What pluss Personalmanagement does

pluss Personalmanagement GmbH is a privately held German staffing firm, founded in 1984 and headquartered in Hamburg, that specializes in temporary staffing (Arbeitnehmerüberlassung / Zeitarbeit), permanent placement (Personalvermittlung), on-site management, outsourcing, and HR consulting for the German healthcare, nursing, elderly-care, education, and social-services sectors. It serves two parallel customer groups — institutional buyers (hospitals, nursing homes, outpatient providers, kindergartens, schools, social-welfare organizations) and individual job seekers — with named institutional clients including DRK, Caritas, Diakonie, Niels-Stensen-Kliniken, Renafan, Charleston, Aktion Mensch, and LWL. The firm operates 28+ physical branch offices across major and secondary German cities and is structured within the House of Healthcare GmbH holding, itself affiliated with the Belgian House of HR Group; the platform includes roughly a dozen wholly-owned operating subsidiaries (CAREWORKER Medical, DOCWISE, ICC-Medical, LOCUMCARE, LOCUMPRO, LOCUMWORK, Personal-Service WESTERMANN, Career People, DOCSTR, E-Recruit, avanti).

The core technology stack is conventional rather than proprietary: an online Stellenbörse job portal with sector- and radius-based filtering, an employee self-service payroll portal (Online-Abrechnungsportal) for payslips and time-off balances, a referral platform (pluss & friends), and a Kompetenz-Zentrum continuing-education portal. Third-party integrations include Google Analytics 4, Google Tag Manager, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp Business, Klick-Tipp marketing automation, Tidio chat, StepStone 360 Hire attribution, Zapier workflow glue, and reCAPTCHA; no public or partner-facing API, no proprietary AI/ML models, and no patents or trademarks are disclosed in the source material. Compliance scaffolding is substantial — AÜG gewerbsmäßige Arbeitnehmerüberlassung permit, iGZ/DGB collective bargaining agreement, GVP Gütesiegel, HinSchG whistleblower channel, and LkSG supply-chain statement.

Revenue mechanics mix managed services (temporary staffing as employer of record, on-site management, outsourcing) with transaction-fee permanent placement and professional-services revenue from training and HR consulting; candidate-side services are 100% free, institutional pricing is quote-based on multi-year contracts and not publicly disclosed, and AZAV-funded training programs represent an adjacent revenue stream. Go-to-market is sales-led with direct field sales to enterprises plus localized branch-driven acquisition of both clients and candidates, supported by content marketing (Job Magazin), segment-specific social accounts (TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, Xing, YouTube, Facebook), and an employee referral program paying up to EUR 3,000 per successful placement.

Name

pluss Personalmanagement

Legal name

pluss Personalmanagement GmbH

Website

https://pluss.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1984

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

pluss Personalmanagement is a Hamburg-based German staffing firm that provides temporary work, permanent placement, on-site management, and HR outsourcing focused on healthcare, nursing, elderly care, education, and social services through 28+ branches across Germany.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare and Social Sector Staffing Services

NAICS

Temporary Help Services (561320), Human Resources Consulting Services (541612)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

M&A HR Advisory (Due Diligence, Integration, Carve-outs) (BPACAJAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

HR Service Delivery & Employee Contact Centers (HR Helpdesk) (BPACAKAI), Employee Helpdesk / HR Service Center (Tier 1) (BPAAAIAH)

Keywords

• Temporary staffing services
• Healthcare recruitment
• Permanent placement
• Nursing personnel services
• Social sector staffing

Headquarters

HQ city

Hamburg

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices27 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Temporary Staffing (Arbeitnehmerüberlassung): Revenue generated from providing temporary workers to client companies in healthcare and social sectors. The company acts as the employer of record for temporary staff.
2. Permanent Placement (Personalvermittlung): Fee-based recruitment service matching qualified candidates with client companies for direct employment. Services include candidate sourcing, screening, and placement.
3. On-Site Management: Managed services where pluss staff are placed at client sites to manage and coordinate temporary workforce operations.
4. Outsourcing & HR Consulting: Business process outsourcing and HR consulting services for workforce management.
5. Training & Development (BGM-pluss): Continuing education and professional development programs for temporary staff in areas such as expert standards, palliative care, hygiene, and social competencies. Revenue may come from government-funded programs (AZAV).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

pluss Personalmanagement is a German staffing and recruitment firm that provides temporary staffing (Arbeitnehmerüberlassung), permanent placement (Personalvermittlung), on-site workforce management, outsourcing, and HR consulting services. It is vertically specialized in the healthcare, nursing, education, and social-work sectors through its Care People and Bildung & Soziales divisions, supported by an online job portal, employee payroll portal, and a continuing education center (Kompetenz-Zentrum).

Product overview

pluss Personalmanagement is a staffing and recruitment services company operating under two primary sub-brands: Care People (medical and nursing staffing) and Bildung & Soziales (education and social work staffing). The company operates as a unified service platform rather than a modular software product, offering a portfolio of interconnected HR services including temporary employment (Zeitarbeit), direct placement (Personalvermittlung), on-site management, outsourcing, recruitment consulting, and funding management. Supporting these core staffing services are digital self-service tools including an online job board (Stellenbörse) with 10,000+ listings, an employee payroll portal, and a competence center (Kompetenz-Zentrum) offering continuing education. The company also provides content resources (Job Magazin), calculator tools (Brutto-Netto-Rechner, Dienstfahrzeuge-Rechner), a job encyclopedia, and a health management program (BGM-pluss) in partnership with DAK-Gesundheit and OpenUp. The pluss & friends referral program incentivizes employee recommendations with bonuses up to EUR 3,000. Services are delivered through 25+ branch offices across Germany.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Care People: Brand specializing in medical and nursing staffing services.
• pluss & friends
• Kompetenz-Zentrum

