How the Dutch Banking Association makes recruitment scalable and strategic

Through a smart combination of flexibility, deep organisational insight and structural cooperation the NVB manages to attract the right candidates with Recruitment every time.

"With Aanwerven, we have a partner who moves with our organisation. We can always count on quality, commitment and flexibility."

Debby Evers, HR responsible at NVB

The Dutch Banking Association

The Nederlandse Vereniging van Banken (NVB) employs around 80 staff who, together with their members - some 60 banks in the Netherlands - the business community, the government and civil society organisations, proactively work every day towards a serviceable, stable and competitive banking sector.

Objectives

Combining continuity, quality and direction in a challenging labour market

With an eye for the culture, structure and processes of the NVB.

The challenge

Within the NVB, staff inflow ranges from policy advisers and communication professionals to management positions.

Filling these diverse positions requires a recruitment approach that fits NVB's culture and way of working. In doing so, it is important that every candidate has a consistent and professional experience, regardless of the vacancy volume.

Our approach

Recruiting has had a partnership with the NVB for three years. Over this period, the demand for new employees has varied. In which there have been periods when there have been more than 10 vacancies but also periods when there have been only 2 or 3 vacancies.

What characterises this collaboration is Aanwerven's deep knowledge of the NVB organisation. We proactively approach suitable candidates. This ensures that the NVB also manages to engage latent jobseekers. We do this effectively and carefully with an eye for relationships.

In addition to the operational recruitment process, there is also a focus on structural strengthening of the recruitment policy some examples:

Interview skills training
Quarterly updates with market insights
Tooling, such as the deployment of Jobslots and RecruitIQ
Restyling of the Recruitee platform

The power of cooperation

The strength of the cooperation lies in the combination of strategic partnership and substantive involvement:

Every candidate gets a consistent, transparent and professional experience.
Because of our long-term relationship, we know exactly which candidates fit the NVB and can make targeted and careful approaches.
The NVB keeps direction of the process and remains in control, while Recruiting executes and assures.
Thanks to the team structure on the Recruiting side, the recruitment process always continues even during holidays.

The results: