Resettl - Career and Life in the Netherlands

Mirjam and Corine - Resettl
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Just moved to the Netherlands for work, or planning to? Resettl: Life and Career in The Netherlands is the podcast for international professionals building a career and a life here. Each episode tackles one real question: why is finding a job here harder than expected? How do you reinvent yourself when nobody knows you yet? Hosted by Mirjam de Bakker and Corine van Dijk-den Ouden, founders of Resettl, a Dutch career coaching practice for internationals and repats. Two coaches, one from HR and one from marketing, who both lived abroad and came back. Honest, practical, never too serious.

Episodes

  1. Oct 15

    It's our 4th Anniversary! give-away time...

    Four years ago, a chat after a networking event lasted three hours and ended in a parking lot. Resettl grew from that conversation. The special anniversary give away competition has ended but we'd love to talk to you! Book your Roadmap call Resettl turns four, and Mirjam and Corine celebrate the way they work best: by talking. There’s a quick-fire round (which word gets crossed out of CVs most often, and which Dutch work habit you learn to live with), two client stories about what happens when you reframe your experience, and a look at where Resettl stands after four years, as the bridge between international professionals and the employers who hire them. 00:00 Four years of Resettl02:21 The word we cross out of CVs04:22 What the other one can do05:36 Success after four years06:41 Resettl’s fifth year in one word07:31 Reframing a story into a niche09:10 A transition coaching moment10:57 The bridge between talent and employers12:13 Our birthday giveaway14:17 A toast to year five

  2. Sep 2

    When nobody knows who you are: reinventing your career in the Netherlands (with Carine Visagie)

    Nobody in Eindhoven knew who she was. Not her degree, not her company, not her twenty years as an award-winning journalist. Here is how she started again.   This week Mirjam talks to Carine Visagie, journalist, digital content specialist and founder of Double Hyphen Creative, who moved from Cape Town to Eindhoven two years ago for her husband's work and rebuilt her professional and personal life from the ground up. Loved our conversation about being unseen in a new country, making friends when everyone else is already settled, forging your own path as a ZZP'er, what AI is doing to creative work, and the podcast she started: " Between Strangers" about the people who now call Eindhoven home from somewhere else.   Chapters: 00:00 From Cape Town to Eindhoven 02:49 Why we moved, and what it cost 06:13 You don't know what you don't know 08:30 Can you make Dutch friends? 11:40 Forging her own path 14:19 The AI question for content pros 18:14 Just arrived? Keep moving 20:56 Freedom to reinvent your path 23:33 Between Strangers: her podcast 27:51 Loneliness is not being seen 30:05 What's next, and permission not to know   Mirjam and Corine are the coaches behind Resettl, your career partner for international professionals in the Netherlands.   Find Carine and her work: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carine-visagie/ Learn more about Double-Hyphen Creative: https://doublehyphencreative.nl/ Participate in the Between Strangers podcast series: https://doublehyphencreative.nl/betweenstrangers    Building a life and career in the Netherlands? Here's where to go next with Resettl:   🎓 Join our free webinar, where we unpack the Dutch job market live and answer your questions. Save your spot: https://resettl.nl/webinar/ Ways to work with us:  Career coaching and/or transition coaching is available as an online programme or in a 1:1 setting plan your Roadmap career call to talk about your personal dreams and ambitions Building a career in the Netherlands and need some guidance for your next step? Wether it is interview preparation or what your job market fit looks like, we can help in this focussed call. Beforehand, you fill in a questionnaire so we can review your situation and prepare for our conversation. In the call, you get concrete feedback on your situation and what your next steps look like.  Questions or a topic you'd like us to cover? E-mail us at support@resettl.nl Find us on LinkedIn: Mirjam de Bakker https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirjamdebakker/ andCorine van Dijk-den Ouden https://www.linkedin.com/in/corinevandijk-denouden/. We're happy to connect!

