For over 20 years, the best recruitment agencies in Russia have been helping their customers develop their business. Many years of experience of their employees allows agencies to solve even the most urgent and complex tasks. Many recruiting agencies have implemented thousands of successful projects on the search and selection of qualified personnel - middle managers, top managers, marketing specialists, information technologies, sales, logistics and other business segments.
Below are the best recruiting agencies in Moscow and St. Petersburg according to the opinion of our site visitors for the current year. The rating for previous years can be found at the bottom of the page. Ratings recruiting agencies other cities are in less demand than in Moscow and St. Petersburg, so they are not published separately on this page. However, note that on the page of each city of our portal, recruiting agencies are sorted in order of decreasing rating.
How the rating is formed
- Reviews with ratings. An average score is calculated for each agency. The higher the score, the higher the rating.
- Agency popularity. The number of views of the agency on our website is taken into account.
- The number of "likes". It counts how many people have pressed the hand icon.
- Time of last reviews. The less time ago the last reviews were left, the more impact they have on the rating.
These are the main factors taken into account when constructing a rating, but not all that are used by us. For these factors, the rating is generated automatically. We can correct it in manual mode, Considering the following factors:
- Reviews without ratings. We focus on the nature of the review, on what people write - words of gratitude, neutral attitude, dissatisfaction, etc.
- Agency activity. We look to see if news, new materials, vacancies and other data are published on the agency's website. We look at the positions of the agency in the search results of Yandex and Google.
- Agency activity for a long time. An agency whose reviews are published evenly over several months will have a higher rating than the one about which reviews are published at once in 1-2 days.
The rating was updated automatically once a day. In manual mode, the rating is edited no more than once every three months, since manual moderation takes time and effort. Ranking algorithms change over time. We strive for objectivity and reliability.
Ranking for previous years
We have been rating agencies since 2012, when our portal was launched. The final rating for the previous year is formed annually at the beginning of the year. For 2012 and 2013, we published the rating of agencies in Moscow and Russia as a whole. Since 2014, the annual rating has been published for agencies in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
2017-10-29 Article
As of 2017, there are about 1000 recruiting agencies operating in Moscow, engaged in the search and selection of personnel for existing vacancies, assessing the effectiveness and competence of employees, personnel consultations, training applicants at trainings and seminars. There are players of various levels in this market - from large companies with representative offices in various regions of the country and abroad, to small highly specialized agencies, which employ 3-5 people. They are able to fill vacancies of various levels - from TOPs and senior executives in prestigious public or private corporations to ordinary employees: managers, IT specialists, freight forwarders, storekeepers, etc.
How the rating is compiled
In order to understand the abundance of companies and find a suitable one for finding a job or employees, a rating of recruiting agencies is compiled, assessing the quality of work by various indicators. The assessment is usually made according to the following criteria:
- The number of times the agency's name has been mentioned on the Internet.
- Quantity positive feedback and ratings in company lists.
- The level of vacancies to be filled, the total profit for a period of time.
- The number of closed vacancies for a certain period of time.
- Number of views of company information.
- The age of the agency and the number of staff employed by it.
- The age of the recruiting company reviews.
- Agency activity (updating news on the site, writing analytics, posting vacancies).
- Participation of company employees in various conferences.
- Fame and weight of the company in the corporate environment.
How much does the rating correspond to reality?
It is noteworthy that many companies included in the top recruiting agencies in Moscow do not disclose detailed information about their work, since they guarantee complete confidentiality to customers and candidates. At the same time, some of the points in the ratings can be "screwed up" - to promote the company they order writing comments, "likes", views, articles, so it is virtually impossible to objectively evaluate the agency.
When selecting, we recommend focusing not so much on the popular ratings of Moscow recruiting agencies, but rather on indirect indicators: search methods (direct search, classic recruiting), international and expert representation, company popularity and reputation, time of its existence, uniformity of reviews, customer level , employee awards, levels of vacancies to be closed, search technologies, etc. In our opinion, the rating may look like this:
Agencies specializing in direct search of candidates (Executive Search), with an office in Moscow. Such agencies are, in a way, the elite of the sector and fill C-level vacancies (CEO, CIO, CMO, etc.) How to work with them. The companies presented do not post vacancies. They need to send a resume and extended cover letter.
