Key positions, filled with judgement.
You know which profile you need. We know where to find it. Together we fill your vacancies in Banking & Finance, Legal & Tax and Office — predictable, discreet, dependable.
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Discretion
Confidential search mandates, personally handled.
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Reliability
Clear timelines from briefing to signed contract.
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Based in Munich
DACH-wide placements, with judgement.
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10+ years of experience
Consultants with real industry practice.
Four ways we support you.
From classic permanent placement to executive search — scaled to your need.
Permanent placement
A permanent role directly with you. We source, assess and present — you decide.
Executive search
Key positions at management and board level — discreet, strategic, dependable.
Try & hire
Bring in a candidate on a trial basis and convert if you wish. Maximum flexibility.
Temporary staffing
Specialists on a fixed-term basis — legally compliant, quickly available, flexibly scalable.
Three industries we know inside out.
Deep expertise rather than a broad reach — our consultants know the markets, the roles and the people.
Transparent, predictable, dependable.
No surprises, no fine print. Every step is clearly defined — and you always know where we stand.
Briefing & role profile
A 60-minute conversation in person — afterwards we know your role, your team, your culture. That becomes the profile we search against.
Candidate sourcing & screening
Active sourcing, matching from our pool and direct approach — we check both technical fit and culture before introducing anyone.
Interviews & selection
We present 3–5 vetted profiles with our recommendation. You run the interviews — we moderate where it helps.
Contract & onboarding
We facilitate negotiation and signing, and stay in touch with both sides during the probation period. Re-placement guaranteed.
Phoenix vs. the alternatives.
Why it pays to hand the search to specialists — in numbers and hard criteria.
| Criterion | Phoenix Personal | In-house search | Job board |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time-to-hire | 6–8 weeks | 3–6 months | open-ended |
| Quality of profiles | pre-screened professionally + culturally | depends on the internal team | unfiltered |
| Access to passive candidates | included (active sourcing) | only with extra tooling | no |
| Risk & guarantee | No cure, no pay · probation guarantee | full costs, regardless of outcome | ad spend lost |
| Workload for your HR team | low (3–5 vetted profiles) | very high | high (screening) |
| Industry expertise | specialists for banking/legal/office | generalist | none |
What does a hire really cost?
In Munich alone you compete with hundreds of companies for the same specialists on the open job market. The job ad is the smallest item: the real costs sit in your team’s working hours — and in every month the position stays vacant. Set the sliders to your numbers: the calculator itemises every cost and compares doing it yourself honestly with a placement through Phoenix — our fee included.
The position to fill
Gross annual salary of the role to be filled. It drives the vacancy costs and the basis of the placement fee.
From posting to signature. Three to six months are common on the open market — with Phoenix you plan for six to eight weeks.
Your in-house search
How often do you post in total? Example: 2 portals × 2 runs = 4 ads — plus renewals when the right application does not come in.
Average price across your portals. A 30-day ad on a major portal easily costs €600–1,200, premium placements more.
Job profile, writing ads, screening applications, phone interviews, coordination, rejections — 40–80 hours per hire add up quickly.
Gross annual salary of the person running the recruiting. The calculator applies +25% employer costs and 1,640 productive hours per year.
Conducting interviews, preparing and debriefing, aligning — time that does not flow into your core business.
Gross annual salary of the manager involved — values their interview and alignment time.
With Phoenix
As a percentage of gross annual salary — due exclusively on a successful placement (no cure, no pay). We agree the exact rate in the mandate.
Real total cost per hire
In-house
€64,351
With Phoenix
€40,643
Your savings with Phoenix
€23,700
At your values, hiring through Phoenix is not only faster and free of upfront risk — it is also cheaper overall.
≈ 4.3 months
Filled sooner
€8,333
Cost per vacant month
€0
Your upfront risk with PhoenixNo cure, no pay
The comparison in detail
| Cost item | In-house | With Phoenix |
|---|---|---|
| Job ads10 × €650 | €6,500 | not needed — we cover this |
| HR / recruiting hours120 h × €50/h | €5,945 | €2976 h |
| Hiring manager hours25 h × €76/h | €1,905 | €76210 h — interviews with 3–5 vetted profiles |
| Vacancy costs (unfilled position)110 working days | €50,000 | €14,58332 working days |
| Placement fee | — | €25,00025 % of annual salary, success only |
| Real total cost | €64,351 | €40,643 |
| Risk if the search fails | Ads & working hours are spent regardless | €0 — no cure, no pay |
Our assumptions — fully disclosed
- Full employer costs: gross annual salary + 25% non-wage labour costs, spread over 1,640 productive hours per year.
- Vacancy costs: the lost value contribution of the unfilled position, deliberately conservative at a factor of 1.0 of the pro-rata annual salary (220 working days/year). HR literature uses factors of 1 to 3 depending on the role.
- Hiring with Phoenix: six to eight weeks, modelled as 1.75 months (never longer than your in-house duration). Internal effort with Phoenix: 6 hours HR and 10 hours hiring manager for interviews with 3–5 vetted profiles.
- Not included: cost of a mis-hire, active-sourcing licences, applicant-tracking software and employer branding — all of which would make in-house hiring even more expensive.
- The calculation runs entirely in your browser; no input is stored or transmitted.
A model calculation with assumptions you control — not an offer and not a price commitment. Actual costs depend on the position, the market and the course of the search. We agree the exact fee transparently in the mandate; it is due exclusively on a successful placement.
Put yourself in the shoes of a qualified professional: would they spend weeks researching employers, write hundreds of applications and go through every process individually? That is exactly why we reach people you can hardly reach on the open market — one application to Phoenix, and we take care of the rest on both sides.
- 500+
- Successful placements
- 4500+
- Active profiles
- 98%
- Client satisfaction
- 6–8 wks
- Avg. time-to-hire
since inception
in our pool, DACH-wide
repeat mandates
briefing to contract
What our clients say.
Trust comes from real outcomes, not marketing.
“After three unsuccessful attempts we had three qualified candidates on the table within five weeks. Phoenix understood what we actually needed — they did not just send CVs.”
Client · Banking & Finance
“The Legal & Tax specialisation makes the difference. Phoenix knows the market — and our candidates were already technically classified before the first interview.”
Client · Legal & Tax
“Clear recommendations rather than a wide-net pitch. We have filled our office roles through Phoenix for years — curated and with judgement.”
Client · Office
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