New Placement and Outplacement
Proximity to people is important to us. Three factors allow us to provide effective professional support: individualised advice, our team’s above-average level of commitment, and our many years of experience on both sides of the recruitment process. These capabilities enable us to focus on all aspects of career transition. Our comprehensive advice is tailored to each individual’s personal situation. We have a modular structure we apply for this process using up to date hand outs as a practical introduction to career progression and use supporting tools along with current insights and Know-How.
Our services differ clearly from the traditional form of outplacement. We offer coaching and ad-vice to people in a career transition phase. Not stopping there, however, we go one step further and combine this with active in-placement and new placement support. Working together with our candidates, we seek out the right job for them, actively involving our in-house network in the process. We help you to position yourself vis-à-vis a potential employer.
We always work on a needs-oriented basis: cooperating closely with the company, we can develop and offer a programme that is tailored to its size and individual needs, taking into account the seniority levels and the job market ‘fit’ of the people concerned. Costs are determined in advance within a set time frame, but the schedule and number of meetings are determined according to the individual situation and requirements. All programmes are individually designed, with no limits on the number or the length of the meetings. The Mäder & Partner New Placement programme is ideal for senior management, executives at all levels, and employees.
Modules
Our programme comprises five modules in a graduated structure which provides excellent preparation for stepping up to the next professional challenge.
Identifying resources. Analysing strengths. Determining aims.
Skills appraisal lets you examine your behaviour and inclinations more closely, thereby creating a basis for your career transition.
What questions are asked?
- How do I operate and how do I evaluate and feel about my counterpart?
- How do I communicate?
- What working style suits me?
- What contribution can I / would I like to make?
- How do I react under pressure?
- What opportunities are open to me and what risks are there?
How do you identify these aspects?
In Module 1 you use one or more personality analysis instruments. You go into a one-to-one ses-sion, during which you can use various aids, such as worksheets and checklists which we supply both online and in hard copy. Your personal adviser supports you in this key self-perception phase and reflects your outward nature back to you by means of proven coaching methods.
What do you get from this module?
Specific knowledge about yourself and the new path you want to follow.
Understanding the job market. Recognising opportunities.
You get to grips with your professional motivation and the insights from Module 1, draw up your personal competency profile and formulate your needs and goals.
What questions are asked?
- What job would I want to do if I could choose freely?
- Can I realistically pursue the professional scenarios that emerge from Module 1?
- What possibilities and opportunities do I have in the present and future job market?
- What are my strengths?
- What goals do I want to pursue within career transition, and which are possible?
How do you achieve these insights?
You have access to practical tutorials and can draw up your personal profile and goals with the help of tools that have been tried and tested over many years. In Module 2, you receive practical guidance. You get to know your personal vision and goals.
What does this module provide you with?
It gives you a basis on which to decide the main direction of your career transition. The boundary between Modules 1 and 2 is deliberately made fluid.
Professional, precise, convincing
These days, job applications are also subject to the unavoidable expectations of trends. We are very well acquainted with these. Together, we develop an expressive, market-oriented and con-vincing set of job application documents, which form your career transition passport.
What questions are asked?
- What documents are indispensable in a market-compliant set of application documents today?
- How do I write and edit my documents?
- How do I design my CV in such a way that it sparks the reader’s interest?
- How do I present my documents in a way that meets today’s standards?
- How quickly do I need to react in today’s business world?
How do you achieve these insights?
You edit the documents together with your adviser and receive professional guidance. In addition, we provide you with checklists, worksheets and a variety of specific, practical examples.
What does this module provide you with?
The edited, personal application documents serve as your own marketing and sales tool in the job market.
Tailor-made action plans using the Mäder & Partner network.
You gain a comprehensive overview of all avenues of research and get tips on efficient job seeking. Together, we analyse the job market and work out your personal route for targeted search and application activities. You also, together with your personal adviser, establish what networking activities we should initiate on our side.
What questions are asked?
- What search channels are there?
- Which channels can I use in a targeted manner?
- When do I consult additional advisers?
- How should the networks of my personal adviser and Mäder & Partner be used?
