EU Business News - Q4 2025 Industrial Manpower Solutions CEO of the Year 2025 (Northern Europe): Victor Chaykin “I have always really enjoyed leading people and bringing them together around a great idea,” Victor begins. “By reading a lot and constantly learning, I involved increasingly educated and experienced people in my activities. By bringing together a professional and experienced team, it is possible to achieve the desired results.” Indeed, at VLAVI, Victor has brought together a 200-strong team which employs welders, installers, and assemblers with technical mindset, in addition to a reserve of more than 1,000 qualified candidates ready to step in as required. All the professionals on the team are certified according to ISO 9606-1 (MIG/MAG/MMA/ TIG), and its welders are qualified in line with EN 1090 and EN ISO 3834-2. Its team members undergo regular training to maintain top industry standards, ensuring high quality, safe work that clients know they can trust. VLAVI provides innovative manpower solutions that allow companies to fully focus on their core business and achieve outstanding results. “In order to increase productivity and ensure the success of our partners’ businesses, our mission is to provide them with high-quality works in time and guarantee the transparency in human resources management,” Victor explains. “VLAVI is a bridge that connects an effective international recruitment process and companies with their needs of professional workers.” The cost of VLAVI services covers workers’ salaries, including taxes, as well as all required certificates and permits. It also enables the company to provide employees with work clothes, safety shoes, welding masks, and consumables, along with travel expenses, company vehicles, accommodation when necessary, and both travel and accident insurance. Clients pay for all of this with one invoice, which significantly saves time, which is especially important for companies that work in the metal welding industry. “My management style is to gather smart, responsible professionals, unite them around a single goal, and give Victor Chaykin is a natural born leader. Ever since the beginning of his career, he has held leadership positions. At university, he was the head of his group, and soon enough, he became a founder and CEO of different companies, before holding various leadership positions at JSC Liepājas Metalurgs. Today, he is the Founder and CEO of VLAVI Group (VLAVI), a professional European welding company striving to be the most reliable partner in the manpower solutions field in Scandinavia and Europe. In light of Victor’s success within the European CEO of the Year Awards 2025, we speak to the man himself to learn more about his leadership style and the success of VLAVI to date. them the opportunity to make decisions independently, make mistakes, and correct their own mistakes.” “We start each project with the detailed investigation of the client’s needs and requirements,” Victor tells us. “To ensure we do it correctly, we have established integral procedures and quality control. Our technical manager visits each project on the first day to make sure we have no unpredicted surprises. Besides that, we have a very special tailormade recruiting process. “This process includes several steps, during which we first focus on a candidate’s soft skills and only then evaluate the hard skills. To ensure the quality, we also do the internal training and continuous skills development.” Underpinning everything VLAVI does are its core values: Responsibility - with a commitment to ensuring that skilled professionals meet clients’ needs; Mobility - providing the necessary specialists within two weeks of signing a contract; Legality - operating in full compliance with the highest standards and local legislation of the labour market; and Partnership - establishing long-term relationships with clients while proactively considering future opportunities. So, where did the VLAVI journey actually begin? Victor tells us that, of course, any business begins with identifying a problem to solve and striving to meet each client’s needs When it is possible to identify a need in the B2B sector, he advises that it is preferable that the market be large and significant. “In our market, there is a blue ocean and an enormous number of opportunities,” he states. “Therefore, by organising a professional team around this idea, it is possible to achieve great heights and build a large company.” He acknowledges that there are many poorly organised companies out there, with all competitors focused on immediate profit, sometimes violating tax laws, rather than thinking about quality and long-term cooperation with their clients. He says, “The main challenge of our business is to organise high-quality management of Company name: VLAVI Group Contact name: Victor Chaykin Email: [email protected] Website: www.vlavi.com
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