Personalberatung Wagner

Personal- und Unternehmensberatung Wagner, which presents itself online as HR Consulting and Personalberatung Wagner, is a combined personnel and management consultancy. It welcomes visitors to its site with the offer of introducing its range of services, and publishes its current vacancies on the same pages. The consultancy is run in German and covers both sides of the work it names in its own title, advising companies on their people and on the way those people are organised and rewarded.

The practice sets out five service areas rather than a list of industries. Consulting and interim management is offered for bridging vacancies, delivering change projects or providing expert support when workloads are high, with the advantages that headcount is not increased and flexibility remains very high, summed up in its own phrase as a problem solver for a limited time. Employee surveys are presented as having grown in importance in recent years, in part because of increasing one-way communication coupled with an ever stronger drive for productivity. Head hunting and executive search is offered on the basis that the increasing flexibility of the labour market makes a strategic approach to finding suitable employees more necessary. Compensation systems are offered as a way of raising company performance by interlocking individual goals with company goals. Change management and reorganisation starts from the observation that all companies change over time and that what matters is shaping that change in a targeted way.

The consultancy works in Germany from a German language site whose navigation is limited to the home page, the Impressum, the data protection notice and a contact page. Job seekers are pointed from the front page directly to the current vacancies, while employers are directed into the five service descriptions. The case the consultancy makes is the breadth of that combination: the same practice that recruits an executive can also supply an interim manager to bridge the gap, survey the workforce, design the pay system and steer the reorganisation that follows.