Small steps towards huge success

YoungCapital is named Best Managed Company for the sixth year in a row. As a newcomer in 32nd place, it is included in the MT500 list of the 500 best companies in the Netherlands. Winner of SAN accent award for 'WORK' campaign in the services category. Named the fastest growing recruitment agency in the Netherlands.

Winner of the 2016 award for the best advertising music. Elbrich Batstra named HR Director of the Year. Madelon Blokker wins the title Recruitment Talent of the Year. Eline Lolkema wins silver for Agency Recruiter of the Year. Winner of the Public Champion of the Netherlands Award and named by the professional jury as a Ruban d'Honneur finalist at the European Business Awards. Opening of the first two branches of YoungCapital Deutschland in Cologne and Berlin.

YoungCapital is fully brought under the name of its parent company YoungCapital. This year, we also make our first appearance in a marketing campaign on TV. YoungCapital is crowned the New Champion of the Netherlands by the Dutch newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad and voted National Public Champion of the Netherlands in the European Business Awards. Awarded the no. 2 spot in the list of the most innovative companies in the Netherlands at the Erasmus Innovation Award. Senior recruiter Alana Soares wins second place in the Intermediary of the Year Award selection.

YoungCapital launched as a holding of StudentenWerk, StudentJob International, YoungCapital and YoungCapital Professionals. Awarded Flex Specialist of the Year for the third time, winner of a High Growth Award and nominee for the Erasmus Innovation Award. Senior recruiter Jorrit Gall named Intermediary of the Year 2014.

Ineke Kooistra starts as managing director of StudentenWerk. Second-time winner of Flex Specialist of the Year and named Best Managed Company for the third time. Rogier Thewessen receives the LOEY Award.

Winner of Flex Specialist of the Year and named Best Managed Company for the second time. Opening of YoungCapital branches in Zwolle, Haarlem and Almere. Founding of student health insurance company Besured. YoungCapital database reaches 1 million candidates.

Launch of StudentJob USA. Opening of YoungCapital Enschede branch office and second branch office in Amsterdam. Named by Deloitte Netherlands as ‘Best Managed Company 2011’.

Launch of StudentJob UK, StudentJob Austria and bijbaan.nl. Opening of the first government office for the central government in The Hague. Opening of Breda branch office. Launch of YoungCapital weblog. Nomination for Ernst & Young 2010 Entrepreneur of the Year.

Opening of the first office in Belgium in Antwerp and launch of the Belgian site StudentJob.be. Launch of websites in France and Spain. Opening of the YoungCapital office at the Eindhoven University of Technology. National winner of the High Growth Award 2009 and nominated for the Gazellen Award from the Dutch newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad. The number of registered candidates in the database exceeds 500,000.

Opening of StudentenWerk offices in Leiden, Alkmaar, Amersfoort, Leeuwarden, Den Bosch and Maastricht. Launch of the first foreign StudentenWerk site with the name StudentJob.de

Opening of StudentenWerk offices in The Hague, Amsterdam, Tilburg and establishment of StudenDBase B.V. and Peoples Media B.V.

Opening of StudentenWerk offices in Rotterdam, Arnhem, Groningen and acquisition of ICT company Noxa B.V.

Opening of the StudentenWerk branch in Utrecht and establishment of CN IT detachering

Establishment and launch of CareerNetwork recruitment and selection..

Opening of the StudentenWerk office in Eindhoven and establishment of CareerNetwork Payroll B.V..

First employee on the payroll.

Establishment of the first office in Hoofddorp. The first 10,000 candidates are registered in the database.

Registration domain www.studentenwerk.nl and launch of the first StudentenWerk site.