning, Security, QA & Testing, and Java.

For 3 days, we want to bring again back to you the most desired technologies discussed throughout the year with more technical talks and networking where you can meet top-notch local and international speakers from all around the world and important companies and key leaders from the IT industry.

DevAfterWork is a key event for the IT&C Community where participants have in-depth talks with local or international top specialists, get new insights and give voice to their personal ideas about the current topics from the IT field.

Tailored as an after-work context with a 3 hours Agenda, the DevAfterWork events encourage inter-personal connections and sharing ideas in a relaxed environment. The main purpose is to create a strong community that will inspire the future of the tech industry. With every event, we are gathering up to 100 IT professionals in the following areas: DevOps, Telecom, Java, Web, UX, Cloud, Mobile and much more.

NextGen - Finance Recruitment Day is one day event dedicated exclusively to finance, accounting, and banking students. We are waiting for 150 best students and fresh graduates to interact with companies interested in developing their professional and personal skills or recruiting them. The event has a very dynamic agenda that includes conferences, networking, interactive workshops and speed interviews.

NextGen - Students&Fresh Grads, is a national career event in Bucharest designed to connect students and fresh graduates with top employers. The project’s purpose is to offer a mix of activities that will help participants’ career growth, but also to facilitate networking between employers and active candidates. A one-day event with most active students and graduates with Business and Technical background motivated to continuously learn and invest in their personal and professional development.
The event features a dynamic and flexible agenda that includes Conferences, Master Classes, All Day Speed Interviews Session and All Day Networking Area

NextGen - Internship&Trainee Marathon, part of the platform NextGen, is the largest national online project designed to promote internship & trainee programs towards students and fresh graduates from major universities. For 32 weeks (from February to June and September to December) we gather a series of attractive internship, trainee, management trainee programs and entry-level jobs.

Career Guide is a publication prepared to inform students and promote career opportunities. It is distributed twice a year, in 20.000 copies in printed version and 30.000 copies in online version. The Guide has 2 different main topics: Internship & Trainee Guide distributed in spring and The Technical Employer’s Guide, distributed in autumn.
Virtual Career Fair for Graduates is a national innovative event that takes place on a 3D virtual platform, hosted by Hipo.ro between June – August. It is dedicated to students and fresh graduates that are looking for career opportunities.

The Most Desired Employers Survey is the most complex instrument that assesses the perception and expectations of

professionals, graduates and students and provides an objective measure of the attractiveness of your employer brand in this pool. The information contained in the reports is structured on 4 dimensions:

Employment Behavior: wanted industries & jobs, professional objectives, factors of choosing an employer;
Employer Perception: first choices, perception on which companies are providing the best salary/ training/ atmosphere;
Compensation & Benefits: benefits package
Communication Channels: used preferred and trusted information sources.

Since 2007 Top Talents is the largest student competition in Romania. Over 1800 of the best students and fresh graduates compete in a though selection process for a place in the final. The selection process includes motivation, CV scoring for international experience, extracurricular activities, academic results and Cut-e numerical and verbal ability tests. At the and 250 students are selected from a pool of over 1800 top applicants.

Virtual Career Fair for Graduates is a national innovative event that takes place on a 3D virtual platform, hosted by Hipo.ro between June – August. It is dedicated to students and fresh graduates that are looking for career opportunities.

Over 30 top companies will attend the event and will promote more than 300 jobs and internships for graduates. The event will offer the perfect guidance through the recruitment & selection process and enables live interaction with the targeted candidates through webinars and live chat.

We work together, we have fun together!

We enjoy every project!