Kontrast Personalberatung

Kontrast Personalberatung is an owner-managed headhunting and personnel consulting firm. It was founded in 1993 in Heidelberg and is now based in the Hamburg Hafencity, with an office in Berlin. It says it is independent of shareholders or other silent partners, and that it works in Germany, the DACH region, Europe and globally.

Its business areas are headhunting, personnel consulting and selection procedures, and it also offers personnel marketing. It recruits specialists and managers for public employers, medium-sized companies and healthcare organisations. It says its clients come from all sectors of the European Mittelstand, with particular expertise in medicine and nursing, IT, public service and administration, engineering, general management, research and education, sales, real estate and construction, energy and environment, and pharma and medical technology.

The firm reports a team of about 10 permanently employed, academically trained consultants and headhunters, and holds DIN EN ISO 9001:2015 certification. Annette Feist and Ingo Scheider are the managing directors. It shares its office with Kompakttraining GmbH & Co. KG, a related company spun off in 2004 for training and seminars.