Career Coaching and Counselling for Internationals in NL
Build a meaningful career in the Netherlands with clarity, confidence, and direction.
Whether you want to reshape your current role (job crafter) or explore new opportunities that truly fit (job seeker), you don’t have to figure it out alone.
There’s always a clear, aligned next step — and I’m here to help you find it.
Imagine a career that feels aligned, meaningful, and yours
— even in a new country.
Maybe you’ve been questioning whether your current work still fits who you’re becoming.
Maybe you’re feeling a pull toward something more meaningful, even if the next step isn’t clear yet.
And if you’ve just arrived in the Netherlands, maybe you’re wondering how to find a role that feels right for you.
I know these feelings well — I’ve been there too.
I arrived in the Netherlands as an expat spouse, trying to figure out where I fit and what my place could be. I eventually found it — yet a quiet pull toward something more meaningful kept growing.
Moving through different roles and industries taught me one thing: when your work isn’t aligned with who you are, it never truly feels like home.
I’m Jenny, a Career Alignment Coach & Counsellor, and I help internationals get unstuck, reconnect with what matters, and feel grounded in their careers here in the Netherlands.
Whether you’re reshaping your role as a job crafter, exploring new paths as a job seeker, or building your career from the moment you arrive — you deserve a direction that reflects who you are.
And your next aligned step starts with clarity.
The Career Alignment Ladder™ — my signature method for internationals building meaningful careers in the Netherlands
You’ve probably noticed by now: building a career in a new country doesn’t follow a straight line. Every international’s journey looks different — but there is a clear way to move forward with intention.
The Career Alignment Ladder™ is the framework I developed to bring clarity and structure to the career journeys I see internationals navigate every day here in the Netherlands. It helps you understand where you are now, what you need next, and how to move forward in a way that feels aligned and true to you.
Let me walk you through it.
ADAPT — Navigate change with confidence
You make sense of your transition, understand the Dutch work culture, and rebuild your foundation so you can move forward with clarity.
ALIGN — Get clear on who you are and what you want
You uncover your strengths, values, and motivators, and define the direction that feels right for you at this stage of your life and career.
ADVANCE — Turn clarity into action
You strengthen your personal brand, grow your network, and prepare for opportunities that truly fit — whether inside your current job or beyond it.
ACHIEVE — Sustain and grow with purpose
You celebrate your progress, stay focused on what matters, and create a long-term plan that keeps you aligned and balanced.
You’ll walk away feeling more like yourself again — clear on what fits you, what doesn’t, and what your next aligned step is— whether that means reshaping your current role or finding a meaningful new opportunity in the Netherlands.
Ready to find your place on the Career Alignment Ladder™?
Great — because I’ve made it simple and supportive. Here’s how to get started:
Step 1. Take the Career Alignment Quiz
A short, practical quiz that helps you discover where you are on the Career Alignment Ladder™ and what to focus on next.
Step 2. Get the Career Alignment Workbook
A free workbook filled with exercises to help you reflect, gain clarity, and start aligning your career step by step.
Step 3. Book your Mini Career Alignment Call
A 1:1 session where I help you understand your results and map out the next aligned steps for your career in the NL.
Job Crafters: Redefine Your Current Role With Intention
Not everyone needs a new job — sometimes you just need your job to feel new again.
Now that you’ve seen the Career Alignment Ladder™, let’s talk about how this applies when you’re not looking for a new job — you’re trying to make your current one feel better, lighter, or more meaningful.
Because sometimes the problem isn’t the job itself… it’s the misalignment, the uncertainty, the overwhelm, or simply not feeling like yourself at work anymore.
If that resonates, you’re not alone. Many internationals in NL go through the same four challenges:
Uncertainty & Overwhelm
Your energy is low, and daily tasks feel heavier than they should in a new work environment.
Lack of Clarity About Your Value & Direction
You’re unsure what fits you now and struggle to see your strengths with confidence.
Difficulty Standing Out or Being Seen
You feel pulled in many directions and find it hard to express your needs clearly.
Maintaining Fulfillment & Growth
You’re out of sync with your role or team and miss a sense of meaning in your work.
How I Support Job Crafters
We use the Career Alignment Ladder™ to help you get back in the driver’s seat — one step, one clarity moment, one small shift at a time.
Adapt: Understand what’s draining you
Self-awareness: You reconnect with your energy, understand your stress triggers, and regain a clearer sense of control.
