Graduate internship at Xentys
Start your career with our team
Who is Xentys?
Industry and high tech sectors
Niche recruitment agency focused on procurement positions in industry (shipbuilding to high-tech), both interim and permanent.
- Positions >€60K salary
- Small but close-knit team
- Wonderful work environment
About graduate internship
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- Current situation: major shortage of technical buyers in the industry.
- Internship: create and detail design for recruitment, deployment and training of young technical buyers for industry -> business case and plan of action, followed by implementation
- Focused on personal growth of the young buyers, e.g., by gaining purchasing experience at different companies in a trainee-like program. With good guidance from his manager (the client) + regular training by xentys, organized by you
- Ingredients for the trainee: good supervision, training and therefore personal growth.
- Naturally, you will also develop the marketing and sales side to find clients where the young buyers can be employed.
- After positive evaluation of the internship, you will subsequently roll out your plan (employed by xentys)
- Entrepreneurial
- Empathetic
- Go-getter
- Creative
- Internship allowance €500/month
- Thorough guidance
- Personal growth
- A broad assignment that allows you to learn a lot
- Goal is a follow-up job
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