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This report provides market intelligence on the top search firms and leading individual consultants. It also gives a ranking of executive recruiters - who they are, what they specialize in and how to work with them to locate the top talent in a given industry. The report is divided into four parts. The first gives an overview of the industry and discusses the main players. Part Two explains how to select a search firm, the optimum number of firms to use, whether to use a large multinational or a specialist boutique, and the growing market for pan-European of cross-border search. Part 3 reviews other services offered to clients and explores what role a search firm should play in helping clients to develop a European culture. This section is based on interviews with over 75 human resource directors and line managers of major multinationals. The last section presents a chapter for each country covered, each one including the top-ranking firms, corporate profiles and biographies of leading individual consultants.