Blueinq

BlueinQ is a recruitment company based in Amsterdam that scales organisations by attracting talent and by setting up and optimising their recruitment processes. Its offer is built around three services. Scaling Teams accelerates company growth by introducing clients to the right people, whether they are looking for walk-the-talk team leads or techies, with matching done at what the company calls the DNA level. Scaling Recruitment helps clients conceptualise, implement and improve their internal recruitment processes. Scaling your Career is aimed at individuals thinking about moving into a scale-up, where BlueinQ describes itself as their entry sign.

The company concentrates on scale-ups and the disruptive, innovation-led businesses behind them. It has years of scale-up experience of its own and says it has faced and overcome the same challenges many times over, which is why it understands them inside and out. It also knows how the big companies operate, and has adapted their best practices, adding its own insights so they work in a scale-up setting. It works on retained searches and publishes figures for the proportion completed successfully, its average time to hire in weeks and its years of recruitment experience. It is explicit that it does not believe automated CV screening does a great job by itself, and argues that the bigger an organisation dreams, the more important it is to attract and commit people who genuinely live and breathe that ambition.

BlueinQ is based in Amsterdam, though it notes that meetings are largely virtual for now. Enquiries go to [email protected], or directly to Mignon on 06-15338567 and Desi on 06-53120587. The company points to its track record and to a network that lets it identify, reach and engage the right talent quickly. It describes itself as an accomplished achiever of dreams, as agile and adventurous as its clients, open-minded, fun and customer-centric, a generous supporter of worthy charities, always looking for likeminded talent, and one hundred per cent honest, saying so directly if it cannot help.