What sets us apart

Excellence in Financial Services?

FOR CLIENTS

Executive Search

Executive Search

  • Exclusive Searches​
  • Talent Identification
  • Direct Approach
  • Structured Processes
  • Personally there for you
  • Partnerships
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Talent Selection & Pipeline Management

Talent Selection & Pipeline Management

  • Creative Ideas
  • Added Value
  • Executives & Non-Executives
  • "Talents for Partners"
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Recruiting Services

Recruiting Services

  • Contingency & Success
  • Outsourcing
  • Process Handling
  • Database & Network
  • Named Approach
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Market Intelligence

Market Intelligence

  • Trends & Moods
  • Mappings & Structures
  • Brainstormings
  • Market Entry Barriers
  • Salaries & Job Changes
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Coaching
for executives

Coaching for Executives

  • Senior Coaches & Networks
  • Professional Advice
  • Second Look
  • Focus on Person, Role & Position
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BEA™ Survey

BEA™ Survey

  • Personal Preferences
  • Peer Group Comparison
  • Trust
  • Risk Taking
  • Sociality
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Salary Survey & Benchmarking

Salary Survey & Benchmarking

  • Expectations
  • Status Quo
  • Salary Models
  • Payout Structures
  • Legal Framework
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Market Mapping & Identification

Market Mapping & Identification

  • Headcounts
  • Contact Persons
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Structured Presentations
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Executive Search

Executive Search

  • Exclusive Searches​
  • Talent Identification
  • Direct Approach
  • Structured Processes
  • Personally there for you
  • Partnerships
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Talent Selection & Pipeline Management

Talent Selection & Pipeline Management

  • Creative Ideas
  • Added Value
  • Executives & Non-Executives
  • "Talents for Partners"
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Coaching
for executives

Coaching for Executives

  • Senior Coaches & Networks
  • Professional Advice
  • Second Look
  • Focus on Person, Role & Position
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BEA™ Survey

BEA™ Survey

  • Personal Preferences
  • Peer Group Comparison
  • Trust
  • Risk Taking
  • Sociality
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Recruiting Services

Recruiting Services

  • Contingency & Success
  • Outsourcing
  • Process Handling
  • Database & Network
  • Named Approach
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Market Intelligence

Market Intelligence

  • Trends & Moods
  • Mappings & Structures
  • Brainstormings
  • Market Entry Barriers
  • Salaries & Job Changes
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Salary Survey &
Benchmarking

Salary Survey & Benchmarking

  • Expectations
  • Status Quo
  • Salary Models
  • Payout Structures
  • Legal Framework
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Market Mapping &
Identification

Market Mapping & Identification

  • Headcounts
  • Contact Persons
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Structured Presentations
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Excellence in Financial Services.
It's in our DNA.?

Services for Candidates

Career Advice

A change in career is exciting: You enter unknown territory, with new responsibilities, in a new position or in a new company. In an on-going personal dialogue with us, you will receive useful tips preparing you for the change and all related negotiations to ensure you continue on the road to success.

We aim to be your stepping-stone and will make use of our networks based on your qualities and experience. Sometimes, however, a simple fix on your current potential through a neutral partner is enough to determine where you actually stand and consider which additional potential and opportunities may be available. We want to present new paths and possibilities and provide the momentum to think creatively. In an in-depth counselling session, we offer you ideas about coaching, training and further education provided by external partners. You as a person and personality are important to us. We take the time to build sustainable relationships. Obviously, this opportunity is only offered to candidates in the segments we focus on.

You want to develop
or change your career?

Services for Candidates

CV & Reference Check

Based on your needs, we will evaluate your entire application and provide you with good ideas and tips on additions or improvements, either in a specially tailored meeting or during one of our regular sessions.

We will go through your individual career steps one at a time, advising you on the structure and presentation of relevant and required content. In some cases, the “only” thing that will happen is that we confirm that your written curriculum vitae has the proper and adequate format. We can also advise you on the compilation, evaluation and amendment of job references. In addition, we assist you in dealing with delicate or complex situations and support you in preparing meetings with your superiors and the human resources department.

Ebenso bieten wir Unterstützung bei der Erstellung, Bewertung und Korrektur von Arbeitszeugnissen. Darüber hinaus helfen wir bei der besseren Bewältigung von Problemsituationen und geben Ihnen auch als Vorbereitung für Gespräche mit Ihren Vorgesetzten und der Personalabteilung gerne die notwendige Unterstützung.

Sie wollen sich optimal auf den
nächsten Karriereschritt vorbereiten?

Services for Candidates

Salary Check

Even though regulation and the media has caused salary structures to become substantially tighter and more transparent, comparing salaries within their peer group still takes place amongst specialists and managers.

