Are you an international professional seeking opportunities in the Dutch market, or a local professional interested in joining one of our international clients? Read on!

Octagon Professionals would like to invite you to submit your resume to introduce yourself. We are working alongside our clients in close exchange regarding their short-term and long-term recruitment plans.

We are very proud of the partnerships we have formed based on mutual trust. Our clients operate across various industries such aerospace, telecommunications, sustainability, engineering, customer service and many more! As such, we are confident that we can offer suitable positions to a broad range of professionals, actively looking right now or considering a new opportunity in the future.

We understand the process of searching for a suitable position can be tiresome and would like to offer you the chance to be added to our database in order to be contacted as soon as a suitable opportunity arises. This can be either within the teams of our clients or our very own team at Octagon.

Please follow our convenient application process indicated below, stating your full name, and attaching your resume as a PDF.

Our recruitment team will then process your application, carefully review, and create a candidate profile in our database. When a suitable opportunity arises, we will reach out to explore how your skills and experience can contribute to the respective teams of our clients or to Octagon.

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