Recruitment Support & Researcher - English & Dutch

Are you willing and able to run 110 km per hour alongside us whilst providing excellent support to your fellow colleagues? Are you a confident, outgoing, team oriented professional who thrives on challenges and is flexible and able to keep and balance multiple plates in the air at any given time?

Are you proactive, communicative, motivated, hardworking, friendly, and a people person? If so, you are exactly the colleague we are looking to join our team in Amsterdam.

It is a competitive market, fast moving and ever changing and therefore we also need to grow and adapt. Expanding our team is necessary but also exciting. You will be working together with other Recruitment Support and Researchers and the Recruitment teams within Blue Lynx. We have two offices, one in The Hague and one in Amsterdam. Backed by a strong 30+ year reputation, you are joining an established, growing, professional, multilingual, multinational team.

Ideally you have a few years administration experience under your belt and speak Dutch. In addition you have previous customer service, recruitment, sales or finance experience enabling you to smoothly transition into a shared service centre and working approach.

Job Profile for Recruitment Support & Researcher
Responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Register and check incoming CVs in the Blue Lynx Customer Relationship Management, CRM, database
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date administration in the CRM throughout the whole recruitment cycle
• Maintain email correspondence with candidates, organising CVs and other admission documents
• Call and meet with newly registered candidates for a general meeting
• Liaise with candidates by telephone and email to schedule interviews
• Maintain constant communication with recruiters regarding newly registered candidates
• Answer general telephone calls and inform callers about our services
• Coordinate appointments
• Work in close cooperation with recruitment consultants
• Prepare and advertise job vacancies on our websites
• Communicate with candidates regarding job vacancies
• Source, qualify and select suitable candidates for job vacancies from the database and job site CV databases
• Welcome visitors and general day to day office duties

Candidate Profile for Recruitment Support & Researcher

• Must be fluent in English with an advanced level of Dutch
• Bachelor degree is required
• Must have some relevant experience (1-3 years is preferred)
• Excellent Word skills – working with tables, reformatting, and able to resolve serious formatting issues
• Experience with databases and Outlook – to a high level 
• Experience using Boolean search
• Excellent telephone manner
• Ability to communicate and comprehend accurately, clearly and concisely
• Accurate typing skills
• Ability to research using internet search engines
• Must be a people person with strongly developed social skills, adaptability and flexibility in order to service various departments
• Experience working with: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
• Well organised with an excellent eye for detail
• Pro-active attitude
• Active listener
• Result oriented
• Strong hands-on mentality
• Able to work in a fast pace environment
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Good sense of humour and ability to work in a team of internationals

What Blue Lynx Offers

• Laptop
• Pension
• 25 days paid holiday
• Travel costs
• Lots of social activities –company lunches, team birthdays, BBQ’s, Seasonal celebrations
• Quarterly company general meeting
• Bi-yearly appraisal
• Yearly team charity event – CSR Day – NL Doet
• Flat hierarchy
• International work environment with a great close friendly group of people

Come and join our growing happy team.