Employing and Coaching Dutch students
Thousands of companies, both in the Netherlands and abroad, are offering our Dutch students an opportunity to do their work placement within their company.These companies are certified by ECABO. In case you are interested in employing and coaching Dutch students we can give you further information.
Also see the website workplacement. This website will support companies in finding the right Dutch trainee, preparing staff for an international work placement and by offering on-line guidance and assessment tools during the placement.
A Dutch trainee in your company?
Every MBO student is required to complete a period of training within a company. This may be a period of several months but could also be four days a week throughout the entire course.
The intention is that the student performs within the company as normally as possible, albeit under the supervision of a company employee. In this way, the companies themselves can help to ensure that people subsequently joining the labour market are competent professionals.
Nowadays, increasing numbers of students are opting to complete their compulsory work placement abroad. In this way, they acquire international experience, can improve their linguistic skills and learn to extend their own boundaries, in several ways. Generally speaking, a foreign work placement of this kind lasts between one and four months, and is undertaken in the latter years of the course. It calls for above average motivation; although there are special funds available for foreign traineeships, the student him or herself is required to bear some of the additional costs.
Your company too can offer one or more of these highly motivated Dutch students a work placement in your business, if you become registered as an ‘international work placement company'.
What is in it for your company?
A Dutch trainee can serve as your bridge to the Dutch market. Firstly because he or she speaks the language, but also because of the knowledge and understanding of the Dutch business and industry which the trainee can contribute, making him or her ideal for market research or other forms of survey.
Due to the presence of foreign students, your employees will also develop a greater understanding of the international market. The teaching of languages receives considerable attention in the Netherlands, ensuring that communication should not represent a barrier.
Finally, you will be creating for yourself an excellent opportunity of coming into contact with tomorrow's internationals: young, ambitious people, who wish to make the European or world markets their field of activity.