Align: Reclaim your value and direction
Clarity: You rediscover what motivates you, identify what matters most, and define how your role can reflect who you are.
Advance: Focus on what moves you forward
Confidence: You prioritise what truly matters, express your needs with more ease, and shape your work toward what energises you.
Achieve: Strengthen connection and purpose
Growth: You rebuild key relationships, create healthier collaboration, and bring more intention into your everyday work.
What You’ll Walk Away With
You’ll feel more grounded in your role, clearer about what fits you, and confident making changes that actually last.
“I became more aware of how to transfer my emotions into problem-solving action plans. I am happy I know myself better and take actions by beginning small.” — Yuan Cai, Nov 2025
Ready to craft a role that feels more aligned? Book your FREE Mini Career Alignment Call:
Job Seekers: Finding a Career That Feels Right
Navigating the job market in the Netherlands can feel overwhelming — especially when you want more than “just a job.”
If your next step is finding a role that truly fits you — whether you’re new to the Netherlands, shifting direction, or starting again after a contract ended — this is where we explore what that journey looks like. And we’ll use the Career Alignment Ladder™ to guide you through that process, step by step.
Searching for work in a new country can feel overwhelming. And searching for something meaningful — something that actually fits who you are — can feel even harder.
But you’re not starting from zero. You’re starting from self-awareness.
Many job seekers face the same four challenges:
Uncertainty & Overwhelm
You’re navigating a new country and market, and the many unknowns make it hard to know where to begin.
Lack of Clarity About Your Value & Direction
Past roles or unclear paths make you doubt what fits you now and what direction genuinely makes sense next.
Difficulty Standing Out in the Market
You’re unsure how to express your strengths, share your story, and clearly show your value to employers.
Maintaining Fulfillment & Growth
You want a meaningful role, not just the first offer, something that supports your growth and alignment.
How I Support Job Seekers
Coaching and counselling with me is about more than landing a job — it’s about finding a role where you can thrive, grow, and feel genuinely fulfilled. I support you at each step of the Career Alignment Ladder™:
Adapt: Assess Your Situation
We explore your goals, motivations, and your unique context as an international in the Netherlands.
Align: Clarify Your Direction
You reconnect with your strengths, values, and interests so you can define the roles, environments, and paths that truly fit you.
Advance: Connect with Confidence
You prepare your CV, your pitch, and your interview stories so you can show your value clearly, authentically, and with ease.
Achieve: Grow With Purpose
You recognise how far you’ve come, turn every interview or rejection into insight, and prepare for the next chapter with clarity and calm.
What You’ll Walk Away With
You’ll walk away clearer about who you are, what you bring, and which roles truly fit you — with the confidence to pursue them.
“Jenny helps shift your mindset. She helped me uncover hidden anxiety that was quietly holding me back. I left the sessions with clarity, calm, and a more intentional focus.” — Mergul Manap, Jun 2025
Ready to find a role that truly fits you? Book your FREE Mini Career Alignment Call:
A Little of My Story — and Why I Understand Your Journey So Well
Sometimes, in a new country, you just want to talk to someone who truly gets what it feels like to start again… I’ve lived those moments.
And because language shapes how we express ourselves, I offer coaching in both English and Spanish — the two languages that shaped my own journey as an international.
I spent years trying to close the gap between who I was on the inside and who I felt expected to be at work. I adapted, pushed through, and carried on — but I kept wondering what it would feel like to build a career that actually felt like me.
That curiosity became a turning point.
After a long corporate chapter, I realised I felt most alive when I was helping others find clarity, direction, and connection in their careers. That’s the path that brought me here.
Today, I support internationals in the Netherlands through their own transitions — blending reflection and action so the journey feels grounding, not overwhelming.
Working with me gives you a space to explore what’s happening beneath the surface, reconnect with your strengths, and take grounded steps toward work that actually fits you.
And whether you’re reshaping your current role, shifting direction, or stepping into your first opportunity in NL, you don’t have to figure it out alone.
I’ll walk with you — one aligned step at a time.
Want to take the next step together?
Ways We Can Work Together
If you’re wondering what working together could look like, here are the three ways I support individuals, groups, and organizations in building more aligned careers in the Netherlands.
Coaching for Individuals
You get personalised support to gain clarity, reconnect with your strengths, and move toward a career that feels more aligned to who you are and what you want next.
If you’re curious whether this approach fits your situation, we can explore it together in a short conversation.
