{"id":23,"date":"2025-10-20T11:55:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joinuptalent.nl\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:20:26","slug":"over","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joinuptalent.nl\/en\/over\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Building strong teams together.<\/h1>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Driven by content. Focused on sustainable matches.<\/strong><\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

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Uptalent connects professionals and organisations within Finance, Data, BI & Risk<\/strong>. With attention to both people and content, we build collaborations that not only work today but also remain effective in the long term.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cGood matches are made when you take the time to truly understand people.\u201d<\/h2>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t
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With over fifteen years of experience in recruitment and talent development, I founded Uptalent with one core belief: strong teams emerge when you take the time to truly understand people and context. By listening to what an organisation needs and delivering a bespoke service, I always choose the right placement at the right time. Not based on speed or volume, but on substance, quality, and a partnership where we share responsibility for the outcome.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The belief behind Uptalent<\/h3>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Uptalent was founded by Huib-Jan Verhoef<\/strong>. With over fifteen years of experience in recruitment and leadership, he knows the job market inside out. During those years, he worked closely with professionals, hiring managers, and directors, and saw how often decisions are made under pressure. Not out of unwillingness, but because there is too little time and space to properly consider what is truly needed. It is precisely here that he helps organisations to slow down, in order to arrive at better decisions.<\/p>\n

Huib-Jan believes that good decisions start with attention. Attention to the person behind the role and to the context in which someone must function. This conviction stems not only from his work but also from who he is. As a proud father of Florence and a keen sportsman, he knows how important balance, development and enjoyment are for sustainable performance.<\/p>\n

That's why conversation is always central to collaborations with clients and professionals. Huib-Jan asks questions before he advises and takes the time to understand what's going on. What is someone truly looking for? What challenges is a team facing? And what form of involvement is right for this stage of the organisation? From his experience in leadership roles, he understands what it means to be responsible for teams, decisions, and results.<\/p>\n

With Uptalent, Huib-Jan has consciously chosen entrepreneurship on his own terms. Less volume, more quality. From the conviction that collaboration truly works when expectations are aligned, choices are well-considered, and people end up in the right place.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t

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An important part of our approach is to build relationships with professionals early on. We are often already in conversation before someone is actively looking for a new step. Sometimes during their studies, sometimes in the first few years of their career, sometimes in an exploratory phase.<\/p>\n

Without pressure or a direct vacancy, but with attention to who someone is and what they are looking for. This allows us to understand the ambitions, motivations and potential of professionals well. We know what energises someone, in which environment they thrive, and what role suits them.<\/p>\n

This makes our matches more personal, qualitatively stronger and longer-lasting.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

What this concretely yields:<\/b><\/p>\n