A staffing company discovers qualified job candidates and brings them together with prospective companies for the purpose of developing a "direct hire" or "permanent" employment relationship. "Contingency" charges are paid by the client when the employee is hired.

Personnel Consulting

A staffing firm advises clients on a broad variety of labor force services, including methods and services for enhancing staff and skill levels, staff member performance, training, and recruitment and retention.

Long-Term and Contract Help

A staffing firm hires workers and appoints them to support or supplement a customer's labor force on longer-term tasks. Workers might be employed by the staffing firm or assigned as independent professionals.

Managed Provider

An MSP is an on-site provider engaged to manage all elements of a customer's temporary and contract staffing services, including suggesting or choosing staffing firms and vendor management systems. An MSP may or may not provide its own staffing services, and might use several or no VMS service providers.

Managed Services

A staffing firm presumes full obligation for operating a specific client function for which the staffing firm has operational expertise (e.g., call center, mailroom, information processing center, cafeteria, landscaping, guards, maintenance, janitorial services) on a continuing basis. This is frequently performed under a "declaration of work" arrangement instead of in regards to hourly labor.

Outplacement

A staffing company offers career transition services, including profession therapy, testing, training, interview coaching, and referrals, to assist a customer's separating employees.

Payrolling

A staffing firm places on its payroll workers hired or hired by the client. Payrolling is identified from PEO plans in that the staff members normally are on short-term projects and comprise a small percentage of the customer's labor force.

Professional Employer Organization (PEO or Employee Leasing)

An organization puts all or the majority of its work force on the payroll of a staffing firm, and the staffing firm assumes duty for payroll, advantages, and other human resource functions.

Recruitment procedure outsourcing is a type of business procedure outsourcing where a customer transfers all or part of its recruitment processes to an external provider, such as a staffing firm. An RPO company might supply its own or presume the customer's staff, technology, methodologies, and reporting. RPO suppliers handle the entire recruitment process, from style through results.

Retained Search Services

Retained search services are typically for management or executive positions in which the staffing firm charges a retainer (upfront cost) to perform the search for a client. Because a retained search is done on an agreement basis, the customer pays the fees for the search services no matter whether a hire results.

Temporary Help

A staffing firm hires and screens employees and designates them to support or supplement a customer's labor force to keep totally staffed throughout busy times, gain special proficiency or personnel special jobs, or fill temporary jobs. Workers may be utilized by the staffing firm or designated as independent contractors.

Temporary to Hire

A staffing company worker works for a customer for a trial duration during which both the employee and the customer consider establishing a "long-term" employment relationship.

Vendor Management Systems

A VMS is a Web-based software application tool that customers use to purchase and handle items and services, consisting of short-term and contract personnel. These tools are offered by third-party VMS service providers in addition to staffing companies that have their own innovation platform.