KARENT PLACEMENT is a method of career reorientation that has been continuously developed and proven many times over since 2004. Originally known under the term ‘inverse headhunting’, the approach pursues a clear goal: to connect highly qualified specialists, executives and top managers specifically with the most attractive career opportunities on the market.
While most candidates focus on publicly advertised positions and face intense competition there, our clients position themselves strategically as solution providers for companies’ specific challenges. In doing so, they open up the hidden job market – the area in which numerous demanding positions are filled before they ever become publicly visible.
Read how inverse headhunting works in detail, who it suits and how the process unfolds in our guide Inverse Headhunting.
The result: access to exclusive career opportunities, considerably less competition and significantly greater visibility with relevant decision-makers.
The success of KARENT PLACEMENT is based on the unique combination of three decisive service components:
An experienced consultant with excellent regional connections supports you personally throughout the entire process, right up to signing the contract. Together we develop a clear positioning, sharpen your profile and work out a convincing market strategy for your career reorientation.
Our team specifically identifies relevant companies, decision-makers, executive search consultants and concrete market potential. Through the curated and structured approach to target companies, we open up career opportunities far beyond the publicly accessible job market.
As part of the interview preparation, we support you in communicating your professional positioning, your added value for the company and your key achievements clearly and convincingly. Through targeted preparation for typical questions on strategy, leadership, transformation and your motivation to change, as well as realistic interview simulations, you gain confidence and composure for demanding selection interviews. In addition, we optimise your personal impact and prepare you for critical conversational situations as well as contract and closing negotiations – from professional documents and your personal positioning through to decisive conversational moments.
If you don’t just want to react to advertised positions but actively open up the market, the hidden job market offers you decisive competitive advantages. You gain access to exclusive career opportunities that never become publicly visible, position yourself directly with relevant decision-makers and are considered for vacancies before they are officially filled. At the same time, you considerably reduce the competition, increase your visibility in the relevant market segment and create the basis for attractive positions to be tailored specifically to your profile. At executive level in particular, the greatest career leverage often arises not from applications to job advertisements, but through strategic networking, personal recommendations and a professional market presence.
This creates a structured, professionally supported path to the next suitable career opportunity – sustainable, targeted and successful.
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People who can build on their talents and strengths in their daily work are more successful than those who largely have to ‘come to terms’ with their tasks and their environment. When private and professional goals are in harmony with previous professional achievements and personal strengths and weaknesses, our clients come across as more authentic and therefore more convincing – and are more successful: in the application process, in the next position and beyond.
In the preparation phase of every placement programme, we first carry out a joint assessment of your current position. From your strengths-and-competencies profile, your professional achievements and our market knowledge, we develop the ‘common thread’ of your career as well as your next target position. In your CV and personal presentation, we then clearly highlight those achievements that employers and decision-makers know, understand and look for in potential candidates.
As soon as we know your target position, we define the market strategy together with you. In which companies would you like to work? In which region would you like to be active? Which general conditions are important to you? Which industries come into question? In which order will we work through the segments of your target market?
As soon as the career strategy and market strategy are in place – i.e. after three to four weeks – we brief our research team and start the market-development phase. Preparation for job interviews takes place as soon as you have been invited to concrete interviews, in order to enable a coherent and well-rounded performance.
Our focus: the hidden job market
A considerable proportion of attractive positions are not advertised publicly, but filled via personal networks, direct approaches, recruitment consultancies or recommendations. Access to the hidden job market therefore opens up additional career opportunities and reduces competition, as significantly fewer candidates learn of these vacancies. Through a targeted approach to relevant contacts, decision-makers and executive search consultants, the likelihood of being considered early for interesting positions and finding a suitable follow-on role increases.
After the strategy phase is complete, you are therefore additionally supported by a researcher. Systematic market development contributes around 70% to the successes of our clients. It offers the fastest and most comprehensive access to your individual job market.
In addition, we cooperate with leading job portals in order to be informed about vacancies at an early stage. All of our activities are coordinated with you. We search and advise. You decide on the concrete course of action.
In 2004, we were the first in the market to develop active outplacement with inverse headhunting, and we have continuously improved our research approach. The procedure is always adapted to the individual market size.
Today, our clients typically hold their first interviews six to eight weeks after the research begins and decide on an offer after around six conversations.
Through a combination of active market research, the use of our consultants’ network and the activation of our clients’ personal networks, we identify employers who need your expertise right now. We then provide you with the decision-maker contacts and develop a concrete approach strategy for this selected and qualified ‘shortlist’ of potential employers.
To further increase the probability of success, we then open up your entire previously defined target market, from which you can select your favourites.
A good network opens up career opportunities that are often unreachable through classic application routes. By specifically approaching relevant contacts, multipliers and decision-makers, you increase your visibility in the market and are more frequently involved in confidential recruitment processes. This does not replace the market-development or positioning phase, but it improves the reach, quality and number of relevant career options.
Many attractive positions are not advertised publicly, but filled via specialised recruitment consultants. As part of our consulting, we support you in positioning yourself specifically with the recruitment consultancies relevant to your profile. In this way, you increase your visibility with the most important market players. This is not only about placing individual positions, but also about building long-term contacts with consultants who can be useful to you in the future as well.
“After our collaboration began in early November, I was already holding initial interviews by the end of December, was able to sign a contract in mid-February and have now taken over as Chair of the Management Board. The market response was astonishingly positive despite Corona … and I have even found my dream position. The concept works!”
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