  3. Aug 21

    Does speaking Dutch really matter for your career? (with Jacky van der Starre - Speak Professional Dutch)

    You understand Dutch, but the moment you have to speak, you freeze. This one is for you. Mirjam and Corine sit down with Jacky van Der Starre, founder of Speak Professional Dutch and Taalstar and creator of the Spreekwafel app & Spreekwafel Circle eco-system , for a warm, practical conversation about the gap between knowing Dutch and daring to use it. Her philosophy is refreshingly simple: speak first, perfect later. Confidence does not come before speaking, it comes from it. We get into what even a few sentences of Dutch actually open up in your career, why Dutch colleagues switch to English on you and how to gently take the floor back, and Jacky sets a live challenge you can try yourself (see further down) Find Jacky and her work at Speak Professional Dutch: Download the 'Spreekwafel' app More info on the Spreekwafel Circle community The Dutch sentence for you to practice: "Ik begrijp je punt, maar ik denk dat we het ook van een andere kant kunnen bekijken." (I understand your point, but I think we could also look at it from a different perspective.) Or, the short version if that feels more comfortable: "Hoe bedoel je?" (What do you mean?) Resettl: Building a life and career in the Netherlands? Here's where to go next: 🎓 Join our free webinar, where we unpack the Dutch job market live and answer your questions. Save your spot: https://resettl.nl/webinar/Ways to work with us:  Career coaching and/or transition coaching is available as an online programme or in a 1:1 setting plan your ⁠Roadmap career call ⁠to talk about your personal dreams and ambitions Building a career in the Netherlands and need some guidance for your next step? Wether it is interview preparation or what your job market fit looks like, we can help in this focussed call. Beforehand, you fill in a questionnaire so we can review your situation and prepare for our conversation. In the call, you get concrete feedback on your situation and what your next steps look like.  Questions or a topic you'd like us to cover? E-mail us at support@resettl.nl Find us on LinkedIn: Mirjam de Bakker (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirjamdebakker/) and Corine van Dijk-den Ouden (https://www.linkedin.com/in/corinevandijk-denouden/). We're happy to connect!

  4. Season 1, Episode 1 Trailer

    Trailer - Resettl origin story

    Two coaches, one shared plot: we both built careers abroad, moved back to the Netherlands, and found that home no longer fit the people we had become. So we built Resettl, career partners for International professionals. Press play for the short version, then start with episode one for the whole story.

  5. Aug 21

    Two careers abroad, one company: how Resettl began

    Two coaches, one shared plot. After years of building careers abroad, from Karachi and Singapore to Geneva and the US, we both moved back to the Netherlands and found that home no longer fit the people we had become. In this first co-hosted episode we tell how a networking walk we were not supposed to keep talking on turned into Resettl, why a "fragmented" international CV is a treasure rather than a gap, and what our two lenses, HR and recruitment on one side, marketing and positive psychology on the other, let us spot that a single coach would miss. If your years abroad feel like something you keep having to explain away, start here. 00:00 Coming home was its own move 00:59 Meet Mirjam and Corine 04:54 Why the two of us work 06:48 Two lenses: HR and marketing 08:00 The afternoon Resettl began 11:04 From frustration to action 13:58 Your years abroad are your superpower Building a life and career in the Netherlands? Here's where to go next: 🎓 Join our free webinar, where we unpack the Dutch job market live and answer your questions. Save your spot: ⁠https://resettl.nl/webinar/⁠Ways to work with us: Career coaching and/or transition coaching is available as an online programme or in a 1:1 setting plan your ⁠⁠Roadmap career call ⁠⁠to talk about your personal dreams and ambitions Building a career in the Netherlands and need some guidance for your next step? Wether it is interview preparation or what your job market fit looks like, we can help in this focussed call. Beforehand, you fill in a questionnaire so we can review your situation and prepare for our conversation. In the call, you get concrete feedback on your situation and what your next steps look like.  Questions or a topic you'd like us to cover? E-mail us at support@resettl.nl Find us on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠Mirjam de Bakker ⁠⁠⁠and ⁠⁠⁠Corine van Dijk-den Ouden⁠⁠⁠. We're happy to connect!

