Kickstars Recruitment

Kickstars Recruitment bemiddelt in startersfuncties, placing highly educated starters and young professionals into the first proper roles of their careers. The company calls the people it represents its Kickstars, de sterren onder de starters, the stars among the starters, and its whole proposition is built around that one group rather than the wider candidate market. Its working method is described as transparent: once Kickstars receives a candidate's CV, it searches with that person for the startersfunctie that matches their profile and their interests, rather than pushing them at whatever vacancy is open. Personal and professional development sits at the centre of the relationship, and the company states that a candidate's ambitions, motivation, experience and education are its starting point.

Kickstars defines its target group tightly. These are hoogopgeleide, ambitious, energetic and driven young talents with a maximum of five years of work experience, at HBO or WO level, meaning university of applied sciences or research university graduates. The roles it places them into are full time positions offering a broad range of challenge, professional training, personal coaching and clear development and progression opportunities, together with a good salary and a job guarantee. On the client side, the service is aimed at organisations with a structural need for a continuous inflow of highly educated young talent, giving them access to the Kickstars network of top graduates and the chance to discover, develop and retain new talent.

The company works in Dutch for a Dutch client base and organises its site around three routes: pre-selectie of starters for employers, a candidates section, and pages explaining who its Kickstars are. Its argument to employers is what young talent brings once it is inside the business: Kickstars states that its engaged young professionals deliver innovation, rejuvenation, cultural change, cost savings and better returns, giving an organisation what it calls a fresh kickstart. Enquiries are made directly through the site, where the company also publishes its algemene voorwaarden and its view on the recruitment of starters.