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Permis GmbH

Permis GmbH is a Germany-based recruitment and consulting firm headquartered at Kölner Straße 1, 65760 Eschborn, focused on delivering personalized, end-to-end hiring solutions under the principle weniger Standard – mehr Persönlichkeit. Serving both employers and candidates, the team provides individual advisory services and crafts precise competency profiles to ensure an accurate match between role requirements and candidate capabilities. For companies, Permis manages the complete recruitment lifecycle: it begins with a thorough requirements intake via phone, Teams, or on-site meetings, includes market insight and realistic salary benchmarking, and continues with an active search and structured first interviews. Clients receive original CVs with the candidate’s consent, prepared with clear change motivations and salary expectations, followed by hands-on coordination of interviews, transparent candidate feedback, support throughout selection, and post-placement follow-up. For candidates, Permis offers career counseling, market overviews, application coaching, CV review and optimization, targeted job introductions aligned to experience and goals, and objective salary assessments to support informed decisions. Typical assignments span qualified professionals and leadership roles across engineering and technical trades (such as electronics and HVAC/service technicians), IT (including project management and leadership), and finance functions (e.g., accounting). The firm’s approach blends speed and quality, combining tailored sourcing strategies with consistent communication to reduce time-to-hire while improving fit and retention. Testimonials from hiring managers and candidates highlight reliable guidance, well-matched shortlists, and attentive support throughout the process. With ongoing market conversations and a consultative posture, Permis acts as a trusted partner capable of adapting to changing talent dynamics, providing holistic recruitment support for both immediate needs and longer-term workforce goals.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtRPOAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseCybersecurityData ScienceIT Infrastructure

HQEschborn, Germany

DIXON APPOINTMENTS | Recruitment Agency

Dixon Appointments is a Melbourne-based recruitment firm recognised for values-led, evidence-based hiring across Victoria for more than 25 years. From its Collins Street head office, the agency partners with organisations in education, the public sector and technology, as well as corporate services functions, to deliver agile talent solutions that balance technical proficiency with cultural alignment. Dixon’s offering spans permanent recruitment, temporary staffing and embedded RPO programs, underpinned by disciplined shortlisting, structured interviewing and reference methodologies that improve quality of hire and time to fill. Specialist practices cover office and administration support, higher education student and academic services, government administration, finance, HR, communications and IT and digital roles, evidenced by recent assignments ranging from student services and licensing support officers to HR business partners, accounts payable/receivable, communications specialists, procurement leads, estimators and technical delivery leaders. Clients benefit from a transparent, people-first process built on constant communication, empathy and accountability, while candidates receive clear guidance, timely feedback and access to high-quality temporary and permanent opportunities via streamlined portals and timesheets. The firm’s leadership emphasises quality assurance and continuous improvement, supported by robust systems and accreditations for service, quality and environmental standards, and has a strong community focus through long-standing partnerships within the education sector. Whether scaling a project team, securing an interim specialist or appointing a critical permanent leader, Dixon Appointments tailors search and selection to each brief, mobilises deep networks across Victoria’s public and tertiary ecosystems, and applies market insight to advise on workforce planning, salary, compliance and onboarding. Consistent client and candidate testimonials highlight responsive delivery, accurate shortlists and enduring relationships that reduce hiring risk and cost while improving long-term outcomes.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingRPOHigher Education (Faculty, Administration)Corporate Training & CoachingE-Learning & Online EducationData ScienceIT InfrastructureTelecommunications

HQMelbourne, Australia

Amrop NESS

Amrop NESS is the French member of the Amrop global partnership and a leadership-focused Executive Search firm dedicated to helping organizations find and develop Leaders For What’s Next. From its Paris base, the firm’s Executive Search practice forms the core of its work in France and internationally, serving family-owned businesses, high-growth innovators, and multinational corporations that require discreet, context-driven access to senior executives who can anticipate, navigate, and deliver at the highest level. Leveraging advanced direct approach techniques, Amrop NESS partners closely with executive teams from defining a precise sourcing strategy through assessment, selection, and onboarding to ensure a smooth and confidential process that culminates in sustainable success. Complementing its search expertise, the firm provides Interim Management solutions, rapidly mobilizing experienced and operational leaders to guide change, stabilize critical functions, or bridge capability gaps during pivotal transitions. Through Amrop’s global network, Amrop NESS conducts cross-border assignments and brings market intelligence on talent availability and expectations, ensuring advice grounded in sector dynamics and organizational context. The firm’s industry specialization spans Consumer & Retail, Energy & Infrastructure, Financial Services, Industrial, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Professional Services, Technology, and Transportation, Shipping & Logistics—domains where disruption, digitization, regulatory complexity, and the energy transition intensify the competition for leadership. Whether identifying CEOs, C-level functional heads, or board-ready executives, Amrop NESS is known for unbiased insight, rigorous process, and a partnership ethos that recognizes both the rewards of getting leadership right and the costs of failure. Its pledge is to provide distinctive solutions for every assignment, supported by deep market relationships and a commitment to confidentiality, integrity, and long-term impact.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementTelecomOil & GasRenewable Energy

