Jobactive

A German personnel services business, Jobactive says it leaves nothing to chance when it matches people with jobs. It says it has more than 400 employees spread across six central locations, and its branches are listed for Leverkusen, Leipzig, Cologne (including a separate IT services office), Düsseldorf, Berlin (Mitte and Lichtenberg), Frankfurt am Main, Munich and Zurich.

Temporary staffing and direct placement for client firms

The company describes its work as personnel management with a personal touch. Its range covers personnel consulting, recruitment and placement. For client businesses it supplies its own workers when they face a shortage of staff or a seasonal peak in workload, or it finds candidates and places them directly into permanent employment with the client. Positions on its job board are usually advertised on behalf of a named client rather than for Jobactive itself, and the examples on the site come from industrial settings such as electrical engineering and technology firms.

The vacancies shown are typical of that industrial base. One calls for precision mechanics and CNC specialists working in three shifts on the manual grinding, milling and surface finishing of turbine blades, with documentation entered into a system. Another is for forklift drivers handling internal transport, storage and retrieval of electronic components and the supply of production cells, again in three shifts. Adverts of this kind set out the tasks, the qualifications expected, good German among them, and what the employee receives, which Jobactive lists as a fixed monthly salary, good chances of being taken on by the client, and contacts who help through the application.

Who the agency tries to attract

The site speaks directly to different groups of workers. It addresses people who like to work at unusual hours, who are spontaneous and mobile, and who need working time that fits family life. It also addresses students who want either long-term work or short assignments lasting a day or a week, in part-time or full-time form. A set of short statements on the site presents agency work as a way back into employment, a route to promotion, a source of flexible hours and varied tasks within a person's own field, and a way for people with qualifications gained abroad to use them every day.

For companies, the site separates the offer into its own section, so that an employer looking for a candidate for a specific position, or for temporary cover, can approach the agency from that side. Applicants have a matching section, and the site also carries a news area.

Jobactive is a staffing agency that places skilled workers with client companies and helps candidates find work. Its website says it leaves nothing to chance in job placement, and it operates from several cities.

What Jobactive offers

• Temporary staffing: supplying skilled workers, such as CNC specialists and precision mechanics, to client companies.
• Job placement: finding roles for candidates, including people returning to work who want flexible hours.
• Client recruitment: finding staff for employers who want motivated, skilled people.
• Career prospects: placements that offer advancement and varied tasks in the candidate's own field.

Customers and markets

Clients include an electrical engineering company that recruits CNC specialists for three-shift work. Candidates include skilled trades workers and people returning to work.

Key facts

• Locations: Leverkusen, Leipzig, Köln, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Frankfurt, München and Zürich
• Online: job search and vacancy listings for candidates