HR services provider HeadFirst Group is launching an initiative to boost sustainable employability of independent professionals (zp'ers): Select Academy. With this it facilitates zp'ers in personal development and continuous learning. "The direction on development naturally remains with the entrepreneur, at the same time we take the responsibility to make 'lifelong learning' easily accessible," said Han Kolff, CEO at HeadFirst Group.
Sustainable employability
"Jobs are disappearing, processes are being automated and digitized and the required skills are changing rapidly. All the more important to invest as a worker in the targeted development of knowledge and skills in order to be able to continue to add value to a work or client on a continuous basis," Kolff professes.
People in self-employment who consciously choose entrepreneurship work significantly less on their sustainable employability compared to employees in permanent employment, according to a report commissioned by the Dutch Parliament on obstacles to lifelong development. People who are self-employed are intrinsically motivated to develop themselves, but they mainly rely on existing professional knowledge and experience and 'learning on the job'. Kolff: "Most self-employed people are highly educated and have extensive work experience which they use for projects. Development 'on the job' is what they do every day, that is where the basis is formed, but supplementing knowledge with education and training is necessary. With Select Academy we make personal development more attractive. Naturally, the control remains with the self-employed, they became entrepreneurs for a reason, but as a market-leading HR service provider, we consider it our task to make continuous learning as attractive as possible in order to send professionals forward to their next dream role."
Select Academy: 9,000+ substantive training courses
The training environment, realized by HeadFirst Group in exclusive cooperation with the continuous learning platform MyCademy, offers the most complete offering in the Netherlands: 9,000+ professional training courses from more than 120 'world leading' providers in the fields of IT, management and finance, among others. Professionals can take unlimited online courses, virtual labs and knowledge sessions in Select Academy at any time. In addition, they can test their knowledge by taking mock exams.
Select Academy has been made available for zp'ers, who use our Professionals services. From July 2021, the environment will also be ready for suppliers of HeadFirst Group, such as secondment and consultancy companies.
Professionals & Partners services
The subscription 'unlimited online learning' in Select Academy is one of the advantages of the Professionals & Partners services of HeadFirst Group. Besides the possibility to acquire challenging assignments through HeadFirst Group, freelancers and suppliers of professionals can use the services for administrative support, accelerated payment of invoices, group discount on various insurances and from now on more benefits in the field of personal development.
"This unique package of services forms a one-stop-shop for entrepreneurs, with which HeadFirst Group ensures that professionals can do business worry-free. In doing so, we actively contribute to our clients' 'being a good client' and collectively ensure that the best professionals want to work on an assignment with them," Kolff explains.
About HeadFirst Group
HeadFirst Group is a leading, international HR service provider and specialist in the professional organization of permanent and flexible labor. The organization offers a diversity of HR solutions: Managed Service Providing, Recruitment Process Outsourcing, intermediary services (matchmaking, contracting) and HR consultancy. An average of fifteen thousand professionals work daily for over four hundred clients in Europe, with which HeadFirst Group realizes an annual turnover of over 1.5 billion euros. The main brands of HeadFirst Group are the intermediaries HeadFirst and Between, MSP service provider Staffing Management Services and RPO and recruitment specialist Sterksen.
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