- How do I apply for a job online? How do I put my profile on professional online plat-forms?
- How do I find and use my personal network?
How do you achieve these insights?
You learn about the various possibilities through tutorials and by using tools that have been tested in the real world. In this phase you will be very actively supported by your adviser.
What does this module provide you with?
It supplies the guiding thread that runs through all the application activities and market pro-cessing strategies.
Interview training from A to Z, objective self-perception, including use of a video camera
We work together with you to prepare your interviews with potential employers. You will be prepared for interviews not only by learning the theoretical ground rules, but also with the help of practical examples and role play.
What questions are asked?
- What do I need to know about the content and process of a job interview?
- How do I prepare for an interview effectively?
- What interview techniques are there?
- What needs to be done in terms of visual impact, manner and body language?
How do you achieve these insights?
You read the materials and prepare yourself with checklists. The most important component of this module is training with or without the video camera, with your personal adviser and if re-quired an additional trainer. In this way you gain valuable concrete experience with a variety of interviewers.
What does this module provide you with?
Confidence in your manner and in verbal interaction.
From business plan to implementation
You’re seeking self employmente and want to know what’s needed to get there? We can help you achieve your goal and provide an overview of all the main issues involved in being self-employed. Our practitioners are ready to advise you and answer any questions.
What questions are asked??
- What practical conditions need to be fulfilled?
- How do I prepare a professional business plan?
- What partner organisations are there on the market to guide me in the initial phase of self-employment?
- What practical points should I pay attention to in areas such as financing, marketing, in-surance and life stage planning?
- How do I do this, what with and with whom?
- What time horizon should I set myself?
How do you achieve these insights?
We use tutorials that have been tested in real life, and you can ask the advice of specialists and experienced business people, as required.
What does this module provide you with?
Concrete advice and tips for starting out on your own in a targeted and practice-oriented manner. Our aim is to support you as you take your first steps into a promising and successful future of self-employment.
Career coaching
Coaching fosters reflection on patterns of action in the professional and private context.
The coach acts as sparring partner, initiates and accelerates a process of personal growth, vocational reorientation or decision-making.
We are a team of nationally and internationally qualified coaching specialists with many years of experience in a very wide range of sectors, able to offer highly individual knowledge-based advice. A key point in our work is the personal and professional development of executives.
The coaching we offer is specific and practice-oriented. Our team of trainers uses tried and tested methods, following the steps below:
- Definition of coaching
- In-depth analysis of personal values, positions, preferences and behaviour patterns
- Reflection on professional and personal biography, definition of future direction
- Drawing up a well-grounded action plan
Coaching generally comprises seven sessions, in which the trainer presents the bases for your own action plan, which you develop and proactively implement. Mäder & Partner see coaching as a process of continuous intervention. Our goal is guidance towards self-management.
Assessment
Comprehensive appraisal of achievements, abilities, and personal preferences is a prerequisite for success.
Mäder & Partner conduct assessments at all leadership levels, delivering key advice for effectiveness in current and future roles. The process includes a battery of psychological tests, stress interviews and comprehensive competency-based interviews, together with preparation of a personality profile. This enables a clear evaluation of a candidate’s suitability for the position in question.
Psychological tests
Stress interviews
Competency-based interviews
Personality profile
Guidance in reorganisations
Restructuring is always a highly complex operation for everyone involved. We can assist you in this difficult phase by providing support in all aspects of a staff reduction programme, including assistance on the scene. Our advisers have many years’ experience in the strategic and operational management of restructuring projects. We know how much depends on this challenging process. It is essential for a company’s reputation that a difficult process of this sort be managed in a highly professional and in a resource-oriented manner. You can rely on our expertise!
Mäder & Partner supports companies in all aspects of reorganisation. We offer comprehensive guidance, consisting of the following services:
- Situation analysis: preparation of a detailed project, budget and action plan
- Negotiations with internal and external stakeholders
- Development of a company-wide redundancy plan
- Creation of a communication strategy in collaboration with the company management
- Interview preparation training for executives
- New placement initiatives for professional reorientation
- Effective action for retention
- Structured feedback and follow-up