In a personal meeting, we evaluate and assess the status quo and above all the development of your salary taking into account all of the required associated factors. Salary considerations alone should never be the sole reason for a change of company or career path. The results of our meetings will be used in highly specialised surveys. 2014 will be the first year in which we will compile this survey with the aim to set a new standard in the industry.

Die Ergebnisse unserer Gespräche fließen in hochgradig spezialisierte Surveys ein, die wir seit 2014 erstellen und mit denen wir in der Industrie einen neuen Standard setzen werden.

A salary comparison would
facilitate your career decision?

Services for Candidates

Coaching for Candidates

Wir bauen auf ein breites Netzwerk verschiedener speziell ausgebildeter Coaches bis hin zu seinem Tode zu Herrn Dr. Wilhelm Backhausen, der als Honorarprofessor an der European Business School das dortige Coachingprogramm entwickelte und leitete. Schwerpunkte seiner Tätigkeit bildete das Coaching von Führungskräften und die Ausbildung von Coaches. Klaus Robert Biermann hat auch an seinem Programm teilgenommen.

We see coaching as a means to increase the willingness of both employees and managers to develop their ability to accept and make changes. Coaching may be regarded as professional advice in a professional context, which improves the understanding of how people in their particular roles and organisational structures interact. The methods applied during coaching also influence our regular day-to-day operations and processes. We are hired for coaching jobs in the large-scale projects of our clients from the manufacturing and finance sectors or by you directly.

You want to develop
or change your career?

Services for Candidates

Mentoring for Talents

We consider ourselves as career mentor and as a partner for a professional brainstorming session. The aim of us all is to build partnerships—we don’t strive just for a short-lived success with regard to a placement. Consequently, we also have the courage to “discourage” someone from making a potential change, delivering convincing arguments and speaking from experience when it is clear that this would be no more than an ordinary side step.

We offer you a sympathetic ear, an honest opinion and support in all areas of your professional development. We are your sparring partner and are highly respected for our open and direct feedback. We talk to you about the complexities and challenges of day-to-day operations and try to open you to new paths during our conversation that will ultimately enable you to tackle them more easily and with more success. Unlike in our coaching sessions, our mentoring sessions will provide you with direct advice and ideas and allow you to access our precious treasure chest of industry experience. We show you a new scope of opportunities and reflect their effect on us and on your potential new employer. We point out new opportunities and provide you advice on which other areas of responsibility could be of interest for you.

You want to develop
or change your career?

Services for Candidates

Professional Networking

We use our outstanding client network to strategically analyse with you which employers may be of interest for furthering your career. In this case, the “timing” issue plays quite an important role, i.e. since we are closely cooperating with our clients, chances to find the matching next step up in your career are even higher.

Unsere Partner vertrauen auf unsere Selektionsstärke sowie unser Talent. Sie geben unserem Profil Gehör und Substanz. Wir bieten Ihnen eine Plattform auf direkter und persönlicher Basis und öffnen Ihnen sehr gerne Türen und Potentiale. Obwohl in der Industrie und vor allem in den Banken die Einstellungsphilosophie des ?Headcount Denken? immer noch vorherrscht, sehen wir Tendenzen, dass sich mehr Bereitschaft für Kandidaten entwickelt, die zwar ?out of the box? sind, aber einen wirklichen ?added value? versprechen und einfach aufgrund ihres Talents interessant sind. Dies gilt sowohl für Spezialisten als auch für Führungskräfte.

You want to develop
or change your career?

Services for Clients

Executive Search

In the Executive Search segment we support and place qualified managerial staff and talents in our focal areas provided we have an exclusive assignment.

In a personal encounter and a comprehensive brainstorming meeting we will talk about all relevant topics and issues in connection with the position to be filled. Understanding the role of the position and the person occupying it inside the organisation and the overall environment is the starting point of our structured sourcing process

Thanks to our focus and many years of experience, our consultants are able to contribute a sound inside view on certain topics, requirements and challenges. Our task does not start and end with the delivery of the perfect candidate. It is rather the result of our relationships. As your strategic partner, we keep a sensitive finger on the pulse of the market for you. Our long-standing relationships with potential candidates who we know either personally or through their references, ensure a fast, direct as well as target- and success-oriented process.

We speak as your ambassador in the language of the candidates and convince where print media or networks fail to deliver arguments. Our evaluation of potential candidates is not only based on our personal impression, but also strongly influenced by references from partners, clients, superiors and juniors, who experienced our executives ?Executives? during day-to-day operations. In addition, all candidates in the search process are requested to fill out the BEA™ survey, which has been designed based on the requirements of each individual role.

You are looking for executives
who achieve targeted
growth targets?

Services for Clients

Talent Selection & Pipeline Management

Outstanding professionals bring about outstanding performance. Such talents make the difference – irrespective of their level in your company.

