Here’s how you can get involved at WRK.frl/
Joining WRK.frl/ is really easy, free, and offers lots of benefits. Read on for a quick start!
WRK.frl/ at a glance
WRK.frl/ is Friesland’s talent attraction programme. WRK.frl/ is dedicated to attracting talent from outside Friesland. And we ensure that the talent already present in our province is better retained. Talent of all ages and educational backgrounds. We do this in many different ways: with a digital platform, campaigns both within and outside Friesland, a WRKLab full of enthusiastic students, events and WRKShops, we act as the bridge between employers and jobseekers.
Five reasons why you’ll want to join WRK.frl/
- You’ll become visible to talent both within and outside Friesland.
- You’ll attract more applicants to your job vacancies.
- An employer profile is free.
- You can access students via the WRKLab and the internship noticeboard.
- You’re helping to improve the quality of life across the whole province!
Interested? Here’s how you can get involved
1. Create an employer profile
Getting started on WRK.frl/ begins with creating a free employer profile. It only takes two minutes of your time. You can choose to post your job vacancies yourself or, even more simply, link your ‘Careers’ page and we’ll fetch them for you! Read more about how this works here.
2. Internship noticeboard
The WRK.frl/ internship board is the largest of its kind in Friesland and helps employers and students find each other. Employers can easily post their internship vacancies, and students can post their own internship requests free of charge. This makes it easy for both employers and students to connect.
Do you have an internship vacancy or a project that a student could work on? Post it on the internship board today. : Internship board - WRK.frl/.
Tip: Internships often start in September and February, so post your vacancy three or four months in advance to increase your chances of attracting an intern.
3. WRKLab
Can’t get enough of the input from enthusiastic students? Good news: at the WRKLab, students from NHL Stenden will spend six months working on your specific challenge. They have their own dedicated space at NHL Stenden for this purpose, where they also pitch their ideas and final presentations to employers. With just one hour every two weeks, the WRKLab’s supervision is fairly limited.
An added benefit of the WRKLab is that you’ll build a good rapport with students who might well do an internship with you or even land their first job with you. You won’t be the first employer to find sought-after staff through this route.
4. Matching tool
The match tool matches potential applicants with you as an employer based on your organisation’s values, culture and structure. This makes it easy for jobseekers to discover just how many great organisations there are in Friesland. And, of course, they can then click through to your company profile and job vacancies. You can fill in the match tool via your company profile, making it complete! Want to try it yourself? Match tool - WRK.frl/
Would you like to find out more about the WRKLab?
Do you have a challenge, problem, assignment or research project that you think could benefit from a fresh perspective from students? At the WRKLab on the NHL Stenden campus, students tackle real-world problems set by employers. Do you have a problem like that? Or would you like to work with students? Then read on to find out what the WRKLab can do for you!
Read all about WRKLab
As a company, you can post your job vacancies on WRK.frl/. You can create the vacancy in your company profile; it will then appear in our system as ‘pending’. The vacancy will then be approved, and once that has happened, it will be visible on the platform.
WRK.frl/ has the largest internship board in Friesland for both vocational and higher vocational students. Just as with job vacancies, WRK.frl/ can automatically post all internships on behalf of many employers. And, of course, employers can also post their own internship vacancies. Post a vacancy as you normally would, tick the ‘internship’ box, and your vacancy will appear immediately on the internship noticeboard (subject to approval). In addition, students can also post an internship request. Employers can view these requests and easily have their contact details forwarded to the student. It is then up to the student to contact the employer. WRK.frl/ has no access to the information sent.
Internship BoardWRK.frl/ does not have access to applicants’ details. We are unable to contact these jobseekers.
WRK.frl/ has no insight into responses to job applications, coffee meetings or other potential points of contact between jobseekers and employers. If a company fails to respond to a job application, a coffee meeting or any other form of contact, the responsibility lies with the company itself. It is always possible that an email from a potential applicant has ended up in the spam folder; we therefore recommend checking your spam folder regularly.
WRK.frl/ uses a job listing scraper. This scraper allows us to retrieve job listings directly from 90% of employers’ websites and repost them on WRK.frl/. Before we repost a job vacancy, we check it manually to ensure that everything is correct. We are continuing to improve this system so that we can scrape data from an increasing number of employers. With the scraper, you no longer need to worry about it yourself, but you can always choose to post job vacancies manually (as well).
We are unable to scrape all websites for the following reason:
- The website’s design prevents effective scraping.
- PDFs can sometimes be difficult to extract.
- The technical structure of the website is unsuitable.
- Scraping is often impossible for employers who offer job vacancies from third parties, such as temporary employment agencies, recruiters, intermediaries, etc.
Any employer in Friesland can create a free employer profile. You can do this via the link below under the heading ‘Sign up’.
Sign upUsing the Matchtool on WRK.frl/, jobseekers can answer a series of questions to see exactly which employers are a good fit for them in terms of corporate culture. Employers can enter their answers to these questions in their employer dashboard. This ensures that the initial contact between employers and jobseekers gets off to a good start, as jobseekers already know a great deal about the corporate culture and can see that it matches their expectations.
See your dashboardYou can access your organisation’s dashboard via the login and registration page.
See your dashboardDo you have a question, would you like to collaborate, or is there something else? We’d love to hear from you at info@wrk.frl!
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