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Corestaff Services and the work behind the match
A staffing agency can find a person. The harder job is getting that person screened, scheduled and paid. Corestaff’s move into swipejobs puts that hidden machinery in the spotlight.
NEOGOV and the art of getting government hired
A public health agency reported cutting its hiring time from 130 days to 61. NEOGOV’s story lives in the paperwork, handoffs, and human habits behind those missing 69 days.
Mark Newman and the interview that wouldn't happen
Goldman Sachs wasn't recruiting at his college. Mark Newman helped build HireVue so more people could get an interview - then spent years convincing employers to press play.
Recruiter.com sells you a hiring team. By the month.
When hiring comes in bursts, a permanent recruiting team can be an awkward fit. Recruiter.com sells capacity by the month - and its own history reveals the price of that flexibility.
GDKN knows the hire is only the beginning
A recruiter can fill a vacancy. GDKN also handles the machinery around it: payroll, compliance, software, and the daily business of keeping people at work.
LinkedIn made being findable a business.
A public résumé looks simple. Put 1.3 billion professionals behind it, and you get a market for hiring, selling, learning, and being discovered.
Horizontal Talent sells a better handoff
A recruiter called Alex, teams that cross borders, and a choice about who runs the work. Inside the staffing firm expanding what employers can hand over.
Hunt Club Knows Who Can Get You a Reply
The hard part of hiring a leader is often getting the right person to listen. Hunt Club turns trusted introductions into a recruiting system, then uses AI to clear the paperwork out of the way.
Greer Stevenson and the conversation that became a career move
A grand jury term brought Greer Stevenson and a future Figma colleague together. Now Clay’s Founding Sourcer is building a sourcing engine after four years of recruiting at Figma.
Russell Tobin and the art of hiring at scale
A recruiter inside your team. A sourcing network outside it. Russell Tobin’s answer to a crowded hiring market is to make a large operation feel surprisingly personal.
Ladders put a price on escaping the job-search queue
A $100K salary filter made Ladders a specialist. A team that fills out applications for you reveals what it now sells: fewer wasted evenings.
Wizehire sells the hiring department you forgot to hire
Small businesses need someone to mind the hiring process while they mind the business. Wizehire pairs software with human coaches - and its new owner, Paychex, has a much bigger front door.
Good&Co and the cost of asking too much, too soon
Good&Co turned personality quizzes into a bet on better hiring. Its own product history offers an equally useful lesson: people need to see the value before they surrender their money, their time, or their team.
Ethos Group and the Art of the Handoff
A car sale travels through more hands than the keys do. Ethos Group has built a business around making those handoffs work - from the first sales conversation to the repair visit years later.
Jconnect Infotech and the vacancy that became a software problem
A recruiter can find you a developer. Jconnect also offers to build the software - an arrangement that makes the hiring brief a surprisingly important business decision.
Beamery wants you to rethink the job before you fill it
The London software company made its name helping recruiters build relationships. Now it is breaking jobs into tasks to help employers decide what to hire, teach or automate.
Amanda Hahn Spent Her Career Removing the Friction From Hiring
She started recruiting in her teens, learned the machinery from inside, then spent years making hiring technology legible. Amanda Hahn’s career is a study in what happens when the marketer has actually done the work.
3xEquity Turned the Recruiter Cold-Call Into a Silent Auction for Advisors
The Kirkland firm gets financial advisors competing offers from 200-plus broker-dealers in a few days - anonymously, and without paying a dime. In May 2026, Elite Consulting Partners bought it.
The Temp Desk in Mayberry That Grew Into the Southeast's Second-Biggest Talent Source
It started in 1987 as a small-town temp desk in Andy Griffith's hometown. Nearly four decades later it runs 10-plus offices across three states - here's how the math actually works.
The Company That Reads the Internet So HR Doesn't Have To
Fama built AI that scans 10,000-plus public sources to catch the red flags a resume hides - then convinced the background-check giants to run on its engine.