HQParis, France

The Walford Partnership

The Walford Partnership is a retained executive search firm practicing across Australasia and internationally, with a core specialism in partner and senior executive appointments for professional and financial services. Based in Sydney, the firm has established a proven reputation for completing high-stakes mandates at the most senior levels for corporate organizations and professional partnerships, notably major legal and accounting firms and other specialist professional services businesses. Walford Executive Search is widely recognised in Australasia as a leader in partner search and brings significant expertise to financial services leadership appointments, operating within remuneration bands typically ranging from $500,000 to in excess of $1,600,000. Through its international partnership with Global Search Group, the firm provides a global search capability spanning all major countries while maintaining the discretion, rigor, and consultative approach expected of a boutique retained practice. Complementing its core search work, The Walford Partnership offers career transition support and mentoring, including mentor training to the highest industry standard and bespoke Partner & Executive Support programmes delivered through experienced mentors in Sydney and Melbourne. The firm upholds strict ethical guidelines and adheres to Australia’s National Privacy Principles, protecting client and candidate confidentiality by keeping information secure and sharing only with permission. Operating as trusted advisors to boards, managing partners, and C‑suite leaders, Walford combines deep market knowledge of professional services and financial services with international connectivity to identify, assess, and secure rare leadership talent. Its research-led, high-touch process and commitment to quality enable the firm to meet challenging client requirements while supporting executives through pivotal career inflection points, ensuring each appointment aligns with strategy, strengthens culture, and delivers sustained performance impact.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)InsuranceInvestment ManagementFinTech

HQLondon, United Kingdom

Gunter Arlt Executive Search

Gunter Arlt Executive Search is a boutique, founder-led search practice focused on identifying and securing senior leadership talent through a highly personalized, research-driven approach. Operating with the agility of a one-consultant model, the firm delivers confidential, retained executive search and interim management solutions, as well as select permanent leadership appointments, ensuring clients receive direct senior-level attention throughout every stage of a mandate. The process typically spans rigorous role discovery and specification, targeted market mapping, discreet outreach to passive candidates, structured competency-based assessments, and thorough referencing, culminating in support through offer management and onboarding to help ensure long-term success. With a generalist, cross-industry perspective typical of executive search boutiques, the firm partners with organizations of varying sizes—ranging from founder-led companies and SMEs to larger corporates—seeking executives such as CEOs, CFOs, COOs, functional heads, and other critical leadership roles where impact, cultural alignment, and succession planning matter. Emphasizing integrity, confidentiality, and transparent communication, Gunter Arlt Executive Search balances client advocacy with a strong candidate experience, providing clear feedback, timely updates, and careful stewardship of each professional relationship. The firm leverages lean, modern tools and a curated network to access hard-to-reach leadership profiles, while maintaining a pragmatic, outcome-oriented mindset that prioritizes fit and measurable business value over simple speed or volume. At the time of review, the website is undergoing maintenance, reflecting an emphasis on building capability and content behind the scenes while continuing to serve clients through direct engagement. For organizations seeking a discreet, partner-led alternative to large, process-heavy providers, and for executives exploring their next chapter, Gunter Arlt Executive Search offers a tailored, high-touch service model grounded in focus, accountability, and results.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingAll industriesSenior ExecutivesGeneralist - white collar professionals

