Beyond the Hype: How to Deploy AI Sourcing Without Junking Up Your Pipeline
By Dan Brunell, SVP of Franchise Development, Spherion Staffing & Recruiting
Key takeaways:
AI sourcing tools have made it dramatically easier to generate high volumes of candidate outreach...
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Beyond the Hype: How to Deploy AI Sourcing Without Junking Up Your Pipeline
By Dan Brunell, SVP of Franchise Development, Spherion Staffing & Recruiting
Key takeaways:
AI sourcing tools have made it dramatically easier to generate high volumes of candidate outreach...
85% of Applicants Never Get Evaluated. Here’s What That’s Costing You.
Cost per hire hit $5,475 in 2025, up from roughly $4,700 the year before. Applications per recruiter rose 400% over the same stretch. Staffing firms are spending...
Agencies Running Zero AI Processes Contracted at 56% in 2025. Heavy Adopters Contracted at...
Key takeaways:
Agencies running AI in zero processes contracted at 56% in 2025. Heavy adopters (5+ processes) contracted at 31%, with every depth tier in between landing...
What Contingent Workforce Demand From Food Manufacturers Actually Requires
Key takeaways:
Temporary and seasonal workers carry the same FSMA training and documentation requirement as a client's full-time staff. Federal code names them specifically. There's no lighter...
The Cost of Confidently Wrong AI
We all know that AI can be wrong, but as we run it for longer periods of time, it can be harder to catch these errors. During...
StaffingHub Brief: The Cycle Turns, AI Leadership Lags, and Three Compliance Deadlines Hit
Welcome to this week's StaffingHub Brief, your strategic intelligence roundup for staffing agency leaders. In this week's issue:
ManpowerGroup posted Q2 revenue growth of 5.8% and Randstad...
49% of Job Seekers Think Your AI Screening Is Biased. Here’s the Documentation That...
Key takeaways:
Nearly half of employed job seekers (49%) believe AI recruiting tools are more biased than human recruiters, a number the American Staffing Association and The...
Healthcare Staffing’s Boom-Bust Cycle Is About to Reset. Here’s What Comes Next.
Key takeaways:
Healthcare staffing returns to real growth in 2027, per Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA). revenue climbs from $38.7B in 2026 to $39.6B in 2027, the first...
Your Recruiters Are Filling Roles Faster. Some Won’t Last 90 Days.
Key takeaways:
Time-to-fill improved across the market in 2025, dropping to 63.5 days from 67.7, according to Employ's hiring benchmarks. But 90-day retention fell hard in the...
Your Recruiters Are Having 60% More Conversations. Is Your Revenue Up Too?
Key takeaways:
Recruiter interactions with candidates and clients jumped 60% year over year, and recruiter call time hit a record 286 minutes per week, double what it...