Recruitment Agencies in the Netherlands

[ribble]

Hi,

Can any body give me the names of some recruitment agencies in the Netherlands? And before anybody say Google has already been my friend.... just does anybody have a recommendations?

Dan

[Mich the Tester]

MBA have a lot of the jobs at ING and ABN Amro, but that market's a bit feeble right now.

http://www.mbanl.com/

Corso usually have quite a few jobs, but they're just middlemen; however, I've found them trustworthy and they don't take a huge margin. www.corso.nl

Try www.freelance.nl too. You'll have to make an account (free).

www.headfirst.nl and www.between.nl are both preferred suppliers to some of the big clientcos.

Best of luck.

[ribble]

Thanks for that Mich,

I gather your out the at the moment from a previous post.... are you a dutch speaker.. how receptive generally are the dutch to English speaking roles? I'm currently working my way through my Michael Thomas dutch CD though....

Dan

[pzz76077]

Thanks for that Mich,

I gather your out the at the moment from a previous post.... are you a dutch speaker.. how receptive generally are the dutch to English speaking roles? I'm currently working my way through my Michael Thomas dutch CD though....

Dan

Lived in NL for 4 years in the past, never had a problem with not speaking Dutch...

PZZ

[AlfredJPruffock]

Thanks for that Mich,

I gather your out the at the moment from a previous post.... are you a dutch speaker.. how receptive generally are the dutch to English speaking roles? I'm currently working my way through my Michael Thomas dutch CD though....

Dan

The more Dutch you try to speak with your Dutch colleuges the more they will reply in English - then when you stop speaking Dutch after about a year they will complain - why dont you speak Dutch.

But you have to undertand that complaining is central to Dutch culture.

Mind you - Im fluent in German - so I can alway retaliate with that.

[Mich the Tester]

Thanks for that Mich,

I gather your out the at the moment from a previous post.... are you a dutch speaker.. how receptive generally are the dutch to English speaking roles? I'm currently working my way through my Michael Thomas dutch CD though....

Dan

In good times there are plenty of roles for English speakers in NL, but right now a lot less; lots of Dutch contractors are looking for work, and of course the big insultancies like Crap Gemini and Logicack have sacked thousands of people who are now offering themselves at knock down rates. However if you're very specialised you might get in in the Amsterdam, Den Haag or Rotterdam areas; obviously, try to learn something of the language before you come; it'll always help.

[Mich the Tester]

The more Dutch you try to speak with your Dutch colleuges the more they will reply in English - then when you stop speaking Dutch after about a year they will complain - why dont you speak Dutch.

But you have to undertand that complaining is central to Dutch culture.

Mind you - Im fluent in German - so I can alway retaliate with that.

moaning, whingeing, blaming other people and dodging responsibility while claiming to be the best thing since sliced bread are central to the culture of the West of the Netherlands; get out to the north east or south east and you'll find people to be much less arrogant and generally much more competent; that's why the A1 motorway that leads from the east to Amsterdam is packed full from east to west on monday mornings and from west to east on friday evenings; a lot of businesses in the west like to employ hard working people from the east, and the people from the east chase the well paid jobs in the west. Of course, the logic of moving head office to a much cheaper and less crowded part of the country with lots of highly educated and motivated people escapes the elite clique of old school tie geniusses that run large Dutch businesses.

[padinka]

Try...

YER (http://www.yer.nl/) - Richard van 't Schip

SOURCE (http://www.source.nl/) - Janaiki Arwanitidis

Had good experience with both - as agencies and also recently as suppliers.

Be careful though, most of the UK agencies have branches here, complete with their usual 'service' levels & huge margins. Avoid unless you have no other choice...

Padinka

[Fred Bloggs]

moaning, whingeing, blaming other people and dodging responsibility while claiming to be the best thing since sliced bread are central to the culture of the West of the Netherlands.

Isn't that true! They also always need to be in charge, take all the credit and call upon the British guys when there's-

Overtime to be worked or
Nightshifts or
Anything remotely risky to be done or
Involves possibly taking any responsibility or
Getting hands dirty- That's what Turks are for

Apart from that, working there's a pleasure. As a staff guy I worked in Holland a lot. As a contractor, I find the market pretty much sewn up by established hard core expat community.

I avoid Holland now.

[ribble]

In good times there are plenty of roles for English speakers in NL, but right now a lot less; lots of Dutch contractors are looking for work, and of course the big insultancies like Crap Gemini and Logicack have sacked thousands of people who are now offering themselves at knock down rates. However if you're very specialised you might get in in the Amsterdam, Den Haag or Rotterdam areas; obviously, try to learn something of the language before you come; it'll always help.

So I guess I'm going to find it quite hard then? My field is Microsoft SQL Server/BI Stack which is not exactly niche....

Dan