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Relive the third edition of Talent Acquisition Live which was held the 12th of march 2020 in Amsterdam with these pictures:

  After consulting RIVM (The Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment) there is currently no reason to cancel Talent Acquisition Live. We do ask you to stay at home if you feel even a little bit ill. We also request you to take measures (e.g. no handshaking, wash your hands regularly) in line […]

  Introducing one of our keynote speakers for Talent Acquisition Live: Teddy Dimitrova.   Teddy is originally Bulgarian and moved to the Netherlands 10 years ago to study. Although she is 100% Bulgarian, after a decade here she does consider herself one third Dutch. After several years in the hospitality industry, she realised it was […]

MC Teddy Dimitrova is ready for the 3rd edition of Talent Acquisition Live: The European Recruitment Innovation Event on March 12 in Amsterdam. Be inspired how to innovate your talent acquisition strategy, processes and technology!   Get your tickets now. Prices increase 1st of March.

    Aron Schilder is the CEO of Recruit Robin. A sourcing tool, and recent winner of the recruitment tech award for best technical innovation, so you can source without sourcing. He will be joining the TA-Live sourcing contest and in a session demo how his tool compares to manual sourcing and join the contest […]

Yves Greijn is a Dutch sourcer who has worked for several of the big names like Uber and Facebook, but also worked at Dutch high tech giant ASML and a major traditional consultancy firm. At TA-Live he will have a fireside chat with Hung Lee in the Brainfood track on using data to improve hiring. […]

  LTP, market leader in assessments in the Netherlands, is testing doing interviews with a Robot. They named their robot Sigmund (created by Furhat Robotics), of course referring to Freud. Is this the future? Or just a gimmick? And what’s the science behind it all. We decided to ask Business psychologist Ivo Winkes, Partner at […]

Jelmer Zuidema is a recruitment marketeer at Booking.com. He’s not a recruiter. He’s never processed a candidate from application to his or her desk. However, sometimes it’s good to not be too close, to you can objectively observe successful behaviors of those who are. We wrote about the three most imporant skills according to Jelmer […]

  Arnout Kampen is Online Recruitment Marketeer at DMG, a major retail organisation in the Netherlands. They have 18 consumer brands of which  Mandemakers Keukens, Keuken Kampioen, Woonexpress and Piet Klerkx are the best known. De Mandemakers Groep offers qualitative and affordable living by offering Kitchens, bathrooms and furniture in +-450 different stores in the Netherlands, […]

  Kirstin Birner is manager Talent Operations EMEA at Lego. Lego is of course one of the most well known toy brands in the world. It’s probably one of the most well known and recognized brands in the world. Pretty much everybody knows Lego and this has an impact on their recruitment operations.  So we […]

Hiring talents from all over the world Leandro Gomes da Silva is Technology Ambassador for the Creative Group. A unique title for a recruiter that needs to show that their recruiters take their ideas on technology to the real world, where humans are most important. Creative Group might not be the most well known company, […]

Jelmer Zuidema is a recruitment marketeer at Booking.com. He’s not a recruiter. He’s never processed a candidate from application to his or her desk. However, sometimes it’s good to not be too close, to you can objectively observe successful behaviors of those who are. Close enough to understand everything that’s going on, far enough away […]

Bill Boorman – Founder TRU Recruiting? Get over it. Intro tekst: Most organisations still hire the way they always have. Ok, theres a bit of technology speeding a few things up, but have we really just automated the things we don’t do that well manually? More admin than intelligence? In this session Boorman looks at […]

  Charlotte Christiaanse is global strategic talent sourcing lead at Philips responsible for the High Value Target Company Program which got recognized internally and externally. She helped set up the first internal executive search function within Philips and is a thought leader  / strategic business partner with regards to finding and hiring those really hard […]

Marcel van der Meer is a sourcing guru. At TA-Live he will be taking part in the sourcing challenge and giving a live demo on how he sources the best candidates using Amazing Hiring. How does one of the world’s most renowed sourcers find those candidates that everybody wants to find? So as a sourcer, […]

  What ATS is the best Yulia Bondar as an interim recruitment manager works with several ATS’s, usually recruiting the same, mostly tech, candidates. So what ATS is best? Well, it all depends on what matters most to your organisation. She has extensive experience with three ATS’s” Greenhouse, Lever and Recruitee and will discuss at […]

What is the diversity on corporate career sites? How GDPR compliant are the privacy statements? What kind of content besides job descriptions can be found on career sites? And how many career sites offer a chatbot? These and many other facts about corporate career sites are published in the Corporate careers sites research report 2019 […]

