HR technology service provider HeadFirst Group Adds StarApple Group, consisting of the brands StarApple and StackOps, to its organization. Both companies are specialized in sourcing IT and digital specialists. HeadFirst Group thus takes another step in deepening its portfolio of solutions for labor market issues in the professionals segment: the current high-tech solutions of HeadFirst Group are enriched with the services with a great human touch of StarApple Group.

StarApple Group, is an ambitious and young organization, founded in 2008 and has since grown into a successful IT talent sourcer. StarApple Group has already successfully connected more than 10,000 specialists to a variety of organizations. Caner Hamamioglu, General Director at StarApple Group: "Growing talent is our mission. We do this by carefully connecting professionals from our network to assignments, where professionals not only do what they have done before with other clients, but are also challenged to take a step forward in their development. Design your career, we call that. With the cooperation with HeadFirst Group we can do this on an even larger scale and we are looking forward to that enormously."

Responding to dynamic market

HeadFirst Group foresees that combining various services is necessary to continue to solve all the issues of clients in today's dynamic labor market. Marion van Happen, CEO at HeadFirst Group: "The scarcity in the labor market will not disappear in the coming years. This requires creativity in opening up the market. We believe that combining high-tech solutions with services with a great human touch is the key to customer success. For us, those customers are both clients - whom we continuously provide with mission critical talent - and professionals, whom we actively help from assignment to assignment with the most attractive clients."

StarApple Group remains independent

StarApple will become an independent brand within HeadFirst Group, maintaining its own identity. The current management will continue to lead the organization in its growth strategy into the future. Hamamioglu: "HeadFirst Group will be the driving force behind StarApple. With our enthusiastic team of over eighty colleagues, we will continue to offer a full service recruitment solution for our clients and professionals. And we get access to the group's platform, which gives us extra power to realize our growth ambitions."