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Madison Parker International BV is a strategic recruitment consultancy specialized in the global placement of permanent and interim professionals, fully supporting major businesses in the commercial, finance and technology sectors in the Netherlands and various international markets.
Recently we interviewed the Management from Madison Parker International BV. We talked with Salah El Kholali, from The Hague office, who joined Madison Parker International early 2018. Besides his strong knowledge of Recruitment he build over the years, his area of expertise is Business Development & Strategy.

Tell us about your function at the Madison Parker job agency and what is the motivational driving force in your job? 
My role at Madison Parker...]]> Tue, 09 Jul 2019 17:21:51 +0200 Dear Shimi,

Tell us about your function at Madison Parker job agency?
I am a senior international recruiter, end-to-end responsible for the external global resourcing of candidates for different types of clients who are mostly active in the following industries; supply chain, pharma, engineering, food and agriculture. They're spread across the globe. 

What is the motivational driving force in your job?
Working as a Senior Recruiter at Madison Parker, I am constantly engaged in finding (inter)national talent. In my role, I also act as a business partner and advise my Clients in their staffing needs by building and maintaining a good relationship...]]> Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:15:02 +0200
The platform is a wealth of accessible knowledge for expats living in the Netherlands, or planning to do so. It is not only an online job board, but also a launch pad for...]]> Wed, 26 Oct 2016 09:02:27 +0200
In2motivation’s mission is to inspire people to live in a better world for themselves and others. We do this through a series of services that help develop people personally and professionally.

What service do you provide?

In2Motivation facilitates personal development, specialising in motivation, coaching and training to enable changes in behaviour and communication. Our training is for individuals and companies. In2Motivation works with international trainers and its home base is in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We provide training in Holland and abroad, to bring the best out of you and your company!

You have a...]]> Tue, 07 Jun 2016 12:18:44 +0200 What is the purpose of Swordfish & Friend?

Swordfish & Friend is the official distributor of Crosley products in Europe. We are building a sustainable network by the sale of beautifully designed turntables. This network consists of lifestyle retailers, independent record stores and other related stores. We also run a record store/lifestyle concept in the city centre of Utrecht.

What do you provide?

The candidate will be responsible for developing and executing the brand strategy in Germany. The job is very versatile, because it has parts of account management, sales and marketing. It is a nice challenge to work on...]]> Tue, 05 Apr 2016 12:06:05 +0200 Personal branding is becoming more and more important to make yourself stand out from the crowd during the recruitment process. It's important to realise that whether you have worked on your brand is irrelevant: \a brand is just the impressions you make combined with the reputation you've set for yourself. As such, It's important to make that brand work for you. If you're new to designing a personal brand, here are three tips to help you on your way.

Authenticity

People want to know that you are real: so avoid trying to fool others into seeing you in a different...]]> Mon, 14 Mar 2016 09:47:35 +0100
Learning a language is never easy, and it can certainly take a lot of time, effort, and energy to master a second or third language. However, a second language is a skill that can seriously help when searching for a job, moving up through the ranks at work, and especially in day to day activities. We talked with Albert Both, who created Talencoach. Dedicated to teaching motivated and inspired students Dutch, Albert showed us a real desire and passion for language that I, personally, have never seen before.

What kind of struggle is experienced by your students when learning Dutch?...]]> Tue, 01 Mar 2016 12:18:54 +0100 Getting into a career in another country can be difficult at the best of times. Sometimes, all that is needed is some guidance and counseling. We were able to speak with Sacha Tanis-Hopkins, founder and career coach for Expart. Expart specialise in career coaching for expats, with the focus highlighted on helping expats find the career opportunities that best suit them. I asked Sacha a series of questions, with the aim to learn more about how expats can be helped and what what her clients look for with the Expart service.
Your company mainly focuses towards expatriates. Have you seen...]]> Tue, 02 Feb 2016 10:14:47 +0100 Clare Summerfield, Wealth Manager for Elliot Lloyd, shares why their team stands out among wealth management firms in the Netherlands and how intelligent and self-motivated candidates can be a part of her team 

What does Elliot Lloyd do?
Elliot Lloyd offers wealth management and financial planning services worldwide. We help international clients at all levels of wealth strategically manage their investments while protecting them from risks around inflation and excessive taxation. Elliot Lloyd also provides personalized financial solutions like retirement planning and saving for children’s education.