The 12th of March 2020 Amsterdam will be again the European capital of innovative talent acquisition. Discover how you can innovate your hiring with strategy, process & technology. TA Live is thé European event about recruitment innovation. Why can’t you miss this event as TA professional? In this article the 5 reasons why you must […]

  Jelmer Zuidema is a recruitment marketeer at Booking.com. He’s not a recruiter. He’s never processed a candidate from application to his or her desk. However, sometimes it’s good to not be too close, to you can objectively observe successful behaviors of those who are. Close enough to understand everything that’s going on, far enough […]

Akbar has recruited across the world, across 4 continents actually. He has moved from hiring for massive corporates to focusing on a portfolio of early start ups. We caught up with him to talk about what lessons he has learnt on that journey.   B: What’s the biggest difference between talent acquisition at Education First, […]

  Mark Deubel is a recruiter for Elastic search. A company you may not know, but you probably use. Their search technology is used by for example Uber and Tinder, so if you use their apps, you’re using Eastic technology. Even Google is a client, yes, Google, for certain aspects, using Elastic’s search technology. Mark […]

We are happy to announce that our Early Bird deadline has been extended to 24 January, giving you another week to purchase tickets at a lower price! The Early Bird price for a ticket is only EUR 345. Make sure to register before 24 January to benefit from the discount before the prices increase! To […]

  Hung Lee is the founder of recruiting tech platform, Workshape.io, and also runs the newsletter community, Recruiting Brainfood. At Talent Acquisition Live 2020 Hung Lee will give five breakout sessions with five different experts. He will interview them live on stage. See the program here. In this Q&A session, Hung Lee and Alan Walker […]

  At Talent Acquisition Live Jan Scheck will be interviewed live on stage on the concept of Talent Optimization. During the session the audience will have the chance to participate and ask all the questions they have. We at the organisation had a chance to ask Jan some questions upfront.   Predictive Index currently focusses […]

  About TA Live’s venue: De Nieuwe Liefde In 1931 the building was sold to the Catholic parish “The Love”. In order to accommodate the Catholic club life, the three floors of the building were subdivided into fifteen smaller rooms. These halls, including a chapel and a cinema, were used for parties, services and discussion […]

You don’t wanna get stuck in the traffic before heading to Talent Acquisition Live or you just wanna have some relaxing after spending the day at Talent Acquisition Live? We’ve selected six hotels for you where you can stay and relax in Amsterdam.    Hotel de Hallen Hotel De Hallen is located in a former […]

Do you want to discover how to optimize your hiring with strategy process and technology? Buy the early birds tickets now with profit until January 15th. Tickets Buy your early bird tickets for Talent Acquisition Live now here.      

After two successful editions in 2018 and 2019, we are proud to announce the third edition of Talent Acquisition Live in Amsterdam will be held on Thursday, March 12. Until October 15, quick decision-makers will benefit from the super early bird discount of 150 euro. All about innovation Talent Acquisition Live is all about innovation […]

Richard Hutchinson is the talent generation and innovation director at Capita Resourcing, one of te biggest UK staffing firms. April 18th, he will be talking at Talent Acquisition Live about nurture marketing and data analysis. We had the pleasure of talking to him beforehand and asking him his vision on innovation in Talent Acquisition. Richard, […]

How much power do words have? Via linguistic analyses, based on your choice of words, it’s possible to build a personality profile that’s pretty accurate. In order to prove it, TA-Live Partner TalentSwot is willing to let you test run their application for free here. Have a chat with Debra, in Dutch or English, and […]

Recruit Robin was one of the winners of the TA-Live start-up competitions and they will be interviewed on stage april 18th by Anna Ott. Since they are new, we’d thought we’d give them a chance to introduce themselves. The elevator pitch: What do you do? “Recruit Robin automates sourcing for recruiters by using A.I. that […]

LIGHTS, CAMERAS, INTERACTION Taking candidate interaction to a new level The way we interact with relationships, strangers and products have evolved more over the last decade than arguably anytime in human history – with the advancement of our lives becoming digitized. Chris Raw, Client Services Lead & Product Strategist at jobpal, will tell you all […]

As a Talent Acquisition manager you are responsible for the recruitment strategy. The nature of this process depends on the country or region you are located. In this series we will showcase this. Last time we talked about the Netherlands, but what does it look like in Germany? Judith Nguyen (IDAGIO) will tell you. What […]

OnRecruit is a recruitment analytics company like no other. Their platform helps organisations recruit much better by actually looking at the results of campaigns and helping them improve based on data. We asked Dirk Meeuws, their CTO & COO, what the 4 most common questions are asked by clients on the topic of data analytics […]

