Who are the only 6 recruitment companies in Thailand that can brag about being on the world’s Top 40 list?
You too will be surprised to see this list of international recruitment groups that are present in Thailand.
The exhaustive list of recruiting providers from Hunt Scanlon Media presents an annual list of the Top 40 global talent providers that dominate the recruiting business worldwide.
Hunt Scanlon Media is a market research firm and the most widely referenced source for information in the human capital sector.
The image above is a small cut from the entire Top 40 list. The complete list is available by clicking the download image a few paragraphs further down in this blog
As always, they reviewed an exhaustive list of global recruiting providers and culled it down to the 2023 Top 40 global talent providers that now dominate the recruiting business worldwide.
Only the following 6 recruitment firms (alphabetic order) from Hunt Scanlon’s Top 40 list are present in Thailand at the time of publishing this article (February 2024).
- Boyden with 70+ global offices
- Cornerstone (JacksonGrant) with 60 global offices
- Horton International with 45+ global offices
- Korn Ferry with 150 global offices
- NPAworldwide (Tom Sorensen) with 550 global offices
- Transearch with 60+ global offices
Click the download image for the full PDF list from Hunt Scanlon.
See who the Global Top 40 Global recruitment firms
Were you expecting to see famous recruitment brands like Egon Zehnder, Heidrick, Russell Reynolds, and Spencer Stuart on the list?
Well, all four are of course on the Top 40 list from Hunt Scanlon; but they are not in Thailand.
Who is licensed to recruit in Thailand?
There are hundreds of licensed recruitment firms in Thailand, local and international, according to the list available on the Department of Employment website (under the Ministry of Labour).
The Employment and Job Seekers’ Protection Act is the law in Thailand that regulates the business of a recruitment company.
- Like the license from TAT (Tourism Authority of Thailand under the Ministry of Tourism and Sports) to operate a travel agency in Thailand.
- Or similar to the approval by the FDA (Thai Food and Drug Administration under the Ministry of Public Health) to importers of medicines.
- And to many other government bodies issuing licenses to companies operating in various industries or businesses.
A recruitment license is issued by the Department of Labour and must be renewed every two years. The domestic license allows licensed recruiters to help their clients hire candidates for jobs in Thailand and Thailand only.
The international recruitment license is issued to job brokers who are involved in sending Thai people to jobs overseas. Jobs like construction in Taiwan, berry pickers in Finland, or maids in the Middle East.
Excuse me, NPAworldwide – say again!
You may be interested to know that our firm, Tom Sorensen Recruitment in Thailand belongs to this premier network of independent recruiting firms.
NPAworldwide is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.
Founded in 1956 (2499 BE) to compete against large, franchised organizations.
The partnership with NPAworldwide allows us instant access to proven recruiters in many different industries and 550 offices worldwide of which 150 are in Asia.
Each of the 6 NPAworldwide offices in Thailand is registered with the Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Labour with its own legal entity name. In alphabetical order:
- ADI Group
- Aplus Career
- BMS Recruitment
- Gemini Personnel Recruitment
- Omni International
- Tom Sorensen
It’s hard to believe and almost unreal that NPAworldwide, alone, has an incredible number of 550 offices. Talk about being global, regional, and local all at the same time.
Searching globally for people to work in Thailand
This brings me to another question.
Are you sometimes looking for candidates who are currently in another country to come and work for you here in Thailand?
Seriously, why would you contact someone in Singapore, Hong Kong, London, or New York, when the above six companies have an international network, that you can count on?
Contact one of the six NPAworldwide offices in Thailand or any of the global firms from the Top 40 Global list with a presence in Thailand.
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