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KARENTNew prospects for your employees The KARENT® Consulting Spectrum

Globalisation and increasing competitive

pressure force modern companies to rethink

their structures and adjust to new challenges.

Job losses are often unavoidable. KARENT®

has specialised in helping employees affected

by redundancy to overcome the personal crisis

and quickly find a new and suitable position.

Our consulting and placement service is tailored

specifically to the unique situation of each client.

Our individual outplacement programme

primarily supports employees in senior and

middle management. The focus here is on the

search for a new position that matches our

client’s profile and his/her personal objectives.

If you wish, we are also willing to expressly

guarantee the success of our consulting

service. Our market knowledge, contact network

and active research in the hidden employment

market ensure that our clients have a decisive

advantage.

Our group outplacement programme advises

tariff employees in a combination of workshops

and individual counselling. Employees learn to

move actively in the job market and receive

practical assistance with applications. Parallel

to the client’s own search, our Job Search Team

approaches potential employers directly and actively

seeks open positions, thereby significantly

increasing the rate of success for our clients.

The KARENT® Transfer Company employs

people for a fixed term of up to 12 months

following reorganisation. Employees receive

social benefits for an additional year, funded for

example by transfer short-time compensation,

and the opportunity to significantly increase

their employment chances in the labour market

with relevant training. Our primary goal here is

the prompt placement of employees in new jobs.

One step ahead in your career

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Finding a new position

At KARENT® our primary goal is to help our

clients to achieve a new and suitable position

as quickly as possible. A new job is always

preceded by the decision of a personnel

manager and/or line manager in favour of

one of our clients. This makes a profound

understanding of the recruitment process an

elementary prerequisite to successful consulting.

We therefore conduct regular quantitative

research projects at KARENT® in order to

analyse the relevant aspects of the HR and

recruitment processes in the different business

sectors. This knowledge enables us to optimally

position our clients in the job market and help

them to create the best individual strategy to

obtain a new job.

As shown by our representative HR decision-

maker chart below, alongside company-internal

placement, the most important methods used

to fill vacancies are still job advertisements and

executive search companies.

Job advertisements and the use of headhunters

are very costly recruitment methods for new

staff from the perspective of the companies.

These methods are generally selected only

if the more cost effective methods, such as

internal placement, personal contacts of the

employees and unsolicited applications have been

unsuccessful.

One vital factor in our consulting success is

therefore to ensure that our clients are

considered for those vacancies before an

advertisement appears in the open job market. This

prevents competition with numerous, often

similarly qualified candidates and significantly

increases the success of our clients.

Job recruitment

Internal recruitment

Job seeker advertisements

Unsolicitedapplications

Newspaper job advertisements

Online job advertisements

Headhunters

State employmentexchange

Employeecontacts

5%

20%

43%

32%

23%

7%

43%

3%

44%33%

43%

24% 29%42%

12%

72%

9%

36%

41%

14%

8%

50%

37%

5%

4%

18%

2%

8%

26%

41%

25%

Sample:

571 HR decision-makers

Key:

Very important

Important

Less important

Absolutely unimportant

5%

20%

43%

32%

1%

23%

7%

43%

3%

44%33%

43%

24% 29%42%

12%

72%

9%

36%

41%

14%

8%

50%

37%

5%

4%

18%

8%

26%

41%

25%

KARENTThe KARENT® Consulting Concept

The objective of the consulting concept

developed by KARENT® is to significantly reduce

the time that a client needs to restart his/her

career with a new employer. We achieve this

by pursuing a clearly structured, marketing

orientated approach. Each consultation starts

with agreement on a precise timeline with the

client. This provides the client, who has ideally

already been released by his current employer,

with a clear project structure, which generally

also amounts to full-time occupation in the

pursuit of career reorientation.

The main part of the consultation is divided

into three phases.

1. Orientation phase

If the client only learns of the company’s

intention to release him/her during the

actual termination meeting, he/she will

generally need 1 - 2 weeks to come to terms

with the new situation. The opportunities

and possibilities offered by consulting will

ideally be outlined in a so-called takeout session

directly after the termination meeting or during a

meeting at one of the KARENT® offices.

2. Consulting phase

Employees should be released from duty and

start the outplacement consulting process as

soon as possible after termination. During a

6-week period, the consultant and client work

particularly intensively together and prepare

the client’s career strategy and positioning. This

is followed by the main part of the consulting

process, which is to apply that strategy in the job

market. In consideration of the target position,

all suitable channels are systematically utilised

to penetrate the job market. On request, our

Job Search Team will actively seek vacancies in

the hidden job market.

