In the May 2025 edition of his newsletter Go Flux Yourself, Oliver Pickup explores how the rise of AI and ubiquitous digital content is reshaping childhood and adolescence. He examines whether these technologies are empowering young minds or subtly eroding their cognitive and emotional development. He interviewed Laurens for this piece. (oliverpickup.com)
HR Academy – Laurens Waling about People Analytics & AI: skills-matching and strategic talent mobility (februari 2025)
Werf& – De Trendsessies 2024-2025 (Dutch)
Laurens Waling, Chief Evangelist at 8vance, highlights that the recruitment sector is innovating faster than expected, with technologies already being used ahead of their 2027 schedule. He emphasizes the importance of strategically implementing technology within organizations to allow flexibility between business models. Waling predicts that recruiters will evolve into job coaches and partners for candidates over the next decade. He also stresses that a positive candidate experience directly strengthens the employer brand and attracts talent.
ZigZag HR (Belgium)
(16 January 2025)
The labor market is rapidly changing, driven by technological innovations like artificial intelligence (AI). But what does this mean for HR professionals? How can they embrace AI as a strategic partner to build a future-proof organization? Laurens Waling (8vance) identifies 4 key trends and focus areas for the coming years.
Inspiratieplatform UWV voor Werknemers
(January 2025)
Since the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT, more and more savvy employers are using artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline their recruitment processes. How exactly are they applying AI? And how can job seekers make smart use of it?
Read the interview at UWV Inspiratieplatform
AI and HR – A strong match that will impact everyone?
The talent shortage forces recruitment departments worldwide to think differently in how professionals are approached, reviewed, managed and hired as the pressures on hiring pipelines continue to increase whilst some of the most impactful technological shifts take place which breeds the question: How are existing players utilizing AI to solve the talent problem?
Read the interview with Laurens Waling on Impactful Insights
Platform AO VVT – Samen goed voor werk
(January 2025)
Laurens Waling is an expert in labor market technology and the host of the AO VVT HR Festival 2025! At the festival, Laurens will guide you through the day and deliver an inspiring keynote on the impact and potential of AI in the labor market. “The challenges in VVT are greater than ever, but so are the opportunities.”
NLWERKT Magazine UWV voor Werkgevers
(30 November 2024)
AI expert Laurens Waling shares tips on how to implement AI in your business operations.
Recruitment Tech – 16 September 2024
In this interview, Laurens shares his vision on the future of the job market and the role of AI in recruitment. “The biggest challenge is organizing work more effectively in this country. As far as I’m concerned, that is crisis number one.”
Werf& – 13 oktober 2024
“I strongly believe in the technological possibilities to connect people,” says Laurens Waling, who will chair the AI & Recruitment conference on November 9. How does he envision this digital future? “With AI, you can create much more exciting matches.”
Recruitment & AI podcast – 6th September 2024
In the 15th episode of AI in Recruitment, hosts Jasper Spanjaart and Martijn Hemminga sat down with Laurens Waling, Chief Evangelist at 8vance, to discuss how technology is reshaping the way companies approach hiring. Waling’s company, 8vance, specialises in using algorithms to match candidates with jobs. Watch or listen to the full episode.
Recruitment Tech – 28 februari 2024
Laurens bespreekt de resultaten van de Recruitment Tech Survey 2024 en geeft zijn inzichten over trends in HR en recruitment.
