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HR & Recruitment

Good personnel decisions start with clarity.

We complement your HR with experience and an independent perspective. Responsibility and the personnel decision remain with you.

  1. 1Understanding the organisationStarting point, responsibilities, requirements and framework conditions.
  2. 2Clarifying competenciesRoles, necessary capabilities and possible development paths.
  3. 3Preparing the searchSearch strategy, criteria, approach and decision points.

Whether it is a demanding specialist position, a tight labour market, a high workload in HR or organisational change: every recruitment has its own challenges.

We support companies and HR managers with experience, an independent perspective and a structured approach. Together we clarify which competencies are actually needed, what options exist and how a search for personnel can be prepared sensibly.

In doing so, we build on the knowledge and existing processes of your company. Responsibility and the personnel decision remain where they belong: with you.

When companies bring us in

Every hire has its own starting point. These are typical:

Capacity: your HR is well set up, but several hires at once or an ongoing project tie up the available time.

Demanding role: a specialist, technical or IT role is new or rare, and an additional professional perspective helps to describe it and to assess candidates.

Tight market: the profiles you are looking for are scarce, and you want to choose search channels and approach deliberately.

Change: growth, digitalisation or a new organisation change tasks and responsibilities. Before the position is filled, the role should be rethought.

Independent view: you would like an outside assessment before committing.

If the profile and approach are already settled, additional advice is often not needed. We will tell you that in the fit conversation, too.

Module A: Clarifying role and competencies

Before the search begins, we create a shared understanding of the role together.

  • Clarifying the situation with you and the responsible specialists.
  • Structuring tasks, responsibilities and must-have and nice-to-have requirements.
  • Including existing capabilities and possible development within the company.
  • Setting out the options: internal development, organisational adjustment or recruitment, each with its reasoning.

Your benefit: everyone involved works with the same understanding of the role. You decide on a reasoned basis whether to recruit, develop internally or distribute responsibility differently. Result: an agreed role and competency profile and a reasoned recommendation for action.

Module B: An approach for your search

Once the role is clear, we prepare with you an approach that your team runs itself.

  • Defining the approach, responsibilities and involvement.
  • Setting out suitable search channels and possible variants of the approach.
  • Structuring the time frame, effort and decision points.
  • Preparing an interview guide and transparent assessment criteria.

Your benefit: your search follows an agreed plan with clear criteria and fixed decision points. Interviews become comparable, decisions traceable, and the documents remain available for later hires. Result: a search and approach concept, interview guide, assessment grid and decision points.

Our scope of services

The modules can be commissioned individually.

Andreas Hosang and Elizabeth Kunhimon have experience in consulting and in operational recruitment. At present, we offer the consulting services of Modules A and B described here.

These two modules are recruitment consulting, not recruitment agency services. Job advertising, search and direct approach, preselection and forwarding applications are not part of them. You or your HR carry out these steps.

Your company is the employer. The personnel decision, the employment contract and onboarding remain with you.

Who works with you

Andreas Hosang brings the organisation's perspective: roles, responsibilities and decision paths, and how a hire fits the development of the company. He holds overall responsibility for the mandate.

Elizabeth Kunhimon, Partner HR & Recruiting, brings the perspective of talent acquisition: the labour market, recruiting processes and the assessment of candidates, from practical HR experience in international markets.

In this way, we connect the requirements of your organisation with the possibilities and realities of the labour market.

We work with your HR, not around it. Digital tools, including AI, can support the consistent preparation of documents. They do not make selections and do not assess people.

QUENARIS can be used for this, but it is not required. Disclosure: QUENARIS was developed by Mattli Digital.

How a mandate works

It starts with a free fit conversation of 20 to 30 minutes. We discuss your situation and clarify whether, and with which first step, we can support you sensibly. It may end with "does not fit". An analysis, profile work or prepared documents are not part of it. Paid work only begins with the agreed first module, usually the clarification of role and competencies.

  • Fit conversation: the situation and a sensible first step.
  • Clarifying role and competencies (Module A).
  • Recommendation with reasoned options.
  • Your decision: develop internally, adjust the organisation or search, with Module B if you wish.
  • Handover: profiles, criteria and templates remain with you.

Effort and fees

We work with an hourly and phase-based model. Each phase has an agreed result and an estimated time requirement in advance. Before each phase begins, we agree the approach and effort with you, and you decide whether to continue. If the scope changes, we agree on it beforehand.

We invoice the effort actually provided. How much it is depends on the agreed scope of services. The fee does not depend on a hire. There is no general fixed-price guarantee and no guarantee of a hire or of success. Third-party costs are only incurred with your prior approval and are shown separately.

Recruitment in practice

An example of how technology can ease the recruitment process without taking over decisions about people.

“The vacancy isn't the real question. The real question is which capability a company actually needs.”

Frequently asked questions

When does working together make sense?

When you would like additional capacity, a professional perspective, market knowledge or an independent assessment for a hire, or when a role needs to be redefined because of change.

Do you work with our HR?

Yes. We complement existing knowledge and established processes. Your HR remains in the lead.

What exactly do I receive?

With Module A, an agreed role and competency profile and a reasoned recommendation for action. With Module B, a search and approach concept, an interview guide, an assessment grid and defined decision points. The documents remain with you.

Are you a recruitment agency?

No. Our Modules A and B are recruitment consulting. You or your HR carry out job advertising, search, direct approach, preselection and hiring.

How are effort and costs managed?

Per phase, with an agreed result and an estimated time requirement. Before each phase we agree the approach and effort, and you decide whether to continue. We invoice the actual effort. There is no guarantee of success.

Do you use AI?

Where it helps, for the consistent preparation of documents. AI does not assess people and does not make selections. Decisions about people are made by people.

What does the free fit conversation include?

A conversation of 20 to 30 minutes about your situation and a sensible first step. An analysis or prepared documents are not part of it. Only the agreed module is paid.

Planning a demanding hire?

In the free fit conversation, we discuss your situation and clarify which support makes sense for you.

Book a free fit conversation

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