Randstad VSO Partnership

Randstad has a deeply rooted sense of its corporate social responsibility. Over time the company looked at ways our activities could further benefit societies in a broader and more meaningful context. One way to do this was matching our business principles to our social principles. We use our core values and our ability to connect people, to serve the world’s local communities. The partnership with VSO is a perfect fit: VSO searches and sends out qualified professionals to developing countries where they share skills and experience to effectively combat poverty. Randstad's core capability is matching people's talents and clients' needs while boasting a long-standing culture of promoting all interests simultaneously.

By mobilizing resources of both parties, we work together to expand VSO's reach across the globe, vastly increasing the ability of VSO to recruit and place volunteers. Our partnership also gives Randstad Group employees the opportunity to support a common project that makes a real difference.

We support VSO by providing its expertise in recruitment and selection. Randstad’s financial support enables VSO to place more volunteers in a more diverse range of countries, such as Indonesia, Ethiopia and Guyana. Finally, Randstad employees and flex workers are able to get actively involved in the partnership by:
• offering their skills and expertise as a volunteer themselves;
• identifying and helping recruit professionals who might like to volunteer;
• participating in fundraising activities to support VSO's work.

Being the second largest staffing provider in the world, we can use our core competencies and our network of branches and flex-workers to support VSO. Additionally exciting opportunities to engage your skills and experience are offered, allowing you to transform the lives of people who face the reality of poverty everyday. No matter where you are located and what your role is, you have an important part to play. And the best news is that your participation in this partnership will be extremely rewarding and lots of fun.

Together VSO & Randstad are in a position to combat disadvantage and poverty more effectively than they could by working alone. We do this by sending experienced employees who come from varied backgrounds (IT, engineering, HR, finance, etc) to developing countries.