3. Final phase

The consultant and client meet less frequently

in the final phase. Feedback from interviews

is discussed and used to plan the next steps.

Job offers are evaluated to support the decision

process. Where appropriate, coaching can be

given during the trial period.

Orientation Phase

ConsultingPhase

Final phase

Target objectives

Positioning Campaign Interviews Decision

Termination

Approx. 2-4 weeks Approx. 6 weeks Approx. 2-4 months

Contract closure

Active job search by Karent

KARENTKARENT® Individual Outplacement

KARENT® offers the appropriate outplacement

programme for each target group. All programmes

are based on the KARENT® Consulting Concept

and the consulting focus is tailored to meet

different target group needs.

Senior Executive Programme

The KARENT® Senior Executive Programme

exclusively addresses senior managers. High

acceptance of the consultant by the client is

decisive to the success of consulting in this target

group. This individual outplacement programme

is therefore conducted by consultants with a

professional background similar to that of their

demanding clients. Prior to joining KARENT®,

these consultants were division managers,

directors or CEOs of renowned companies.

Executive Programme

The KARENT® Executive Programme addresses

middle management and highly qualified

specialists. Individual outplacement can be

tailored specifically to suit the unique situation

of the client. All of the consultants have an

academic background or pertinent longstanding

professional experience.

Professional Programme

The KARENT® Professional Programme supports

qualified specialists. Consulting is strongly

focused on execution. Once the application

paperwork has been prepared, the consultation

quickly turns to concrete application activities.

Where appropriate, the consultant will also

draft individual application letters and help with

preparations for telephone and personal interviews.

All programmes offer the client professional

support

• Comprehensivematerialonallareasofcareer

development and professional applications

• Internet access to company information

databases, executive search directories

and the results of the client’s professional

strengths test

• Clientinternetaccountforaccesstopersonal

application documents

• Videotrainingandassistanceinpreparinga

professional application

Support through active job search

All outplacement programmes include active job

search. Our team looks for suitable vacancies in

the open and hidden job markets. The process

is tailored to the relevant hierarchical level.

Different contact networks are activated,

headhunters used or target employers approached

directly, depending on the target position. We

are often aware of vacancies based on our

project work with clients with a similar profile

or direct enquiries from HR departments. We

work systematically and consistently utilise all

available opportunities.

KARENTGroup Outplacement and Transfer Company

Works councils, HR and company managers

carry a huge responsibility in cases where job

losses are unavoidable.

Our experience shows that redundancy

discussions usually focus on two topics. Firstly,

the employees facing unemployment need

financial security for the transition period. Far

more important in the mid-term, however, is the

prospect of a new job in the primary

employment market.

The financial support mechanisms of the

active labour market policies in Germany strive

to prevent unemployment and facilitate a

seamless transition of employees into a new job.

Outplacement consulting supported under

§216a SGB aims to open new opportunities in

the primary job market for the employee to be

terminated, while he/she is still employed. Up to

50% of the costs here are funded by the Federal

Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit).

Transfer companies supported under

§216b SGB enable those affected to use

fixed-term employment by the transfer company

to actively seek new employment and engage

in preparatory training. This can cover a period

of up to 12 months.

The two methods can also be coordinated and

combined in the form of a transfer agency.

Each company situation is unique and calls for

individual answers and solutions.

KARENT® offers all three versions to support

redundancy situations, utilising all options to

rapidly find new jobs for your employees and

colleagues. We take full advantage of all available

financial support (including ESF funding). We

provide the full scope, from group outplacement

to transfer company and transfer agency.

You will find current and detailed information

with financing examples, sample calculations,

achievement quotas and project examples

online at www.karent.de and www.karent-

transfergesellschaft.de

We would be also delighted to hear from

you personally.

One step ahead in your career

We are right there where you need us

KARENT® Berlin

Tel.: +49 30/255684420

KARENT® Dortmund

Tel.: +49 231/18875240

KARENT® Dusseldorf

Tel.: +49 211/64989210

KARENT® Frankfurt (Headquarters)

Tel.: +49 69/272266-0

KARENT® Hamburg

Tel.: +49 40/226054750

KARENT® Hanover

Tel.: +49 511/16205410

KARENT® Leipzig

Tel.: +49 341/22699750

KARENT® Mannheim

Tel.: +49 621/4309210

KARENT® Munich

Tel.: +49 89/125950660

KARENT® Nuremberg

Tel.: +49 911/21221710

KARENT® Regensburg

Tel.: +49 941/4636310

KARENT® Stuttgart

Tel.: +49 711/38921410

KARENT®Vienna

Tel.: +43 1/3196592

KARENT® Zurich

Tel.: +41 43/2685406

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