- Amrop
- Arthur Hunt Russia
- Egon zehnder
- Morgan hunt
- Multiple choice
- RosExpert
- Spencer stuart
- Keinbaum
- Heidrich struggler
- Pedersen & Partners
- Boyden
- Ward howell
- Sommers & Associates
Recruitment agencies specializing in management selection or search for middle managers with offices in Moscow and / or other cities of the Russian Federation. Such recruiting agencies can be large in number from 100 to 500 employees.
- Ancor
- Antal
- Manpower
- Kelly Services
- Coleman Services
- Consort Group
- Cornerstone
- Agency Contact
- Staffwell
- Unity
- Favorite
In any case, it is recommended to study not only the rating of recruiting agencies, but also their offers, prices and reviews about them. If you need qualified employees, then pay attention to the selection of a company - the effectiveness of personnel selection depends on it.
ANCOR has been operating in the recruitment and personnel consulting market since 1990 and during this time has acquired a well-deserved reputation as an industry leader.
ANKOR today is the largest Russian personnel holding company offering a wide range of services, including:
- recruitment - including recruiting specialists and managers, recruiting for entry-level and intermediate-level positions;
- HR consulting - testing, assessment and audit of personnel, analytical research of the labor market and wages - an irreplaceable tool for the formation personnel policy enterprises;
- HR management - Leasing company ANKOR: removal of personnel from the company's staff, provision of temporary personnel, provision of personnel for long-term projects, large-scale projects;
— personnel services oil and gas companies - ANCOR Energy Services;
- HR services to companies in the hotel sector - ANCOR Hospitality direction.
- payment wages- Unistaff Payroll Services
Kelly Services is an international recruiting agency founded in the USA in 1946.
In Russia, the company is represented in 20 cities: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Samara, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Veliky Novgorod, Lipetsk, Perm, Chekhov, Novomoskovsk, Egorievsk, Barnaul, Nizhny Novgorod, Tyumen, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnoyarsk, Vladivostok, Ufa, Kaluga, Kazan, as well as in Ukraine, Kiev.
Kelly Services offers a wide range of services, including the selection of permanent and temporary personnel in the field of sales, marketing, office administration, finance, accounting, human resources, information technology, logistics, engineering, manufacturing; staffing of industrial enterprises and retail chains, personnel withdrawal from the staff, personnel consulting.
Personnel recruitment agency IMPERIA KADROV was founded in 1995.
From the first days of work, the main goal of the IMPERIA KADROV team was the creation of a competitive Russian agency that is not inferior in quality of services to the world leaders in the field of personnel recruitment.
For EMPIRE OF STAFF, recruiting means more than the timely selection of candidates for the appropriate vacancy. The agency's specialists try to offer the Customer a solution to the entire range of problems related to personnel issues, therefore each new contract is considered as an opportunity to establish long-term partnerships. We always strive to ensure that the candidate presented by us not only fully meets all the requirements of the client, but is also able to have a positive impact on the life of the company in general with his work. Search and selection of personnel is a delicate area of business, affecting the relationship of both people and companies. EMPIRE OF STAFF adheres to firm ethical principles as formulated in the Agency's Code of Ethics.
The main areas of our work:
direct targeted search (Executive Search)
selection of personnel (recruitment)
Antal International Russia
Antal International, an international recruiting agency, entered the Russian market in 1994. One of the first foreign representative offices of the company was established in Moscow, which became the largest and most successful thanks to the intensive growth of the Russian economy.
We have taken strong positions on Russian market in the field of recruiting middle and top managers. Our consultants find candidates for a variety of positions in virtually every industry.
