Jaap (Jacob) Waterham

We believe that being successful professionally takes more than having just the right ‘hard’ skill set. It requires being able to navigate and understand the complexity of people’s behaviour and motivational preferences and the effect this has on each other whilst interacting. Call it your Social Intelligence.We also believe that you can only be successful at ATTRACTING the right people, when you are also successful at RETAINING people. We only work with, and for people and companies who share this opinion. But most of all, we know this is about you and the challenges you face.So it is not about how many offices or employees we have or telling you how successful we are. How could we know what to tell you as we have not asked you what you find important when working with a headhunter or what you define as criteria for success.Who are we?We are international headhunters, with Anglo Dutch roots, and more than 30 years of professional experience. We operate in all branches and industries; you could say our specialism is people.We value tolerance, independence and modesty combined with hard work, ambition and fun. We have an aversion to the nonessential and are frank and direct. Would you like to know more about HunterLoohout and our methods, or what HunterLoohout can mean to your career or to your company, please go to our website hunterloohout.com

We spend a large proportion of our life at work with other people. Often, we don’t choose whom we work with (unless we’re the one that made the hiring) and even then – there’s an expectation that we must work together well to produce results. Sometimes it works out and people just “click” and succeed together. Sometimes it doesn’t.However, most of us have experienced difficult working relationships in our careers and we also know that – left unchecked – the relationship will interfere with achieving successful outcomes. The fact is – we all have different motivations and preferences when working through our goals to get the result we want.“Every company has to discover the attitudes that make their organisation unique and special. And even if the company’s attitudes change over the years, those attitudes will always be an organic reflection of their most successful people.”Mark Murphy, “Hiring for Attitude” (2011) McGraw-HillOur commitment is to provide organisations insight into the factors that predict how people will succeed when working together so we help hiring the right people who perform and stay.

We spend a large proportion of our life at work with other people. Often, we don’t choose whom we work with (unless we’re the one that made the hiring) and even then – there’s an expectation that we must work together well to produce results. Sometimes it works out and people just “click” and succeed together. Sometimes it doesn’t.However, most of us have experienced difficult working relationships in our careers and we also know that – left unchecked – the relationship will interfere with achieving successful outcomes. The fact is – we all have different motivations and preferences when working through our goals to get the result we want.“Every company has to discover the attitudes that make their organisation unique and special. And even if the company’s attitudes change over the years, those attitudes will always be an organic reflection of their most successful people.”Mark Murphy, “Hiring for Attitude” (2011) McGraw-HillOur commitment is to provide organisations insight into the factors that predict how people will succeed when working together.