Let’s be honest – sometimes it is not easy to get a job right after college or university. It may take long searches and many interviews to land the right job.
Thankfully, some startups have taken up the challenge and set up unique job-seeking platforms to help students and recent graduates find their dream job. These services not only help young professionals but also large companies in finding talented employees based on their requirements and location. And for beginners, they provide an opportunity to recruit a team of promising beginners.
There are also startups that work to upskill students and graduates, who may otherwise need many years of experience to find their right fit. They provide an opportunity for students and graduates to develop their skills and even find internships at companies to gather practical experience.
Many students now prefer to take up such courses and arm themselves with the knowledge required to crack the right job.
We have compiled a list of The Netherlands-based startups working to upskill students and helping job-seekers and companies find the right fit. Do take a look.
Minite
Founder/s: Linky Chen, Micky Chen
Founded year: 2020
Funding: €100-500K
Rotterdam-based Minite is a digital placement platform that helps brands find the right student freelancer. The platform finds vetted students to work as freelancers in the fields of marketing, sales, IT, research, design, and many more.
The platform’s purpose is to promote the development of both students and companies. Students get the much needed experience to build a strong CV while companies find the vetted workers. Minite claims to provide employees and employers with a 98% matching rate.
Graduate Employers
Founder/s: Linky Chen, Micky Chen
Founded year: 2013
Funding: –
Amsterdam-based Graduate Employers is a job portal that helps students and graduates find the right job at the right company.
The company helps students and graduates find the right company that has use of their specific skill sets. The company mentions that they exist to help students and recent graduates make the right career choices as soon as they enter the job market.
Hello Mentor
Founder/s: Quincy Dalh
Founded year: 2020
Funding: €110-165K
Amsterdam-based Hello Mentor is an innovative platform that helps young technology talents by matching them with the right professionals for mentorship. The startup helps students reach mentors from tech companies such as Adyen, ING, ASML, and PwC.
Once onboarded, Hello Mentor leverages its matchmaking capabilities to match mentors to mentees based on interests, skills, and learning goals.
The Dutch startup charges a subscription fee to companies in exchange for access to the platform, social media, and tailored events to widen companies’ employer branding and awareness.
UvA’s job board
Founder/s: –
Founded year: –
Funding: –
The University of Amsterdam Job Board is a job search platform whose primary users are UvA graduates and students. The platform publishes various options for internships and full- or part-time job vacancies.
The board is available for university graduates upto 2 years after graduation.
Amsterdam Startup Map Job Board
Founder/s: –
Founded year: 2015
Funding: –
Amsterdam Startup Map Job Board lists job openings so that users can find the right job at a startup or scaleup of their choice. The platform allows users to search for companies with vacancies based on various parameters such as location, total funding raises, job types, company size, among others.
MKB Digital Workspace
Founder/s: Ellen Spithove
Founded year: 2020
Funding: €19.2K
Amsterdam-based MKB Digital Workspace helps small and medium-sized businesses digitise, create and execute specific projects with groups of students. The company uses a professional guide (digital sprints) to achieve a concrete result.
Through its solutions, students can also work on more complex issues in addition to a workshop or project. Students can also work on the side to improve their online marketing, software development, or e-commerce skills.
Master Challenge
Founder/s: Bram Kuijken
Founded year: 2020
Funding: €1-100K
Amsterdam-based Master Challenge is an EdTech platform that ‘claims to allow students to gain relevant experience, educators to improve their course and companies to get their challenges solved.’.
Educators and companies can submit a challenge on the platform and students can try to solve them. This results in a win-win for all as students can work on tasks that help them gain real-life experience, while companies, in turn, gain access to young talent that can later become part of their team.
Startup & Running
Founder/s: –
Founded year: 2016
Funding: –
Startup & Running helps new entrepreneurs find right mentors. Anyone who has an idea or recently developed a startup can use their services to find a mentor, develop connections or find a co-founder, and start their entrepreneurial journey.
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