Specialised recruitment, executive search and assessment of managers and experts.

10,000 recruitments per year, 350 talent acquisition experts, over 1,000 companies supported: we shed light on your talent acquisition and assessment strategies and we deploy with you the solutions that will drive your performance.

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Un conseiller en recrutement échange avec une candidate lors d'un entretien professionnel.

The world of work has changed faster than recruitment methods.

Demographic imbalances, skills that become obsolete in a few years, technological and environmental changes: the market for managers and experts is nothing like it was ten years ago. The figures show the scale of the issue.

In other words: finding will be harder, keeping even harder, and a third of needs today have no ready-made answer. The organisations that will perform tomorrow are those that rethink their acquisition and assessment strategies right now, particularly how they assess behavioural skills, which is where the real success of recruitment is decided.

That is our job: to help you see clearly, and then deploy with you the solutions that last.

61%

of recruitments are deemed difficult

7%

Only 7% of French employees feel engaged in their work

33%

of positions to be filled by 2030 will not be covered by available skills

10,000

recruitments per year

350

talent acquisition experts

1,000+

companies supported

13 countries

covered from France, Spain and Portugal

Sound familiar?

4 situations where we step in.

Rare profiles

This position is hard to fill. We've been looking for months.

IT, engineering, finance, sales: for high-demand professions, posting an ad is no longer enough. Our specialised consultants know where these profiles are and how to convince them.

Support & outsourcing

Our recruitment team is swamped.

Recruitment peaks, work-study campaigns, prolonged absences: our outsourcing solutions bring agility back to your talent acquisition unit, without you having to recruit recruiters.

Strategic positions

This recruitment shapes our trajectory.

Executives, board members, key roles: direct approach, confidentiality, in-depth assessment. For these positions, a mistake cannot be fixed in six months.

Objective assessment

We too often rely on gut feeling.

Recruitment, promotion, mobility, reorganisation: our assessment systems replace impressions with facts: skills, soft skills, real potential.

Deux familles de solutions. Un même objectif : les bonnes personnes, aux bons postes.

Talent acquisition

Une conseillère en recrutement échange avec un candidat lors d'un entretien professionnel.

Specialised recruitment

Attract the best profiles despite shortages, thanks to consultants specialised by profession and sector. Maximum responsiveness or maximum security: two approaches, you choose.

Une recruteuse souriante échange avec un candidat lors d'un entretien d'embauche.

RPO: recruitment process outsourcing

Temporary support, work-study campaign, peaks to handle: restore agility and efficiency to your talent acquisition unit.

Executive search

Secure your executive recruitments through direct approach: alignment, confidentiality, sustainability and human foundation.

Deux professionnels en costume échangent avec le sourire lors d'un entretien dans un bureau lumineux.

Interim management

Steer your transformation phases with experienced leaders: governance, operational continuity, performance.

Un conseiller Actual échange avec un candidat en gilet de sécurité lors d'un entretien en agence.

Specialised temporary staffing

Anticipate absences and peaks with qualified, assessed and immediately operational resources for your management and expert roles.

Une femme souriante à lunettes travaille sur son ordinateur portable pour valoriser ses compétences techniques.

Freelance recruitment

Gain agility and expertise on your strategic IT and digital projects.

Talent assessment

Une recruteuse évalue une candidate à distance lors d'un entretien d'embauche en visioconférence.

Assessment center

Detect and confirm talent in real-life situations, evaluating soft skills, where success is decided.

Une personne écrit dans un carnet et tape sur un ordinateur pour postuler efficacement à un emploi.

Digital assessment platform

Simplify and secure your assessments, at scale and with no compromise on rigor.

Deux professionnels échangent au bureau lors d'un bilan de compétences.

Skills frameworks

Structure and enhance your talents' career paths with a common framework across the entire organization.

Une collaboratrice souriante, les mains derrière la tête, assise à son bureau devant un ordinateur portable.

Assessment tests

Secure your recruitment with certified tools, always debriefed by a consultant.

Un conseiller en recrutement échange avec une candidate lors d'un entretien professionnel.

Understand your challenges, simplify interactions, coordinate action.

3 principles

A single contact who is an expert in talent acquisition, who knows your context and coordinates all actions — regardless of the number of solutions deployed.

Our teams, organized by expertise

Roles

IT & digital, sales & marketing, finance & accounting, engineering, purchasing & supply chain, HR & legal

Sectors

Industry & defense, energy & mobility, commerce & retail, business services, banking & insurance, real estate & construction, public sector

Solutions

Specialized recruitment, RPO, executive search, interim management, assessment, IT freelancing
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A recent brand. Twenty years of expertise behind it.

Actual Talent brings together under a single brand firms that, for over twenty years, have supported nearly 1,000 companies in France and Europe, carrying out around 10,000 recruitments per year for them.

The pioneers of outsourcing.

As early as 2004, our teams democratized recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) solutions in France and Europe.

Benchmarks in direct search.

In sales, engineering, IT and digital roles, our firms have established themselves as recognized players in headhunting.

A dense regional network.

Around twenty locations covering IT, engineering, and accounting roles. Proximity at the service of skilled positions.

All of this expertise is now gathered under the Actual Talent brand, within Actual group.

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A partner, not a CV provider.

You gain access to the profiles the market is fighting for.

Specialist consultants by role and sector, direct approach, European network: rare profiles become attainable.

You decide based on facts

Verified skills, assessed soft skills, shared frameworks: subjectivity steps back where it costs the most.

You have a single point of contact.

A business partner who knows your challenges and coordinates all deployed solutions: recruitment, outsourcing, assessment.

Structure métallique moderne et incurvée au motif tressé, s'ouvrant sur un ciel clair.

A specific challenge in mind?

Each solution has its own dedicated page: permanent recruitment, recruiting an executive or manager, executive search, RPO, interim management, and assessment. And for your freelance and interim management assignments, our dedicated hub takes over.

Une conseillère en recrutement échange avec un candidat lors d'un entretien professionnel.

1/3 of the jobs in 2030 do not have candidates yet. Might as well start looking.

Or better yet: start training them, assessing them, and helping them grow.

We believe that work is a force and that the value of work is inseparable from human commitment. In the executive and expert market, this translates very concretely: we don't just place profiles, we make successful connections. The kind that allow individuals to fulfill themselves in their work, and companies to stay on course. Both, or nothing.

Let's talk about your needs

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