Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Contingent search firms based in New Zealand
RevenueBase identified 167 contingent search firms headquartered in New Zealand as of September 2026 and tracks 1,777 professional contacts across them, including 563 with verified work emails. Auckland is the largest hub.
This list covers contingent search firms headquartered in New Zealand, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest contingent search firms based in New Zealand
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 147 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Madison Recruitment was founded in 1998 to do business differently in the recruitment industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Extrastaff is the ideal partner for any Client or Candidate looking to rely on a provider of recruitment and temporary staffing services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tribe Recruitment Group is a 100% New Zealand owned full service, end-to-end national recruitment agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Remarkable People, established in 2016, quickly emerged as an industry leader in the recruitment sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're the labour hire and recruitment specialists with on-site and management experience across a range of industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Action Personnel has been in business for over 38 years and offers generalist perm, temp and contractor services as well as TAS recruitment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Turbo Staff is locally owned and operated recruitment agency that specialises in locating expert staff for the working world of Aotearoa and the Pacific Islands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Hunter Campbell, we are leaders searching for leaders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Because everybody's different, we make sure our approach to your recruitment is as unique as you are.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Whether you are hiring top talent for your business or looking for a job at one of New Zealand's most prestigious companies, we've got you covered.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Connecting Excellence We are drawn to businesses and people who aspire to excellence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Taska360 is an IT recruitment specialist and AoG recruitment provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EQUIP Recruitment is a full-service recruitment agency who EQUIP businesses with their most valuable asset – people!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1988, Ryan is 100 per cent locally owned and operated, with representation in Auckland and Wellington.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kinetic Recruitment delivers fast, proven recruitment outcomes across New Zealand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “If you are looking for work or you are a business looking for staff, you have come to the right place.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Partnering with businesses since 2004 Graham Consulting offers a professional and innovative approach to candidate search, recruitment and placement.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SOS Recruitment is the leading recruitment agency servicing Auckland's North Shore and Hibiscus Coast regions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cultivate was founded by some of the most experienced and well-connected recruiters in the country, who recognised the need to bring a breath of fresh air to the industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Technical Recruitment Solutions was established in 1996; founded on quality principles and with accomplished staff has since developed an enviable reputation for providing an…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tena koe – we are Kirimana!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Select Recruitment is one of the South Island's leading suppliers for recruitment and temping services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Personnel Resources is currently celebrating 30 years of recruitment success in the Bay of Plenty.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Some say, good customer service is about going out of your way to please.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Proudly 100% New Zealand owned and operated, Forté Recruitment is a team of long-serving Recruitment Specialists that love working together.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: contingent search firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names contingent search firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of contingent search firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name contingent search firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Contingent search firms based in New Zealand at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for New Zealand, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for New Zealand, over 167 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among contingent search firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in New Zealand whose own description of what they do matches “contingent search firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names contingent search firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among contingent search firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside New Zealand are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 563 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Contingent search firms by metro
- Contingent search firms in Auckland77
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names contingent search firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many contingent search firms are there based in New Zealand?
RevenueBase identified 167 contingent search firms headquartered in New Zealand as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Madison Recruitment, headquartered in Auckland, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most contingent search firms?
Auckland leads with 77 headquartered companies, followed by Christchurch (15) and Wellington (12).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 563 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 167 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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