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Korn Ferry - Recruitment Process Outsourcing
Vendor Analysis
published on Feb 17, 2025
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Report Overview:
This NelsonHall assessment analyzes Korn Ferry's offerings and capabilities in Recruitment Process Outsourcing
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall’s RPO profile on Korn Ferry is a comprehensive assessment of Korn Ferry’s offerings and capabilities, designed for:
- Sourcing managers monitoring the capabilities of existing suppliers of Korn Ferry and identifying vendor suitability for RPO RFPs
- Vendor marketing, sales, and business managers looking to benchmark themselves against their peers
- Financial analysts and investors specializing in the RPO sector.
Scope of this Report:
The report provides a comprehensive and objective analysis of Korn Ferry’s RPO offerings, capabilities, and market and financial strengths, including:
- Identification of the company’s strategy, emphasis, and new developments
- Analysis of the company’s strengths, challenges, and outlook
- Revenue estimates
- Analysis of the profile of the company’s customer base, including the company’s targeting strategy and examples of current contracts
- Analysis of the company’s offerings and key service components
- Analysis of the company’s delivery organization, including the location of delivery centers.
Key Findings & Highlights:
Founded in 1969, Korn Ferry is an organizational talent management consulting firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The company operates five primary business units:
- Consulting
- Digital Operations
- Executive Search
- Professional Search & Interim
- Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO).
In August 1998, the company launched a strategic alliance with the Wall Street Journal to form Futurestep. The sub-brand focused on recruiting services at the middle management level. In 2018, Korn Ferry rebranded its business as simply “Korn Ferry,” sunsetting all of its sub-brands, including Futurestep.
At the end of FY2024, April 30, 2024, Korn Ferry’s RPO business unit comprised ~3,000 employees supporting ~200 clients globally and hiring ~190,000 hires annually. The company prioritizes its growth strategy across early career, professional, volume/hourly, and niche job roles across all industries.
Korn Ferry positions its RPO services within its Global Talent Acquisition business vertical. It staffs its global recruitment teams with local experts — analyzing RPO market insights, understanding client needs, and locating best-fit candidates. It underpins its capabilities with modular standard and customizable inclusions of Korn Ferry Nimble Recruit (KFNR), an AI and data-driven RPO technology solution for volume, early career, and professional hiring.