How was Elliot Lloyd started? What is the story behind it?
I have a lot...]]> Mon, 06 Jul 2015 21:01:37 +0200 Henriëtte Wentholt, owner of Wentholt Coaching & Training says that she offers various coaching programmes and training to help internationals and expat partners become culturally aware to reach their potential in their new environment

Does Wentholt Coaching & Training have a motto? What are the major aims of the company?
My motto is 'My commitment to creating cultural awareness around the world’. By creating this awareness, people will become more understanding and respectful of differences. If they are willing to learn they will evolve and contribute to a world where there is unity through diversity. In a world where diversity is...]]> Thu, 07 May 2015 00:55:57 +0200 Peter Koijen, Owner at in2Motivation, tells us about the company’s personal and professional development programmes and how it is beneficial for both individuals and organisations Could you describe the major goals of in2motivation?
in2motivation is an international company for personal and professional development. Our mission is to get the best out of people – both companies and individuals. We specialise in motivation, coaching and training to enable changes in behaviour and communication. And our intention is to inspire and motivate people to live their lives and do it their own way.
What kind of training does in2motivation provide and how can...]]> Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:31:43 +0200 Sandra de Bresser, Head of the BSN Language Centre at The British School in The Netherlands tells us the Centre has been providing high quality British English education for 30 years to its students

Could you describe what the major goals of BSN Language Centre are?

The BSN Language Centre is part of the British School in the Netherlands. It serves the International (Business) Community of The Hague and surrounding cities with high quality British English and Dutch language courses for adults and children who live and work here.

The British education system and methodology has an excellent reputation worldwide...]]> Mon, 02 Feb 2015 22:56:12 +0100 Arnold C.J. Waal, Managing Director of Orange Tax Services elaborates on the 30% tax ruling for international employees

What is the 30% ruling and which employees are eligible for it? Could you elaborate?

The 30% ruling is a ruling the Dutch tax office made as a response to an individual’s relocation cost application, double housing costs and similar requests made by employees arriving from abroad. The Dutch tax office recognised that this type of employee has a disadvantage compared to resident or native Dutch employees who do not have double housing costs, travel costs, household moving costs and more costs...]]> Mon, 05 Jan 2015 22:41:33 +0100 Perfect Housing is a leading website for rental apartments in The Netherlands. Business Development Director, Joost Luttge, tells us what the organisation has to offer

What are the main services that Perfect Housing provides its clients?
Perfect Housing focuses mainly on being able to provide the best possible overview of the rental properties available throughout The Netherlands. Having had a strong presence in the housing sector for over a decade, we have accumulated a great amount of knowledge and expertise, and have just recently decided to specialise and focus solely on our portfolio.
To offer the best possible service to...]]> Thu, 04 Dec 2014 22:28:44 +0100 Commerical managers, Axel Lemmens and Micha Patutschnick share with Together Abroad about WTC The Hague Business Center’s work on providing business opportunities to its tenants and investors

What are the major goals of WTC The Hague Business Center?
Our major goals are – building international business development, stimulating entrepreneurship, providing active networking and a high-quality office environment with an international allure.
As WTC The Hague has an interest in promoting international business and entrepreneurs. How is it working to attain tenants to fit with the rest of the organisations in the premise?

WTC The Hague Business Center is at the...]]> Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:02:18 +0100 Tamkara Adun speaks to Willem Van Donge, head of Career and Personal Development and Javier Arias, community marketer and an alumnus at Nyenrode on their views on the university, its MBA programs and how they are catered to the needs of its candidates

Could you tell us a bit about Nyenrode and the Nyenrode Heritage?
Nyenrode Business Universiteit was created in 1946 by industry leaders from leading corporations such as KLM, Shell, Unilever, Philips and Akzo with the intent to set up a business community that would create business leaders in order to impact the global business community, positively.

