Carrière customer story

About the customer

Carrière is an international staffing and recruitment organization headquartered in Rotterdam. The company connects talent from across Europe with employers throughout the Netherlands and beyond, particularly in sectors such as logistics, production, transport and engineering, helping organizations attract, place and retain talent. By supporting both workers and employers, Carrière is committed to making good work available for everyone.

The challenge

A staffing and recruitment organization works with two very different groups at once: permanent in-house employees and flex workers who join for shorter assignments. For international employees and flex workers, practical language skills make a real difference to how quickly they settle into a role and a workplace. Carrière wanted a way to support that language development that was flexible enough to fit around working life, and simple enough to offer across a workforce with very different tenures and starting points.

Why Talkpal

As a company committed to making good work available for everyone, Carrière sees language proficiency as an important factor in workplace safety, integration and long-term employability. Talkpal fit because it meets people where they are. Learners practise at their own level and pace, on web or mobile, whenever it suits them – which matters for a workforce that isn’t sitting at desks with fixed schedules. The emphasis on speaking practice, rather than passive study, is aimed squarely at the thing that builds real-world confidence: actually holding a conversation. For Carrière, that made it a practical fit for supporting both permanent employees and flex workers.

“Language should never be a barrier to good work. Talkpal helps our employees build confidence, communicate more effectively and grow in their careers.” – Jos Anbergen, HR development manager, Carrière Uitzendbureau

The outcome

For Carrière, Talkpal offers a low-friction way to put language support in the hands of a workforce that’s often on the move. Rather than a fixed course that competes with the working day, it’s practice employees can pick up on their own terms – a practical complement to making good work available for everyone.