Talents are key to ensuring the performance and success of your company in the long run. Whether they are specialists or part of the management, their talents give your company important momentum, their performance exceeds the average and their thinking is always one step ahead. Companies aiming at successfully positioning themselves in a highly competitive environment ought to ensure that they attract such talent for their company – and not only at executive level. Sustainable success can only be guaranteed by the right people.

We help you to source the right talents and awaken their enthusiasm for your company, no matter if you approach us with a clearly defined request or if you are looking for long-term pipeline management. We offer strong professionals a stepping-stone while ensuring your access to these talents.

Special Talents needed?

Services for Clients

Recruiting Services

In a world of publicly available networks and in-house recruitment departments, we also offer searches on an ad hoc and success-oriented basis for certain levels and positions. An exclusive, fair and trusting relationship with our partners is important to us and we believe that the reasons behind a conventional executive approach should be evident and justifiable.

We provide you access to our network and our ideas and, in certain cases, approach suitable candidates for you. If you so wish, we can assist you in your process and complement your own activities with our broader-based network and our professional process. In addition, we offer to contact specific candidates from your own network for a considerably lower fee. Transparency in our partnership is of immense importance to us. We are not about a quick placement or a short-term success, but about providing sustainable solutions. If you so wish, you may outsource your recruitment activities to us, either partially or completely. In this case, our employees and partners will become members of your team for a certain period of time, offering your company the complete spectrum of their know-how and competence. We design your job advertisements, structure your search processes and take over the entire candidate management – from the invitation to the letter of refusal.

Sie benötigen Unterstützung
bei der Mitarbeitersuche?

Services for Clients

Market Intelligence

A large part of our services consists in interlinking different parties. However, our services and our know-how are far more complex. Through us you can access a vast range of information, know-how, ideas and structural changes.

We have a powerful network in the market and take note of and analyse changes in sentiment, trends and development in each of our segments. Based on this background, we will provide you with advice on appropriate timing and prospects of success of your search efforts or structural changes. We provide international clients with information on market access and the regulatory environment.

An overview of the competitors and their structures is essential to compare and assess potential. As a partner we regularly organise brainstorming meetings with strategic decision makers and facilitate knowledge transfer.

Moreover, we provide you with insight into how your company is perceived by others as well as into specific market segments. We conduct surveys to establish a change barometer and compile focussed salary overviews. We make a summary of regulatory requirements and changes and highlight the resulting consequences.

Sie wollen den
Überblick behalten?

Services for Clients

Coaching for Executives

Wir bauen auf ein breites Netzwerk verschiedener speziell ausgebildeter Coaches bis hin zu seinem Tode zu Herrn Dr. Wilhelm Backhausen, der als Honorarprofessor an der European Business School das dortige Coachingprogramm entwickelte und leitete. Schwerpunkte seiner Tätigkeit bildete das Coaching von Führungskräften und die Ausbildung von Coaches. Klaus Robert Biermann hat auch an seinem Programm teilgenommen.

We see coaching as a means to increase the willingness of both employees and managers to develop their ability to accept and make changes. Coaching may be regarded as professional advice in a professional context, which improves the understanding of how people in their particular roles and organisational structures interact. The methods applied during coaching also influence our regular day-to-day operations and processes. We are hired for coaching jobs in the large-scale projects of our clients from the manufacturing and finance sectors or by you directly.

Sie möchten Ihren Führungskräften
Weiterentwicklung ermöglichen?

Services for Clients

BEA™ Survey

In each specialised segment and the respective subgroup, we collect salary data and split them up into their different components. Generally, we also split up the data according to seniority level.

We cooperate with the company Fehr Advice, which developed a test exclusively for us, and we make freely available. The objectives of this survey are to get an overview of the rationality and the economic and social preferences as well as the prevailing basic values and the respective value system.

Sie wollen informierte
Entscheidungen treffen?

Services for Clients

Salary Survey & Benchmarking

In each specialised segment and the respective subgroup, we collect salary data and split them up into their different components. Generally, we also split up the data according to seniority level.

We are delighted to offer these services within the framework of our exclusive partnership and search. Another popular and significant topic when discussing salaries is bonus expectations. We collect this information accordingly and provide our clients with this input for their expectation management.

Our salary survey has been conducted since 2014. Apart from information on salaries, we also provide input on regulatory requirements.

Sie benötigen
Referenzwerte?

Services for Clients

Market Mapping & Identification

In structured presentations, we show you how your competitors are structured.

Depending on your needs, we will be able to send you tailored information—from a headcount to a list of the key players of a company.

This structured information shows why a company is more—or less—successful in a particular sector. We create ideas for mergers and acquisitions; and we identify the right contact person for you in particular fields or segments.

You require a
a competitive comparison