Owner at RecruitmentLab
The Hague Area, Netherlands
- Current
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- Consultant at Union organisation
- Owner at RecruitmentLab
- Owner at RecruitmentMatters.nl
- Founding partner at Digitaal werven
- Founding Partner at Kangarooster
- Owner at MatchSupport
- Past
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- Consultant at Temp agency
- Consultant at Technology company
- Consultant at Healthcare organisation
- Consultant at UK Marketing/Advertising organisation
- Consultant at Online marketing/media organisation
- Consultant at UK Marketing/Advertising organisation
- VP at Adecco Worldwide
- ICT Manager at Adecco Netherlands
- Project manager at Cap Gemini
- IT manager at Vierhand
- Education
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- Universiteit Leiden
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Marc Drees’s Summary
My professional ambition is to transform cutting-edge information technology to the true benefit of the (online) user.
During my corporate life and, since 2000, as an independent consultant, entrepreneur and investor I have always worked at the intersection of strategy and IT. While in very different roles, the direction of my work has always been to humanize technology to the benefit of those who have to use it: real people.
Too often new applications that see the light of day are doomed from the very start, simply because no attention was paid to the only stakeholder that really counts. The user. This is much better said in Alan Cooper's book "The inmates are running the asylum". But the bottom line is that most applications available today are terrorizing normal people.
Focusing on the Dutch labor market I founded RecruitmentMatters (Dutch weblog on online recruitment) and RecruitmentLab (online assessments for online recruitment website quality, available December 2008). I have also have co-founded Kangarooster (job board) and Digitaal-werven (researching jobsections of corporate sites).
Marc Drees’s Specialties:
Multichannel recruitment processes and strategy, ICT management, usability and design, outsourcing, SLA, mergers and acquisitions, C-level management, interaction design, project management, interim management, business consulting
Marc Drees’s Experience
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Consultant
Union organisation
(Online Media industry)
June 2009 — Present (2 months)
Providing advice on an organisational change as well as supporting a business process redesign project and IT system renewal.
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Owner
RecruitmentLab
(Internet industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year)
RecruitmentLab allows owners of jobsites (commercial jobsites as well as career sections at corporate sites) to assess the quality of these sites in a variety of areas.
Upon completion of an assessment, the user will get an indication of the quality of the site and how it compares to other sites in the same arena.
In addition the user can purchase reports detailing existing issues as well as measures to solve these issues.
RecruitmentLab will go live in december 2008 and will be available in Dutch and English -
Owner
RecruitmentMatters.nl
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
RecruitmentMatters is a weblog dedicated to all things online recruiment.
It focuses on the single most important stakeholder in online recruitment: the jobseeker.
In doing so shortcomings and potential areas of improvement in career sites, job sites, social networks are described in an often ironic tone. -
Founding partner
Digitaal werven
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Digitaal werven is an initiative to assess the quality of the recruitment sections of corporate websites.
Recruitment sections are assessed on 50 criteria, using a standardized method. Criteria are grouped into the following viewpoints:
– Site design
– Ease of use / usability
– Breadth of functionality
– Content
– Vacancy structure
– Application process
– Innovative elements
Companies can subscribe for free to have their recruitment section assessed. Companies can also choose to purchase a detailed report, consisting of assesment findings and advice on key improvement areas.
Assessment results will be used to determine the best recruitmentsite on an annual basis. -
Founding Partner
Kangarooster
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)
Kangarooster is a revolutionary new jobboard that utilizes state-of-the-art technologies to radically improve the experience of recruiters and candidates alike. Relevancy is key, as opposed to volume in present-day jobboard.
Respect is core, as Kangarooster is the only jobboard that is truly candidate-centric. We are not paying lip-service to privacy, we embrace it.
We will launch our services in the beginning of Q1 2007 in the Netherlands and subsequently aim to roll-out in Europe. -
Owner
MatchSupport
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
January 2000 — Present (9 years 7 months)
Consulting on the overlap between business goals and IT requirements MatchSupport assists companies in making informed decisions regarding (IT) strategy, multichannel management and usability
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Consultant
Temp agency
(Online Media industry)
May 2009 — July 2009 (3 months)
Assessing the quality of the agency's different brand websites from 5 different viewpoints
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Consultant
Technology company
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2009 — June 2009 (6 months)
Improving market approach & focus from PR, marketing and sales perspective
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Consultant
Healthcare organisation
(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
February 2007 — April 2009 (2 years 3 months)
Assisting a healthcare organisation in the consolidation of multiple business application into a ERP-like platform and adopting a multi-channel approach to acquisition, production processes and support tasks.
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Consultant
UK Marketing/Advertising organisation
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
March 2008 — July 2008 (5 months)
Assisting an online marketing organisation with the development and deployment of an online graduate recruitment SaaS solution.
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Consultant
Online marketing/media organisation
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
September 2007 — March 2008 (7 months)
Consulting the organisation with the consolidation of multiple action based databases to a single customer based database
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Consultant
UK Marketing/Advertising organisation
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
May 2007 — November 2007 (7 months)
Assisting an online marketing organisation with the design, development and deployment of an online graduate recruitment SaaS solution.
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VP
Adecco Worldwide
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years)
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ICT Manager
Adecco Netherlands
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years)
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Project manager
Cap Gemini
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1995 — 1998 (3 years)
Different interim and project management roles, both commercially as internal
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IT manager
Vierhand
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
1990 — 1995 (5 years)
Marc Drees’s Education
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Universiteit Leiden
Master , Biology , 1979 — 1986
Additional Information
Marc Drees’s Websites:
Marc Drees’s Groups:
eRecruiting, Dutch Recruiters, LinkedHR, Beta review board Connect2jobs, Dutch Media Professionals
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Arbeidsmarktcommunicatie Netwerk
Marc Drees’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- expertise requests
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