Nyenrode...]]> Tue, 30 Sep 2014 12:00:30 +0200 Nyenrode Business Universiteit is hitting the road. Over the next few months, the university will be promoting its MBA programmes in Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Eindhoven. Marketers, Javier Arias and Sasja Heijman tell us more.

What can visitors expect to learn from Nyenrode’s MBA Roadshow? As part of the itinerary, there is Career Progress and Personal Leadership Workshop. Could you elaborate on this Workshop?

The purpose of this MBA Road Show is to bring Nyenrode closer to the business community in the Netherlands. The MBA Road Show sessions include an inspiring information session regarding the different MBA-options that the university...]]> Tue, 30 Sep 2014 11:18:32 +0200 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...]]> Tue, 05 Aug 2014 09:12:29 +0200

Together Abroad had the privilege of speaking with Kirsten Jansen-van den Broek who is currently the Communication Manager at Undutchables Recruitment Agency.
Please see below excerpts of our conversation. • Hello, Kirsten welcome and thank you for coming. Can you please tell us a bit about yourself and your professional background?
I started my career in Recruitment in 2006. In 2009, I changed jobs to my current company which is Undutchables Recruitment Agency. About two years ago, I was offered the job of Communication Manager for the whole of Undutchables. I find that it is a great match with my personal...]]> Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:07:07 +0200 Together Abroad had the privilege of speaking with Liubovi Bosenko, Human Resources Manager and Coordinator of the Operations and Support Team at HiiL
HiiL was founded in 2005 and is an advisory and research institute for the justice sector based in The Hague. It is an organisation that is passionate about making justice work for both people and organisations on a global scale. They achieve this goal by the way of providing innovation and improvements to rule making and conflict resolution processes.

Hello Liubovi. Please introduce yourself and tell us what it is that you do at Hiil.

My name...]]> Fri, 30 May 2014 19:01:22 +0200 How is the ‘personal approach’ Settle service online put into practice in regards to the candidates and the network of clients?

Settle Service Online is especially designed for individual international employees who are relocating to the Netherlands. An international relocation usually enhances a very stressful period. Using Settle Service Online means that many practical issues are taken care of. The Online aspect means that we will mainly be in contact through email. People who wish to have a more personal service are more than welcome to use our traditional services (www.settleservice.com/).


How do you view the current relocation market in...]]> Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:55:49 +0100


Sykes has been set up since 1977 and is now offering its services in 24 countries . How did the company evolve throughout its history, particularly in The Netherlands?
In 1877 Sykes USA was expending into EMEA. Amsterdam was chosen as EMEA Headquarters due to the diversity in the candidate’s pool. We continued as EMEA Headquarters until 2002-2003 until Headquarters moved to Edinburgh Ireland.

How is the ‘personal approach’ Sykes put into practice in regards to the candidates and the network of clients?
The clients from Sykes give a list of requirements. Sykes is very co-operative towards the clients and...]]> Tue, 11 Jun 2013 23:01:58 +0200 Meet WILMA VAN DER VEER

WHAT IS YOUR BACKGROUND IN RELOCATION?
I have worked in the relocation industry since 1996. I started on the household moving side and then realized there was much more to a move then shipping furniture. From there I started to work closely together with local Dutch relocation companies. After that I set up European relocation management in 27 European countries together with ARM in Asia. In 2003, we became Global Relocation Services (GRS), which has locations in 90 countries around the world.


WHAT ARE YOUR AREAS OF EXPERTISE AND INTEREST?
I have broad interests, but...]]> Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:18:37 +0100 My motivation to start working for Randstad was that I was looking for a job in a dynamic working environment, with a large multinational company. I had heard very good stories about Randstad as an employer and that they invested a lot in the training and development of new employees.


Our specific approach with Randstad Multilingual Recruitment is a personal approach. We work with a team of 5 people, who are responsible for establishing and maintaining all relations ourselves. Our process is quite straightforward: candidates that apply or that we headhunt ourselves, get a telephone interview. In this interview, a...]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:48:23 +0100
What was the motivationt start working for Unique?

