Many tech talents struggle to find an employer with the right values for them, while many purpose-driven tech organizations often have trouble attracting like-minded candidates.
Rely on more than 20 years of tech recruitment, our passion for people and technology, and the way we want to stand out in the world. IT Headhunter has a good understanding of tech and work relations.
IT Headhunter is where tech and people come together. And we’re in it for the long haul. The longer we work with an organization or a talent, the better we can tailor our services to your needs.
We present the best tech jobs within people-driven organizations to candidates who utilize their talents for the greater good of the company, themselves and preferably mankind.
That’s what makes IT Headhunter a long-term recruitment and coaching partner. We work from a point of view where your purposes overlap ours. Aiming to make things better, IT Headhunter acts like a guide and coach for employers and tech talents alike.
I am Marcel de Jong, founder of IT Headhunter. 25+ years of HR, recruitment and coaching experience. Hire me as a freelancer of project based.
After a short career as an SAP specialist, I joined an executive search agency as an old-school headhunter in December ‘99. Last century that is ;-). Apart from tons of phone calls, we released the first ‘Query Fret’ ever, some sort of beta-version of a search-bot with a response time of 24 hours. It wasn’t until 2001 that I worked on my first developer vacancy. That’s when tech recruitment started for me.
In 2004 I started working for waag.org as an HR Manager. Waag was an R&D (new) media company for education, healthcare, and cultural heritage. Here I facilitated projects like Frequentie 1550 an the start of Fairphone. After my job was done in 2006 I founded HEBBES Personeel, the first recruitment company in the Netherlands to disrupt the market of fee based recruitment. With recruitment experience, more and more tech positions came my way.
After literally surviving the tsunami in 2004, I was drawn to personal development and grounded spirituality. Next to recruitment I started my coaching adventure, until today. My education also made me a better recruiter, because of better listening. And by detaching my personal ‘world’ I became more successful in integrating the storylines of candidates and employers. Some of these matches are still alive and kicking, sometimes 18 years later.
Through the years I’ve always been working as an agency recruiter, and every year I’ve worked for 1 or 2 companies as a corporate recruiter. In my work I love to combine the best of these two worlds. Lately I’m also being hired to lead recruitment teams. From these beautiful talents I’m learning a lot myself as well.
Do you share the same vision what great matches can do for your company, and the benefit of investing in each other for growth. Let’s meet up.
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"Our company has significantly expanded in the last few years and Marcel has been with us along the way. He thinks with us on a strategic level about the company’s future and has brought in long-lasting, sustainable matches. We can always count on him in the recruitment process from the start until a new contract is signed. He has a great talent for finding the right candidate for a given role, and he has also demonstrated an understanding of our company culture. For us, work experience is not the only factor we take into consideration; the candidate must be a good fit with our team. He has helped us hire over a dozen colleagues, some of whom work with us for over ten years! If you are looking for an independent recruiter to fill up new positions in your company, we would recommend Marcel any day."
"I moved to Amsterdam in September 2019. I don’t speak Dutch, so in the beginning, it was difficult for me to find good opportunities. I applied to Patchmanager for a Digital Marketer role. Marcel reached out to me and offered a video call to discuss if I would be a match good match and if the position would be a good match for me. He took the time to understand my background and experience I have and presented my CV to the company. He kept me informed throughout the process and with great empathy. My experience with the Dutch hiring market was that response time is incredibly slow, so his attitude was much appreciated. Marcel looks at you as a person and not as a piece of paper, which is something that I feel is missing in today’s hiring processes. Fortunately, the interviews worked out well, and I got a job offer within two weeks at Patchmanager. Thank you, Marcel!"