‘What do you mean labor market shortage? It’s bursting with talent that is not being used properly’ – Cut work into tasks and distribute them meaningfully
HR Praktijk – 11 september 2023
Laurens Waling of 8vance likes nothing better than to liberate “stuck change agents” so that they really unlock their talent. That way you can greatly reduce the number of bullshit jobs: redistribute tasks so that everyone uses their skills. His main lesson if you organize your department/business this way: ‘getting stuck in change is normal’ so stay calm, don’t run away and analyze the root cause. Read more…
Labor market crisis to be solved with AI
Emerce – 11 augustus 2023
According to Laurens Waling of 8vance, there doesn’t have to be a tight labor market at all. According to him, the solution lies in deep-matching people with AI on skills, even across fields. How 8vance thus helps people navigate from so-called bull shit jobs to more meaningful jobs. He explains why we need to make a fundamental shift in thinking. Why we need a ‘softer system’ in which people dare to make more risky choices. AND how deep-matching with AI can benefit you as a corporate recruiter or HR director. Read more…
How A.I. can solve perceived workforce shortage
Werf& – Peter Boerman – 25 augustus 2023
In this way, A.I. has “the ability to point people to their hidden potential, their skills, ambitions and possibilities of which they were previously unaware,” according Laurens Waling, Chief Evangelist of 8vance, the A.I. scale-up that looks at so-called transferable skills via ingenious statistical analysis, and uses them to calculate how often people transfer from one job to another. “>Read more…
New Chief Evangelist 8vance guest on Recruitment Tech Monthly
RecruitmentTech.nl – 23 januari 2023
Laurens Waling is the new Chief Evangelist of AI scale-up 8vance and a guest in the first Recruitment Tech Monthly episode of 2023. Waling: “I am blown-away of possibilities. My mission is to give these possibilities the greatest possible exposure.” Read more…
Talent Mobility Evangelist Laurens Waling moves to 8vance
Emerce – 19 januari 2023
8vance is proud to welcome Laurens Waling as a new member of its management team. The fast-growing AI scale-up is the only one in the Netherlands to offer a skills-based matching platform, but the capabilities of its technology are still relatively unknown. As Marketing Director and Chief Evangelist of 8vance, Laurens will now change that. Laurens founded Part-up in 2014, as a solution to share work within large organizations. He sold the company last year and is now going to work for the market leader. Read more…
Webinar Hague Brook: matching supply and demand in healthcare
Haagse Beek – 3 april 2020
How do you organize work at lightning speed in a crisis situation? Part-up has a different way of organizing for this, which they applied in five hospitals in recent weeks. They worked around the clock. Matching between task and employee went from twenty minutes to one minute. Laurens Waling talks about it. View the broadcast…
Day internship with Laurens Waling of Part-up
Koneksa Mondo – 5 december 2019
Ever since 2016, I have been following the developments of Part-up, a platform to organize work differently. I even created an account there but must honestly confess that I haven’t done much else with it. When Laurens Waling, one of the founders of Part-up, suggested on a LinkedIn message that I spend a day as an intern at his company, I didn’t have to think long. Nice to take a look behind the scenes at a startup, especially if the startup focuses on a theme that I am also involved in myself, talent development and organizing differently. Read more…
Home office must go into the field
Binnenlands Bestuur – 26 october 2018
The Ministry of the Interior wants to become more agile and open to ideas from citizens, external specialists and startups. To make that happen, civil servants need to work together differently. And in doing so, be given space from above. Read more…
Laurens Waling (Part-up): “We are the marketplace for teamwork”
MarketingFacts – 29 august 2016
Although in many ways the world looks very different from 50 years ago, in many cases the way work is organized has barely changed. Very often, a permanent job, hierarchical relationships and a boss are still the norm. Despite the growing group of self-employed people. Part Up wants to change that. “We are a marketplace for teamwork. So if you have an idea of what a team needs, or multiple team players, you put it on our site and we match you with team members from inside and outside your organization.” Read more…
Part-up goes for the new collaboration
Computable – 22 september 2016
An online marketplace for teamwork, that’s what the start-up Part-up from The Hague offers. The algorithm searches for the best match between team members and projects. For founder Laurens Waling, this is just a start. He wants to make Part-up a complete swarm-resourcing solution. Read more…
Laurens Waling: Mobilize the Swarm with Part-up
Nieuw organiseren – 03 december 2015
On Sept. 18, Part-up was launched: a marketplace for temporary project teams. Do you want to organize something and are looking for the right team to do so? Then you can now turn to Part-up for that. Read more…