Netherlands-based HeadFirst Group announced that it has acquired StarApple, a Dutch recruitment firm specialising in sourcing IT and digital specialists.

Financial details were not disclosed.

StarApple Group was founded in 2008. The group said it has already successfully connected more than 10,000 specialists to a variety of organizations.

Caner Hamamioglu, General Director at StarApple Group said, “Growing talent is our mission. We do this by carefully connecting professionals from our network to assignments, where professionals not only do what they have done before with other clients, but are also challenged to take a step forward in their development. ‘Design your career’, is how we call it. With the collaboration with HeadFirst Group, we can do this on an even larger scale and we are looking forward to that tremendously.”

StarApple will become an independent brand within HeadFirst Group, retaining its own identity. The current management will continue to lead the organization in its growth strategy into the future.

Hamamioglu said, “HeadFirst Group will be the driving force behind StarApple. With our enthusiastic team of over eighty colleagues, we will continue to offer a full service recruitment solution for our clients and professionals. And we get access to the group’s platform, which gives us extra power to realize our growth ambitions.”

HeadFirst Group anticipates that combining various services is necessary to continue to solve all client issues in the current dynamic global job market.

“We believe that combining high-tech solutions with services with a great human touch is the key to customer success. For us, those customers are both clients, who we continuously provide with mission critical talent, and professionals, who we actively help from assignment to assignment with the most attractive clients,” Marion van Happen, CEO at HeadFirst Group said.

HeadFirst Group is a leading international HR service provider and a specialist in the professional organisation of external hiring.