Joelle Valentin

Joelle Valentin is a Search Consultant at N2Growth Executive Search in the Netherlands.

Joelle is a British national, educated predominantly in the UK and also in France, raised in a Dutch-speaking environment. Joelle began her career by graduating in hotel management. She soon gravitated toward human resource management and became CIPD qualified. Joelle later continued her studies to obtain a Masters in Personnel and Development.

Joelle worked for several years in the human resources departments of luxury hotels in London, including The Ritz London. Working in prestigious hotels with Joelle’s international upbringing, led Joelle to become a seasoned human resources professional and also enabled her to appreciate working with culturally diverse workforces.

Joelle furthered her career, by assuming a senior management role, responsible for the human resources function in the London headquarters and across a number of sites within Europe. In this position, Joelle dealt with complex operational and employment legal matters in different European countries, whilst delivering a strategic human resources business function for the organization.

Before starting Executive Search in The Netherlands, Joelle utilized her wealth of experience and expertise to set up her own human resources consultancy practice, providing recruitment services to both UK and Dutch clients.

Joelle’s recruitment career has spanned some 20 years. She has experience in executive recruitment and also bespoke recruitment assignments. Joelle has recruited a variety of management roles including roles within the sales, marketing, and finance industry. Joelle is extremely passionate about recruitment and sourcing the best suitable candidate, to pair with a mutually minded client. She finds great satisfaction in placing candidates who excel and directly impact organizations. In Joelle’s spare time she enjoys running, swimming, and water skiing.