An SME is defined as a Small or Medium Enterprise business, traditionally with less than 50 employees. It could be said that an SME can be a business that is responsible for striving innovation and essential elements in many economic sectors as stimulating innovation and job creation; especially in Myanmar as a large majority of the workforce work for a business traditionally labelled as an SME.

The Myanmar Employer Awards (powered by JobNet.com.mm) announced the 2019 Winner in Best SME of the Year as ThitsaWorks! A big congratulations for their amazing dedication and hardworking team. The MEA committee is also honoured to recognize SME of the year finalist companies for 2019 who shared their visions towards raising the bar in innovating & implementing effective HR best practices in Myanmar, which is the ultimate goal and core value of this platform. Kudos goes to Codigo Group, Karzo (formerly Kargo), RJE Myanmar Limited and WinCom Solutions company for their strong showing at MEA.

Who Should Participate?

Thinking about entering your SME into the Myanmar Employer Awards 2020 competition? Entering the MEA program takes minimal time and dedication from your team compared to the exponential boost that comes in employer brand awareness, team morale, and visibility among the Best of the Best in Myanmar. Being nominated a winner or finalist Best SME is sure to attract top JobSeekers to your company as staff can be inspired to work for companies that are continuously delivering impressive results, in addition to the accolade providing months of positive PR through the MEA platform.

An MEA trophy can be used to boost in building employees self-confidence in their projects and in their team, attract talent and support business growth, as well as showing credibility in excellence and innovation success factors regardless of the size of the business.

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What is the Best SME in Myanmar Employer Awards?

The Myanmar Employer Awards Best SME helps to measure the businesses which have less than 50 full-time employees which also works to establish the most forward-thinking HR strategies for the development of recruitment and talent management execution in their company. Ther is a huge advantage to be had for a small business which implements improvements on their people strategy and can tell the story of how their business has been able to overcome HR challenges. This success story could be told in any number of ways, for example: in how a company is retaining employees by giving them a chance to learn new skills, recruiting talent by offering unique benefits, or the flexibility of work structure at their organization most conducive to employees.

Winning and being named as a finalist is the best way to show how small businesses and start-ups can use the best HR strategies to take their business operations to the next level. No matter how big or small your business is, companies still are evaluated by incoming talent, and the Myanmar Employer Awards recognizes those SMEs who do a great job to attract and retain their employees. The MEA platform allows for companies to share their story and gain public attention and recognition for the advancements they make in employee satisfaction in their business culture and working environment as well as progressive policies in recruitment and talent management, career advancement and professional development schemes. Winning an MEA award and being mentioned as a finalist is a tool for building a company’s reputation and trust by showing the commitment of that brand working to achieve their HR goals. Furthermore, participants can gain advantages in enhancing brand recognition and profile as well as PR value among the elite companies in the Myanmar economy.

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We are sure that the Myanmar Employer Awards 2020 will be another golden year of elevating new standards in capabilities of the HR community and encouraging employers big and small alike to continuously engage in creative and proactive efforts to improve their people management practices.

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