HQHeidelberg, Germany

ALHAMBRA INTERNATIONAL

Alhambra International is a consulting firm specializing in executive search and leadership solutions that partners with organizations across Europe and Asia to secure senior talent and strengthen governance. The firm’s core offering centers on high-impact executive search for C-level, VP, and director roles, complemented by board recruitment services and board assessment to enhance oversight, strategy, and stewardship. Recognizing that leadership needs can be immediate and transitional, Alhambra International also supports C-level transition and interim management, providing seasoned leaders who can stabilize operations, drive transformation, or deliver critical initiatives in defined timeframes. Its consultants combine international reach with a multilingual, cross-cultural approach, enabling precise talent identification and engagement across borders and complex markets. As a one-stop-shop for recruitment needs, the firm can advise on talent acquisition strategy and recruitment process consulting, helping clients refine employer branding, selection rigor, and decision speed while maintaining the confidentiality and integrity expected in executive appointments. Alhambra International’s practices reflect broad cross-industry coverage, and its methodology is informed by continuous market insight shared through its News Room and success stories, touching on themes such as the future of work, the impact of new technologies, and evolving European economic dynamics. A relationship-driven model underpins its work: thorough role scoping, competency-based assessment, board-level alignment, and rigorous reference validation, all designed to de-risk hiring and ensure long-term fit. Whether building out a leadership team in a new country, refreshing a board, or bridging a capability gap with an interim executive, Alhambra International focuses on outcomes that create competitive advantage, delivering tailored, discreet, and scalable solutions that align leadership capacity with business ambition.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentRPOManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Project ManagementSenior ExecutivesGeneralist - white collar professionals

HQParis, France

Lucas James Talent Partners

Lucas James Talent Partners (LJTP) is a U.S.-based recruitment partner headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, known for an on-demand, dedicated, and flexible model that helps organizations scale hiring with speed, quality, and cost discipline. Through its FlexTeam RPO solution, LJTP provides hourly, embedded recruiters and sourcers who integrate with client HR and hiring managers to add immediate bandwidth during peak demand or sustained growth, while its Retained Search practice delivers full life-cycle recruitment for critical and leadership roles. The firm serves small and mid-market businesses, enterprise HR teams, rapidly growing technology companies, and venture capital and private equity portfolio organizations, combining a consultative approach with rigorous process, structured interviewing, and data-driven reporting. Clients cite measurable improvements across standard recruiting KPIs and highlight the firms ability to function as an extension of the in-house team, protecting culture fit while improving time-to-fill and candidate experience. LJTPs model is purpose-built to deliver 4060% savings versus traditional contingent recruiting by replacing fee-per-hire with predictable, variable support that can be scaled up or down as needs change. The companys remote-first team includes experienced talent acquisition consultants paired with dedicated sourcing specialists, ensuring proactive talent mapping, targeted outreach, and continuous pipelining across technical, go-to-market, and corporate functions. With expertise spanning technology, healthcare, and financial services, LJTP supports hiring ranging from individual contributor roles to senior executives, and partners closely with growth-focused founders and people teams to design hiring plans, write job specifications, run structured processes, and advise on market compensation and employer branding. Founded by industry veteran Tim Schumm, Lucas James Talent Partners combines the discipline of RPO with the high-touch service of retained search to deliver consistent hiring outcomes for people-focused organizations nationwide.

RPOExec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceMedical DevicesHealthcare AdministrationMental Health Care

HQDowners Grove, United States

Professional Scientists GmbH & Co. KG

Professional Scientists GmbH & Co. KG is Germany’s first recruitment firm dedicated exclusively to the placement of scientific professionals across MINT disciplines, founded in 2010 and headquartered in Stuttgart. Operating on a success-based model, the company delivers both permanent appointments and expert talent on time-bound projects for research, development, and technology functions, aligning precisely with client needs in highly specialized environments. Its market-leading focus enables a uniquely detailed search and selection process designed for complex skill sets spanning physics, mathematics, informatics, chemistry, materials science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, mechatronics, and adjacent fields. Consultants engage at eye level with hiring teams, translating nuanced requirements—acronyms, programming languages, tools, and lab or production methodologies—into targeted searches that reach both active and passive candidates. The firm’s work reflects deep traction across semiconductors, optics and photonics, measurement technology and sensorics, algorithm and software engineering, data science and machine learning, high-performance computing, systems and requirements engineering, renewable energy and photovoltaics, and medical technology, including leadership roles in R&D and engineering. Candidate care is equally rigorous, with individualized career advice, market mapping, interview preparation, document refinement, relocation support, and ongoing follow-up after onboarding, emphasizing long-term relationships beyond a single placement. Professional Scientists also maintains an active on- and offline network with universities, faculties, and institutes throughout Germany to surface emerging talent and promote opportunities rarely found on public job boards. Reported satisfaction indicators underline this approach: clients rate overall service, order intake competence, matching quality, and technical understanding at standout levels, while candidates consistently recommend the firm and award top-tier ratings for communication, engagement, and end-to-end support. With discretion, transparency, and quality as guiding principles, Professional Scientists supports strategic leadership hires, specialized permanent placements, and interim experts for critical projects across Germany’s most demanding MINT industries.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceElectrical EngineeringIndustrial AutomationHospital & Health Care (Nursing)