The Recruiter Who Went Rogue for Women in the C-Suite
Tracy Saunders spent two decades placing executives for Google, Amazon and Cisco. Then she flipped the model - and built a discreet network that gets senior women hired, paid and promoted without the noise.
The Anti-Private-Equity Home for Accounting Firms That Refuse to Lose Their Name
Backed by patient family-office money, this Utah firm partners with small CPA shops across the Intermountain West - and stakes its pitch on the one thing private equity usually takes away: the name on the door.
The Agency That Staffs the Agencies
Celeste Gudas started 24 Seven in 2000 to staff fashion and beauty brands. Twenty-five years and eight acquisitions later, it is the No. 2 marketing and creative staffing firm in America - and it is quietly betting that the future of hiring is a matching algorithm plus a human who has read 3,000 salary surveys.
Bloom Talent
Bloom Talent is a woman-owned boutique recruiting agency in San Francisco that places Chief of Staff, Executive Assistant, and operations talent for tech startups, venture firms, and executives. Founded in 2015 by Amanda Christoff, the firm is known for a relationship-driven, white-glove approach that weighs personality fit alongside skills, and has placed candidates at companies including Y Combinator, Stripe, Airbnb, and Pinterest.
Elip AI
Elip AI is a Y Combinator (W25) startup building an AI job agent that lives inside WhatsApp. It reads through millions of job postings overnight, filters out ghost and duplicate listings, and sends each user a short list of ranked, personalized matches by morning - plus tailored, ATS-ready resumes. It is free for job seekers; employers pay when they hire. Founded by Gaurav Luhariwala, the company is based in San Francisco with an Indian entity in Jaipur.
Sabrina Kelly
Sabrina Kelly is a people and talent leader who rose from technology recruiting to become President of Techstars, one of the world's largest startup accelerator and investment platforms. Over roughly a decade at Techstars she led People Operations globally, served as Chief People Officer, and built scalable HR functions across markets in the US and Europe. Earlier she recruited technical talent for names like Spotify, IAC, and Etsy in New York, and founded the HR function at CustomMade in Boston. She is known for an empathetic, direct, and pragmatic approach to building culture and managing distributed teams.
Weekday
Weekday is a YC-backed (W21) AI recruiting platform that runs automated outbound sourcing campaigns to help technology companies hire software engineers. It pairs a database of 250M+ people across the US and India with AI-written outreach and managed multi-channel follow-ups (email, WhatsApp, phone), delivering interested, pre-vetted candidates ready to interview. Founded in 2021 by Amit Singh, Anubhav Malik and Chetan Dalal, the company started with a crowdsourced referral model and evolved into a full AI sourcing engine.
Christophe Jeusse
Christophe Jeusse is the Chief Executive Officer of Peoplelink Group, a South Bend, Indiana staffing company that provides administrative, industrial, skilled trade and professional contract workers to businesses across the United States. A French-trained finance executive with more than two decades in employment services, he moved from the international side of France's Groupe Crit into the top job at its U.S. staffing arm. He was recognized by Candidately's World Staffing Awards as one of the top 100 staffing leaders to watch in 2023 and nominated again in 2025.
Peoplelink Group
Peoplelink Group is a South Bend, Indiana-based family of staffing and workforce-solutions companies founded in 1987. Operating a portfolio of specialized brands across administrative, light industrial, skilled trades, IT, professional, and quality-inspection services, it connects more than 5,000 workers with employers nationwide each day. Led by CEO Christophe Jeusse and backed by French staffing group Groupe CRIT, the company blends nationwide reach with a boutique, relationship-driven service model built on People, Process, and Performance.
Fez Zafar
Fez Zafar is Chief of Staff at Mercor, the AI talent marketplace that vets, matches, and pays experts powering frontier AI labs. A 2024 Harvard graduate who was elected First Marshal of his class, he helped scale Mercor through one of the fastest revenue ramps on record and now leads hiring and cross-functional operations across its San Francisco and New York teams. Before Mercor he was an analyst at Village Global, a research assistant to economist Larry Summers, and a campus builder known for comedy, community events, and a student interview podcast.