ABC Consultants

ABC Consultants is an Indian recruitment firm that grew out of a management consultancy set up in Kolkata in 1969. It is credited with starting organised recruitment in India and today concentrates on hiring for senior and middle-level roles, using sector knowledge built over four decades.

What ABC Consultants offers

• Senior and middle-level hiring — recruitment for management and specialist positions.
• Sector recruitment — dedicated practices for automobile and auto components, consumer durables and building materials, metals, minerals and mining, and pharma, life sciences, devices and diagnostics.
• Recruitment process outsourcing — RPO delivered through its FlexAbility arm, launched in 2011.

Who it works with

Corporate employers across India in the industries listed above, at a range of levels and locations.

Key facts

• Founded: 1969, in Kolkata, by Bish Agrawal as Associated Business Consultants
• Offices: major cities across India
• History: its executive search arm became Accord Group India, and its volume hiring business went to a joint venture with Manpower in 2005