List of the 200 Largest Recruitment Consultancies & Leadership Advisory Firms Germany [2023]

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Contains the 200 largest HR consultancies in Germany.

Excellent depth of detail: focus, ranking and contact details, consulting in executive search, board services, management audit, coaching, interim management, etc., Easy entry thanks to ranking from A to E by size and relevance.

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List of 3 large German recruitment consultancies and headhunters

Personnel consultancies support companies and other institutions in the search and selection of personnel. Mostly it is about highly qualified specialists and executives. The service personnel consulting is in demand. The companies we have written news about are part of our list of the largest personnel consultancies in Germany.

1. Egon Zehnder International Germany: Düsseldorf

Egon Zehnder is a Swiss personnel consultancy named after its founder, which has existed since 1964 and has its headquarters in Zurich. Today, Egon Zehnder operates on a global scale. The consultancy has 62 locations in 35 countries and employs approximately 2,300 people. Turnover in 2021 was CHF 804 million. Egon Zehnder International Germany is based in Düsseldorf and has additional offices in Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Munich, Berlin and Cologne. The HR consultancy has focused on the search for CEO’s, board members and TOP executives as well as on advising corresponding management levels on personnel issues.

Update 2023: The international executive search firm wants to strongly increase its US presence and duels with its biggest competitors (Russell Reynolds, Heidrick & Struggles, Spencer Stuart) at the same time. The reason for this - according to the new CEO Michael Ensser - is the high dynamics in the North American personnel market, which is really booming.

2. Kienbaum Consultants International: Cologne

Immediately after the end of the war, in October 1945, Gerhard Kienbaum founded a consultancy for medium-sized companies in Gummersbach near Cologne. This has developed into one of Germany’s leading HR consultancies, which is also active internationally. Today, Kienbaum Consultants International has a total of 22 offices in 13 countries (including eight European countries) on four continents. German offices are located in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne, Munich and Stuttgart. Executive search, personnel organization, compensation consulting, and management consulting - these are the central Kienbaum business fields. More than 70,000 projects have been supported in a consulting capacity to date.

3. Korn Ferry Germany: Frankfurt am Main

In 1968, Richard Ferry and Lester Korn founded the personnel consultancy Korn Ferry in Los Angeles. Today the enterprise is with approximately 7,000 coworkers and 88 offices in Europe, America, in the Near and Far East one of the prominent personnel consultations world-wide. Korn Ferry has been active in Germany since the end of the 1970s. Korn Ferry (DE) GmbH is based in Frankfurt am Main and employs almost 300 people. German annual sales amounted to more than 70 million euros in fiscal year 2019/2020. Korn Ferry offers organizational and management consulting in addition to classic headhunting.