Our executive search process is characterised by its transparent and structured approach. Our knowledge about the developments within your organisation and business sector is a key factor in the search process. YESS quickly identifies the ideal candidate. This is because of our professional commitment and emphasis on personal skills.
The strategy of YESS consultants is based on their knowledge of a particular industry or role. As well as their years of experience in executive search. Our executive search associates work closely together with the consultants. The associates follow and map career moves of ambitious professionals and potential senior managers within a wide variety of industries and functions.
People are crucial within an organisation. Because they are the ones who define and achieve the objectives, develop new strategies and professionalise the organisation. Therefore, the most lasting success factor within a business comes down to making the right choice regarding new professionals, managers and directors.
YESS is located in Amsterdam, but services clients and candidates across the country.
Our track record in executive search shows that YESS International Consultants has, for over 25 years, been and continues to be the right partner in this.
YESS is active in many dynamic markets and fields. Our consultants have each had years of experience in management and consultancy positions. As a result they have an extensive network at their disposal. So our consultants understand the challenges and expectations you face within your company. Together with our research associates, they find talented candidates, which include multicultural candidates, to fill the key positions within your organisations.
YESS was founded by Egon Zehnder.
Talentor offers local expertise in executive search in more then 28 countries on 4 continents. Please read more about our partnership here.
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Identification of the best candidates
The strategy of YESS consultants is based on their knowledge of a particular industry or role, as well as their years of experience in executive search. Our executive search associates work closely together with the consultants, following and mapping the career moves of ambitious professionals and potential senior managers within a wide variety of industries and functions.
Evaluating the “how”
During meetings with potential candidates, our consultants do not merely focus on what a candidate has achieved; how a professional works is often a better predictor of success than a resume alone. That is why YESS focusses on the how-questions, based on our competency-oriented interview model. The answers to these questions provide insight into the competences and allow for an accurate assessment of how the candidate will perform in the role. They will also provide an indication of whether the candidate will excel within the organisation and whether he/she will be a good fit within the company.
Committed to results
Our consultants’ objective is for our candidates to exceed expectations in their new job. We therefore maintain regular contact with both the candidate and the client to find out whether the match is meeting expectations and how the candidate is faring. The personal and professional involvement of our consultants stems from a long-term sense of solidarity with the clients and candidates. This long-lasting bond is one of the reasons that approximately two-thirds of our mandates consist of so-called repeat-mandates for existing clients.
Various studies have shown that diversity is one of the key characteristics of a successful team. YESS firmly believes this to be true. Diversity is much more than just a gender issue, also taking into account differences in background, experience and ways of thinking. This results in a broad perspective.
For years, YESS has been closely involved in various diversity initiatives. YESS is one of the founding partners of Talent naar de Top‘s Executive Search Code and commits to diversity in the boardroom through Topvrouwen.nl. The diversity issue informs our search process. As a result, YESS has in recent years helped place an average of 38% of women in senior management positions.
YESS offers a wide range of services ranging from Walk the D&I Talk, talent development, executive search and consultancy services aimed at enhancing diversity and inclusion within your organization.
PRIVACY POLICY
Effective Date: May 24, 2018
Welcome to www.yess.nl, the website of YESS International Consultants BV, Noordhollandstraat 71, 1081 AS Amsterdam, The Netherlands (“YESS,” “we,” “us” and “our” etc.). We are a leading executive search firm and trusted advisor to many well respected organizations. We provide a variety of services to these clients and other parties, including, but not limited to: (i) executive search (e.g. helping clients recruit executives for their organizations); (ii) board consulting (e.g. searching for directors, conducting board effectiveness reviews and appraisals of directors, and assisting in board successions; (iii) leadership strategy services; (iv) executive integration; (v) family business advisory services; (vi) diversity and inclusion services; and (vii) CEO succession (collectively, and among others, our “Services”).
For additional information on our Services please visit https://www.yess.nl.
We respect the privacy of the users of our website (“you”, “your”) and are committed to protecting their personal data and information according to the applicable law. This privacy policy (“Policy”) explains how, to what extent and for what purposes we are collecting and subsequently processing personal data and information through our website.
YESS is the responsible entity for the processing of your personal data and information on this website.