Christoph Fellinger is head of strategic Talent Acquisition and early careers programs at Beiersdorf, probably best known for its NIVEA brand. He shares his role as the lead of the early careers eam with a parttime colleague in what the Dutch would call a duojob. The Early Careers team is covering the talent acquisition for […]

As a Talent Acquisition manager you are responsible for the recruitment strategy. The nature of this process depends on the country or region you are located. In this series we will showcase this. Last time we talked about Belgium, but what does it look like in the Netherlands? Veronne van der Meijs (Randstad Groep Nederland) […]

Finding and connecting with the right candidates in these times of shortage is hard. Mees van Velzen (MrWork) thinks that we, on the contrary, live in the golden age of recruitment. He will tell more about this on TA-Live, but we wanted to see a glimpse of his presentation. What are you gonna talk about […]

It was an exciting race, but the winners of the Startup Competition are known. The Disruptors and Recruit Robin are the winners of this years competition and will join us the 18th of April at Talent Acquisition Live. The Disruptors The Disruptors believe in disruption. Not to disturb but to get better, to grow. They […]

Matej Matolin is head of HR at STRV, a software design and engineering company located in Prague that works for top Sillicon Valley clients. We are very happy to have him back at Talent Acquisition Live this year after giving a very highly rated session last year. Matej, you are very passionate about delivering a great […]

Anna Ott is the host of Talent Acquisition Live on April 18th in Amsterdam. When she isn’t hosting events like ours she works for an investor that invests in early stage HR Tech start-ups in Europe and South East Asia. She also consults with several of these start-ups on their strategy, be it on their […]

The 18th of April 2019 Amsterdam will be the European capital of innovative talent acquisition for the second time. Discover how you can optimize your hiring with strategy, process & technology. And what’s better than sharing knowledge with other recruiters or TA professionals? Bring them along, because we offer a special discount for groups. The […]

As a Talent Acquisition manager you are responsible for the recruitment strategy. The nature of this process depends on the country or region you are located. What do TA managers actually want in different countries? In this series we will showcase this based on data acquired from the European Recruitment Dashboard and the experiences of […]

5 tips to access the gateway of the European Recruitment Tech scene by Geert-Jan Waasdorp The Dutch market is often seen as a breeding ground for recruitment tech companies that want to enter ‘main land’ Europe. Often these companies started in the UK or US and wanted to make their next move into Europe, especially […]

Sophie Teen is a culture and talent guardian at 11FS, a London based start up in the Fintech sector. Currently her company is growing headcount at 300% a year globally. Before this, she was the head of HR at Revolut where within the year the headcount went up by 500%. You might say she knows […]

Vote now for a change to win a free ticket for Talent Acquisition Live. You can vote for the startup which can win a free partner package worth € 2.000 for Talent Acquisition Live the 18th of April 2019 in Amsterdam. Voting is possible till 1st of March. The competition serves very different parts of the […]

Want to know why you should partner up with Talent Acquisition Live? Go watch our webinar on 11 February 4:30 pm (CET) in which co-founder of Talent Acquisition Live, Martijn Hemminga, and partner manager Ineke Pompen will explain to you why we should collaborate. You can register here. Presenters Martijn Hemminga is multi entrepreneur in the […]

Karen Azulai is a global sourcing expert, co founder of HR Tech Nation and in 2018, her parallel session was best rated on Talent Acquisition Live. So she is in the line-up of 2019 as a keynote talking about improving your sourcing by using the really great technology out there. Who is this amazing woman […]

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Do you want to discover how to optimize your hiring with strategy process and technology? Speakers like Teddy Dimotrova, Christoph Fellinger and Karen Azulai will tell you all about it. Profit from the early bird until 1st of February and join us on 18 April 2019 in Amsterdam.

Our second breakout session is known: Talent Generation & Innovation Director (Capita) Richard Hutchinson will tell you all the ins and outs about a new way to reach candidates. Candidates don’t need to talk to you to find out all about what it’s like to work at your organisation. So, we need to stop spending […]

2019 has started and we have much to look forward to, our own Talent Acquisition Live for example! But what else can we expect this year? At the first edition of Talent Acquisition Live, in September of 2018, we asked experts of the field what they think the trends for 2019 will be. If we […]

The 18th of April Amsterdam will be the European capital of innovative talent acquisition. Every company has to innovate but especially startups are a great inspiration. That’s why Talent Acquisition Live organises the Talent Acquisition Live Startup Competition. We will make 2 partner packages available to innovative startups in the field of talent acquisition. Applications […]