Recruiting agency (Moscow) Cornerstone has been professionally recruiting staff since 1993. The main areas of work: executive search (selection of top managers), managment selection (selection of middle managers), headhunting (headhunting). Recruiting agency CORNERSTONE is one of the five largest recruiting agencies in Moscow.
According to the results of the rating "Top 20 best recruiting agencies" conducted by the magazine "Career", Cornerstone entered the top five largest recruiting companies in Moscow.
At the heart of the work of Cornerstone consultants is a willingness to focus on the interests of customers, striving to meet their requirements and requests as much as possible.
In 2007 Cornerstone successfully closed about 1500 positions at various levels.
Cornerstone is a member of the American Chamber of Commerce, the Association of Russian Managers and the Association of European Businesses (AEB).
Since its foundation in 2003, the international recruiting agency Vivat Personnel has come a long way: it has gained a reputation as one of the most successful and professional players in the recruiting market, established partnerships with large and well-known brands, and, having received a license for international recruitment, overcame the borders Russia.
Today recruitment agency "Vivat Personnel" is:
A full range of services for the search and selection of personnel, training (trainings), personnel consulting, appraisal, leasing and outstaffing of personnel.
- a set of unique personnel solutions for each recruiting project.
- the work of a team of professionals, many of whom have 10 years of recruiting experience.
In the continuously replenished and updated database of the recruiting agency "Vivat Personnel" there are more than 500 thousand resumes. Almost 75% of current projects are vacancies regular customers or companies that have applied to a recruiting agency on a recommendation.
From the whole range of services for the complex selection of personnel, the selection of top managers (general recruitment, executive search, headhunting), mass projects, selection of temporary personnel and regional selection are distinguished. An ever-increasing role in the activities of the Vivat Personnel recruiting agency is played by international recruitment projects.
Perceiving its work not just as a search and selection of personnel, the agency seeks to develop the client's business, to make it more competitive. Successful work with leading Russian and foreign companies operating in a wide variety of market sectors is the best assessment of the work of the Vivat Personnel recruitment agency!
Recruiting company "Personnel Center UNITI": recruiting, employment, interviews
Founded in February 1999.
UNITY mission: we help our clients acquire and develop the competencies of their companies through staff.
We work with people - with their questions, desires, needs, expectations and misconceptions.
Our history is our experience, which helps us to solve non-standard tasks.
Our clients for us are, first of all, partners. We always value the opinion and position of our clients. Fulfilling our obligations to the customer, we are well aware that strategic partnership is impossible without mutual trust. It is the trust of our clients that allows us to achieve complete mutual understanding. Step by step, result by result, we are approaching a common goal.
The Moscow recruiting agency "ABC Consulting" is one of the most successful companies in the field of recruiting and consulting services.
Since 2002, the work of the recruiting agency "ABC Consulting" is aimed at developing and improving services in the field of recruiting for companies of various profiles. We can offer you a full range of services related to the recruitment and selection of qualified personnel.
The team of Moscow recruiting agency "ABC Consulting" brings together qualified specialists who have a wealth of experience in using the most advanced recruiting, appraisal and personnel selection techniques. As well as the latest methods corporate training... The issue of personnel selection for middle and top management deserves special attention. Our recruiting agency successfully solves such difficult tasks. We have hundreds of successful projects in the analysis and selection of personnel for very famous and respected commercial structures... Many non-profit organizations are also among the clients of the recruiting agency.
Good leaders only hire the best people! This truth is confirmed by our own experience: the secret of success of the "Personnel Garant" company is in our professional team! Since 2001, "Personnel Garant" has been successfully operating in the recruiting services market thanks to its employees. All of them are qualified like-minded specialists with extensive knowledge in the field of personnel technologies and are able to quickly and efficiently perform the tasks set by the customer.
international personnel center Favorit is in the TOP of the best recruiting agencies in Moscow and the Russian Federation, which is confirmed by numerous reviews, ratings and HR conferences.
