For over 25 years, Ebbinge & Company has been a leading HR consultancy working to fill key positions and solve management development issues in the top segment of the labour market. We are driven by quality, growth and the ambitions of people and organisations. ‘From campus to CEO.' Allow us to give you an impression of our approach, culture and history:
Our firm
Approach
We translate our six core services into market sectors, disciplines and specialisations on a variety of experience levels. Our firm employs 80 people, who share a common ambition to be a preferred partner in the qualitative filling of key positions in the top 10% of the labour market. We offer a transparent, dynamic and creative approach.
Dynamic network
Our team members can rely on a thorough knowledge of market areas, functional disciplines and people and organisations. We offer a dynamic network that is based on people who make the difference. In every phase of a person's career. Our motto ‘from campus to commissioner's post' stands for the moves and switches people make in their career. In this context, we work with four labels:
- Executives & Senior Management
- Management & (Young) Professionals
- Campus Recruitment
Executives & Senior Management
In the Executives & Senior Management segment, we have a strong position in the fields of Executive Search and Recruitment & Selection (including assessment and development) that are focused on filling board and senior management positions. Examples include commissioner's posts, members of the Board of Management, senior executive officers and division management positions. After 25 years of building up our network, we know and meet a large number of top-ranked people, who often started out as promising students and have eventually made it to the highest level. As a client or as a candidate. The result of our continuous ‘monitoring of people', our advertisements or as a follow-up to our activities in the areas of Executive Search or Executive Interim Management.
Management & (Young) Professionals
With our exclusive ‘communities' of candidates and clients, we are one of the leaders in the Recruitment & Selection of Management Professionals, Young Professionals and specialists. We specifically focus on top-level candidates who aim to take the next step in their career. Exceptional specialists and promising leaders with the potential to grow toward senior management positions. The candidate is of key importance. The support and career development perspectives that we have to offer ensure that clients are enthusiastic about joining our ‘network of top talent'.
Campus Recruitment
A long-term investment. We focus on recent university graduates who in the course of their studies have shown that they are distinguished by above-average characteristics. Our 120 student recruiters are all university students themselves, allowing them to get to know and to recruit the very best students. As the market leader in the young top academics segment, we continue to work on the future of talent and our firm.
Culture
Since our establishment in 1982, our name is synonymous with transparency, sincerity and honesty in the provision of advice to candidates and clients. Solid. "You ask entirely different questions and really want to understand my organisation and people."
Important decision
Clients are entitled to a thorough analysis. Environment, organisation, department, desired profile and accompanying behavioural competences are all aspects that are evaluated by our consultants as a matter of course. We ask probing questions and prefer to talk to a wide range of people who are involved. We look for the logical depth and the wider perspective. Not least of all because we're "representing the top-notch candidates and know what they find most important". And consequently aim to offer this group of candidates, in the context of their career planning, a position that fits their requirements. Or allow them to make a certain ‘switch'. At any rate: another step forward, either at the start of their career or at the top. This is an important decision every time round.
Open and reliable
Thanks to the experience, knowledge and insights that we have accumulated over the years, we are a reliable partner in the development of people and organisations. We enjoy working with people who distinguish themselves through their personality, capacities and ambition. Helping people and organisations develop their talents. In the context of our own organisation this means a flat structure with short, open lines of communication. Results-oriented, with room for an individual style and an individual approach to collaboration. Partnership, mutual encouragement and the inspiration to realise professional and personal development are all characteristic elements of our approach. We offer an inquisitive attitude, commitment, respect, a critical drive to get down to the nitty-gritty, a sense of humour and an ability to see things in perspective. To get an idea of our work environment, check out Working for Ebbinge.
History
Ebbinge Consultants, an executive search, recruitment and selection agency for the leading segment of the labour market, is established in 1982. Founder Pier Ebbinge is the first in the sector to opt for advertising in the top segment. With a distinguishing approach, remarkable phrasing and transparency when it comes to salaries.
Network and broadening our field of activity
Since our launch in 1982, the firm has gone through a development focused on broadening and deepening our field of activity. Ebbinge Campus, which targets the top segment of the young academics market, is set up in 1988. ‘Campus' is the first to offer a large, exclusive network of student recruiters. In 1992, the firm expands its activities to include recruitment and selection focused on young managers and professionals with a maximum of approximately five years of work experience. This creates a logical connection between ‘Campus' and the activities in the top segment. A strong foundation for advising and supporting candidates in their career development.
HR Advisory Services
In 1994, Pier Ebbinge sells his firm to KPMG, laying the groundwork for the next period of growth under the name KPMG Ebbinge. The consultancy starts up new advisory services, which will form the foundation for Ebbinge's current activities in the area of HR Advisory Services (Assessment, Development, Coaching). The firm furthermore launches the Labour Market Survey, a large-scale national study involving over 4,000 participants, which is seen as an extremely reliable monitor of the labour market.
2004: Ebbinge & Company
New legislation and regulations relating to the field of the KPMG accountants inspires a management buyout. Activities are energetically stepped up under the new name Ebbinge & Company. The firm's Public Sector executive search activities are taken over from Deloitte Human Capital Group, for instance. This creates a new position in the premier segment of the public sector. In September 2004, Ebbinge & Company opens its Brussels branch, from where a growing number of clients in the Belgian and multinational markets are introduced to our approach. In 2006, we launch Ebbinge Executive Interim Management, which allows us to meet the growing demand for temporary (senior) management.
25 years of Ebbinge
In 2007, we move to our current office in De Cuserpark, a fantastic work environment for our team and a ‘meeting point for the upper echelon of the market'. It has an open atmosphere in which our clients and candidates have proven to feel right at home. In addition, the firm's ‘founding partners' Paul van Dam and Ron Jansen guarantee the continuity of Ebbinge & Company with five new partners: Sacco van der Velde, Wieke Janssen, Anita te Water, Joost Ouwerkerk and Frank ten Doeschate.
More than anything, 25 years of Ebbinge means looking ahead and continuing to work towards our ambition: to be the best in our field of work. A lot is changing, but the good things have remained the same. Like the image in the advertisements as it was established by Pier Ebbinge. From the beginning of 2009 these will be in a new but recognisable format.
