Hiring central for improvement

Making the working world a little better every day, so that every person can work with passion and freedom. With this mentality, Epic Agility focuses on training and delivering the best team coaches. Thanks to their unique approach, the now more than 20 driven professionals immediately add value at the start of their assignment. Ruben Brinkman, business development manager at Epic Agility, is responsible for finding these assignments and explains how he collaborates with HeadFirst Group for this.

“We make or deliver the best team coaches,” is how founder Jeroen Molenaar describes the core of the organization. According to Ruben, Epic Agility has a unique approach, in which personal development is number one. With a wide range of certified training courses and workshops, this supplier gives professionals the opportunity to develop further. In addition, Epic Agility has its own pool of talented Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches. Ruben explains that they focus on a niche market and therefore have a portfolio of professionals with scarce profiles. “We see opportunities in educating and training Scrum Masters, who will eventually grow into the role of Agile Coach. We ensure that you can turn to Epic Agility for the best Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches,” Ruben continues.

“A professional is seen as a true Epician by us and treated as a full-fledged colleague by the client”

Changes in the labor market

The scarcity on the labor market is noticeable in a positive way for Epic Agility. “We can sit down with the professional to see which assignment best suits his or her profile. In some cases, a professional can even choose between multiple assignments,” Ruben explains. The talent pool has also almost doubled in the past year, which indicates that the demand for specific profiles is increasing. “We see a change in the market where organizations only want to deploy professionals who are immediately available and ensure improvement within the organization. We can only applaud this,” Ruben continues.

Collaborating with HeadFirst Group

As part of the Partners services at HeadFirst Group, suppliers are assigned a partner manager for questions and advice, with whom Ruben has a lot of personal contact. “Working this way makes it easy to quickly find the perfect assignment for a professional. Our collaboration shows the power of a network and I hope that we can continue to grow together,” Ruben concludes.

“The collaboration with HeadFirst Group is so good that we are trying to intensify it together.”