Arjan Elbers

Creative Recruitment Strategist

Are you looking to inspire a group or team about the wonderful world of the labor market and recruitment? Arjan Elbers is one of the Netherlands' greatest labor market & recruitment enthusiasts who loves to challenge the status quo.

Employability:: Keynote speaker, Masterclass
Languages:: Dutch, English
Categories:: Creativity

Entrepreneurship

Generations

Inspiration

Marketing & Sales

Strategy

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About Arjan Elbers

If you are looking for a way to inspire a group or team about the wonderful world of the labor market and recruitment, then you have come to the right place with this creative recruitment strategist, author, and passionate keynote speaker. Arjan Elbers is one of the Netherlands’ largest labor market & recruitment enthusiasts who loves to challenge the status quo. His love for his profession is quite evident on stage.

Arjan Elbers is a true Brabander at heart and soul. He doesn’t engage in ballroom dancing, drama, or coriander. But he does enjoy playing the piano, dry humor, and Italian wine. He worked for over ten years in (inter)national corporate and agency recruitment before becoming an independent entrepreneur in 2009.

Arjan is a recruitment strategist to the core. He advises organizations such as ABN AMRO, KPN, Ahold Delhaize, Ministry of Defence, Odido, Rabobank, ANWB, VDL Nederland, and Vattenfall. Arjan is the proud founder of the non-profit Foundation Guruz (brilliant online guest lectures for vocational education) since 2022. Furthermore, he is active as a former chairman (now ambassador) of Recruiters United, an expert at the recruitment community Kiqit, and co-owner & recruitment strategist of Getnoticed.

Additionally, Arjan Elbers is a Labor Market & Recruitment expert at BNR. Together with Nigaio Wijnen, he presents BNR at Work: your weekly dose of insight into work, labor market communication, employer branding, career, and the human side of work. With two sharp experts who know how work works. They are live every Wednesday at 3:30 PM on BNR and a new podcast episode every Monday.

Topics

1. The secret of the most attractive employers

How is it that many employers work extremely hard to find and retain employees, yet still struggle with a staff shortage? While there are also employers who have a waiting list full of top talent?
Without even posting a vacancy!? Arjan explains it to you in detail! (strategy and concretely applicable).
2. Conquer the job market, become a Recruitment Unicorn

Learn to look at the total labour capacity within your organisation and forget the “standard” permanent vacancy for a moment. Be inspired by many examples of employers who do things differently.
3. The Recruitment Foundation

What factors do you need to successfully manage recruitment,
from recruitment plan to the hiring manager.
4. Recruitment of MBO as a Golden target group

Everyone is looking for them, but how does the MBO student move and what are they looking for in you as an employer? What about the MBO image and what actually works when you are looking for them?
5. Guerrilla Recruitment Marketing

Get acquainted with intense, fun (recruitment) marketing campaigns. Actions that have never been carried out before to not only attract candidates but also gain a lot of PR.
6. How to recruit and retain young talent (focus on Gen-Z)?

How do you recruit (and manage) young talent as an employer now? From oat cappuccino to TikTok. What are they looking at? What do they find important and how can you influence them to choose you?