HR hires found, assessed and contracted
We find HR and people professionals for your Dutch entity, and we build the offer, contract and onboarding once you have chosen one. Advisory-led search on a fixed fee, not a percentage of the salary.
Recruiters can send you Dutch HR CVs. Very few can tell you whether a candidate has genuinely run a reintegration file, sat opposite a works council, or held a line in a settlement conversation. If nobody on your side can test that, you are hiring on presentation.
Our consultants have done the job themselves. They calibrate the role against the real Dutch market, approach candidates through their own network, test them on live cases, and then build the offer, contract and onboarding so the hire starts on a compliant footing.
From role calibration through to a signed Dutch contract and a working onboarding.
Seniority, scope and salary band set against the Dutch HR market before any search starts.
Targeted approach of active and passive HR professionals through the consultant's own Dutch network.
Candidates are tested on live Dutch HR cases rather than on keywords in a CV.
Each shortlisted candidate arrives with a written view of strengths, risks and fit.
A compliant Dutch offer and employment contract, including the clauses that actually hold.
Registration, payroll input and a first ninety day plan so the hire becomes productive quickly.
What changes when the person assessing candidates has done the role.
The fixed fee is set before the search starts. Nobody has an incentive to steer you towards a more expensive hire.
Capability is judged by a senior HR consultant, so you are not relying on a keyword match and a reference call.
Probation, fixed-term and non-compete wording is built correctly, so you are not repairing the contract a year later.
Salary and seniority are benchmarked against the Netherlands, not against head office assumptions from another country.
Anonymised mandates that show how the process plays out.
The company had run a six month search for a Dutch HR manager through two agencies and rejected every shortlist. The brief had been written in the head office job architecture and matched no real Dutch role.
The role was rewritten against the Dutch market and a shortlist of four followed in under four weeks. The hire signed within the same quarter.
A first HR hire was needed for a Dutch site that had grown from twelve to over a hundred people with no HR function. The real risk was putting someone junior into a role with genuine legal exposure.
Three candidates were presented with written assessments of what each could carry unsupported. The company hired a senior generalist and kept an advisor on call for the first six months.
A Dutch HR business partner had already been selected internally, but the draft contract came from the parent company template and carried a probation clause that would not survive.
We rebuilt the offer and contract to Dutch standard, briefed the candidate on the differences, and handled registration and payroll input before the start date.
Client situations are anonymised. Names and identifying details have been changed.
Four stages with a first shortlist typically inside five weeks.
We calibrate the role, seniority and salary band against the real Dutch market before any approach is made.
Targeted approach of active and passive HR professionals through our own Dutch network.
Scenario-tested candidates are presented with written assessments and a clear recommendation.
We build the Dutch offer and contract, then set up registration, payroll input and onboarding.
You get a written scope and a fixed fee before any work begins, so the cost is settled at the start instead of arriving as an hourly invoice at the end of the month.
Best suited to HR and people hires into your own Dutch entity.
Foreign companies making their first HR hire in the Netherlands
Dutch entities replacing an HR manager or building out a small HR team
Companies whose previous searches produced shortlists they could not assess
Employers who want the contract and onboarding handled, not just an introduction
Fees, scope and how we differ from an agency or an EOR.
Search is for HR and people functions, which is where our consultants can genuinely assess capability. For other roles we support the hiring process, contracts and compliance rather than sourcing the candidates.
Neither. We do not put your staff on our payroll and we do not supply temporary workers at volume. The person we find joins your own Dutch entity on your own contract.
A fixed fee agreed before the search starts, not a percentage of the candidate's salary. You approve a known cost, and we have no reason to push the package upwards.
We can still help, but sequence matters. Entity, payroll registration and a contract framework belong before the first hire, and our HR Settlers work covers that groundwork.
Book a free 30 minute consultation. We will look at your situation, tell you exactly what we would do, and put a fixed price in writing before you commit to anything.
