Recruitment Services

Recruitment Services

finding suitable candidates
Our Services Full-Service HR Consultancy Our Work Approach

Recruitment Services

Active Sourcing. Job Marketing. Candidate Assessments.

Kontrast Personalberatung GmbH is a well-established recruitment agency based in Hamburg. Founded in 1993, we specialise in the direct search of specialists and executives for vacancies throughout Germany.

Our Recruitment Services

Active Sourcing

We do extensive digital market research for the experts and specialists our clients are looking for. We then approach them discreetly and specifically with the job vacancies on behalf of our clients.

Digital Direct Approach

We help companies find qualified specialists and managers. We do this through a targeted, personalised, direct approach to candidates who are carefully selected and matched to the specific requirements of our clients.

Executive Search

For top management positions, we offer an executive search service that focuses on the discreet direct approach of target persons for top management positions.

Provision of our Candidate Pools / Candidate Pool Available

In many key areas we maintain our own extensive candidate pools, which enable us to respond quickly to external search mandates. These candidate pools are pre-qualified by us and we have the candidates' permission to contact them personally with interesting vacancies. Specific industry experience:

  1. Engineering and medium-sized Enterprises
    Medium-sized businesses and technology companies have been using our recruitment services since the beginning.
  2. Healthcare and Social Economy
    Kontrast Personalberatung has extensive experience in recruiting for medical, nursing, management and administrative positions.
  3. IT – Computer Science and Technology
    In the fast-moving IT and Technology sector, we help our clients recruit specialists and managers with specific IT expertise.
  4. Public Service and Administration
    Kontrast also advises and recruits in the public sector and public administration, where special requirements and qualifications must be taken into account.
  5. Research, Education and Teaching
    We've also established ourselves as a market leader in the university, research and education sectors, helping to fill specialist executive positions as well as professorships and research posts.

Our Trademark

Quality and Transparency - Kontrast is committed to transparent working practices and high quality standards. Each placement is based on a thorough analysis of the client's needs and an intensive candidate selection process.

Experience - With over 30 years' experience, Kontrast has an extensive network and in-depth industry knowledge, enabling us to develop tailored solutions for our clients.

Innovative Recruitment - We use advanced remote recruitment and AI tools to identify and recruit suitable candidates in an efficient and targeted manner.

Academically Qualified Team - Our recruiters are not only academically qualified, but also work exclusively for us and are salaried employees.

Certified Consulting Quality - As a recruitment consultancy, we have been quality monitored and certified since 1994, today in accordance with DIN EN ISO 9001:2015.

Our Services

Recruitment Services - Active Sourcing. Job Marketing. Candidate Assessments.

Training Management & HR Development

Analysis. Conception. Implementation.

For the long-term success of companies, it is not enough to recruit new highly qualified experts and managers with well-implemented employer branding and HR marketing. Comprehensive and structured training management - ideally digitised - is also of great importance in order to further develop staff... learn more

Employer Branding & HR Marketing

Your Temporary HR Office

As an HR consultancy, we support you as a company in retaining your top performers as well as in recruiting young talent and top executives for key and executive positions in the various specialist areas and in management. An important basis for growth in the HR sector is employer branding and HR... learn more

Market Access Germany

Setup new Locations & Branches

As an international HR consultancy based in Hamburg's Hafencity, we support European and global companies from various industries with their market access in Germany. If you already have a business plan, we recruit candidates for your key positions in management, the board of directors and... learn more

Personnel Management & Leadership

Analysis. Conception. Implementation.

As an HR consultancy, we support companies in the analysis of personal management and leadership and, on this basis, in the conception and implementation of new or the optimisation and modernisation of current processes, procedures and management tools. Personal management is primarily about... learn more

Employee Survey & HR Planning

Analysis Tools Human Resources

For targeted and optimal human resource management, it is essential to analyse internal needs as well as employee satisfaction and motivation. From this, suitable measures can be developed to improve satisfaction and motivation - for example, through staff appraisals, improved training management or... learn more

Digitalisation HR

Digital Transformation HR Management

Our HR consultants support companies in all matters relating to human resources. Accordingly, we also digitise all subareas, processes, structures and communication channels for our clients upon request. As an experienced HR consultancy, we do not simply transfer existing approaches to digital, but... learn more

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