Rank­ings

Han­dels­blatt TOP Per­son­nel Ser­vice Provider 2024

This award tru­ly fills us with pride: XEL­LEN­TO Execu­tive Search is one of Germany’s forty best per­son­nel con­sul­tants in 2024, as deter­mined by the Han­dels­blatt Research Insti­tute. Thus, once again we are among the top 40 of approx­i­mate­ly 2500 Ger­man recruit­ment con­sul­tants.

Han­dels­blatt TOP Per­son­nel Ser­vice Provider 2023

This is the acco­lade! In the Han­dels­blatt ran­king of Ger­man HR con­sul­tan­cies, XEL­LEN­TO asserts itself in the top 40 for the year 2023 and thus takes a lead­ing group place­ment among the 443 par­tic­i­pants.

WirtschaftsWoche Head­hunter Index

For the fifth time now, XEL­LEN­TO has secured a best in class ran­king by the busi­ness mag­a­zine WirtschaftsWoche. The ques­tion­naire by Pro­fes­sor Dr. Chris­tel Gade from the IU Inter­na­tion­al Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences revealed top marks for XEL­LEN­TO.

From April to Sep­tem­ber 2024 approx­i­mate­ly 2000 HR deci­sion mak­ers stat­ed their lev­el of con­tent with the per­for­mance of com­mis­sioned head­hunters across 5200 indi­vid­ual val­u­a­tions.

FOCUS TOP Per­son­nel Ser­vice Provider 2024

XEL­LEN­TO received the TOP Per­son­nel Ser­vice Provider 2024 award in the cat­e­go­ry Execu­tive Search from Focus Busi­ness mag­a­zine for the fifth con­sec­u­tive time. The prize was award­ed on the analy­sis of a study con­duct­ed last year by the mar­ket research com­pa­ny Sta­tista for the news mag­a­zine Focus Busi­ness.

WirtschaftsWoche Head­hunter Index 2023

For the fourth time XEL­LEN­TO has come out on top in the WirtschaftsWoche ran­king. In a ques­tion­naire by Pro­fes­sor Dr. Chris­tel Gade from the IU Inter­na­tion­al Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences,XEL­LEN­TO received high marks in the finance and mechan­i­cal & plant engi­neer­ing cat­e­gories.

Between Octo­ber 2022 and Sep­tem­ber 2023, around 2,100 HR deci­sion-mak­ers indi­cat­ed in 4,500 indi­vid­ual eval­u­a­tions how sat­is­fied they were with the per­for­mance of the head­hunters they com­mis­sioned. In addi­tion, approx­i­mate­ly one hun­dred ref­er­ence inter­views were con­duct­ed. In total, over 840 con­sul­tan­cies were named and eval­u­at­ed.

FOCUS TOP Per­son­nel Ser­vice Provider 2023

For the fourth time XEL­LEN­TO is ranked among the TOP Per­son­nel Ser­vice Providers 2023 in the cat­e­go­ry Execu­tive Search. This is the con­clu­sion of a study con­duct­ed last year by the mar­ket research com­pa­ny Sta­tista for the news mag­a­zine, Focus Busi­ness.

WirtschaftsWoche Head­hunter Index 2022

For the third time run­ning, XEL­LEN­TO scored points in the WirtschaftsWoche Ran­king and can once again count itself amongst Germany’s best recruit­ment con­sul­tants. In three dif­fer­ent cat­e­gories, we were rat­ed as one of the head­hunters man­agers would most pre­fer to hire.

The ran­king is based on a ques­tion­naire devel­oped by Pro­fes­sor Dr. Chris­tel Gade. Between Octo­ber 2021 and Sep­tem­ber 2022, 2,300 per­son­nel deci­sion-mak­ers pro­vid­ed details on how sat­is­fied they were with the per­for­mance of the head­hunters they had employed.

FOCUS TOP per­son­nel ser­vice provider 2022

XEL­LEN­TO scored high­ly in the Execu­tive Search cat­e­go­ry in 2022 as well and ranks among the TOP per­son­nel ser­vice providers in Ger­many.

WirtschaftsWoche Head­hunter Index 2021

XEL­LEN­TO is one of the best recruit­ment agen­cies in Ger­many in 2021. In the Head­hunter Ran­king of the WirtschaftsWoche our cus­tomers rat­ed us in the best pos­si­ble way. The ran­king Germany’s best recruit­ment con­sul­tants is based on a ques­tion­naire devel­oped by Dr. Chris­tel Gade, Pro­fes­sor at IU Inter­na­tion­al Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences.

About 3,000 per­son­nel deci­sion-mak­ers were inter­viewed between July and Octo­ber. Thank you to every­one who took the time to men­tion our com­mit­ment in an appre­cia­tive way.

FOCUS TOP per­son­nel ser­vice provider 2021

XEL­LEN­TO is among the TOP per­son­nel ser­vice providers in the “Execu­tive Search” cat­e­go­ry in 2021. The result is based on a study car­ried out by the mar­ket research com­pa­ny Sta­tista for the news mag­a­zine Focus Busi­ness. There­fore, XEL­LEN­TO is repeat­ed­ly one of the lead­ing 75 per­son­nel ser­vice providers in the impor­tant Execu­tive Search.

WirtschaftsWoche Head­hunter Index 2019

XEL­LEN­TO is among the lead­ing search firms in Ger­many. The head­hunter ran­king of the WirtschaftsWoche result­ed in our clients bestow­ing us a five-star rat­ing in two fields of busi­ness.

For the fourth con­sec­u­tive time the mag­a­zine WirtschaftsWoche col­lab­o­rat­ed with Pro­fes­sor Dr. Chris­tel Gade from the IUBH (Inter­na­tionale Hochschule Bad Hon­nef) in its analy­sis of the execu­tive search con­sul­tants mar­ket. In the peri­od of July to Sep­tem­ber 2019, 2,500 HR deci­sion mak­ers judged 885 execu­tive search con­sul­tan­cies by ques­tion­naire. The result: XEL­LEN­TO is a leader in the fields of consulting/professional ser­vices as well as FMCG and retail.

FOCUS TOP Per­son­nel Ser­vice Provider 2020

Germany’s com­pa­nies have vot­ed: XEL­LEN­TO is a lead­ing per­son­nel ser­vice provider 2020 in the cat­e­go­ry Execu­tive Search. Last year, the mar­ket research com­pa­ny Sta­tista con­duct­ed a ques­tion­naire-based study on behalf of the news mag­a­zine Focus Busi­ness in which execu­tive search clients espe­cial­ly rat­ed the can­di­date pro­file qual­i­ty, assign­ment speed, the means and man­ner of com­mu­ni­ca­tion as well as ser­vice pro­vi­sion.
In the core Execu­tive Search cat­e­go­ry XEL­LEN­TO is among the lead­ing 75 com­pa­nies in Ger­many.

„Head­hunter-of-the-year-Award“ 2019

XEL­LEN­TO is nom­i­nat­ed for the Head­hunter-of-the-year-Award 2019 in the cat­e­go­ry Execu­tive Search. The award’s host is the career ser­vice provider Exper­teer. The aim is to acknowl­edge execu­tive search firms of high qual­i­ty and pro­fes­sion­al­ism as well as high­light­ing pio­neers and pro­mot­ing indus­try inno­va­tions.