This is how, as an IT and cybersecurity company, you build a team of:50 new top talent in 12 months

"This collaboration shows what is possible when recruitment is really used strategically."

Gijs Aanen, Recruitment specialist Recruiting

Objectives

This organisation faced a major challenge in one of the most scarce and competitive labour markets. Demand for good cybersecurity specialists, cryptography experts and software engineers far exceeds supply, while competition for this scarce talent is fiercer than ever.

The challenge

The challenge was to support the ambitious growth strategy, which necessitated the need to achieve within a year minimum 24 hire new employees. To achieve this, it required a thoughtful, scalable and efficient recruitment strategy that went beyond the traditional approach.

Our approach

At a time when IT and cybersecurity companies are facing an unprecedented scarcity of top technical talent, Aanwerven and a leading organisation in this sector have achieved a powerful result. In just 12 months, we managed to fill over 50 specialist positions, all of them among the most challenging in the labour market.

The power of cooperation

To achieve this challenge, a
multidisciplinary recruitment team assembled. This team has a deep understanding of our company's culture, vision and technical requirements.

Talent Sourcers: Track down latent talent from our own network, via niche platforms and actively approach candidates via smart sourcing techniques. Through these channels, we find precisely those candidates who are invisible elsewhere
Dedicated Recruiters: play a key role in translating business objectives, culture and competences into clear profiles and job postings. They conduct in-depth
selection interviews to assess both hard and soft skills.
Recruitment Operations Coordinator: Focuses on coordinating administrative tasks, monitoring the 'candidate journey' and ensuring all operational aspects run efficiently.