Opportunity Day – Göteborg

Inclusive businesses
have a 36% higher chance
to beat their competitors.

Diversity, equality and inclusion should be a natural and integral part of every modern organisation's strategy. Since 2016, Opportunity Day has been inspiring and facilitating employers to recruit with greater diversity and to build more inclusive organisations.

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Companies that work on diversity and inclusion are 36% more likely to perform better than companies in the same industry.
(Source: McKinsey & Co)

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High perspective density leads to 10% higher innovation rate.

(Source: The Social Few)

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Swedes with a foreign background have more than SEK 200 billion in purchasing power in the retail sector.
(Source: hui)

Update!

Registration for this year's seminar programme at Opportunity Day Gothenburg on 21 October is now official! We will be joined by Katarina Berg (Spotify), Hosni Teque-Omeriat (Eniro) and many more.

Find out more and book your place today!

About Opportunity Day

We create arenas where employers and job seekers can connect. Our focus is on advocacy, providing employers with skills development, knowledge, and strategies to effectively advance inclusion and diversity within their organizations.

Services for employers

Opportunity Day equips both private and public sector employers with the knowledge and tools needed to effectively advance diversity and inclusion. Our services help your organization integrate inclusion as a fundamental aspect of your business strategy and recruitment process, while also committing to fostering a more inclusive labour market.

Opportunity Community

The Opportunity Community is a springboard for employers seeking knowledge, strategies, and new connections to effectively secure their skills supply. Join us to enhance your business through greater diversity and inclusion.

Recruitment services

Our services help you as an employer to increase the diversity of your organisation and find skills that may be difficult to reach through traditional channels. Participate in events or organise tailor-made recruitment meetings.

Become a partner

As an Opportunity Day partner, you contribute to a safer, more inclusive and more competitive city. Through this partnership, you will be recognised in our communications, have the opportunity to participate in events and host Opportunity Community meetings.

Here's what some of our partners say

"We at Clarion Hotel Post choose with pride and joy to get involved in Opportunity Day! We work daily with strong values around diversity and inclusion and are convinced that our workplace is open to everyone. In order for both us and other companies in the hospitality industry to continue to grow, we must challenge traditional recruitment processes to find new talent. Opportunity Day offers us an opportunity to find our future colleagues, and we hope that our participation can inspire other companies to do the same.”
Anders Sköld, CEO Clarion Hotel Post

"Länsförsäkringar Göteborg och Bohuslän is proud of its partnership with Opportunity Day. Our commitment extends beyond insurance and banking services. As a customer-owned company, we have a dedicated sustainability programme in which we actively take responsibility for giving back to the communities where our customers and owners live. Therefore, it is a matter of course for us to be part of the efforts to promote diversity and inclusion in the labour market in our region. We are convinced that diversity is an asset that strengthens us as an organisation, fosters creative thinking and leads to more successful outcomes. We believe that by working together with other stakeholders, we can make the best use of the skills available in our local area and contribute to an inclusive and diverse labour market in the long term"
Lydia Skarrie, HR Business Partner, Länsförsäkringar Göteborg and Bohuslän

"Länsförsäkringar Göteborg och Bohuslän is proud of its partnership with Opportunity Day. Our commitment extends beyond insurance and banking services. As a customer-owned company, we have a dedicated sustainability programme in which we actively take responsibility for giving back to the communities where our customers and owners live. Therefore, it is a matter of course for us to be part of the efforts to promote diversity and inclusion in the labour market in our region. We are convinced that diversity is an asset that strengthens us as an organisation, fosters creative thinking and leads to more successful outcomes. We believe that by working together with other stakeholders, we can make the best use of the skills available in our local area and contribute to an inclusive and diverse labour market in the long term"
Lisa Bragée, Sustainability Manager, Länsförsäkringar Göteborg and Bohuslän

At Knowit, we have for many years carried out equality work, which has led to our being a significantly more equal and inclusive workplace in terms of gender. We are still proud of the results we have managed to achieve, which were particularly noticed when we received the award "the stock exchange's most equal company" in 2019. Today, the focus is on taking the next step and also ensuring greater diversity linked to ethnicity, background, age, etc. We are sure that in this way we both create better solutions for our customers and contribute to a better society in general. Today, we support several initiatives that work with these issues and are happy to contribute to Opportunity Day's work."
/Per Wallentin, CEO Knowit AB

"My experience as a recruiter is that differences contribute to more perspectives in a work group. More perspectives lead to success and increased profitability. So if you want to increase the profitability of your company, you should definitely invest in diversity. I want more companies to realize this and dare to hire people with a different background, which is why I choose to become a partner to Opportunity Day. I myself have also worked as a volunteer with job matching at an event and met so many competent people. Opportunity Day fulfills an important function and has created a fantastic meeting place for employers to find new talented employees.”
/Marie Bubach, CEO, Select Executive Search

"Sweden is in great need of labor in most areas. We also know that there is great potential in all those people of foreign origin who, for various reasons, do not reach the labor market. At the same time, we know that a job is perhaps the most important factor for seriously entering Swedish society, being able to contribute and feeling needed. Opportunity Day is a context where this hidden resource is made visible and given the opportunity to meet potential employers and get a real job. We at Ekan Management are partners with OD because we know that the model works and has been successful for many years."
Christopher Mathiasson – CEO, Ekan Management

"People coming to work, and employers realizing the potential in diversity, are two critical building blocks for increased integration in Sweden. We can only solve this social challenge together, and it is therefore gratifying to see all the positive power that several actors create together through Opportunity Day. Alkompis is proud to be able to contribute to this important initiative"
Julia Agha, Alkompi's CEO

"Right now, there are many organizations that experience a lack of skills and difficulties in recruiting, while at the same time we have groups of people who are outside the labor market and whose skills are not being used. We can't have it like that. Working more effectively with inclusion is a natural part of the solution to the challenge of skills supply. As an effect, we will get more well-functioning organizations but also a more prosperous society in general! Within Sweden's HR Association, we want to take a stand for an inclusive labor market where we can make full use of all people's skills and therefore support Opportunity Day."
Mimi Cromberger, Chairman of the board, Sweden's HR Association West

"In Nordic Choice we have over 170 nationalities. Think about it: 170! There are only 195 free states in the entire world. So if a guest comes from almost anywhere in the world, there is someone in the hotel who speaks their language. (…) Opportunity is, for me, precisely about this: to give someone an opportunity and to see those who came as a fantastic resource in our company.”
Petter Stordalen – Nordic Choice Hotels

Despite the economic situation, there are still many companies that want to recruit. It is an insane waste of resources that we then have competent people in Sweden who do not enter the labor market or do not work with the skills they have. We need to create occasions where these worlds can meet.
Rudolph Anthony, Rregional manager, Swedish Business Administration

"We take care of our neighbourhoods and the tenants who live with us. We want them to do well. That's why we work with relationship management and focus on jobs, schools, meaningful leisure and security. Through our partnership with Opportunity Day, we can help ensure that those tenants who are currently outside the labour market have the opportunity to find work. Together we can make a difference."

Agneta Kores – CEO Stena Fastigheter Gothenburg

"Everyone is needed in the construction industry and we need more of us! As we build a sustainable society for all, we also need builders with different backgrounds and skills. This enriches our workplaces with creativity and well-being, and creates attractiveness and innovation. Diversity is important!"
Maria Strömberg, Regional Director of Construction Companies in the West.

"Provision of expertise is one of the absolute biggest challenges for us in the municipalities, perhaps the biggest. This at the same time as there is a great deal of competence that we do not take advantage of, partly because of our way of recruiting. It goes without saying for us in Härryda municipality to both be a partner to Opportunity Day and to participate with a booth in the job matching."
/Pia Alhäll, Municipal director, Härryda Municipality