The Hidden Cost of Workforce Vendor Sprawl in Mid-Market Operations
46% of enterprises manage six or more workforce vendors. The hidden costs of vendor sprawl, why MSPs often make it worse, and what a designed model looks like.
Category: Staffing Solutions
Your Hiring Isn’t Cautious. It’s Reactive.
Companies paying above plan for scarce skills are not being cautious. What reactive hiring costs, and what proactive workforce planning looks like.
The Hiring Paradox of 2026: When a ‘Captive’ Labor Market Isn’t a Buyer’s Market
Fewer workers are job searching, but the 2026 labor market is not a buyer’s market. Why trapped workers are harder to hire, and what to do about it.
Your Hiring Bottleneck Isn’t Candidate Supply. It’s You.
Hiring feels harder in 2026, but candidate supply isn’t the problem. Your process is. Where mid-market hiring actually breaks down, and how to fix it.
What a Lean Executive Team Needs from a Staffing Firm (That Most Don’t Provide)
You don’t have a dedicated recruiter. You can’t afford a bad hire. And you don’t have time to run the search yourself. Here’s what actually solves that. Some of the hardest hires I see aren’t at large enterprises with sophisticated talent acquisition functions. They’re at lean executive teams making critical hires without the internal infrastructure Read more about What a Lean Executive Team Needs from a Staffing Firm (That Most Don’t Provide)[…]
The Difference Between a Staffing Firm and a Recruitment Partner
Sourcing has been commoditized. What separates the firms that will survive from the ones that won’t is what happens after the resume gets submitted. For most of the last two decades, the staffing industry’s core value proposition has been access. Firms had candidates that hiring managers couldn’t easily find on their own. That access was Read more about The Difference Between a Staffing Firm and a Recruitment Partner[…]
Why Contract-to-Hire Is Becoming the Smartest Way to Build a PM Team
Hiring managers are gun-shy. Candidates are pragmatic. And the staffing model in the middle has stopped being a fallback. It’s becoming the strategy. Five years ago, when I told a client we could place a project manager on a contract-to-hire basis, the typical response was polite skepticism. Most hiring managers wanted full-time hires. Contract-to-hire was Read more about Why Contract-to-Hire Is Becoming the Smartest Way to Build a PM Team[…]
What a Great Project Manager Actually Looks Like in 2026 – And Why Most Job Descriptions Get It Wrong
Most project manager job descriptions read like a checklist of certifications. PMP required. Five to seven years of experience. Proficiency in Microsoft Project. Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall methodologies. These things are not unimportant. But in seventeen years of placing project management professionals, we have learned that the checklist almost never identifies the people who Read more about What a Great Project Manager Actually Looks Like in 2026 – And Why Most Job Descriptions Get It Wrong[…]