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Top 25 Executive recruitment companies based in France
RevenueBase identified 2,170 executive recruitment companies headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 21,220 professional contacts across them, including 5,351 with verified work emails and 1,100 with mobile numbers. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers executive recruitment companies headquartered in France, 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 24, 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 executive recruitment companies based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,779 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Acteur du marché de l’emploi des cadres, l’Apec accompagne et conseille les cadres tout au long de leur parcours professionnel pour anticiper et préparer leur évolution, ainsi que…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,086 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Start People est un réseau de 267 agences de recrutement (CDI, CDD, intérim, CDIE) réparties sur toute la France, qui offre une gamme de prestations de recrutement sur-mesure aux…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 799 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Une nouvelle étape commence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 780 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Spécialisé dans les métiers de l’accueil depuis plus de 50 ans, Florence Doré s’est développé, depuis plusieurs années dans le détachement de nombreux autres talents auprès de ses…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 285 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Avec des années d’expérience dans le secteur du recrutement, nos consultants disposent d’un important réseau et savent dénicher les talents là où ils se trouvent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 233 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cabinet de conseil en recrutement d’experts, cadres et managers (PME, ETI et groupes internationaux) basé en France, en Suisse et en Espagne, Adsearch se distingue par sa très…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 220 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FAB Group est un cabinet de conseil en recrutement et en management de transition.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 187 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Partenaire de vos recrutements grâce à son réseau national d'agences spécialisées proches de chez vous Spécialiste de l'intérim et du CDI - 40 ans d'expérience - Accompagnement du…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 170 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Etude et Projet est un cabinet de recrutement basé à Paris, dans le 09ème arrondissement dans le quartier de Saint Lazare.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 146 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For the past 30 years, the consulting firm Arthur Hunt has been supporting companies from all sectors in all of their HR challenges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 146 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Valtus is the leading reference for Executive Interim Management worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 141 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are especialized in middle-top recruitment, executive search, head hunting, externatilization of recruitment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 131 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Groupe Piment, l’expert de vos recrutements Depuis plus de 20 ans, nous sommes convaincus que derrière chaque entreprise prospère et chaque carrière accomplie, il y a une…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MÉTHODE Notre approche directe garantit une chasse exhaustive, prenant en compte l’intégralité du marché (tamisage à maille très serrée) quel que soit le secteur d’activité, le…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Managing est un cabinet de conseil en ressources humaines créé en 1967, indépendant et implanté nationalement.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “OP Search is a leader in International Executive Search for Senior Management and key roles within the C-suite.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 108 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Linking Talents est la holding regroupant les différents cabinets de recrutement: PAY JOB, Legal & HR Talents, Comptalents, Talents AEC, Talents Commerciaux, Talents IT, Talents…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For nearly 20 years, the LTD group has been a key player in the recruitment industry: An achievement we owe to three key factors: • A wide variety of departments and sectors of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Global recruitment for Africa and the Middle-East Fed Africa, subsidiary and recruitment firm specialized in Top and Middle Management positions, supports local and international…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondé en 2013, Upward est un cabinet de recrutement de cadres et cadres dirigeants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Key Talents @ Key Moments, Depuis 2004, Keyman accompagne les entreprises dans le recrutement de membres de CODIR, de cadres et de profils experts, partout en France, grâce à un…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis plus de 35 ans le Groupe GR propose un personnel qualifié dans toutes les fonctions de soutien, pour les entreprises internationales basées à Paris : Cabinets d’Avocats…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cabinet de recrutement et de conseil en entreprise, nous proposons nos prestations de services sur 3 secteurs d'activité :* La grande distribution, la distribution spécialisée et…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Work & You est un cabinet de recrutement national se démarquant par sa démarche innovante, moderne et mettant en avant la personnalité et les motivations des candidats.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis plus de 30 ans, Grant Alexander est le partenaire de la performance des organisations et de leurs dirigeants qu’il accompagne de manière globale sur tous leurs besoins en…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 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: executive recruitment companies. 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 executive recruitment companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of executive recruitment companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name executive recruitment companies. 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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Executive recruitment companies based in France at a glance
As of Sep 24, 2026Companies by employee count
Freshness & accuracy
How recently the business emails were verified and the company information checked
Email last verified
Median 26.0dCompany record updated
Median 79.0dHow 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 executive recruitment companies, 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 France whose own description of what they do matches “executive recruitment companies”. 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 executive recruitment companies), 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 executive recruitment companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France 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, 5,351 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 24, 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.
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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 executive recruitment companies, 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 executive recruitment companies are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 2,170 executive recruitment companies headquartered in France 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?
APEC, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most executive recruitment companies?
Paris leads with 909 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (110) and Toulouse (44).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
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How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 24, 2026.
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About this data
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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