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Karen van Lohuizen
Robert van den Oord
Big plans at Saro Recruitment The first thing that will strike you on a visit to Saro Recruitment, on the eleventh floor of the UP Office Building on Piet Heinkade, will be the impressive view of Amsterdam. But even more impressive are the firm’s growth and its ambitions. In less than a year, its team has grown from one employee to seven. And it plans to double that number in Amsterdam within another two years. The secret behind this young and dynamic recruitment agency? ‘We think people.’
A HUMAN TASK
the fence, that they are specialists in their own
Yes, it’s all about people at Saro Recruitment.
field,’ says Karen van Lohuizen, manager of the
Working in the Netherlands and Luxembourg, the
Amsterdam office. ‘In that way they can see
agency finds intermediate and senior personnel,
themselves in the clients’ shoes, and find
both permanent and temporary, for the accounting,
them a perfect match. As for our candidates –
finance, banking, sales & marketing and legal
well, we treat them like members of our own team.
sectors. Director Robert van den Oord believes
At Saro Recruitment, everyone is given the space
devoutly in a personal approach. ‘Recruitment is
and the trust they need to grow. This forges real
a human task. A computer can match a CV to a
commitment and creates a fantastic atmosphere
vacancy, but only a good recruiter can tell whether
within the team – not just at work, but outside
a candidate really fits in with the culture of a
of the office as well.’ Despite Saro’s ambitious
company. We have a natural interest in people.
growth plans, preserving that culture remains a
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And that’s something both candidates and clients
top priority. ‘We’re growing fast and we have big
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really experience when they work with us.’
plans for the future,’ says Van Lohuizen, ‘but we’re
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never going to lose sight of the human factor.
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After all, this remains a business of people.’
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is vital as well. ‘It’s important to us that all our
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