Together Abroad had a chat recently with Rene Ahuja of Rexus Consulting Ltd.
Rene is currently the Director of Rexus Consulting Ltd. He has over 15 years’ worth of experience in the Information Technology Sector and his company is focused on career transformation and they support to individuals of varying backgrounds and competencies who will like to explore a career in Information technology.
Please see below excerpts from our conversation:
• Hello René, welcome and thank you for taking the time to speak with us. Can you tell our Audience about Rexus consulting and how your company can help them manage and progress their careers?
Rexus consulting is highly involved in career transformation. We focus on leveraging our candidates existing skillsets and mapping them to a suitable path within the information technology world.
Within the remit of information technology, there are many roles that exist. Roles such as Business development, Sales, Marketing and Legal. Rexus consulting is able to map existing skill sets that may be a particular strength to our candidate and utilise them where they could be most useful in the Information Technology industry.
We do this through a unique set of steps which we call The Six Step Program. This program is for candidates who would like to progress their careers. It is also useful for candidates who are dissatisfied with their in their current career and may require a whole change of career.
Through the six step, we are able to offer a fast track option to achieve their desired goal of career change or career progression.
• Do your candidates have to have a background in IT or can you work with individuals from other functions?
We can work with any candidate regardless of their background. The unique element about what we do is that we take any candidate from any background and we map their existing skill sets to suitable roles in the field of IT. We have successfully migrated a number of people from very different backgrounds such as sales, marketing, and architecture to suitable roles in IT. Even now we have people from the legal and medical profession who are currently crossing over into the world of IT.
It is important to note that the myth surrounding one having to be a programmer or a technical person to work in IT is simply not valid. Every function has an IT element involved.
Individuals usually have existing skill sets that they are not aware of and it’s in the remit of Rexus Consulting to ensure that we bring to the fore these value added skills and competencies for the candidate even when they cannot see it in themselves.
• What is your perception of the job market in The Netherlands? Is it expanding or contracting?
From the IT perspective, it is expanding. The global job market expereinced trying times over the last number of years but in recent times, it has been fairly steady and we see a lot of growth in the coming years especially in the IT sector.
If you look at the number of roles available in Dutch versus English it would be certainly be different, however the IT job market is growing and in certain areas of information technology, we simply do not have enough qualified people to meet the demands or to fill the open jobs.
In the next 5 years, the most growth will come for people with some key skills such as strong communication skills, team focus, and the ability to work with different stakeholders. Roles such as Business Analyst roles will continue to grow. Project Management roles were on the decline but we see those roles starting to pick up again.
I believe the growth of social media will continue to support such roles in the years ahead.
• Rexus Consulting has a workshop holding tomorrow, Tuesday the 5th of August and it is for everyone regardless of their career background. Can you tell us more about it?
The main focus of the workshop is career transformation.
There are many people, looking for work in the Netherlands at the moment and we have put this workshop together to try and provide people with guidance on what they need to do and how they need to do it and how to put those initial steps in place to see their careers progress.
We will share tips on how to progress their careers or gain entry into new career paths. We will also share on how to overcome career obstacles and how one can take advantage of all the resources out there in other to get noticed by recruiters, hiring organisations and recruitment agencies.
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