HQStuttgart, Germany

DFP Recruitment

DFP Recruitment is a human resources and talent solutions company that partners with employers to connect them with skilled professionals across a range of corporate and operational functions. With an employee base of approximately 300 professionals as indicated by its LinkedIn presence, the firm delivers end-to-end hiring solutions spanning permanent recruitment, temporary staffing, and contract engagements. Its consultants combine market research, structured assessment, and transparent communication to produce high-quality shortlists that balance capability, culture, and long-term potential. DFP manages the full lifecycle of recruitment from workforce planning and job design through sourcing, screening, interviews, compliance and background checking, to onboarding and post-placement support. On the contingent side, the company coordinates timesheets, payroll, rostering, and contractor care to ensure continuity, safety, and service excellence for clients with fluctuating or project-based workforce needs. Leveraging modern recruitment technologies, talent communities, and targeted outreach, DFP engages both active and passive candidates, supports diversity and inclusion goals, and provides actionable insights on labor market availability, compensation benchmarks, and skills trends. Whether supporting volume campaigns, specialist roles, or time-sensitive project ramps, the firm emphasizes measurable outcomes, scalable delivery, and robust governance. Its partnership-driven approach begins with understanding business context and success metrics, aligning role requirements to organizational objectives, and safeguarding candidate experience and employer brand at every touchpoint. Through consistent communication and data-informed decision-making, DFP Recruitment helps organizations reduce time-to-hire, improve workforce agility, and retain talent, while enabling candidates to navigate opportunities with clarity and confidence.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingContract StaffingManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Technical WritingProject ManagementGeneralist - white collar professionals

HQMelbourne, Australia

OMNILS GROUP

OMNILS GROUP is a Swedish facility management and staffing partner focused on delivering the right competence to the right place across hospitality and commercial environments. From its hubs in Bromma, Stockholm and Luleå, the company provides flexible workforce solutions and outsourced housekeeping and cleaning services that help hotels, restaurants, conference venues, offices, retail spaces, and property owners maintain high standards while staying cost effective. OMNILS supports hotels with complete housekeeping operations and complementary roles such as reception day/night, houseman, portier, dishwashers, cooks and kitchen staff, janitors and general localvård both day and night, and conference support including möblerare and service personnel. For companies and real estate portfolios, OMNILS delivers professional städtjänster spanning office, property and store cleaning, construction cleaning (byggstädning), and night cleaning as part of broader facility services. The team leverages more than 20 years of hands-on industry experience and a digital operations tool that provides real-time control, traceability and performance statistics at room, minute and individual level to improve quality, efficiency and guest satisfaction. Quality, safety and sustainability are anchored in ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certifications, membership in Visita, Almega Serviceföretagen and Svenskt Näringsliv, collective agreements, FORA insurance, and personnel validated according to SRY Bas. Clients benefit from scalable staffing that adapts to seasons, events and occupancy, best practices collected from leading hotels, and the ability to focus on core business while OMNILS manages recruitment, scheduling, supervision, supplies and delivery. The firm’s track record includes partnerships with recognized hospitality brands and property associations, and consistently strong cleanliness scores driven by engaged supervisors and well-trained teams. Whether a hotel seeking full outsourcing of housekeeping, a restaurant needing peak-shift kitchen staff, or a company requiring reliable, high-quality commercial cleaning, OMNILS combines operational rigor, service culture and measurable results to ensure seamless, problem-free operations.

Temporary StaffingContract StaffingSOW/ProjectsHotel ManagementCulinary ArtsTravel & Tourism OperationsConstructionArchitectureInterior Design

HQStockholm, Sweden

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