Gitec

What Gitec does

Gitec is a French staffing and recruitment agency founded in 1978, operating as part of VNH Resources Group, a diversified services conglomerate headquartered at 42 rue de Châteaudun, Paris. The company provides temporary staffing (intérim), fixed-term (CDD), and permanent placement (CDI) services across five verticals: Tertiary/Office, IT & Telecommunications, Engineering & Industrial, Construction & Bureaux d'études, and — since 2022 — Medical & Healthcare (through the Gitec Medical division). Gitec serves enterprise clients seeking qualified talent and individual candidates across the Paris region and, increasingly, Hauts-de-France and Occitanie, via eight physical agency locations and an online candidate portal.

Operationally, Gitec follows a structured, human-centered recruitment methodology: job analysis with a dedicated account manager, candidate sourcing from its proprietary database and external channels, in-person interviews at branch offices, competency and behavioral assessment via the e-testing® tool, and reference verification. The company does not operate a proprietary technology platform; its digital footprint consists of a corporate website, partner job board integrations, social media presence, and standard third-party services (Google Analytics, reCAPTCHA, Google Maps, YouTube). Gitec Medical extends this methodology to healthcare with specialized testing and sector-specific expertise.

The business model is transaction-fee based across three revenue streams: (1) temporary staffing, with markups on hourly worker rates under tripartite contracts between Gitec, the client, and the intérimaire; (2) permanent and fixed-term placement, where fees are typically a percentage of the candidate's annual salary; and (3) medical staffing, priced under similar transaction-fee mechanics but with sector-specific contracts. Go-to-market is sales-led through the branch network, supplemented by inside-sales candidate acquisition via the website and social channels. Gitec has been recognized in Les Echos' 'Best Recruitment Firms' ranking and earned 5-star status in the 2026 edition; it also holds EcoVadis sustainability certification.

Name

Gitec

Legal name

VNH RESOURCES GROUP

Website

https://gitec.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1978

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Gitec is a French staffing and recruitment agency founded in 1978, operating as part of VNH Resources Group. It provides temporary, fixed-term, and permanent placement services across Tertiary, IT, Engineering, Construction, and Medical sectors via eight agencies in the Paris region and an online candidate portal.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Temporary Staffing (Intérim): Gitec employs temporary workers (intérimaires) and places them with client companies for fixed-term assignments. The company earns revenue through markups on hourly worker rates. Three parties are involved: the client company, the staffing agency (Gitec), and the interim worker.
2. Permanent Placement (CDD/CDI): Gitec identifies and qualifies candidates for direct hire positions with client companies. When a placed candidate is hired on a fixed-term (CDD) or indefinite (CDI) contract, Gitec receives a placement fee, typically a percentage of the candidate's annual salary.
3. Medical Staffing (Gitec Medical): Specialized division providing interim, vacation, liberal, CDD, and CDI staffing solutions for healthcare, medical, paramedical, and pharmaceutical sectors across France and overseas territories.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Gitec is a French recruitment and staffing agency, founded in 1978 and operating as part of the VNH Resources Group. The company provides temporary staffing (intérim), permanent placement (CDD/CDI), and specialized medical staffing through its Gitec Medical division. It serves clients across multiple sectors including industry, construction, transport, logistics, IT, healthcare, and tertiary services, with a proprietary e-testing® tool used to pre-select candidates.

Product overview

Gitec is a multi-sector recruitment and temporary staffing agency operating as part of VNH Resources Group. The company offers a unified staffing platform comprising its core recruitment services and specialized divisions. The core Gitec brand provides interim (temporary staffing), CDD (fixed-term), and CDI (permanent) placements across Tertiary, IT/Telecom, Engineering, and Design sectors. Specialized divisions include Gitec Tertiaire – IT for technology and office roles, and Gitec Medical for healthcare staffing. The company operates 8 physical agency locations in the Paris region. Ancillary services include skills and personality testing, reference verification, and candidate preparation. Gitec Medical extends expertise to medical, paramedical, and pharmaceutical sectors with a rigorous selection process including interviews, technical tests, and e-testing assessments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Temporary Staffing (Intérim)

Quantifiable outcome

• 5-star rating in Les Echos Best Recruitment Firms 2026 ranking
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• FASTT (Fonds d'Action Sociale du Travail Temporaire)minorOthersFASTT provides social support services to temporary workers (intérimaires) placed by Gitec, offering benefits for housing access, financing, healthcare, childcare, and vehicle rental.
• FAFTT (Fonds d'Assurance Formation du Travail Temporaire)minorOthersFAFTT provides training support and professional development services for temporary workers throughout their careers, helping them build skills and advance professionally.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• ManpowerGroup France: French arm of the global staffing leader; directly competes with Gitec in intérim, CDD, and CDI across the same Tertiaire, IT, and Engineering verticals, but at significantly larger scale and with a national footprint well beyond the Paris region.
• Randstad France: Global staffing group with a strong French presence; competes directly in interim staffing and permanent placement across office, IT, industrial, and healthcare roles, offering Gitec's same combination of multi-sector and medical staffing capability but at substantially greater scale.
• Adecco France: Major French staffing network offering intérim, recruitment, and specialized divisions (including Adecco Medical); directly comparable to Gitec's multi-sector, multi-service model, with broader geographic coverage and a more developed proprietary technology platform.

Direct peers

• Hays France: Specialist recruitment firm focused on qualified professionals across IT, engineering, construction, and life sciences; highly comparable to Gitec's sector-specialized recruitment model and similar mid-sized positioning in the Paris market.
• Appel Médical (Randstad Healthcare): French medical and paramedical staffing specialist under Randstad; the most direct competitor to Gitec Medical, offering the same interim, vacation, CDD, and CDI healthcare placements across hospitals, EHPAD, and clinics nationally.
• Robert Half France: Specialist recruiter for finance, accounting, IT, and administrative professionals; directly overlaps Gitec's Tertiaire and IT verticals and competes for the same candidate pool in the Paris market.
• Sopratec: Sister brand of Gitec under VNH Resources Group, focused on technical and engineering recruitment; operates the same business model in overlapping verticals with shared candidate databases and group-level resources, making it the most comparable peer for unit-level economics.
• PageGroup (Michael Page) France: Specialist recruitment firm (Michael Page, Page Personnel) covering office, IT, engineering, and healthcare; closely matches Gitec's vertical segmentation strategy and CDI/CDD placement focus, with similar mid-market positioning in the Paris region.
• Expectra (Ramsay Générale de Santé staffing arm): French specialist recruiter for technical, IT, and engineering profiles; competes head-to-head with Gitec in interim and permanent placement, with comparable methodology (interviews, testing, reference checks) and similar Paris-region presence.
• Anov (VNH Resources Group): Another sister staffing brand under VNH Resources Group; shares the same parent infrastructure, candidate sourcing channels, and multi-sector staffing approach as Gitec, and serves as the closest benchmark for internal performance comparison.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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