Staffing - Top 5 Agencies Maryland

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.

This list represents an opinion by Interaction Media Group staff and in no way is meant to imply actual quality and rank of the company in this industry.

Staffing companies match millions of people to millions of jobs.

2.66 million people are employed by staffing companies every business day.

U.S. staffing firms over the course of a year hires 11.2 million temporary and contract employees.

79% of staffing employees work full time, virtually the same as the rest of the work force.

Flexibility

The staffing industry offers flexibility to both employees and companies. People can choose when, where, and how they want to work. Companies can get the skills they need to keep fully staffed during busy times.

66% of staffing employees say flexible work time is important to them.

64% of staffing employees report that their work gives them the scheduling flexibility and the time for family that they desire.

90% of client businesses say staffing companies give them flexibility to keep fully staffed during busy times.

Bridge

Temporary and contract work provides a bridge to permanent employment. People can try out a prospective employer and showcase their skills for a permanent job.

88% of staffing employees say that temporary or contract work made them more employable.

77% of staffing employees say it’s a good way to obtain a permanent job.

80% of staffing clients say staffing firms offer a good way to find people who can become permanent employees.

Choice

Many people choose temporary and contract work as an employment option. They can select their work schedules and choose among a variety of diverse and challenging assignments.

67% of staffing employees say choice of assignments was an important factor in their job decision.

23% of staffing employees have little or no interest in a permanent job—they prefer the alternative arrangement over traditional employment.

33% of staffing employees say they work for a staffing company because they like the diversity and challenge of different jobs.

Training

The staffing industry provides free training for millions of temporary and contract employees to help meet today's demand for skilled workers.

90% of staffing companies provide free training to their temporary and contract employees.

65% of staffing employees say they developed new or improved work skills through their assignments.

40% of staffing employees say they choose temporary or contract work as a way to obtain employment experience or job training.

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