Are Recruitment Consultancies Threatened by Digitalization?

Not at all! After all, only professional recruitment consultancies can conduct a successful candidate search at the top level. However, the recruitment market is in motion: Since profiles of professionals are more or less freely available to anybody on the internet, many players as well as employers feel called to become recruiters or personnel consultants themselves. What, then, is left of classical recruitment consultancy? At a round table conference, renowned recruitment consultancy firms such as division one, Kienbaum or KornFerry have discussed the recruitment industry’s current development.