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Top 25 Retained executive search firms based in Austria
RevenueBase identified 122 retained executive search firms headquartered in Austria as of September 2026 and tracks 1,090 professional contacts across them, including 476 with verified work emails. Wien is the largest hub.
This list covers retained executive search firms headquartered in Austria, 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.
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 retained executive search firms based in Austria
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Seit über 25 Jahren besetzt Schulmeister erfolgreich Spezialist:innen und Führungspositionen in Finance, IT & Technology und Real Estate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Are you wondering where to find motivated, high-performing and, above all, perfectly suited employees for your company?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Eblinger & Partner is successfully supplying professional recruitment services to international clients for nearly 25 years and is listed under the top 5 HR consultancies…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our Services • Find managers and specialists • TRESCON TestCenter • Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) • Enhancing company performance • Strengthening management • Consulting…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “TARGET Executive Search is an International Executive Search Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ertler Executive Search deliberatively sets new standards in terms of executive recruiting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kienbaum ist jung geblieben.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir besetzen nicht nur Positionen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Squadra steht für maßgeschneidertes Personalmanagement seit 2010.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “conSALT Personalmanagement GmbH in Innsbruck (Austria) is a local based Executive Search firm, founded in 2003.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “aristid verbindet Positionen mit Idealbesetzungen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The joint story of TheXecutives’ team has strong historic links with the Neumann brand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Willkommen bei ACE Consulting GmbH Wir sind Recruiting-Experten.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Seit 2008 beraten wir Unternehmen in Österreich und international zu den Themen Executive Search, Board Services, Executive Assessments und Succession Planning.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Active Hiring.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “jorda & partners ist ein österreichisches Beratungsunternehmen mit internationalem Fokus.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir pflegen den Kontakt zu den besten Talents ihrer Branche bereits vor dem jeweiligen Suchmandat – so garantieren wir eine tiefgehende Einschätzung unserer Kandidat:innen und…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Einen Schritt voraus.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Wir sind seit über 30 Jahren im Bereich der Personalberatung, vor allem im Expert and Executive Search tätig, und können daher auf eine profunde Erfahrung zurückgreifen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die richtigen Kandidat:innen finden und einstellen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir sind Recruitingexperten für alle Führungs- und Spezialistenpositionen in den Bereichen Konsumgüterindustrie, Handel, Gastronomie, Dienstleistung und Banken.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Headhunter, Executive Search and HR Consulting in IT, Consulting, Banking and Finance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Personalberatung und Headhunt aus einer Hand – HAPEKO Executive Consultants Österreich.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At EVERBEST, we create relationships.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MORE FUTURE TOGETHER.” 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: retained executive 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 retained executive search firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of retained executive search firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name retained executive 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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Retained executive search firms based in Austria at a glance
As of Sep 14, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Austria, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Austria, over 122 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 retained executive 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 Austria whose own description of what they do matches “retained executive 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 retained executive 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 retained executive search firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Austria 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, 476 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.
Retained executive search firms by metro
- Retained executive search firms in Wien42
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 retained executive 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 retained executive search firms are there based in Austria?
RevenueBase identified 122 retained executive search firms headquartered in Austria 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?
Schulmeister Management Consulting, headquartered in Wien, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most retained executive search firms?
Wien leads with 42 headquartered companies, followed by Vienna (23) and Salzburg (7).
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 476 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 122 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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