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Contribute to Member Sound Off Want to share your insights and experiences with Staffing Success readers? Visit asacentral.americanstaffing.net/volunteer to learn more. Originally Published In Staffing Success Magazine – July-August 2026 ASA economic analysts dive deeply into the data and provide a comprehensive look of what staffing, recruiting, and workforce solutions companies can expect next in… More ›

In the staffing profession, we spend a lot of time and effort focusing on others: clients, candidates, employees. We talk about building relationships and approaching our job with empathy, often prioritizing the needs of others over our own. But frankly, staffing can be draining. We work hard to find a great candidate for our client,… More ›

Artificial intelligence has become a fixture in the hiring process and now influences millions of employment- related decisions each year. Staffing firms deploy these tools at a volume and frequency that few non-staffing industry employers can match. As such, the emergence of AI-specific legislation is not a distant compliance concern. It is an immediate and… More ›

Walk into almost any staffing firm today and you’ll find artificial intelligence implementations somewhere—a résumé parser, a sourcing copilot, a screening chatbot. By this point, most major staffing firms are deep into pilot stages of AI initiatives. The problem is that most of this activity never shows up on your profit and loss statement. Firms… More ›

Key Takeaways Over the past 10 years, $1.7 billion has been invested by venture capital in 13 companies that remain largely unprofitable today. The original “Amazon of health care staffing” thesis underestimated the importance of client control, relationship-based execution, and the operational complexity of health care labor. The Covid-19 pandemic was the single biggest factor… More ›

Economic uncertainty still abounds, which inevitably can muddle decision making and strategic planning even for the most confident of business strategists. It is useful then to step back and take a holistic view of incoming trends, comprehensively looking at the labor market and how growth opportunities will develop within the numerous staffing verticals—not just in… More ›

All we hear right now is AI, AI, AI. Everything supposedly has AI in it. AI is going to take our jobs. We need to learn to use it or be left behind, and the best LLM is ChatGPT. No wait, now it’s Claude. Hold on, it’s Gemini. Back to Claude. Or maybe Perplexity? AI… More ›

When people find out I work in the staffing industry, they start asking questions about searching for jobs. When people find out I work in the staffing industry as a public relations director, they start asking what role their social media pages play in job searches. At a time when, per Morning Consult, 57% of… More ›

In their latest “State of AI” report, Deloitte researchers declare that artificial intelligence is gaining traction fast across a range of industries: “We see clear acceleration from organizations,” they report, “with wider workforce access to AI tools, early productivity gains, and growing confidence in AI’s potential.” The staffing industry in the past has not been… More ›

It’s been just over a year since Donnelly stepped into her high-profile role as CEO and president of Integrity Staffing Solutions, a top 200 company in terms of U.S. staffing revenue, according to recent data. But she began writing her staffing success story at Integrity more than 25 years ago. Like so many in the… More ›