Comtract Kommunikations

comtract is a Personalberatung that places Kommunikations-Manager, Pressesprecher, PR-Berater and IR-Manager. The company was founded in 1999 in Heidelberg and has advised businesses since that year, working with companies, organisations and PR agencies on strategic questions and supporting PR professionals as business coaches. Its service lines are recruiting, outplacement and newplacement, onboarding, business coaching, strategic consulting and career advice. comtract also runs a free knowledge base of careers material covering topics such as negotiating outplacement after a job loss, the rules for a strong Arbeitszeugnis and the changing requirement profiles for PR managers.

The company covers the entire professional field of public relations, corporate communications and PR consultancy. Roles it fills include head of corporate communications, press spokespeople, PR managers and PR-Referenten, internal communications specialists, social media experts, corporate social responsibility and corporate publishing staff, investor relations professionals, marketing communications managers, and PR consultants at senior level. It recruits nationally and internationally at executive level as well as at Referenten and consultant level, and also places interim managers and freelancers for specific PR project tasks, plus trained public relations juniors with professional experience and potential. On the Personalberatung side it advises on the wording of job adverts, selects the most efficient online and print media, arranges design and placement of adverts with network partners, screens incoming applications, conducts additional interviews, checks references and work samples, and makes recommendations. It also advises on appropriate remuneration and attractive packages based on current market conditions.

comtract works from Heidelberg and finds candidates through a network grown over 20 years combined with professional Direktansprache. Its recruiting process is built around confidentiality: neither the client's name nor written job profiles are circulated unnecessarily or prematurely, and the firm treats reliability as a core value. It rejects simply forwarding candidate CVs to employers or calling out names as incompatible with its quality standards, and reports that systematically searched and selected candidates often go on to long term employment relationships. Its outplacement programme supports professional reorientation after restructurings, mergers and takeovers.