by M-Tracker | Oct 29, 2026 | Staffing and recruiting
Staffing and recruiting · 3 min readNot always, but they should be. The first candidate a client sees becomes the bar they judge everyone else by. If the first one is weak, the client doubts the agency and reads every later submittal looking for problems....
by M-Tracker | Oct 29, 2026 | Staffing and recruiting
Staffing and recruiting · 3 min readNo, but it did shrink for three years. The US staffing market peaked in 2022 at around $244 billion, fell through 2023, 2024 and 2025, and in 2026 is growing again at about 2.4 percent, to roughly $183 billion, according...
by M-Tracker | Oct 29, 2026 | Staffing and recruiting
Staffing and recruiting · 4 min readYes. A staffing business can be very profitable, because it earns a margin on every hour its workers bill, week after week. But the margin on each hour is thin. After pay, taxes, insurance and workers' comp, a temp firm...
by M-Tracker | Oct 29, 2026 | Staffing and recruiting
Staffing and recruiting · 4 min readYes. Recruiting is one of the more stressful desk jobs, because you depend on two groups of people, candidates and clients, and you control neither. But most of the stress on a staffing desk does not come from the pace....
by M-Tracker | Oct 29, 2026 | Staffing and recruiting
Staffing and recruiting · 3 min readYes. Ghosting a candidate, going silent after a screen or an interview, is unprofessional, and on a staffing desk it costs more than reputation. It costs the next placement. Candidates talk, and so do their friends. The...