In addition to terms defined elsewhere in this Policy, the following terms shall have the following meaning throughout this Policy:
“Personal Information” means any information that either (a) personally identifies a natural person; or (b) pertains to an identifiable natural person, i.e. someone who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular, by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to his or her physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity, or (c) constitutes individually identifiable information about an individual consumer collected by us online through this website and that we maintain in an accessible form, or that (d) we are otherwise required to protect under applicable data privacy laws (including, but not limited to, national, international and supranational data protection and privacy laws, directives, regulations and comparable legal acts). Examples of Personal Information include your contact details such as your name, email address, birthday or phone number as well as information about your professional education and experience, skills, preferences, membership in professional organizations, etc.
“Processing” (and variations such as “Process”) means any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Information or on sets of Personal Information, whether or not by automated means, such as the collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, blocking, restriction, erasure or destruction.
“Sensitive Personal Information” means Personal Information revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the Processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation.
“Site” means https://www.yess.nl and all web pages hosted at that domain.
Depending on your interaction with the Site, your Personal Information is Processed as follows:
(i) Subscription to our newsletter #YESSNEWSS – Declaration of Consent
Once you have registered for #YESSNEWSS and, where applicable, indicated during the registration process that you wish to receive certain content, we will send you:
With registering for #YESSNEWSS and providing your Personal Information in the process, you explicitly consent to the Processing of such Personal Information as described above. You acknowledge that you are under no obligation to provide your consent and that, if you choose to do so nonetheless, you may revoke your declaration of consent..
(ii) Your Career – Declaration of Consent
As part of our Services, we specialize in search, placement and integration of candidates for executive and similar management positions on behalf of our clients.
In the event you are interested in becoming a Candidate, you can provide us with information on your personal and professional background (“Candidate Information”) that we will, subject to our sole discretion, take into consideration as part of the Client Services. To do so, please visit https://www.yess.nl/career/. On the following web page, you may upload your CV or resume in Microsoft Word or PDF format.
Providing any Candidate Information is purely voluntary on your part. Although it is generally true that, the more information you share with us, the better we are able to assess your potential suitability for an open executive or similar management position, we urge you not to disclose to us any Candidate Information that is likely of little or no relevance or may not even be legally considered as part of common hiring processes. This applies, in particular, to Sensitive Personal Information.
If and to the extent you share Candidate Information with us through the Site, we might follow up with you using the contact details you may have provided in order to clarify any questions we might have or obtain complementary information from you. In addition, we might conduct assessments of your professional profile and perform searches for information on your personal and professional life publicly available via social media services (e.g. Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.) on the Internet or within data you have previously disclosed to us, provided that such information might be of importance to your qualification for a particular executive or similar management position. Any resulting information will be considered Candidate Information and be Processed as described below together with the Candidate Information you initially provided us with through the Site.
Your Candidate Information will be processed by and on behalf of YESS.
Your Candidate Information processed by YESS might contain (a) your contact details (name, address, phone number, email address, etc.), (b) your biographical data, (c) information on your professional education, and (d) your educational credentials, professional diplomas and certificates. In addition, it may contain (e) your employment and compensation history, (f) data on your suitability for client opportunities we compile as part of our assessments of your professional profile, (g) information on your personal and professional life publicly available via social media services (e.g. Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.) or otherwise on the Internet that might be of importance to your qualification for a particular executive or similar management position, and (h) any Sensitive Personal Information you might choose to disclose to us.
Your Candidate Information will be shared with third parties as follows:
As part of the Client Services, your Candidate Information may be Processed for the purposes of (a) executing searches for potential Candidates on behalf of clients that have an opening for an executive or similar management position, (b) assessing your suitability for client opportunities, (c) informing you of open executive or similar management positions potentially suitable for you, (d) introducing you to clients as a Candidate and potential future member of their management, and of (e) verifying your educational credentials, professional diplomas and certificates. In addition, your Candidate Information may be Processed for the purposes of (f) performing searches for information on your personal and professional life publicly available via social media services (e.g. Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.), on the Internet or within data you have previously disclosed to us, provided that such information might be of importance to your qualification for a particular executive or similar management position, (g) providing integration services on behalf of a client you have been placed with by monitoring your integration with the client, speaking with all parties involved and lending support for you to reach full effectiveness in your new role as soon as possible, (h) approaching you, after you have been placed with a client, as a client contact for the placement of other Candidates or as a source of information about potential Candidates for third-party clients, (i) ensuring that, after your placement with a client, you will not be recruited on behalf of another client unless you request consideration for other opportunities, and of (j) operating the databases your Candidate Information is stored in.
