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International recruitment,
Since 1999 I am recruiting, my first international recruiting experience was when someone came in our office, when I worked at Manpower.. The guy was an American working in Dubai… Well this guy got in and asked me if I had a job for him in Amsterdam. I asked him why Amsterdam, he answered: My girlfriend is Romanian, and Dubai is to far away from Romania for having a LAT affair, I like to live closer by.
I set up an interview for him at a company around the corner in Amsterdam. This interview was with a hiring manager, who was based in the UK. So it was a video based interview….. Yes this story goes all the way back to February 1999 and yes this guy got the job.
Today, Recruiters United organized a seminar in The Hague, the city where the Dutch Parliament is based. Topic of today: International Recruitment.
Recruiting global is something to discuss.
There was an interesting presentation of International Baccalaureate, a company who has just relocated to offices into one, from Switzerland and Ireland to The Hague. Only 30% of there original staff was willing to make the move to the Netherlands… What about that number?!
Recruiting international seems with the current technologies, like Social Media and the access to Google and local, foreign databases, quite an easy job. But please do keep in mind, people must like the idea to leave their roots and the adventure to move.
The figures during the presentation from the Expat Center show us that Indians and US people are the ones that really like the idea of working in the Netherlands.
The figures from Intelligence Group gave us the reason why they like to move.
Seminars like these give you always some food for thought, and interesting insights on Global Talent Acquisition
The reason I went? I recruit from all the continents since 1999. I simply like it. You will always be able to find people that fit your Dutch OR English OR German OR French OR US or whatever culture wherever you dig.
A culture always consists of people… People always have there own. The one that fits your business.
What about hiring in another language?
Relo is just about getting the right people, who want to move forward in their lives, whether it is in love, career, economic situation, or self-being, what does your company stand for? The rest is paperwork….
Vonq, thank you by the way for sponsoring this event 
mRecruitingcamp 2011 from Elevate Creations on Vimeo.
If not, let me know if you like to hear more about Mobile recruiting, or simply just stay tuned…
I am still happy with the fact I went into recruiting, all the fun stuff you may think about… Get involved with… and so on…
Well as of today I am into publishing as well: Magazines, posters, logo’s whatever. As of today I am able to add stuff to the worlds hilarious laughter, but also to the worlds most serious items. … Okay, here it we go,
It’s again all about augmented reality and how this adds value to the recruiting community.
This screencapture I got with one of the latest cool Augmented Reality tools out there #Stiktu, still in beta. But I got the privilege to test it, yay!
You want to see/hear/talk more about this, come and visit mRecruitingcamp too!
Let’s see how we can bring this into the Recruiting space! check out the Stiktu blog in the meanwhile.
Enclosed the full recording of my first webinar for www.ERE.net, sponsored by The Ladders
It was well attended by over a 100 people from several parts of the world.
Presenting on what kind of mobile technologies could be useful for mobile recruiting and questions like how to do proper metrics on mobile recruiting and what keywords to use in creating mobile recruiting apps, I think we have discussed a lot.
If you missed it, check it out: Think Web, Act Mobile
In 1915, a Scots town planner has been the one that pronounced the famous words Think Global, Act Local.
He couldn’t have known that that would be the famous line for every CEO in the years after.
“Think web Act mobile“
Is the title of the webinar on June 8th 2011, 2.00 PM ET,
(20.00hrs Amsterdam Time)
In this webinar Gordon Lokenberg will present you his thoughts on Think web, Act mobile: recruiting in the new era
- What is mobile recruiting
- How can we use mobile technology
- But I still don’t have a smartphone
- How to integrate mobile recruiting
- What is currently the mobile future for our company
Join this free Webinar about Mobile Recruitment, sponsored by The Ladders
