Fahrholz Consulting

FAHRHOLZ Consulting is a German executive search consultancy that sums up its purpose as filling leadership positions with people who take responsibility. It supports companies with the discreet and structured appointment of leadership roles and business-critical specialist positions. Four points define its offer: real operational sector knowledge, maximum discretion, robust pre-selection, and being owner-led with personal accountability for each mandate. Every engagement opens with a confidential first conversation in which client and consultancy work out together whether a collaboration makes sense and which approach fits the vacancy.

The consultancy works with employers in the construction industry, in trade and sales, in industry and manufacturing, and in technical services. Its argument to those clients is that an open leadership position is not an ordinary vacancy problem: responsibility goes unattended, decisions are postponed or spread across several shoulders, teams lose direction, and operational load falls on people who were never meant to carry it. In companies with direct responsibility for results this quickly creates friction, uncertainty and economic knock-on costs, while a wrong appointment ties up resources, strains structures and can lastingly weaken the employer brand.

The work follows a five-stage process: a joint assessment of how critical the vacancy really is, a precise briefing on the responsibility the role carries and how a good appointment will be measured, a realistic target picture with relevant target companies and search fields, identification and discreet direct approach with careful pre-selection, and support through to the appointment and beyond, including onboarding and further HR matters. Only profiles that genuinely fit the role, the environment and the expectations are presented. The FAQ explains how this differs from classic Personalvermittlung, and states that both the time a search takes and its cost are assessed individually rather than quoted as a flat figure.