It’s been a little over a year since I officially emigrated from Amsterdam to Kiev, Ukraine to set up my recruitment outsourcing company MatcHR. With no previous experience in Ukraine, let alone setting up a business in Ukraine, people have often asked how did you start? Now a year later it feels like a good moment to share my experience and I hope it encourages people to take a leap of faith and see the vast amount of opportunities this wonderful world has to offer us…

What books to read in 2020 and why? This list is the result of those two questions from people with different kind of backgrounds in art, business, entrepreneurship and non profit who share a common interest of reading great books. The result is a nice mixture of fiction and non fiction and is my fuel to reach my goal to read 2 books a month so 24 books in total.

This summer we organized our first “Workation” with MatcHR. At MatcHR we partner as virtual sourcing and recruitment teams with our clients to cover their global hiring needs. This implies we can practically do our work from any location. We therefore decided to take our team to the beautiful mountains of Bukovel in the western part of Ukraine and rented a house for a full week. In my mind we would ‘work hard and play hard’ and it would create an unforgettable experience for everyone. Unfortunately, not everything turned out the way we expected and I will share my most important lessons (and there are many) about our first workation…