Anyone looking for staff or work in laboratories or process engineering will soon end up at Balans. The company makes dreams come true for people who want to work in these sectors. Balans’ 20 employees pair clients and contractors for the best matches. In order to do so, the Arnhem-based employment agency successfully uses 8vance’s matching technology, which uses AI to accurately predict suitable jobs and candidates.

8vance is proud to welcome Laurens Waling as a new member of its management team. The fast-growing AI scale-up is the only one in the Netherlands to offer a skills-based matching platform, but the potential of its technology is still relatively unknown. As Marketing Director and Chief Evangelist of 8vance, Laurens will now be changing that. Laurens founded Part-up in 2014, as a solution to share work within large organisations. He sold the company last year and is now joining the market leader. In the coming period, Laurens will make appearances at Emerce Recruitment Day, RecBuzz Conference (Berlin), Strategietage HR (Cologne), Digitaal Werven and Recruitment Tech Demo Day.

8vance is market leader in skills-based matching software for organisations and recruitment agencies. Through statistical analysis of 80 million profiles and 25 million vacancies, they can attribute appropriate skills to each candidate. Likewise, for each vacancy the skills are ‘calculated’. Consequently, the software sees infinitely more matches than the human brain and offers recruiters unprecedented opportunities to find the best match between vacancies and candidates. How are current users taking advantage of these capabilities? We asked three customers: Cesar, Lloyd and Sander.

Last weekend, 8vance teams from the Netherlands, Germany and Romania met in Cluj-Napoca. A great end-of-year meeting to celebrate, get to know each other and make plans. The ideal opportunity to put employees in the spotlights.

In Twente, companies are working together with knowledge institutions and public authorities to create one single ecosystem for talent. Better matches will lead to more available talent, more employment and fewer vacancies. 8vance’s matching software helps them put all the talent in the region where it needs to be. Coordinator Ibrahim Yildirim explains more about their ambitions.