Recruiting Essentials is a consulting/business service that helps companies finding talent and enhancing recruiting practices, leveraging social media for recruitment and developing social recruiting strategies.

Recruiting Essentials provides expertise on online recruitment and employer branding: social recruiting strategy, candidate relationship management, recruiting SEO (search engine optimization), recruiting analytics, search & talent sourcing techniques, social media and community recruiting, e-recruitment, internet recruitment, interim recruitment.

Focus on recruiting consultancy, talent sourcing and recruiting assignments, interim recruitment, as wel as training and presenting on social media for recruitment.

Other activities: Track Leading Great Recruiting at Bill Boorman’s TRUDublin (December 2011) HR Tech Europe 2011 - Member of the international Blog Squad (November 2011) Session Speaker Google+ Hangouts for Recruiting at the Social Recruiting Conference of Recruiters United (September 2011); Track Leading Google+ Hangouts for Recruiting at Bill Boorman’s TRULondon (September 2011); Track Leading Social Branding and Every Picture Tells a Story at Bill Boorman’s TRURomania (August 2011); Track Leading Every Picture Tells a Story at Bill Boorman’s TRULeeds - about photography and video for Recruitment and Employer Branding (June 2011); Track Leading Every Picture tells a Story at Bill Boorman’s TRUDublin - about photography and video for Recruitment and Employer Branding (May 2011); Track Leading Personal Branding Track at Bill Boorman’s TRUAmsterdam (April 2011); Track Leading Facing up to Facebook Track at Bill Boorman’s TRUStockholm - about Facebook for Recruitment and Employer Branding (March 2011); Track Leading the Employee Branded Track at Bill Boorman’s TRUAmsterdam (November 2010).

Following the success of previous TRU Events in London, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Dublin, Manchester, Leeds, Bucharest, Boston, San Fransisco and Paris since the start of TRU in November 2009, TruEurope is the first truly European Recruiting Unconference to be organized in Brussels on Thursday April 19th and Friday, April 20th, 2012.

Visit http://www.trueurope.eu for more information and tickets.

Corporate Recruiter (interim) for Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch Railways). Recruiting activities for a wide range of positions for NS Holding and the divisions NS Reizigers, NS Hispeed, NS Poort and NedTrain: Spokespersons, Manager Media, Base Marketeer, (Senior) Product Manager, Business Research Analyst, Corporate Lawyer, Senior Auditor, Configuration Manager, Quality Engineer, Quality Manager, SQA Engineer, Project Engineers, Senior Engineers, Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers, Maintenance Engineers, Senior Manufacturing Engineers, Senior Projectmanager, Regional Accountmanager, Technical Managers, Senior Assetmanager, Property Manager, Senior Administrator, Team Lead SSC. Also involved in recruiting en selecting graduates for the NS Talent Challenge, the trainee program of NS.

Providing recruiting activities for Rabobank International’s business areas of Bijzonder Beheer Rabobank Groep, Global Special Asset Management, Trade & Commodity Finance, International Services, E-distribution Wholesale.

Rabobank International – the wholesale banking and international rural and retail banking divisions of Rabobank Group – has about 14,500 employees (in FTEs) including the foreign subsidiaries.

Besides regional activities, Rabobank International has divisions that are directed globally. These include Global Financial Markets, Structured Finance, Leveraged Finance, Direct Banking, Telecom Media & Internet and Trade & Commodity Finance.

Recruiting Essentials provided recruiting expertise for the Business Services division at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek. De Brauw is a premium full-service international law firm with offices in Amsterdam, London, New York and Beijing.

Recruiting activities for positions in Finance, IT, legal support staff. Successfully reduced the reliance of agency usage. Introduced direct sourcing and social recruiting practices.

Initiated online recruitment, e-recruitment, internet recruitment and use of social media; Initiated using search engine optimization (SEO) techniques for recruitment; Strengthened the single point of contact position of recruitment (both internal and external); Optimized using the applicant tracking system; Optimized using external CV databases to find talent; Improved delivering of management information and measurable results; Improved using web analytics to measure the result of recruitment campaigns; Reduced dependence on recruiting agencies; Initiated policies for internal applications; Laid foundation for candidate pools for future vacancies; Delivered the 2009 recruitment plan.

Recruiting Essentials provided recruiting expertise for the Infrastructure Projects division of ProRail - the Dutch railway infrastructure manager. Recruiting activities for positions in Projectmanagement (engineering, IT and support staff), Systems Engineering, Planning & Control, Land Acquisition and Legal Affairs, Procurement, Cost Management, Purchasing. Succesfully filled 290 highly specialized requisitions through direct sourcing and referrals, without any hiring fees paid to agencies.

Managed the overall recruitment process for the business division Infrastructure Projects; Delivered the 2007 and 2008 recruitment plan; Initiated using social media for recruitment; Initiated using search engine optimization (SEO) techniques for recruitment; Increased using referral and boomerang recruitment both online and offline; Intensified talent search using external CV databases; Initiated talent pools; Increased campus recruiting activities; Improved employer branding activities; Developed recruiting campaigns aimed at hard-to-fill vacancies; Prepared developing of career paths (employability) for hard-to-fill vacancies; Contributed to a new employer branding campaign, including briefing and co-selecting agency; Reduced dependence on recruiting agencies and reduced agency costs; Reduced time-to-hire significantly; Trained hiring managers in candidate interviews; Improved delivering of management information and measurable results.

Recruiting Essentials provided international corporate recruiting activities for Rabobank International, part of Rabobank Group - among the world’s fifteen largest financial institutions and awarded with the highest credit rating (Triple A). Recruiting activities include vacancies within Corporate Finance, International Retail, Global Financial Markets, IT Software and Development, IT & Infrastructure, Corporates Operations & Services, Global Market Risk, Global Credit Risk Management, Modelling & Research and Global HR Wholesale.

Delivered the 2007 recruitment plan; Contributed to the Talent Management knowledge group; Contributed to developing new recruitment processes; Contributed to the ATS vendor selection; Took part in the Rabobank Group Business Course 2006 selection committee.

Recruiting HR professionals/recruiters for profit, non-profit and government organizations and providing consulting activities regarding HR, recruitment, vendor management, coaching, training & development, outsourcing and outplacement.

Recruiting highly skilled specialists in Marketing, Data Analysis, Market Analysis, Marketing/Business Intelligence, Multichannel Communication and Internet for (Dialog)AMI and its clients.

Recruiting agency specialized in recruiting professionals in Marketing, Sales and Communications.

Travelled across Brazil, Argentine, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.

Providing market analysis for the fixed network client groups (business lines consumers, business clients and major & corporate accounts).

After returning from travelling across China, Southeast Asia an Australia I was asked by Randstad Interim Kader to return to the company in order to set up co-ordination of all recruiting activities performed by five labels of Randstad Services Group for their key account United Pan-Europe Communications (UPC). This project included recruiting experienced candidates for UPC and recruiting professionals in Marketing Management, Product Management, Account Management and Sales Management for other organizations in the Telecom, Media and IT sector.

Travelled across China, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Australia.

Recruiting law school graduates for the Department of Justice/Immigration Office (project); Market research for the Legal Affairs business unit; Market research for major accounts KPN; Marketing services including direct marketing activities; Market research and business planning to set up succession planning activities in the Small Business area, a cooperation between Randstad Interim Kader and a subsidiary of ING Holding.