We are proud to announce that Matej Matolin is one of our speakers in the parellel round. About Matej Matolin Matej is an HR evangelist, recruiter, manager, and advisor. He runs the most visited recruitment blog in the Czech Republic, organizes Recruitment MeetUps, contributes to leading newspapers and speaks at conferences. His professional background includes […]

The first three speakers are announced: Karen Azulai from Everythingsourcing.com,  Teddy Dimitrova from mycujoo and Sophie Theen from 11FS will give keynotes. Karen Azulai Karen is founder of Everything Sourcing and the co-founder and editor-in-chief of HR TECH Nation. She is one of the leading voices of the international sourcing industry. Her keynote, named Using technology […]

Anna Ott is the chairwomen of Talent Acquisition Live 2019 and will be the host of the day. Anna is a very experienced chair with a background in HR and technology. She has been working in HR for the past 18 years. She started her career in HR at companies like Lycos Europe AG, British […]

After a very successful first event, the second edition of Talent Acquisition Live will be in the spring of 2019. On April 18th you can hear all about European innovation in talent acquisition. First speakers announced The first two speakers are already known: Karen Azulai from Everythingsourcing.com and Christoph Fellinger from Beiersdorf will be two […]

We look back on a very successful first edition of the international event on innovative recruitment: Talent Acquisition Live. More than 150 visitors were inspired by 4 keynotes and 20 breakouts. Do you want to relive the day again or did you miss it? Check out the official after movie.

Coming to Talent Acquisition Live and the pre-event The Talent Unconference and still looking for a hotel in Amsterdam? In this article we will help you with your search. 

WeAreKeen and ODYN are the two winners of the Start-Up Competition of Talent Acquisition Live. These two organizations, chosen by the public, will be present at the event as partners.

The day before Talent Acquisition Live we have a pre-event: The Talent Unconference. It’s all about sharing thoughts and ideas on talent with likeminded people. No presentations, no Power Points, only discussions and dialogues. Tracks Talent is a broad topic and so this Unconference will cover a wide range of topics. From the Gig Economy […]

A bot that screens candidates or calls them to schedule a job application. Voice can make the work of recruiters easier and more efficient, says Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald of Open Voice and speaker at Talent Acquisition Live on 20 September. The big three Voice seems far away, but with Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant we already use […]

Do you want to know how companies like Booking.com, Cognizant, Albert Heijn, STRV, Bonnier Broadcasting and Specsavers are innovative in the way they attract talent? Join 150 talent acquisition professionals at the first edition of Talent Acquisition Live the 20th of September 2018 in Amsterdam. Subjects you can expect are:  augmented sourcing, interviews via voice […]

Chatbots can dramatically influence the way recruitment is done, claims Matej Matolin, Head of HR at STRV and speaker at Talent Acquisition Live 2018.

Before Talent Acquisition Live, at the 19th of September, there will be a pre-event: The Talent Unconference. With open discussions and interacting with fellow HR & Talent (acquisiton) professionals.

With about two hundred votes already, it’s pretty exciting at the Start-Up Competition of Talent Acquisition Live. The upper four are really close together and everything is still possible until voting ends on the 31th of August.

Until the 1st of August you profit from a big discount when you come to Talent Acquisition Live 2018 with your team! Discount is calculated automatically upon registration of at least 3 people at once.

At the 20th of September 2018 Digitaal-Werven and Werf& organize the first edition of Talent Acquisition Live in Amsterdam. Founders Bas van de Haterd en Martijn Hemminga tell you more about the 20 breakouts at the event in this video.

Artificial intelligence in recruitment? Many people talk about it, but we aren’t yet that far, says TA Live-speaker Bill Boorman. But he does see a chance that AI will improve recruitment, if we work with good data.

Eight start-ups have entered the TA-Live European Start-up Competition that serve very different parts of the recruitment landscape. Two of them will get a free sponsor package at TA-Live by popular vote.

Standard emails? Don’t start if you want to get a response. “Write to one person, and not to hundred”, advises Sofia Broberger, soon to speak on Talent Acquisition Live. She is a well-known sourcer of technicians in Stockholm.

The 20th of September 2018 Digitaal-Werven and Werf& organize the first edition of Talent Acquisition Live in Amsterdam.Founders Bas van der Haterd en Martijn Hemminga tell you more in this video about the keynote program. 

Talent Acquisition Live ( TA Live) loves innovation and nobody innovates like a start-up. So we would love to have start-ups at our event. That is why we are giving away two partner packages to innovative start-ups.

Digitaal-Werven en Werf&, two leading Dutch recruitment knowledge platforms, combine their forces to organize a new international event on the 20th of September 2018 in Amsterdam: Talent Acquisition Live.