What attracted me initially was the combination of sales and recruitment which Content offered in one job (Content merged with Unique in 2010). For me it is very important to have a dynamic job while being able to mean something for people. Previously I had been working in sales and I was just selling products that could make peoples live easier. At some point I wanted to add value on a much deeper level. In this job you can actually change peoples lives by offering them the opportunity that they have been...]]> Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:50:14 +0100 Unique Nederland, as part of USG People, has different substructures, one of which is Unique Multilingual (UML). What is the specific place and focus of UML within the larger company? S.C.: Unique Multilingual is, within Unique Nederland, the team of specialists in multilingual recruitment of office personnel for companies of various sizes. By multilingual, we mean non Dutch speakers, therefore native speakers of other languages, or Dutch natives who speak English and a third language.
The team at UML is itself composed of internationals with a total of 11 different nationalities, people who are either expats in Holland, or Dutch...]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:31:52 +0100 Josien Deknatel is the founder of Kickstart Language School She earned her teacher training in the Netherlands, but her teaching career has taken her to special places, and then back home to Holland. Her expat experiences have shaped her teaching and the core values of Kickstart

“Moving to a new country and getting used to a different culture and language is not an easy process,” says Josien. “I know because I’ve been there.”

Josien started teaching Dutch in London in the early 1990s at Linguarama and other language schools, plus two adult education colleges. Her teaching skills later carried over...]]> Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:54:16 +0200



Page Personnel has been active in recruitment since 1994 and is now offering its services in 22 countries. How has the company evolved, particularly since its start in The Netherlands in 2002?
Page Personnel is part of the Michael Page Group, and specifically recruits for positions up to 45k per year in operational and junior management roles. While Michael Page exists in The Netherlands for 25 years now, we will be celebrating our 10 year anniversary this year.
Page Personnel The Netherlands started its activities 10 years ago when a director and consultant from Michael Page were approached to set...]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 10:38:48 +0200
Please introduce yourself and GDCC
My name is Clarissa Baldwin and I am the Recruiter and Trainer here at GDCC. GDCC is a Global Data Collection Company that conducts market and opinion based research all over the world. We conduct computer aided telephonic interview surveys in a variety of subjects such as IT, finance, healthcare, etc. We have a 160 capacity in Rotterdam and we accommodate surveys in around 18 different languages with a focus on the main European languages. We also operate 40-seat capacity with our partnership venture in Malaysia QPA-GDCC from where we cover the Asia-Pacific region.


What...]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 11:02:16 +0200 What was the motivation for starting the Undutchables?
More than 16 yeas ago me my friend Judith started this venture in an Amstelveen attic. She had worked in London as a recruiter and had observed how multilingual job agencies were very common there. When she returned to The Netherlands she started to work with a company that used to be one of her clients. This company focused on working with multilingual professionals but had trouble finding them and there was not an agency at that time doing this kind of business in The Netherlands. So we decided to give it...]]> Tue, 22 May 2012 22:43:16 +0200

The Netherlands ranks high as a proper place where to start a company. What do you find are the advantages of setting a business here?
When I came to the Netherlands, in 1991, there was a time of recession. So I did not set up a business because it was easy to do so, but because I saw a gap in the market, which was for international recruitment companies. I had always worked in recruitment, and I noticed Holland was not very international back then. It was not easy to set the company, as Holland has a lot of rules...]]> Tue, 01 May 2012 14:55:58 +0200
This year Madison Parker International, global recruitment consultants based in Voorburg, celebrate their ten year anniversary. We spoke to Ray Parker, founder and Managing Director about the changes in the industry since he started the business in 2002 and his thoughts on what the future holds for the company.

What motivated you to set up Madison Parker?

It had always been an ambition to have my own business and although I had previously experienced two start-up situations I found myself at the right time and place to realise this goal even though the global economies were reeling from the effects...]]> Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:49:57 +0100