Personnel Services (Global Industry Overview)

This paper provides an overview of the global personnel services industry. The paper gives a snapshot summary, with additional sections on the industry's development, organisation and structure, current conditions and its leading companies and countries.

Global Industry Overview: Personnel Services

Personnel services link job seekers with employers under various arrangements. By far the most common form is through temporary staffing, wherein the employee is paid by the personnel service to work temporarily for another firm needing assistance. Other types of personnel services include employment agencies, which seek to place job seekers in permanent positions, and recruitment agencies, which also contract to fill permanent positions, but typically perform more screening – and sometimes searching – to find employment candidates who meet certain criteria.

Industry Snapshot

The American Staffing Association's annual economic analysis for 2009 had an...

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