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...