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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CoderPad
CoderPad is a San Francisco-based technical interview and assessment platform that lets engineering teams evaluate developers in a real, runnable coding environment instead of on a whiteboard. Founded in 2013 by ex-Google and Amazon engineer Vincent Woo, it pairs live collaborative interviews with asynchronous take-home screens across 40+ programming languages, and has hosted millions of technical interviews for thousands of companies. In 2021 it acquired CodinGame to add candidate assessments and a developer skill-building community.
Paraform
Paraform is a San Francisco recruiting platform that connects companies with a network of 10,000+ independent recruiters and pairs them with custom AI agents to fill hard roles fast. Instead of betting that software alone can screen resumes, Paraform keeps humans in the loop and gives them AI tools plus white-glove operational support, handling intake calls, hiring-manager feedback, and payments. Companies like Palantir, Rippling, Cursor, and Cognition use it to meet candidates in days rather than months. Founded in 2022 by John Kim and Jeffrey Li, the company has raised $65M total, most recently a $40M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners in March 2026.
LANDED
LANDED is a New York- and San Francisco-based startup that builds generative-AI hiring software for high-volume, frontline employers - the restaurants, retailers, and hospitality chains that hire hourly workers by the thousands. Its platform automates the tedious parts of hiring - sourcing, resume reading, screening, text-message engagement, and interview scheduling - using proprietary AI models trained on data from more than two million hourly workers. Founded in 2019 by Vivian Wang and backed by Y Combinator, Javelin Venture Partners, Lightspeed, and others, LANDED serves 500+ brands including Five Guys, Cava, Panera, and Salt & Straw.
Recurse Center
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, free educational retreat in New York for programmers who want to get better at their craft. There is no curriculum, no teachers, and no grades - people spend six or twelve weeks working on whatever they find most interesting, alone or in pairs, guided by a few light social rules. Founded in 2011 as Hacker School and renamed the Recurse Center in 2015, it is free for participants and funds itself by running a recruiting agency that connects its community with hiring companies.
Ursus, Inc.
Ursus, Inc. is a technical and creative staffing firm founded in 2015 by Jon Beck. It connects enterprises, mid-market companies and high-growth startups with vetted talent across IT, cloud, data, security, DevOps, creative, life sciences and government services. Recognized for four consecutive years by Staffing Industry Analysts as one of the fastest-growing US staffing firms and a repeat Inc. 5000 honoree, Ursus pairs a relationship-first, quality-first operating model with a distributed team spanning the US, UK and India.
Touchpoints
Touchpoints (legally Global Touchpoints, Inc.) is a Northern California digital consulting and software services firm founded in 2004 by Naren Kini and Udayan (UC) Chanda. It helps organizations stay digitally relevant through turnkey software design and development, public-sector solution accelerators, data and cloud consulting, and technical recruitment. With deep expertise in Salesforce, AWS, and workflow automation, the company serves both private clients like Topps, Meta, Intuit, and Fiserv and a broad roster of California state agencies.