At no point will your Candidate Information be matched, linked or otherwise connected with Personal Information collected through other components of the Site for purposes other than providing Client Services. Your Candidate Data will be Processed until you revoke your declaration of consent given when sharing Candidate Data with us through the Site. Upon the revocation of your declaration of consent, we will delete your Candidate Data from all databases.
By sharing your Candidate Information with us through this Site, you explicitly consent to the Processing of your Candidate Information, including any Sensitive Personal Information you might choose to disclose to us, as described above. This includes, without limitation, the transfer of your Candidate Information, or parts thereof, to countries not providing an adequate level of protection of personal data. You acknowledge that you are under no obligation to provide your consent and that, if you choose to do so nonetheless, you may revoke your declaration of consent at any time with future effect by using the following contact details: consent@yess.nl.
(iii) Third-Party Services
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to keep track of how users use the website. The information thereby obtained, including your computer’s IP address, is transferred to and stored by Google on servers. Google utilises this information to keep track of how our website is used, to provide us with reports on the website and to offer its advertisers information about the effectiveness of their campaigns. Google may provide this information to third parties should Google be legally required to do so, or insofar as these third parties process information on behalf of Google. We have no control over this.
(iv) Personal Information pertaining to Children
Our Site and Services are not intended to be used by minors and we do not want to collect information from minors. If a child’s parent or a guardian believes their child may have provided Personal Information to us, please write us using the contact details provided in “How to Contact Us” below and we will delete that Personal Information, subject to the applicable law and this Policy.
Protecting your Personal Information is important to us. We use appropriate technical and organizational measures and safeguards designed to help prevent unauthorized access, unlawful Processing, and unauthorized or accidental loss of your Personal Information. This includes, for example, the encryption of your communication with us over the Site based on the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Subject to the applicable law, you have the right to (a) obtain information about your Personal Information we Process on our Site, and to (b) request the correction, deletion or blocking of incorrect Personal Information or Personal Information not processed in line with the applicable legal requirements. To make a respective request, please use the contact details provided in “How to Contact Us” below.
From time to time we may change our business activities and/or our policies and procedures with respect to the Processing of Personal Information. Where appropriate in these cases, we will, subject to applicable law, revise, supplement, or replace this Policy. When the Policy changes, we will post the substitute version and change the effective date listed at the beginning of the Policy.
When required by applicable law, however, we may provide you with advance notice of any changes to this Policy and with an opportunity to object to such changes. If you exercise your right to object, the changes will not become effective with respect to your Personal Information, but your ability to use our Services may be terminated or impaired. We will explicitly notify you of the consequences of the objection or non-objection to the extent and in the manner required by law.
We encourage your questions and comments about this Policy and our privacy practices. Please contact us using the information below, and we will respond to you as soon as reasonably possible:
YESS International Consultants
Noordhollandstraat 71
1081 AS Amsterdam
The Netherlands.
Email: consent@yess.nl
As of the Effective Date, this Policy supersedes and replaces all other documents. If you do not want this Policy to apply to Personal Information that we previously may have collected about you, please email this address consent@yess.nl and we will make commercially reasonable efforts to delete or otherwise remove your Personal Information from our system(s). In your email, please provide us with your name and other identifying information and the type(s) of Personal Information that you would like us to remove.
The content on the YESS International Consultants website is of a general, informative nature. YESS makes every effort to ensure that the content on this website is accurate. In spite of this, inaccuracies and deficiencies can occur. YESS does not guarantee that the information and content on this website is accurate or complete. YESS is not liable for the consequences of the use of information or content on this website.
YESS retains all rights – including copyright, domain names and other intellectual property rights – to the information provided on this website, including texts, images, logo’s and video’s. With the exception of personal and non-commercial use, the information on this website may not be distributed or reproduced without prior written permission from YESS.
Do you have questions, remarks and/or suggestions about our website or do you have a malfunction to report? We welcome your feedback. Please send an email to online@yess.nl under de heading “website”.
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