Social Responsibility

A communications consulting agency cannot survive without the right people. They are an agency’s main form of capital. This is particularly true of J + K. Because qualified staff are essential for our clients to be able to rely on us consistently providing quality and performance.  J + K’s holistic advisory approach demands multidisciplinary know-how. Training our own advisors of the future for the top-quality advisory that we provide and earning their long-term loyalty is therefore strategically essential to our business.

J + K uses an extensive two-tier process to recruit new staff. Between 2006 and 2008 we developed a top-quality training and further education programme. It consists of six different training courses that were designed – in part by outside experts – for various phases of development. We also provide extensive coaching to promote personal development.

Besides training and further education, flexible and individual working hours models play a major role in personnel development at J + K. By its very nature, the art of work-life balance faces particular challenges in an agency’s business. Inflexible or standardised models simply don’t work here. That is why J + K relies on individually adapted solutions and acts as a partner to the staff it employs in helping them through life’s changes. Specifically, K + K allows part-time working from a home office and other part-time working models. In addition, sabbatical accounts are maintained for all members of staff.

J + K offers fair working conditions to its interns. Interns contribute scientific analyses, provide support in our research work and learn on the job and as part of a team. A period of training is intended to inform participants about their possible professional future. But interns never play a central role in projects, let alone implement them on their own.

Our clients can be certain in the knowledge that their advisory mandates are in the hands of professionally well-trained advisors. They can be equally certain that no work carried out by interns is ever sold or billed as work carried out by the agency – we reject this sort of 'internship profit centre'.