HeadFirst Group acquires recruitment service provider Sterksen. The market leader in the organization of external hiring takes the strategic step to full service HR service provider for temporary and permanent work. HeadFirst Group and Sterksen thus respond to the market trend that organizations organize the use of talent increasingly integrally - regardless of contract form.
Sterksen, founded in 2002, is big in Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), which means that a client outsources the recruitment process of new staff. It also offers services in recruitment, mediation for interim professionals and Managed Service Providing (MSP). Sterksen is a leading player in the IT & Technology segment.
Total Talent Management
With the acquisition of Sterksen, HeadFirst Group is responding to the market trend that companies increasingly manage personnel in an integrated way - regardless of contract form - known in technical jargon as Total Talent Management. It also responds to the increasing demand from clients for service providers with a broad portfolio of HR services.
CEO Han Kolff comments, "The trend of total talent management has been underway for some time and is continuing. The form of contract on the basis of which work takes place is becoming less and less relevant. The cooperation with Sterksen is therefore a logical step in the broadening of our services. Sterksen has a winning concept in recruiting top talent in IT & Technology; a dynamic, scarce and growing segment of the market. Sterksen's high touch recruitment expertise helps the group broaden and deepen the quality of our services, in addition to our focus on high tech with our platforms."
Sterksen remains independent
Sterksen will become an independent brand within HeadFirst Group, retaining its own identity. The current management will continue to run the organization. However, Sterksen and HeadFirst Group will join forces in various areas. Managing Director Donald Derksen explains: "The knowledge and experience in two areas - permanent and flex - will be bundled into a strong combination. Together we will advise and support clients with their issues at the intersection of recruitment and hiring. The size and leading market position of HeadFirst Group will help us open new doors, both nationally and internationally. In this way, HeadFirst Group will become the pushing force behind Sterksen."
International expansion
Recruitment Process Outsourcing is a growing and widely adopted concept in the United States, the United Kingdom, Asia and is rapidly gaining ground in continental Europe. HeadFirst Group and its brands have achieved expansion in several European countries in recent years through organic growth and partnerships. Kolff concludes, "Sterksen is going to help us tremendously in accelerating the delivery of value to existing and new clients across national borders."
About HeadFirst Group
HeadFirst Group is a leading, international HR service provider and specialist in professionally organizing external hiring. The organization offers a diversity of HR solutions, including contracting, matchmaking, MSP services and business consultancy. More than 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, Between and Myler and MSP service provider Staffing Management Services.
About Sterksen
Sterksen has been an innovative and leading recruitment service provider in the field of IT & Technology and a specialist in Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) since 2002. From its offices in Breda and Utrecht, Sterksen works in both the Dutch and international markets, with a focus on Northwest Europe. The organization annually mediates around two thousand candidates and one hundred and fifty interim IT & HR recruitment professionals. Sterksen is known as a fast-growing company with a listing as a Top 250 Growth Company and FD Gazelle.
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