Recruitment Agencies in Prague

Kelly Services/Talents (www.talents.cz) is a friendly company that focuses on recruiting employees in the IT, pharmaceutical, finance and banking, and manufacturing sectors. Valerie Štěrbová is a consultant and project manager with Kelly. She says her company is looking for customer service, business administration and collections employees; people who can speak directly with clients, many who are native English speakers. If you have previous experience in areas in which they are hiring you have an in; Štěrbová says there´s a gap in the market for management and other positions that require experience.

If you are multi-lingual, Horizons Language Jobs (www.horizonslanguagejobs.cz) may be a place to check out. They recruit for a variety of fields including HR, sales, finance and accounting and customer service. While English is important, they are also looking for speakers of German, Dutch, French, Swedish, and of course, Czech. They do warn that most positions will require valid EU working permission. Available jobs are heavy in the accountancy area so if you are a bean-counter Horizons may be for you.

Dunross Recruitment (www.dunross.co.uk) is looking for workers in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland as well as people from these countries interested in working in the UK. They specialize in finding employees for international companies as well as for newly relocated companies looking for an experienced staff, quick. All skill levels are needed; from receptionists to senior managers. Grafton Recruitment (www.grafton.cz) offers permanent, temporary and part-time positions. Their fields of focus include sales, finance, IT, engineering and hospitality. Contacting them directly is probably the best bet if you are a non-Czech speaker; the majority of their online job listings are in Czech. Another company whose job listings are in Czech is Morgan & Morgan (www.morgan-cze.cz.) When the company first started, they only recruited in the advertising and media fields. They have since expanded to sales, finance and IT, but may be a good agency to visit if you have knowledge of the advertising industry.

If you are a business bigwig you may want to investigate an executive search company. Most executive search companies only take on clients with a minimum of middle to top level management experience. Hays (www.hays.cz) is a global company with offices in Prague. They headhunt for a variety of industries including banking, construction, logistics, HR and sales. Their global connections mean they have a lot of multi-national companies as clients. Anderson Willinger (www.andersonwillinger.com) takes a personal approach to both the client companies and client individuals. They specialize in the Central and Eastern European region. HR Partners (www.hrpartners.cz) also focuses on a variety of Central/Eastern European countries and specialize in senior management positions. Bubenik Partners (www.bubenikpartners.cz) is a member of IMD International Executive Search and specializes in financial services, advanced technology and industrial clients.