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Not at all! After all, only professional recruitment consultancies can conduct a successful candidate search at the top level. However, the recruitment market is in motion: Since profiles of professionals are more or less freely available to anybody on the internet, many players as well as employers feel called to become recruiters or personnel consultants themselves. What, then, is left of classical recruitment consultancy? At a round table conference, renowned recruitment consultancy firms such as division one, Kienbaum or KornFerry have discussed the recruitment industry’s current development.

Volkmar Denner’s venture has attracted quite a lot of attention. Last year, some have even called the CEO of Bosch a visionary. The reason for this was Denner’s announcement to rethink the technology group’s bonus payments for executives. Individual bonuses are now a relic of Bosch‘s past. More often than not, small and medium-sized businesses have also taken up variable income models. Björn Knothe, recruitment consultant and CEO of division one, is convinced that this trend is going to continue. In his opinion, the variable amount is likely to comprise about 30 % of an average sales representative’s annual income. In order to prevent excesses in this respect, recruitment consultant Knothe is of the opinion that the following ought to be observed: “Companies need to establish a reasonable and fair system for variable remuneration in order to ensure an equal treatment rather than making unfounded payment decisions according to personal preference.”  (available only in german)

(Source: Wirtschaftszeitung Baden-Württemberg/Issue 02/2016 / Oliver Schmale)

Interim Management at the “SWR 1 workstation“ show (Björn Knothe / CEO division one, Helmuth Raschke / Interim Manager and Stefan Gimber / authorized officer ADMEDES Schuessler GmbH in conversation).

"We're doing very well, which is why we want to give back to others."

Because of this thought, the idea arose to offer often severely disadvantaged children and young people a great joint activity in order to get them out of their familiar and often difficult environment and give them an unusual experience. Since 2011, the entire division one company as well as children and young people of St. Joseph in Stuttgart have taken part in joint sports activities every year. In recent years, at our common HAPPY DAY, we went on ventures such as canoeing on the river Neckar, forest climbing, raft building on a lake, a GPS scavenger hunt and a visit to the production facilities of Porsche.

September 19, 2014 - Last Friday, for the fourth time the annual HAPPY DAY took place. A total of 35 children and young people from the Children’s Home St. Joseph in Stuttgart together with their caregivers and division one employees navigated around the Max-Eyth Lake in a GPS scavenger hunt. In 2011, division one launched this joint event together with the children's center of St. Joseph in Stuttgart. The goal is to get the children and young people who live there in various residential groups out of their everyday life which often is not that easy.