Collaboration to help job seekers find work at Schiphol extended
Greater Amsterdam and Royal Schiphol Group are continuing their successful partnership to help job seekers find work at the airport.
The collaboration is being extended to 2026 and focuses primarily…
Greater Amsterdam and Royal Schiphol Group are continuing their successful partnership to help job seekers find work at the airport.
The collaboration is being extended to 2026 and focuses primarily on jobs for people with a background in practical education, such as in catering, retail, baggage handling, security, cleaning and logistics.
Around 70% of job vacancies at Schiphol are filled by people who followed practical education. The partners bring employers and job seekers, for whom the labour market is still at a distance, together (and in sometimes innovative ways) in order to facilitate recruitment.
This collaboration is successful as it focuses on job seekers who need help finding and keeping a job. In January 2020, a special jobs programme called Banenplan Schiphol was launched by the municipality of Amsterdam and Royal Schiphol Group. Between 2020 and 2022, 549 people found work through this programme. The partnership therefore made a valuable contribution to the strengthening of the local economy and ensured that vacancies were filled. The recent signing of the declaration of intent represents the extension of this collaboration.
Ruud Sondag, CEO of Royal Schiphol Group, said: “Everyone who works at Schiphol makes an important contribution to the creation of a pleasant experience for the traveller.
“Schiphol offers many people in the region a place to work, meaning that Schiphol is of societal and economical importance within the Greater Amsterdam labour market region. One of our priorities is a qualitatively good workplace: enjoyable, safe and healthy. And we consider it important that people at a distance from the labour market can also work here.”
Rutger Groot Wassink, councillor social affairs of the municipality of Amsterdam, added: “Everyone deserves a chance at work, unfortunately there are still many jobseekers who do not find a job. This requires good cooperation between various parties. The results of the Banenplan Schiphol are good, which is why we are happy to continue along this path.”
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