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Traditional IT recruitment methods are reaching its limits due to a shortage of talent. Finding the right IT professionals is becoming increasingly challenging. SharpMinds offers an alternative approach to IT recruitment through nearshoring. For 19 years, we have been helping organizations strengthen their teams with development capacity. Curious about the possibilities of this approach?

Why choose SharpMinds for your IT recruitment?

Access to a larger talent pool
Easily scale up your development team
Working within the European time zone
Project managers who support you and ensure the developers' happiness
No cure no pay: you only pay when a developer starts work

Nearshore IT recruitment: An approach

SharpMinds specializes in nearshoring, a model in which IT specialists work for Dutch companies from nearby countries. We recruit from Lisbon, Portugal; Chernivtsi, Ukraine; and Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. These regions have an excellent reputation for technical expertise, cultural affinity, and often strong proficiency in English. This enhances communication and quality. We offer you the opportunity to build a flexible team that you fully control and manage directly.

In addition, our services go beyond simply recruiting suitable candidates. We aim to ensure that our remote developers feel like colleagues working from a distance. Therefore, our developers work dedicatedly on your projects, and with our HR support and project managers, we ensure that both you as a client and the developers remain satisfied. This leads to developers staying with us for more than 10 years.

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Our way of working

Introduction
Teamprofile
Recruitment & intake
Application
Onboarding

Introduction

The first introduction is aimed at discovering whether our remote development solution suits your issue, but also your organization. This involves looking at where you are now in terms of development, where you want to go and what requirements are needed

Teamprofile

If deploying remote developers proves to be the solution to your problem, a technical meeting will be scheduled. In this meeting your current development team will be discussed and it will be determined which profiles it should be supplemented with and what hard and soft skills do your remote software developers need? Only with this information can we recruit effectively.

Recruitment & intake

We look for suitable candidates based on the team profile and the vacancy. They are first invited for an intake to determine whether their English language skills are sufficient, they have the right soft skills and whether they fit within your corporate culture. In the second conversation they have a technical meeting with one of our specialists to see whether their hard skills also match your wishes. If we believe there is a match, the candidates will be introduced to you.

Application

After the candidates have been screened by our recruiters, they will be introduced to you. Based on the profiles, you can decide who you invite for an interview. After this, the candidate can go through your own regular application procedure.

Onboarding

The candidate follows your own onboarding procedure. However, with our experience we are happy to think along and offer a helping hand if necessary.

What type of specialist are you looking for?

With our broad talent pool, we can find the designer, tester, or developer for your project whether you are looking for a front-end, back-end, full-stack, mobile developer or Cloud of DevOps engineer .

Laravel
Symfony
Cakephp
Ruby on Rails
Django
Angular
Vue
Typescript
MySQL
Swift
Kotlin
Scala
iOS
Android
Flutter

Looking for an innovative form of IT recruitment? Choose SharpMinds!

The benefits at a glance

Long-term cooperation

We always strive for long-term cooperation between your organization and the remote developers. That is why we work with Project Managers. They are your point of contact and act as your eyes and ears from a distance. Is there a problem? They will solve it for you!

European time zone

We work with high-quality, European developers and there is a maximum of one-hour time difference. This small time difference allows you to switch between each other throughout the day.

Integration into team

What sets us apart as an IT recruitment agency is that we make your remote software developers part of your team. Thanks to our dedicated approach, you don’t have to worry about a developer only half-focusing on your work.

English proficient

We often hear from organizations that experience problems with their remote developers, because of miscommunications due to poor language skills. That is why we employ English teachers.

HR support

We at SharpMinds take over all HR tasks for you. Our project managers ensure that morale among developers remains high with English lessons, pleasant workplaces, fun outings and good secondary employment conditions.