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Direct HR

Shanghai-based executive search and recruitment agency that finds leadership and other staff for China-market employers

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Direct HR is an executive search and recruitment agency in Shanghai that focuses on the China market. It finds leadership and other staff for employers ranging from multinational companies to small and medium enterprises, and works with German, American and Chinese clients.

What Direct HR does

  • Executive search: identifying and placing senior leaders for organisations operating in China.
  • Talent recruitment: sourcing staff for roles with tight deadlines or specific requirements, including a project to hire eight people in Dalian.
  • Market research: publishing interviews and an eBook on foreign talent trends, compensation and hiring conditions for expatriate staff in China.

Clients

Its clients range from multinational companies to small and medium enterprises. Client feedback on its site describes candidates supplied quickly and strong shortlists for roles with tight timelines.

Key facts

  • Based in: Shanghai, China
  • Clients: over 1,500 German, American and Chinese clients
  • Publications: an eBook and interviews on foreign talent in China

Summary written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.

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Rankings

Direct HR is ranked on 1 TrustList ranking at #4.

Every ranking orders its listings by their reviews, how complete the profile is and the Trust Score. Direct HR has no reviews yet and 3 of the 10 profile details we look for. Where no listing on a page has been reviewed, the order follows the profiles alone.

Business service company · 1 ranking

  • #4of 14
    China

    It is one of 2 here listing monitoring.

    Its profile: “Direct HR is an executive search and recruitment agency in Shanghai that focuses on the China market.”

    Of the 14 here, 4 also cover tax and 3 also cover partners; 5 also work in Hong Kong and 2 also work in Reading.

    Behind Grace Business Co. Ltd, ahead of Foreign HR.

As of 2026-11-01. Organic ranks only; sponsored placements are never ranks. How TrustList ranks

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