Marketing, Sales & Communications

We map out a candidate's career development, from Campus to the top. Generally speaking, we distinguish three steps in a professional career in the Marketing, Sales and Communication discipline. Top talents (academic higher education) who aim to become the best in their field can learn the tricks of the trade in a leading organisation that is connected to our talent network. Think Unilever or Ahold. Five to ten years later, you can decide to move to a different company. Work on the basis of your knowledge and experience to enable organisations to improve their performance in terms of your professional discipline. For instance, to operate with more customer focus. In the next step, you build up something out of nothing. This requires real leadership qualities. Wieke Janssen, partner: "It goes from expertise to empathy to leadership. Successful people don't take themselves as a starting point. In this discipline, you need to be able to connect with people. Be able to realise changes in a way that is accepted by those involved. This is different to playing politics, serving your own interests. The essential issue is choosing the position in your career that fits your development requirement. What are you missing, what is required and what do you want for yourself? We can help with this."

When recruiting candidates at the highest level, we regularly - besides conducting a media search via the well-known Ebbinge advertisements - utilise our database. Our activities in the area of Executive Search are very effective: we know just about everyone. Wieke Janssen, a marketer in heart and soul, has a good idea why this activity works: "If one of our people from Executive Search is on the line, people are more than prepared to listen. In many cases they have gotten to know us up close on an earlier occasion, for instance during one of our information evenings about career development, or one of the sessions that we organise in collaboration with our clients."