years of partnership
placement success rate
hours of senior time saved
Hiring is supposed to build your team. For Novon Digital, it was quietly draining it.
Senior engineers were spending time on interviews, coordination, and follow-up instead of client delivery. Leadership was being pulled into recruitment conversations that should never have landed on their plate. Every open position meant more internal overhead and slower progress on their projects.
This is a challenge many growing tech companies know. The tricky part isn’t just finding developers but finding the right ones fast enough, without turning your highest-value people into full-time recruiters.
Novon Digital is a Dutch consultancy specialising in Azure, AI, and digital transformation. Their engineers work directly with clients, operate independently in remote-first environments, and need strong technical depth in a competitive stack. Those profiles are hard to find in the Netherlands. Moreover, the search process, when handled internally, is time-consuming as well as expensive.
The recruitment workload was only part of the problem. Beyond hiring, there was the ongoing administration: contracts, invoicing, employment coordination, compliance. For a consultancy focused on delivery, every hour spent on this was an hour not spent on client work.
Novon needed a partner who could take the full hiring and HR operational burden off their hands, not just send CVs and disappear.
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That’s where we came in with a clear structure: defined costs, transparent processes, and a genuine understanding of Novon's technical requirements. No vague promises, no surprises.
We handled sourcing, screening, candidate coordination, and placement – and didn't stop there. Contracts, invoicing, local employment coordination: all the administration that typically falls back on the client stayed with us instead. Over 30 placements and four years, that added up to 500+ hours of senior and leadership time saved for client delivery, not recruitment.
The 93% placement success rate also reflects something specific: candidates who were technically strong and who integrated naturally into Novon's team culture. That's not a coincidence, but the result of investing time into understanding how Novon works.
-Tom Knol, COO, Novon
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