On the 18th of September, we got together at Randstads office with a fantastic group of ambitious people, that either wanted to get their career in Sweden started, or to take a moment to reflect on what they are doing and where they are going.
Thanks to our great speakers we learned about the Swedish job market, which sectors are booming, but also what we find important in an employer (and not surprisingly the Dutch and Swedes have a different opinion on this ;). 
We did an attempt on answering the question 'how to know what your dreamjob is', where our conclusion was that the answer lies mostly within yourself and self-reflection is extremely important.
We also learned about how to incorporate a company's vision into your cover letter to get that first call, how we can overcome confirmation bias to make a good first impression and how to gain more control over the recruitment process.
Don't be surprised to see a lot of people rocking their LinkedIn profiles after this event, as LinkedIn gave us some pretty good tips & tricks! 

/Maaike Gerritse

A successful mingle was hosted by the creative minds of Techno Creatives in their lovely office space, where Martin Rosell of WirelessCar presented an inspirational talk on their views on Future mobility and connectivity. The main topic, Sustainable city & Mobility, for this mingle was connected to the inspirational talks from both WirelessCar and Joel Rozada of Techno Creatives.
 
Martin explained that the connected car services in the near future will only grow and depending on the needs of the customer, the business and the needs of society will develop rapidly. Where Joel presented an autonomous vehicle, developed in collaboration with Baidu in China running in enclosed environments.

These developments and changes resulted in multiple questions on the topic of future mobility upon which an interesting dialogue followed.
From the Dutch Chamber we can only say regarding this dialogue, to be continued during our next event on 17th October.
See you there!

/Armand Scheijen 

The Nominating Committee, consisting of Olle Jansson and Jolande Svensson-Klijn, has been working on the recruitment of a new Chairperson for the Dutch Chamber since before this summer. Our recent chairman Maarten Merckx announced in June that it is time for someone else to take over as Chairperson after this calendar year. Of course we want to thank him for the fantastic work he has done during the past ten years! 

The nominating committee has interviewed all current board members and is in the process of meeting with all advisory board members as well as other stakeholders.

All input with thoughts on a new Chairperson or other relevant constructive feedback in this process is appreciated and we also encourage members that are interested to get involved in the board of the Dutch Chamber to contact Olle or Jolande ([email protected]) because except for recruiting a new Chairperson, the nominating committee is always interested to get in touch with possible candidates.

Please get in touch with us! And we will of course keep you updated on the process!'

/Jolande Svensson-Klijn and Olle Jansson