Sessions available in English or Spanish.
Workshops & Talks
I host practical, engaging workshops and talks on career alignment, job crafting, clarity, and navigating the Dutch job market as an international living and working here.
If you’d like to join an upcoming session or explore hosting one for your community, here’s where to start.
Team & Workplace
I design tailored coaching and development programs that help teams build clarity, resilience, and meaningful growth — creating healthier, more supportive workplaces.
If your organisation is exploring ways to support your people, you can learn more about my approach here.
FAQs
Here are a few common questions people ask before we meet.
Ready to talk about your next step?
If something on this page resonated with you — a feeling, a question, a quiet “maybe this is what I need” — you’re welcome to reach out.
Use the form below to send a message, ask a question, or share a bit of your story. I read every message personally, and I’ll get back to you with care, as soon as I can.
Join Me at an Upcoming Workshop or Event
If you’d like to learn, connect, or get a feel for my work in a group setting, here’s where you can join me next. These sessions are warm, practical, and designed to support internationals at different stages of their career journey.
The Netherlands’ Catalysis and Chemistry Conference | 02 & 03 March 2026 | Noordwijkerhout
Registration to the NCCC XXVII
WORKSHOP: From Academia to Industry – Translate Your Skills into Language Employers Understand
Focus: Help participants reframe their academic work into clear, relevant language for non-academic
employers — useful for CVs, LinkedIn, and interviews.
Why it matters: Highly skilled PhDs and Postdocs often undersell themselves by using overly technical or modest language. This session offers practical tools to bridge that communication gap and improve how they present their skills.
ATN Annual Event 2026 x ACCESS | 25 March 2026 | 10:00–11:30 (CET) | Online
FREE Registration ATN Annual Event
Career & Life Transitions – with Jenny Campos and Astrid Staudinger-Wood
You move to the Netherlands to grow your career.
And your life changes with it.
You move to start a new life.
And your career path changes too.
Career changes don’t happen in isolation.
For many internationals, work and life shift at the same time.
Astrid Staudinger-Wood and I see this every day.
That’s why we place this connection at the heart of our work.
On 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟮𝟱, we’re creating a supportive space for internationals navigating work transitions while life is also asking more of them. Including caring for ageing parents.
No fixing.
No rushing.
Just space to reflect, connect, and feel less alone in it.
De Nationale Carrierebeurs | 24 & 25 April 2026 | Rai Amsterdam
FREE Registration to De Nationale Carrierebeurs 2026
WORKSHOP: Align & Advance Your Career – A Smarter Way to Job Search
Applying for jobs but not seeing real progress? Not sure which direction truly fits you?
Many job seekers focus on sending more applications, yet feel stuck or unsure if they’re targeting the right roles. But an effective job search doesn’t start with your CV. It starts with alignment.
In this practical, interactive workshop, Career Alignment Coach & Counsellor Jenny Campos introduces a smarter way to approach your job search through two essential steps:
You’ll learn how to identify roles that fit you, strengthen your CV and applications with AI, access hidden opportunities, and prepare for interviews with clarity and confidence.
Stop applying blindly.
Start aligning — and advancing — your career with intention.
Download the FREE handouts here.
BCF Career Event | 21 May 2026 | Utrecht, NL
FREE Registration BCF Career Event 2026
WORKSHOP: AI as your Interview Coach — Smarter Prep for Life Science Jobs
Get ready to level up your interview preparation using AI tools like ChatGPT. In this hands-on session, you’ll learn how to generate tailored interview questions, craft stronger answers, and practice with real-time feedback. We’ll focus on challenges specific to the Life Sciences job market and show you how to use AI as a smart, supportive coach. Walk away with practical prompts, free tools, and a new approach to preparing with confidence.
Click here to see ‘Past Events’.
Blog Posts
‘Choosing What’s Next: A Pause for Reflection’ reflects on the journey of career transitions, emphasising the importance of alignment over urgency. The author, Jenny Campos, prioritises inner clarity and authentic connections over traditional measures of success. She encourages others to pause, reflect, and choose paths that resonate with their current selves.
One Year In: Choosing Alignment Over Urgency
What happens when your definition of success changes? One year into my coaching journey, I realised that career alignment matters more than growth metrics. In this reflection, I explore how slowing down created clarity — and why choosing your next career step doesn’t require urgency.
If you’re navigating change and wondering how to choose…
Jenny Campos 