Find your next technical expert

We match technical talent from South Africa with the right opportunities in Belgium. We identify technicians and engineers with the right skills, experience and ambition, that want to continue their career in Belgium.

How we are different

What takes precedence in our approach is quality over quantity. This is evident in various aspects:

  • We conduct a thorough selection process, including interviews, assessments, in-depth interviews, and motivation checks, to ensure that we’ve found a good match.

  • We strive for a strong alignment between our client and employee.

  • We provide intensive guidance to our new employees, both at our client's workplace and in their social life, to facilitate a quick integration into Belgium for both the individual and their family.

  • We support our employees in their development to ensure a successful career progression.

  • We always opt for a personalised approach, ensuring that each employee feels comfortable within our company culture.

Let’s find your perfect match

  1. Together with our client we construct the ideal candidate profile (ICP) for the role they're hiring for

  2. Based on these criteria we go through our database of talents to match them with the available role

  3. Once the right candidates are selected we provide the client with a shortlist of candidates

  4. Interviews between clients and candidates take place.

  5. Once the perfect match has been found, the candidate will start at the client as fast as possible. Candidates work 18 months under contract of 3 Hands Europe, once this period has passed the client has the chance to sign the talent on a permanent basis.

Your risk is minimized

No cure, no pay

In case you don’t find the right talent through us, you’ll not be charged.

Non-exclusivity

Our clients are free to work with multiple recruitment parties, if they feel this increases the chances of finding the right talent.

No permanently binding contract

Candidates work 1,5 years under contract of 3 Hands Europe, after this period the client can sign the talent on a permanent basis.

What roles do we help fill

We focus on helping production companies fill technical roles, with a focus on technician and engineering roles, like:

  • Maintenance Technician

  • Electrical Engineer

  • Automation Technician

  • Maintenance Engineer

  • Breakdown Technician

  • Production engineer

Our Hiring Process

We recruit individuals with a technical degree in Engineering Or a Millwright Qualification, who have several years of industrial experience in South Africa. Our standard hiring process consits of 7 steps:

  • Initial interview, where we focus on experience, technical knowledge, motivation, and ambition

  • Online assessment to get a view on the characteristics of the candidate

  • In-depth interview where we validate the results of this assessment and discuss them with the candidate

  • A final conversation, where we inquire again about the motivation of our candidate and address any remaining questions

  • If both parties are motivated to collaborate after these discussions, our final candidate receives a proposal for cooperation.

  • Meanwhile, we identify a client with a vacant position that aligns with the experience and ambitions of our future employee.

  • Once proposal is accepted, we initiat of the permit application, so we can bring our new team member here within a maximum period of 5 months.

Why we work with South African Talents

Long term commitment

All our candidates are looking for long term opportunities in Belgium. They have the ambition to intigrate and settle in Belgium.

Skills and characteristics

All candidates are highly skilled, have a good education and the needed experience. On top of that they are hard working and committed to their job.

Language

Thanks to their knowledge of Afrikaans, the candidates easily learn Dutch. Besides that, they’re all fluent in English.

About us

Andre, the founder of 3 Hands Europe, has been specialized in Performance Consulting and Lean implementations. At his clients he saw a difficulty in finding the right technical talents. Therefore we started recruiting technically skilled personnel to deploy at our clients as Maintenance Engineers, Technicians, Breakdown Technicians, Electrical Technicians, etc. Our focus is to help production companies in Belgium fill their open technical roles.
We specifically target individuals from South Africa with a technical background, who are looking to build a career and life in Belgium. The reason for this is that individuals from South Africa have great technnical skills and with their knowledge of Afrikaans can easily learn Dutch and thus easily integrate into Belgium. Thanks to our boutique approach, we can ensure the quality and meticulous follow-up of our employees and clients.

Meet the Team

  • Andre Seldeslachts

    Founder & Managing Director

  • Maarten Seldeslachts

    Head of Growth

Ready to find your next talent?

Book an Introduction call.

Ready to find your next talent? Book an introduction call.
In this call we can go deeper into our process and see if we can help fill the open technical roles you have .

Get in contact

andre@3handseurope.com
+32 478 33 85 69

Stationsstraat 69
3360 Bierbeek