Top 10 Recruitment Agencies in Finland in 2026

Adecco Finland is the Finnish subsidiary of Adecco Group, one of the world’s largest staffing organizations. Headquartered in Helsinki, it covers temp staffing, permanent recruitment, RPO, executive search, and HR consulting across Finland.

• National delivery network covering Helsinki, Tampere, Turku, and Oulu
• RPO capability for companies scaling headcount across multiple departments
• Executive search and interim management alongside high-volume temp staffing

Looking at Adecco Finland, the breadth across temp staffing, RPO, and executive search is its clearest differentiator. Employers scaling across several functions simultaneously can work with one vendor rather than separate firms for each need.

aTalent Recruiting is a Helsinki-based Finnish recruiting agency specializing in early-career and mid-level placements across business, engineering, and technology sectors. Founded in 2007, it works with Finnish and international employers who hire professionals with 1 to 10 years of experience.

• Specialists focus on early-career and mid-level hiring in business, engineering, and tech
• Active university partnerships for graduate-level talent sourcing across Finland
• Strong presence in Helsinki’s tech and startup ecosystem

What stood out to me about aTalent is its focus on the early-to-mid-career band. Their pipelines suit employers hiring first-time managers, junior engineers, and commercial roles better than a generalist agency. For Helsinki’s tech ecosystem, that specificity is a genuine advantage.

Barona is Finland’s largest working-life company, headquartered in Helsinki and founded in 1999 by Markus Oksa and Mikko Leppänen. It carries out around 18,000 recruitments per year, employs more than 30,000 people annually, and operates across 30+ Finnish locations and 10 countries as part of the Bravedo company group. Services span staffing, recruitment, RPO, executive search, international hiring with relocation and visa support, training, and HR consulting.

• ~18,000 recruitments per year, the largest recruiting agency Finland operates
• International hiring desk managing work permits, relocation, and visa processing
• 30+ Finnish locations and presence in 10 countries for cross-border mandates

In my evaluation of Barona, the scale and breadth are unlike anything else in the Finnish market. For a foreign company entering Finland, 30+ domestic locations combined with an international hiring desk handling work permits and relocation make Barona the most self-contained option on this list.

Boyden Finland is the Finnish office of Boyden, a global executive search firm with 80+ offices across 45 countries. The Helsinki team handles board-level appointments, C-suite searches, and senior leadership placements across Finnish and Nordic organizations.

• Boyden’s 80+ office network for cross-border executive search mandates
• Board-level and C-suite specialization across Finnish and Nordic markets
• One of the recognized international recruitment agencies in Finland for senior cross-border hires

Reviewing Boyden Finland, the case for using them is clear for cross-border executive search. Sourcing a CFO or board director for a Finnish subsidiary often means reaching candidates in Stockholm or Zurich. Boyden’s 80-plus office network makes that simpler than managing separate local firms in each market.

Eezy is a Finnish staffing and HR services group listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange. It offers staffing, recruitment, and light entrepreneurship services (kevytyrittäjyys) across Finland, serving employers needing flexible workforce solutions and contractors working independently through its platform.

• Light entrepreneurship platform letting self-employed workers invoice clients without registering a company
• Staffing and recruitment across administrative, industrial, and service sectors
• Helsinki Stock Exchange listing adds financial transparency for enterprise clients

Eezy’s light entrepreneurship service stands out. Many Finnish professionals use the kevytyrittäjyys arrangement, and Eezy has built solid infrastructure around it. For companies engaging contractors, Eezy keeps the arrangement compliant with Finnish tax and insurance rules.

Eilakaisla is one of Finland’s most established independent staffing and headhunting firms, founded in 1962. Headquartered in Helsinki, it has run staffing and recruitment operations for over 60 years across multiple sectors.

• Over 60 years of operating history, among the longest-established recruiting agencies Helsinki has
• Headhunting capability for mid and senior-level Finnish-speaking professional roles
• Independent Finnish ownership with deep domestic employer relationships

Looking at Eilakaisla, the 60-plus-year history gives them a depth of local employer and candidate relationships that newer agencies have not yet built. For roles requiring senior Finnish-speaking professionals, that institutional knowledge cannot be shortcut. Their independence and longevity make them a reliable option for Finnish-language headhunting.

Manpower Finland is the Finnish subsidiary of ManpowerGroup, one of the world’s largest staffing organizations. It covers high-volume staffing and professional recruitment, with IT hiring handled through its Experis brand from offices in Helsinki and across Finland.

• Experis brand for dedicated IT, technology, and engineering recruitment
• ManpowerGroup’s global reach supports international candidates relocating to Finland
• High-volume staffing capability for industrial, logistics, and service sector employers

In my evaluation of Manpower Finland, the dual structure of Manpower for generalist staffing and Experis for IT is useful for employers with varied hiring briefs. Running a warehouse staffing brief and a cloud infrastructure search through separate firms creates overhead. Manpower Finland’s structure allows clients to consolidate both under a single vendor relationship.

Mercuri Urval is a Nordic executive search and leadership assessment firm with roots in Sweden and a strong Finnish presence. It uses psychometric assessments and structured competency frameworks rather than a network-only search.

• Science-based assessment using psychometric tools alongside traditional executive search
• Nordic presence covering Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway
• Leadership assessment capability useful for succession planning beyond a single-vacancy search

Reviewing Mercuri Urval, the structured assessment methodology sets them apart from most firms in this market. For high-stakes senior hires where culture fit matters as much as CV credentials, psychometric evaluation reduces the risk of misfires. Their Nordic network lets them run searches in Finland and Sweden in parallel.

Opteam is a Finnish staffing, recruitment, and outplacement company with offices across Finland. It serves employers in industrial, service, and professional sectors, with a particular strength in outplacement that sets it apart from pure placement agencies.

• Outplacement services supporting redundancy processes alongside standard placement
• Multi-sector coverage across industrial, healthcare, logistics, and professional roles
• Regional office network reaching beyond Helsinki into secondary Finnish cities

Looking at Opteam, the outplacement offering is a practical differentiator for employers managing workforce restructuring. Most staffing agencies focus only on intake; Opteam covers both ends of the employment cycle. For companies undergoing reorganizations that require managing exits and filling new roles simultaneously, having a single firm handle both reduces vendor overhead.

StaffPoint is a Finnish staffing agency focused on hospitality, retail, logistics, and ICT staffing across Finland. Based in Helsinki, it serves employers ranging from hotels and event venues to technology companies needing flexible contract staffing.

• Sector depth in hospitality, retail, and logistics, alongside ICT staffing
• Event and seasonal staffing for Helsinki-based hospitality and tourism employers
• Flexible short-term and contract staffing for variable headcount needs

What stood out to me about StaffPoint is the combination of hospitality depth with ICT coverage in one agency. These disciplines typically require different candidate networks, and most agencies pick one. For Helsinki employers running hotel operations alongside a technology team, consolidating those briefs under one vendor removes coordination overhead.