Products and services

• Care People (Medical & Nursing Staffing) Specialized recruitment and staffing services for the medical and healthcare sector, placing nurses, caregivers, and other healthcare professionals at hospitals, nursing homes, and outpatient care facilities across Germany.
• Bildung & Soziales (Education & Social Staffing) Specialized staffing services for the education and social work sector, placing educators, social pedagogues, and social workers at kindergartens, schools, and social welfare organizations in Germany.
• Zeitarbeit (Temporary Staffing / Arbeitnehmerüberlassung) Temporary employment services (Arbeitnehmerüberlassung) where pluss employs workers and assigns them to client companies in the healthcare and social sectors, operating under the iGZ/DGB collective agreement. pluss acts as the employer of record.
• Personalvermittlung (Direct Permanent Placement) Direct recruitment and placement service connecting qualified candidates with client employers for permanent employment positions in the healthcare, nursing, education, and social sectors.
• On-Site-Management On-site management services where pluss staff are placed at client sites to coordinate and supervise temporary workers directly at the client's facility.
• Personalberatung und HR-Managementberatung (HR Consulting) Executive search and human resources management consulting services for strategic workforce planning and organizational development in healthcare and social-sector organizations.
• Fördermittelmanagement (Government Funding Management) Subsidy and funding management services helping companies identify and apply for government training and development subsidies (e.g., AZAV-funded programs).
• Stellenbörse (Online Job Portal) Online job board with over 10,000 active job listings across medical, care, education, and social sectors, allowing candidates to search by profession, location, and radius, and to apply directly.
• Kompetenz-Zentrum (Continuing Education Center) Continuing education and professional development center offering 156 training programs in medical care (wound management, pain management, hygiene), education/social work (child protection, first aid), and psychosocial support including resilience training.
• pluss & friends (Employee Referral Program) Employee and external referral program offering bonuses of up to EUR 3,000 gross for successful placement of qualified nursing and education/social care professionals, and EUR 50 gross for successful interview referrals.
• Work & Travel Program Work and travel program enabling healthcare and social-care professionals to work at facilities across Germany, facilitated by pluss's nationwide branch network.

Quantifiable outcome

• 100% free service for job seekers with callback within 24 hours
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers19 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration11 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• DAK-GesundheitcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with DAK-Gesundheit for Betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement (BGM-pluss). DAK provides health promotion services including health days with various health screenings and assessments for pluss employees.
• OpenUpcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMental health and wellbeing platform partnership providing employees access to certified psychologists and lifestyle experts through 1:1 sessions, group sessions, and online content. Part of BGM-pluss initiative.
• Agentur für Arbeit KielminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorRegulatory oversight and collaboration with Agentur für Arbeit Kiel as the competent supervisory authority for temporary staffing (Arbeitnehmerüberlassung) under the AÜG law.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• DIS AG: Major German staffing and recruiting firm with dedicated healthcare, finance, IT, and engineering verticals. DIS AG is a head-to-head competitor to pluss in healthcare and social sector temporary staffing across Germany.
• Persona Service: German temporary staffing and HR services company with multi-sector coverage including healthcare and social services. Persona Service competes directly with pluss for mid-market healthcare and care provider clients across Germany.
• AlphaMed: German medical staffing company focused on placing nurses and medical professionals in hospitals, nursing homes, and outpatient care facilities. Closely comparable vertical specialization to pluss's Care People division in healthcare-only staffing.
• Doctari: German healthcare-specific staffing platform placing doctors, nurses, and medical specialists in hospitals and care facilities across Germany. A direct vertical-specialist peer to pluss in medical and healthcare staffing.
• Tempton: German staffing firm with a dedicated healthcare and social services vertical (Tempton Medical), offering temporary staffing and permanent placement to hospitals and care providers — a closely comparable vertical-specialist peer to pluss's Care People division.

Broad incumbents

• Randstad Deutschland: German arm of global staffing leader Randstad, offering temporary staffing, permanent placement, and HR solutions across healthcare, IT, industrial, and commercial sectors — directly competitive with pluss in the healthcare and social verticals but at much larger scale.
• Gi Group Germany: German operations of Italian-headquartered Gi Group, a global staffing and workforce solutions provider with healthcare, industrial, and professional staffing offerings — competes with pluss for healthcare staffing contracts in Germany.
• ManpowerGroup Germany: German arm of global staffing firm ManpowerGroup, providing temporary staffing, permanent placement, and workforce solutions across healthcare, industrial, and professional sectors — direct competitor to pluss in German healthcare staffing.
• Adecco Germany: German subsidiary of Adecco Group, one of the world's largest staffing firms, providing temporary and permanent staffing across multiple sectors including healthcare and social services — competes with pluss for the same hospital and care-home clients.

Emerging players

• Hays Germany: German arm of global recruitment firm Hays, with a growing healthcare and life sciences vertical in addition to its core focus on professional and IT staffing — adjacent peer that overlaps with pluss in healthcare workforce solutions.

Market position

Strengths2 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@pluss-personal
• Facebookfacebook.com/pluss.de
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/pluss-personal-leasing-and-system-service-gmbh
• Instagraminstagram.com/pluss_medizin.pflege
• TikToktiktok.com/@pluss.personal?lang=de-DE
• Xx.com/pluss_personal

Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries14 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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