An employment agency can help you with your job search in The Netherlands. You can also find these agencies under the name recruitment agency or job agency.
Employment agencies often specialize in a specific audience. The below agencies all have jobs for internationals in The Netherlands:
Randstad Multilingual Recruitment
Randstad Multilingual offers a variety of jobs for multilingual jobseekers. Most commonly, the employers who work with Randstad look for employees who speak fluent English in combination with German, French, Spanish, Italian or a Nordic language. On a less regular basis, they have positions for English-only speakers, or other European bilingual talents.
Undutchables recruitment agency helps starters and executives advance their career in The Netherlands. Undutchables helps people that are fluent in languages other than Dutch.
Adams Multilingual Recruitment
Adams Multilingual Recruitment helps you on your journey to employment. They help multilingual candidates find roles in a wide range of areas, including sales, marketing and PR, customer service, logistics and supply chain, secretarial and financial, IT, admin, and HR.
Page Personnel is a professional recruitment consultancy specialising in the recruitment of temporary, temporary-to-permanent, and permanent positions for SMEs and multinationals in diverse sectors. They have offices in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and Tilburg.
Michael Page is part of the same group as Page Personnel, The PageGroup. The employment agency specializes in permanent recruitment, temporary staffing and interim management.
Blue Lynx
Blue Lynx specializes in international recruitment and contracting in the Netherlands. They partner with global clients, including international organisations, MSPs, Fortune 500+ companies, charities and NGOs. Blue Lynx has offices in The Hague and Amsterdam.
Orange Quarter focusses on jobs in tech and product. They have jobs for internationals in the cities Amsterdam, Berlin, Barcelona and London.
Huxley is a well known recruitment agency in The Netherlands. The company is founded in London, but opened it’s first office in The Netherlands in 2002. They have offices in Amsterdam and Eindhoven.
How to work with employment agencies?
Getting in touch with employment agencies and looking at job sites can be a great start of your job search in The Netherlands.
It can give you an overview of the market landscape and it might give you an impression of your chances of landing a job in The Netherlands.
You can contact one or multiple employment agencies listed above, based on your own preferences and professional background.
Be prepared to answer questions about the role you’re looking for and your own professional experience.
Next, they will inform you if they have jobs available and start the search for you.
Make sure you have an updated resume when you start approaching employment agencies.
Here’s a video from my online course where I tell you how to best work with recruitment agencies:
What if I can't find work through an employment agency?
Agencies are focused on filling jobs as fast as possible. They get paid when they hire someone at a company. This works great if you have the right experience and they happen to have a suiting job for you.
But what if you don’t know how to interview? If you don’t have the right resume? Lack the relevant experience?
There’s little to no room for people that don’t have the right resume or experience yet. It’s also harder to find a job through an employment agency if you’re not based in The Netherlands or need Visa sponsorship.
If you’re looking to really upskill your job search, improve your resume, cover letter, interviewing or negotiating skills then the way to go is a 1:1 career coach.