  6. Aug 3

    The 3 mistakes that keep hardworking internationals stuck in the Dutch job market

    You're not doing anything wrong. You're just doing more of the wrong thing - and in the Dutch job market, that gets exhausting. In this episode Mirjam walks through three patterns that quietly work against internationals job hunting in the Netherlands, and the small, slightly uncomfortable shifts that actually move things. Fewer applications, aimed better. One real conversation instead of ten cold clicks. And your international story told as a strength, not smoothed away. Chapters: 00:00 Your experience is the superpower 00:32 Who this show is for 01:41 Three "mistakes" (really patterns) 02:45 Mistake 1: numbers vs targeting 05:20 Mistake 2: waiting to network 07:00 Front door vs side door (via-via) 09:13 Networking in real life 10:22 Mistake 3: adapting too much 12:15 What to do this week 13:24 Who it's for + free webinar 14:56 A small ask before you go In this episode: - Why the numbers game loses to the targeting game - Why the "side door" of networking opens more often here than the front door, and how to do it without the cringe. - Why blending in is the opposite of what makes you hireable. Your difference is the point. Resettl is Mirjam and Corine — career partners for internationals building a life and career in the Netherlands, and for Dutch repats coming home. We've stood in your shoes. Building a life and career in the Netherlands? Here's where to go next: 🎓 Join our free webinar, where we unpack the Dutch job market live and answer your questions. Save your spot: ⁠⁠https://resettl.nl/webinar/⁠⁠Ways to work with us: Career coaching and/or transition coaching is available as an online programme or in a 1:1 setting plan your ⁠⁠⁠Roadmap career call ⁠⁠⁠to talk about your personal dreams and ambitions Building a career in the Netherlands and need some guidance for your next step? Wether it is interview preparation or what your job market fit looks like, we can help in this focussed call. Beforehand, you fill in a questionnaire so we can review your situation and prepare for our conversation. In the call, you get concrete feedback on your situation and what your next steps look like.  Questions or a topic you'd like us to cover? E-mail us at support@resettl.nl Find us on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Mirjam de Bakker ⁠⁠⁠⁠and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Corine van Dijk-den Ouden⁠⁠⁠⁠. We're happy to connect!

  7. Jul 8

    Why finding a job in the Netherlands is harder than you think

    In this episode: It's 11pm and the inbox is still silent. Around application forty, you start to wonder if it's you. It isn't..... Building a life and career in the Netherlands? Here's where to go next: 🎓 Join our free webinar, where we unpack the Dutch job market live and answer your questions. Save your spot: ⁠⁠https://resettl.nl/webinar/⁠⁠Ways to work with us: Career coaching and/or transition coaching is available as an online programme or in a 1:1 setting plan your ⁠⁠⁠Roadmap career call ⁠⁠⁠to talk about your personal dreams and ambitions Building a career in the Netherlands and need some guidance for your next step? Wether it is interview preparation or what your job market fit looks like, we can help in this focussed call. Beforehand, you fill in a questionnaire so we can review your situation and prepare for our conversation. In the call, you get concrete feedback on your situation and what your next steps look like.  Questions or a topic you'd like us to cover? E-mail us at support@resettl.nl Find us on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Mirjam de Bakker ⁠⁠⁠⁠and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Corine van Dijk-den Ouden⁠⁠⁠⁠. We're happy to connect!

  8. Jul 7

    Career & Life in The Netherlands - a short introduction

    🎯 In this episode: just a short introduction on what this podcast is about Building a life and career in the Netherlands? Here's where to go next: Building a life and career in the Netherlands? Here's where to go next: 🎓 Join our free webinar, where we unpack the Dutch job market live and answer your questions. Save your spot: ⁠⁠https://resettl.nl/webinar/⁠⁠Ways to work with us: Career coaching and/or transition coaching is available as an online programme or in a 1:1 setting plan your ⁠⁠⁠Roadmap career call ⁠⁠⁠to talk about your personal dreams and ambitions Building a career in the Netherlands and need some guidance for your next step? Wether it is interview preparation or what your job market fit looks like, we can help in this focussed call. Beforehand, you fill in a questionnaire so we can review your situation and prepare for our conversation. In the call, you get concrete feedback on your situation and what your next steps look like.  Questions or a topic you'd like us to cover? E-mail us at support@resettl.nl Find us on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Mirjam de Bakker ⁠⁠⁠⁠and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Corine van Dijk-den Ouden⁠⁠⁠⁠. We're happy to connect!

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Just moved to the Netherlands for work, or planning to? Resettl: Life and Career in The Netherlands is the podcast for international professionals building a career and a life here. Each episode tackles one real question: why is finding a job here harder than expected? How do you reinvent yourself when nobody knows you yet? Hosted by Mirjam de Bakker and Corine van Dijk-den Ouden, founders of Resettl, a Dutch career coaching practice for internationals and repats. Two coaches, one from HR and one from marketing, who both lived abroad and came back. Honest, practical, never too serious.

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