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Top 24 Executive search consultants based in China
RevenueBase identified 579 executive search consultants headquartered in China as of September 2026 and tracks 17,970 professional contacts across them, including 172 with verified work emails. Shanghai is the largest hub.
This list covers executive search consultants headquartered in China, 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 14, 2026.
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The 24 largest executive search consultants based in China
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 739 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dezhu Group’s core business is international, high-end talent search (CGL).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 646 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established since 1996, Bó Lè offers executive search and consulting expertise aligning with our clients’ growing demand for talented human resources.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 361 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Jobmet is your total solutions recruiting service provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MPS has been active in the Chinese market for over a decade, with its own office established in Shanghai in 2005.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DaCare is a leading executive search and staffing firm in China and Asia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “JMPartner is a leading recruitment consultancy located in China.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Our Mission: ProHR International is an executive search and management consulting firm which gathers some of the best executive search and HR management consultants in China…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are The Talent Fishers Group, the specialist for servicing international organizations with their HR & Recruitment needs in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Selective Executive Search Limited is an Recruitment and Executive search firm specialized in hospitality and luxury Retail industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A Leader in Technology Recruitment Geeker Consulting is a leading executive and management recruitment organisation in China.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Solving leadership problems that cost companies millions, with search built for speed, scale, and Asia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “STS is the first Chinese full services search firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “FES Partners is the executive search firm of choice for businesses seeking excellence and growth in Asia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Chapter Recruitment is a professional strategy consultancy & executive search firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SelectIn selects the best professionals and intelligently matches them with the ideal work sites to optimise mutual fit.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “JP contagi Asia is a leading retained Swiss-German Executive Search firm, located in Shanghai.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Human Capital Partners is a global automotive retained executive search firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Based in Shanghai, Horizon Consulting is created in 2018.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Bureau Executive, we believe the future of talent is not defined by algorithms alone.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “With offices in Shanghai, Beijing Shenzhen and Frankfurt am Main and according to international practices, Hübner Consulting - Executive Search in China has been placing local…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Grow HR is a Shanghai based Human Capital Consulting firm specializing in Executive Search and Consulting Services in Greater China and the APAC region.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Executive Search Solutions Asia (ESSA) is a regional executive search firm offering world-class recruitment and human resource advisory services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In today’s ever-changing market, Ori handpicks the best-suited talents for your business, exemplifying the highest standards of service and deploying our wide range of proprietary…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “People-Oriented (POd) is a fast-growing executive search firm focusing on life science (Healthcare) and Financial sectors in APAC.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 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 search consultants. 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 search consultants.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of executive search consultants, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name executive search consultants. 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 search consultants based in China at a glance
As of Sep 14, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for China, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for China, over 579 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 executive search consultants, 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 China whose own description of what they do matches “executive search consultants”. 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 search consultants), 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 search consultants, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside China 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, 172 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 14, 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.
Executive search consultants by metro
- Executive search consultants in Shanghai122
- Executive search consultants in Beijing39
- Executive search consultants in Shang Hai Shi Shang Hai Shi34
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 search consultants, 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 search consultants are there based in China?
RevenueBase identified 579 executive search consultants headquartered in China 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?
CGL Consulting Co., LTD, headquartered in Shanghai, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most executive search consultants?
Shanghai leads with 122 headquartered companies, followed by Beijing (39) and Shang Hai Shi Shang Hai Shi (34).
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 172 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 579 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 14, 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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