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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Vendors argue endlessly about how many touchpoints a B2B deal needs. But the real predictor of whether a six-figure EOR contract closes is which specific stakeholders didn't get their questions answered, and a simple ratio tells you exactly who they are.
Turning on automation isn't the finish line. The staffing firms getting ROI keep refining their workflows as the business changes.
Jackson Healthcare pushes specialization down to the recruiter level, and President Shane Jackson says that's what makes company values enforceable. He explains why principles stay fixed while methods change, and why AI will raise the value of domain expertise.
Staffing execs reveal the 5 decisions shaping their 2027 plans, from gross profit growth to owned sourcing and market share.
Adding recruiters won't fix a broken hiring workflow. See why the staffing firms succeeding with AI in 2026 track time-to-qualify, not time-to-fill.