You First creates a new division dedicated entirely to music - You First Music. This specialized division will provide artists with comprehensive support, covering everything from ticket booking to communications and advertising campaigns.

The agency's roster of exclusive artists includes names such as Michenlo, Jorge Cremades, Ardiya, B Jones, and Luceral.

The Talent Club launches its new shared Learning Platform, The Talent Agent Academy

The Talent Agent Academy is an internal platform for employees who want to develop their skills and knowledge in the field of talent acquisition and management. The platform offers various courses, workshops, webinars, and mentoring programs that cover topics from talent sourcing to talent retention.

The platform also provides opportunities for networking, feedback, and recognition among peers and leaders. The Talent Agent Academy is designed to help employees grow their careers and contribute to the success of talents and clients.

One of the essential requirements for any business in the current scenario is to be sustainable, as this is the only way to ensure long-term viability and success in any industry. 

Sustainability is not only a matter of compliance but also a source of innovation that can lead to new products, services, and business models that are more efficient and effective.

As a company that always faces the future and puts sustainability at the center of its vision, GammaUX is launching a new sustainability consultancy service aimed at helping companies from a strategic design perspective.

Juan Aísa, CEO of You First, gives an interview to Diario EL PAÍS, one of Spain's most important newspapers, about the creation of You First, how it has grown over the last 20 years, and how You First has become one of the world's largest talent representation and brand services agencies.

"There isn't another European multi-talent representation firm that also has very good capabilities to service brands. We are there, but we still have a way to go."

Juan Aísa

Read the full interview here.

Cooper Fitch releases the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Salary Guide 2023.

According to the guide, next 12 months will be a “record-breaking” period for the Saudi Arabian recruitment market, as most companies in the kingdom plan to hire new employees in 2023 to support business growth.

Read full report here.

Lincoln, part of The Talent Club and French leader in strategic talent management, is taking a majority stake in The Executive Network (TEN), TEN Executive Assessments (TENEA) and Whyz Executive Search (Whyz), three leading Dutch agencies in executive search and assessment. Together they form a collective specialised in leadership. The joining of forces paves the way for international expansion. TEN will open its first office abroad in France.

Strengthening the Executive talent practice in Europe

The majority stake in TEN, TENEA and Whyz means joining the global network of Lincoln and accessing The Talent Club's extensive portfolio of clients. The Talent Club is an international collective of more than 20 leading brands in talent related to sports, entertainment, engineering, technology, and leadership. Lincoln is part of it and leads the 'leadership' branch practice. Lincoln is an expert in the field of executive search with a turnover of 42 million euros in 2022 and has 9 offices worldwide with 200 employees. Together, this international collective specializes in creating and accelerating opportunities for talented leaders.

"With this joining of forces, we continue to contribute to better European executive leadership in the public domain. This is an important pillar for us because the major global issues in the areas of - amongst others - geopolitics, technology, digitalisation, sustainability and security call for strong European leadership."

Marty Tuk, co-founder and owner of TEN, TENEA and Whyz

"This new partnership reflects the acceleration of our business from an international perspective, and follows the needs indicated by our talents. With the addition of The Executive Network, our Executive & Leadership practice now generates more revenue outside France than in its home country with greater prospects of international growth”.

Gwenaël Perrot, CEO of Lincoln

“The addition of The Executive Network is a great further step in the execution of our strategy of combining high organic growth with the addition of best-in-class partners. On this occasion, it is not only adding a new country to our international network with leading companies in their industry, but we also bring on board an exceptional group of partners and managers to add and upscale our range of services to meet the needs of worldwide talent. We bet on TEN´s unique knowledge and experience regarding top executive talent to grow our international portfolio of services to companies and individuals".

Jérôme Caille, founder and CEO of The Talent Club

Geographical expansion

Through this operation, The Talent Club adds the Netherlands to the list of 18 countries in which it already operates.

In the new structure, TEN, TENEA, and Whyz will continue to operate autonomously under their current management teams. TEN will start its international expansion in 2023 with the opening of a new office in France.

About The Executive Network

The Executive Network (TEN) is the agency for executive search. The agency focuses on filling management and supervisory positions in business and financial services, the (semi)public domain, real estate, construction and development, healthcare, private equity and family businesses, agriculture & food, energy, telecom & utilities and FMCG & retail. TEN was founded on February 1, 2010, and is based at Landgoed 'Het Huis met het Blauwe Dak' in Wassenaar. www.executivenetwork.nl

About TEN Executive Assessments

TEN Executive Assessments (TENEA) is an independently operating assessment agency that works closely with executive search agency TEN. TENEA is the first assessment agency in the Netherlands to develop a leadership game for top executives. The data- and technology-driven assessment predicts how (non-)executives perform. The unique game maps the ten most important qualities for future-proof leadership and makes them measurable. Founded in 2020 and based in Amsterdam, TENEA's mission is to take leadership to the next level within five years and build a stronger top in business and the (semi-)public domain in the Netherlands. www.tenea.nl

About Whyz Executive Search

Whyz Executive Search (Whyz), established in Leiden in 2010, is the executive search and interim management agency for the new generation of leaders. The agency focuses on internal supervision, management, executive/senior management and heavy specialist roles. It does so in the financial & business services, (semi)public, retail & agri-food, private equity & venture capital, and energy & utilities sectors. Whyz has carried the international B Corp certificate since November 2022. www.whyz.nl

Written and directed by awarded film-maker Rami Mekdachi, the movie brings on stage twenty-three testimonials from founders and managers aimed at showing what the role of a Talent Agent is in a world where power has shifted to talents, making it increasingly difficult for companies to access, nurture and retain them.

Watch the teaser : https://youtu.be/rQF361KJOeU

Watch the full movie :  https://youtu.be/yGo7qQBv5BY

Forbes has published its list of the world’s most valuable sports talent management agencies in 2022 and You First has entered the Top 10 for the first time, occupying the 10th position of the prestigious ranking.

Read the full article here.

Lincoln was included for the 6th consecutive year in the Les Echos x Statista ranking of the 250 best recruitment firms with the top 5-star score.

Ranked in the Best Executive Search firms category, Lincoln gets the mention "excellent score, much higher than average".

To be among the best players in the sector, several factors such as quality of service and communication, speed of execution of the mission and the relevance and the choice of positions proposed are taken into account.

Belen Izquierdo Sans from United Heroes, Luis Sanchez de Leon from The Talent Club and Oscar Serret from Between Technology delivered to the Red Cross donation of 50,000 € raised through the Solidarity for Ukraine challenge.

Therese Jamaa, vice president of the Spanish Red Cross and vice president of Huawei Spain for facilitated this meeting and shared with us her passion and commitment to social causes.

As explained by Leopoldo Pérez Suárez, Secretary General of the Spanish Red Cross and Jaime Gregori Soler, Director of Alliances with Companies, the funds will go to the growing efforts of the Red Cross at the border points with the greatest movement of people.