Online Staffing & Recruitment Services Industry Overview

Companies that own and operate recruiting and job seeker Web sites.

Summary

In the online staffing and recruitment industry, the big question is whether bigger is really better.The industry’s Big Three -- Monster, CareerBuilder, and Yahoo! HotJobs -- have millions of jobs and tens of millions of resumes on their sites.

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Consolidation

Startup costs for a personnel agency are very low. Individual offices can be highly profitable, but consolidation is driven mainly by the opportunity for large agencies to develop national relationships with big customers. Some agencies expand by starting new offices in promising markets, but most prefer to buy existing independent offices with proven staff and an existing customer roster.

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• CareerSpecific.com LLC
• CollegeGrad.com, Inc.
• Experience, Inc.

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Hoover's has developed its own industry classifications to better serve its customers. These classifications are mapped to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and the older U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. The Online Staffing & Recruitment Services maps to a number of NAICS codes including:

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