Adecco
Any way you stack it, Adecco is the world's largest employment agency, serving some 150,000 clients from more than 6,600 offices worldwide. The company provides temporary staffing, permanent employee placement, project assistance, outsourcing services, and other human resources-related services. Adecco's services are managed through its six professional business lines: Adecco Finance & Legal, Adecco Engineering & Technical, Adecco Information Technology, Adecco Medical & Scientific, Adecco Sales, Marketing & Events, and Adecco Human Capital Solutions. Adding to its global staffing operations, Adecco bought German staffing firm DIS Deutscher Industrie Service in early 2006.
Kelly Services Inc.
These days a lot of "Kelly Girls" are men. Once a business that supplied only female clerical help, Kelly Services has expanded to include light industrial, technical, and professional employees of both genders, including information technology specialists, engineers, and accountants. It also places lawyers (Kelly Law Registry), scientists (Kelly Scientific Resources), substitute teachers (Kelly Educational Staffing), nurses and other medical staff (Kelly Healthcare Resources), and teleservices personnel (KellyConnect). Kelly Services provides some 750,000 employees through some 2,500 offices in 30 countries. Chairman Terence Adderley controls more than 90% of the company.
Manpower Inc.
Millions of workers have helped power this firm to the upper echelon of the staffing industry. Manpower is the world's second-largest provider of temporary employees (behind Adecco), placing about 2 million people in office, industrial, and professional positions. It has some 4,400 owned or franchised offices in more than 70 countries (mainly France, the UK, and the US). The company also provides employee testing, training, and other contract services. Its Global Learning Centers give employees access to training materials over the Internet. Subsidiary Right Management offers career transition and organizational consulting services.
Spherion Corporation
Spherion seeks to circumvent your personnel problems. The company provides traditional temporary staffing along with services such as professional and executive recruitment and employee consulting and assessment. In addition, Spherion provides staffing and technology services in such areas as project management, quality assurance, and data center and network operations. The company also offers customer care and administrative and support services. Founded in 1946, Spherion operates through a network of about 660 locations within the US and Canada.
Kforce Inc.
Kforce is a corporate matchmaker, placing highly skilled workers with the companies that need them. The specialty staffing firm provides primarily temporary staffing services (and to a lesser extent permanent placement) in such areas as information technology, accounting, health care, and clinical research. Kforce operates about 70 field offices across the US and serves FORTUNE 1000 corporations, as well as small and midsized firms in all 50 states. The company also offers Web-based services such as online resumes, job postings, career management information, and interactive interviews.
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