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Acknowledgments, Diplomas, ISLQ Prize Nominees in Paris
(The main criterion for selecting nominees for the ISLQ Prize is the use of Total Quality Management (TQM) principles such as the Balanced Scorecard or Theory competitive advantages(Growth and Competitive Advantage Theory) Awarded companies that focus on continually improving the quality of their products and services provide significant influence in their industry through an innovative approach to their business development.)
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Received the "Enterprise of the Year 2007" award
"Results of VII Research of the Moscow recruitment market conducted by Human Resources Management magazine
A surprising fact of the annual VII Recruitment Market Research was a significant increase in the number of Russian companies using the services of recruitment agencies. Last time, out of 1200 large Moscow firms, about 600 indicated in the questionnaires the names of large - rating recruiting agencies and assessed their quality of work well. This time there were 200 more of them, ie 800. The increase was mainly due to Russian companies. The growth leaders are IT companies and car dealers.
The specificity of the study, as before, is that the respondents are current and former clients of Moscow recruiting agencies, who assess the quality of services and the quality of the selected personnel on a 10-point scale.
Our method of calculating estimates is fundamentally based on the number of selected specialists. For example, agency X was rated 7 points for 1 vacancy and 9 points for 2 vacancies. With the usual calculation, we would have received an average grade of 8 points (we did this in the distant first study), in this case, we think differently: 7 * 1 + 9 * 2. So, we divide 25 points by 3 vacancies: a total of 8.3. Thus, the assessments of companies where the agencies have filled more vacancies have more weight. And this is true.
80% of companies submitted their lists to us, the rest can, of course, claim that in reality they have many more clients. We will not argue with them. But this is unlikely because:
- most companies work with several recruiting agencies with high ratings;
- it is unrealistic to keep an exclusive customer today, since more than 300 agencies in Moscow are "attacking" the market very actively, leaving almost no company unattended;
- today all serious firms are forced to turn to the services of recruiting agencies (selection, personnel consulting) - in Russia there is a real battle for talented and successful managers.
The purpose of the study is to identify the scale of the Moscow recruitment market, the real level of personnel outsourcing in large companies, new trends and, in the end, - the best among the recruiting agencies in Moscow and the Russian Federation.
The VII Study also shows the scale of Kelly Services, although, again, we did not set the task of rating the scale of companies. Our goal is to assess the average quality of service and identify leaders "along the way".
So, what do the readers want from the research, i.e. Russian companies who sometimes turn to the services of recruiting agencies? They want to see all the agencies together, in one table and, above all, compare their average performance ratings for the quality of service and candidates. But there is one paradox here: the larger the recruiting agency, the more difficult it is for it to maintain the quality of service at the highest level.
Many agencies with up to 10 clients receive top marks because they operate almost exclusively and manage to keep their consultants under control. And all the more respect are worthy of agencies that, while increasing their scale, maintain the quality of services.
A spoon of tar
Some respondents complained to our marketers that some of the large leading agencies were very slow in looking for candidates and could not close positions in almost half of the cases.
What can we say here?
Indeed, large recruiting agencies sometimes are in no hurry to sign an agreement for various reasons - firstly, for example, your company previously distinguished itself by not paying for the services of a recruiting agency (last year one large Insurance Company, who managed not to pay five recruiting agencies a large enough amount for them).
Secondly, an HR director who had “distinguished himself” somewhere earlier could have gone to work for you. Third, and most often it happens, your job is daunting.
Fourth, your company may not offer the highest package, but it must be higher than 30 percent in order to pique the interest of the candidate.
Fifth, you turned to the wrong agency or at the wrong time for it.
Another surprising fact is that this year no one has ever branded any recruiting agency. Moreover, according to our information, the majority of arbitration courts between recruiting agencies and customers won the first.
Thus, it is practically pointless in the era of IT technologies to "joke" with recruiting agencies: for example, consider candidates in one company, and then invite them to work in a friendly structure without paying a recruiting agency. Believe me, this all comes to light, as many agencies almost consider candidates as their property, as one respondent told us. In fact, they are simply friends with them once and for all and, having phoned after 3 months or six months, they are interested in their fate. Market - difficult thing, the battle for personnel continues ... " *
