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Top 25 Industrial executive search agencies based in New Zealand
RevenueBase identified 156 industrial executive search agencies headquartered in New Zealand as of September 2026 and tracks 1,737 professional contacts across them, including 746 with verified work emails. Auckland is the largest hub.
This list covers industrial executive search agencies 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 21, 2026.
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The 25 largest industrial executive search agencies based in New Zealand
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 158 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1961 by Malcolm Sheffield, we began as Aotearoa New Zealand’s first organisational psychology and executive recruitment practice.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Tech 5 is a 100% New Zealand owned specialist recruitment provider to the Construction, Industrial and Commercial sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Franklin Smith is an multi award winning multi-disciplined specialist recruitment consultancy formed to service a need for intelligent solutions delivered in a professional and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than two decades, Canstaff has been providing specialised end-to-end recruitment solutions and labour hire services in the construction, logistics and manufacturing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “H2R Consulting is a New Zealand owned recruitment and consulting firm with a national presence across Auckland and Wellington, supported by a team of 50 staff.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fluid Recruitment are Experts in Specialist Professional Recruitment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We believe that if you hire the right people everything else just falls into place.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Hunter Campbell, we are leaders searching for leaders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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 21, 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “JacksonStone & Partners helps organisations find the right people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dynamix Recruitment provide temporary and permanent recruitment solutions and HR services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Kerridge & Partners is a boutique consultancy business with offerings in Executive Search, Governance and Leadership.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kinetic Recruitment delivers fast, proven recruitment outcomes across New Zealand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 20 years, Brannigans has been a leader in connecting top-tier talent with visionary organisations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Hobson Leavy is an executive search firm that believes Leaders Matter™ Simply put we’re experts in executive search.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Recruitment consultancy and executive search specialists based in Auckland and Wellington, partnering with businesses across New Zealand to secure top talent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We've been matching people with incredible opportunities in International Freight and Supply Chain Logistics since 1995!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tena koe – we are Kirimana!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 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: industrial executive search agencies. 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 industrial executive search agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of industrial executive search agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name industrial executive search agencies. 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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Industrial executive search agencies based in New Zealand at a glance
As of Sep 21, 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 156 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 industrial executive search agencies, 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 “industrial executive search agencies”. 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 industrial executive search agencies), 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 industrial executive search agencies, 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, 746 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 21, 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.
Industrial executive search agencies by metro
- Industrial executive search agencies in Auckland75
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 industrial executive search agencies, 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 industrial executive search agencies are there based in New Zealand?
RevenueBase identified 156 industrial executive search agencies 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?
Sheffield, headquartered in Auckland, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most industrial executive search agencies?
Auckland leads with 75 headquartered companies, followed by Christchurch (18) and Wellington (14).
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 746 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 156 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 21, 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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