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Q3 2026 Staffing M&A Roundup: Korn Ferry Closes AMS as Buyers Pay for Capability
Korn Ferry's $1.1 billion AMS close led a quarter where buyers paid for capability rather than headcount. Here's who bought CRNA staffing, scheduling platforms, and skilled trades firms in Q3, and what's riding on Circle8's Oct. 7 deadline for SThree.
Why Recruitment Businesses Keep Hiring Instead of Fixing the Problem
When the team gets stretched, hiring another person feels like the obvious fix. But if placement volume keeps increasing and the answer is always more admin staff, the business is subsidizing a broken process.
Learning New Skills To Navigate Recruitment in the Age of AI
Candidates and screening tools are both using AI now, and, surprisingly, it's making hiring slower. Here's how to redesign assessments, question your AI vendors, and make sure a human is still deciding.
A Clean Reverse Image Search Does Not Verify a Remote Candidate
No hits on a reverse image search isn't a clean background check. Here's why staffing firms need a real identity verification step before approving a remote hire.
StaffingHub Brief: Q2 Brought the First Revenue Growth in Years, and Candidate Fraud Is...
The staffing industry just posted its first year-over-year revenue growth since late 2022, AI tools still aren't moving most firms' income statements, and new state laws are adding legal exposure to every tool in the stack.
Why Your Recruiters Aren’t Using the AI You Bought, With Danny Ashraf of Leoforce
You bought the AI tools. But your recruiters are still drowning in clicks.
In this episode of The Staffing Show, Hilary Baker sits down with Danny Ashraf, Chief...
Redeployment Benchmarks Can Be Deceiving. Here’s What to Measure Instead.
Software vendor glossaries supply most of the redeployment benchmarks in circulation, and the most-repeated one rests on a 2014 survey. ASA's published figures point to roughly six hires for every temporary seat filled each year, and you can compute median lifetime days from payroll records you already have.
StaffingHub Brief: Staffing Hours Are Up 7%, and Where Long-Term Demand Is Headed
Industrial staffing is up 12% while office/clerical drops 7%. Employers are projecting revenue growth without adding headcount. And new research from Battelle and ASA changes how agencies should think about screening and desk allocation.
The Placement Is Not the End of the Staffing Workflow
Recruiting closes the deal. Operations has to run it, often from a record that just says "placed." The risk is losing track of what got agreed to once the handoff happens.
Why the Best Contractors Never Come Back
Organizations have focused so heavily on onboarding contingent workers that they have overlooked the strategic importance of offboarding. Learn why the contractor exit experience has become critical to talent retention, future workforce availability, and building a reliable pool of professionals who are willing to return.








