Connect-Me-Groep

Connect-Me-Groep is a recruitment company based in Amsterdam that works exclusively in the sociaal domein, the Dutch public and social care sector covering all support delivered to citizens who need help. Connect-Me-Groep frames its work around a single problem its clients share: municipalities have taken on a growing number of statutory duties at the same time as budget cuts and reorganisation programmes, which leaves them short of capacity and uncertain whether to hire permanently or flexibly.

The answer Connect-Me-Groep offers is a deliberately built flexible workforce layer rather than ad hoc cover, delivered through three routes. Detachering places its own seconded professionals inside a client organisation. Werving en selectie is conventional permanent recruitment and selection. It also arranges doorleen constructions, where a professional is loaned from their existing employer, which suits organisations needing specific expertise without creating a new permanent post. The company recruits across every level of the social domain, from front line practitioners through to senior specialists, covering social care, local government and wider public sector roles.

Connect-Me-Groep operates nationally across the Netherlands from its Amsterdam base, and describes its method as building connections between the working fields of the social domain and professionals drawn from a strong established network. It states its purpose as strengthening the sector rather than simply filling vacancies, arguing that services to residents must inspire confidence and that this can and should be done better. For employers in Dutch local government and social care who need capacity quickly but want people who already understand the demands of the sociaal domein, that sector focus is what separates Connect-Me-Groep from a generalist supplier.