Assessments

Kontrast Personalberatung GmbH conducts structured, psychologically sound, and legally compliant selection interviews for management and key positions in expert organizations, management, and executive management. With standardized interview guidelines, diagnostic expertise, and optional integration into assessment centers, the team ensures a professional, objective, and transparent selection process.

Our clients benefit from transparent, non-discriminatory, and legally sound personnel decisions. The procedures create objectivity, comparability, and security—especially in complex committee processes. This ensures that management positions are filled reliably, risks are minimized, and acceptance of the decision is strengthened in the long term.

Our internal assessment center (Development AC) identifies talent, manages careers, and prepares successors. An integral part of this is a job-related personality test, calibrated to job requirements and the company situation (growth, expansion, turnaround, relaunch). We test hypotheses and observe competence and potential in context using employee appraisals/role-playing, in-basket/prioritization exercises, decision-making hearings, and structured interviews.

Based on DIN 33430, AGG/GDPR-compliant; in the public sector, best selection-compliant (Art. 33 II GG) and FüPoG-II-capable. Result: a Management-Summary suitable for committees with suitability and context assessment, strengths/risk patterns, cultural fit, and key questions; 180-day guidelines for onboarding upon request. This results in transparent decisions and fairly managed careers.

Kontrast Personalberatung GmbH offers external assessment centers for legally compliant, objective, and competency-based personnel selection. Our team of personnel consultants designs, moderates, and documents individual selection procedures based on sound diagnostic methods. Structured exercises, interviews, and expert opinions provide organizations with a professional and independent basis for decision-making.

Our clients gain certainty and transparency in the selection process: performance becomes visible, applicants can be compared objectively, and decisions are documented in a comprehensible manner. This allows legal requirements to be reliably met, committee work to be facilitated, and the most suitable candidates for management or key positions to be identified. As a result, organizations receive reliable selection decisions, strengthen fairness, and ensure sustainable success.

At Kontrast, personality tests are a key component of our selection process – never the sole deciding factor. We combine management and psychology and assess career-relevant preferences, risk patterns, and culture fit in the context of the position and management mandate (e.g., growth, turnaround). Our methods are tailored to the specific needs of the position and management brief (e.g., growth, turnaround). Our assessments are tailored to the specific needs of the position, aligned with DIN 33430, and compliant with the German General Employment Act (AGG) and GDPR.

The results are triangulated with structured interviews, references, and work samples. You will receive a management summary suitable for panel discussions, assessing suitability, including strengths/threats and key questions for the final round – supplemented with onboarding tips upon request. We serve the public sector, medium-sized businesses, and healthcare sectors.

Kontrast Personality Test Individual Assessment ensures strategic placements in medium-sized companies (D.A.S.) and in the public sector, including municipally owned companies. Experienced HR consultants and headhunters with psychological selection expertise assess competence, personality, and impact – independently, structured, ISO 9001-managed, and DIN 33430-compliant.

Procedure: Clarification of the brief and role model, competency profiling, structured interviews, management-oriented simulation/work sample, validated personality tests, and – where appropriate – cognitive tests. Result: Suitability assessment with strengths/risk profile, culture fit, recommendations, and 90-day onboarding incentives; compliant with the AGG/GDPR, focused on selecting the best candidates (Art. 33 II GG) and the FüPoG II (Federal Training and Education Act).

Executive Select from Kontrast Personalberatung is the individual management assessment for internal succession planning and the final shortlist. We combine personality testing, personality diagnostics, and competency profiling into a context-oriented management assessment: clarifying the brief, defining the role, and validating the assessment – ​​discreetly, audit-proof, and with a clear recommendation.

Aligned with DIN 33430, AGG/GDPR compliant, and compatible with the best-in-class selection process. The results: suitability for the brief, a culture/values ​​fit, manageable risks, and – upon request – 180-day guardrails. For robust, legally sound decisions in public administration, medium-sized businesses, and healthcare.

We moderate search, appointment, and selection committees impartially, conducting your process from the roadmap to the final meeting in a clear, transparent, and conflict-free manner. As external process managers, we structure criteria, manage interviews, ensure comparability, and keep the committee operational – without voting rights, with strong procedural control, and comprehensive record-keeping.

Compliance included: Best-in-class selection according to Article 33(2) of the Basic Law (GG), AGG and GDPR compliance, documented decision-making preparation, bias checks, guidelines, and an evaluation matrix. The result: an audit-proof procedural file that supports decisions and withstands challenges – legally compliant, efficient, and suitable for management and key positions.