You are currently browsing the tag archive for the ‘Gordon Lokenberg’ tag.
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 
Doesn’t that sound like a great start of 2012?!
From my new desk here at Sonos in Hilversum I wish you all the best.
Backbase has been named to the Visionary Quadrant in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals, 2011. According to Gartner, “Visionaries in this year’s Magic Quadrant demonstrate a firm grasp of emerging customer needs and the potential impact of new technology.
That is what I like about Backbase, they create new things, being innovative.
At Backbase I am currently recruiting, and one of my extra’s is that I will bring new ways of bringing candidates into the company. New as in, they didn’t do that before. But if it works, get us on there as well.
As the company is visionary, there are open minded too. They do listen when you have a good story.
Well you all know my passion about mobile… And I do support all to be done to get the word out there, “yes, people do use mobile for finding a new job!”
Our current approach with the use of Maddle (Dutch Mobile Advertising Company with focus on Recruiting): is creating vacancies for mobile, we called them maddles.
To get attention offline, we also created QR codes, for the overview page and for the jobs we got in there.
This QR code, to start our Mobile adventure, we placed in our social media profiles as an avatar, you know, Linkedin, Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter.
Further more we will start the rumble in the groups and communities we think are interested in our jobs. This approach is about advertising using Social and Mobile to reach out. We like to explore the way to move forward.
When you have managed to scan the qr codes you’ll see our set up of the mobile jobs advertisements, powered by Maddle.. And yes we made applying for the jobs easy. Oops, where are the share buttons??? Well, find it out and let me know when you’ve found them.
If you don’t have a QR reader than just type maddle.nl/backbase in your mobile browser.
That’s it for today!
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…
