Professional staffing includes workers in IT/technical, engineering, accounting and finance, legal, sales and marketing, and managerial functions, among others. Robert Half International is currently the world’s leading professional staffing company in terms of market capitalization and generated net service revenue of around 5.8 billion U.S. dollars in 2018. The industry for professional staffing also includes some of the leading IT staffing firms in the U.S., such as On Assignment Inc., TEKsystems (Allegis Group), Insight Global, and Kforce Inc. The United States has the majority market share of the global staffing industry and On Assignment currently accounts for a six percent market share of the leading IT staffing firms in the U.S.
In 2018, On Assignment’s cost of services amounted to over 2.3 billion U.S. dollars. In that same year, Kforce generated net income of nearly 58 million U.S. dollars. Some of the leading trends for staffing firms in recruiting for professional roles worldwide include the utilization of social and professional networks, finding better ways to source passive candidates, as well as building communities or a pipeline of talents. In 2018, IT staffing alone experienced a total of 34 merger and acquisition deals, the highest in the staffing industry for that period.
