You’ve developed the idea for your business, secured funding, maybe even set up headquarters in a physical office. The next step is obvious, it’s time to start building your team. But while it’s the most sensical and important part of building a company, the process of recruiting the right talent can often be the most difficult. Finding the right candidates means scanning dozens, sometimes hundreds of resumes, conducting interviews, and properly vetting each candidate, not to mention all the paperwork involved in onboarding new hires. Even after rigorous research there can be risks, and hiring the wrong person for a position can end up costing a company time and resources.
Thankfully, the process of hiring is one of many areas that has improved with the help of tech innovation. Today’s staffing and recruiting companies develop and adopt cutting-edge software and automation technology to help their clients make smarter and more efficient hiring decisions, streamlining repetitive tasks, and organizing messy paperwork to make it easier to build successful teams. Take a look at how these 15 San Francisco staffing and recruiting agencies and companies are fueling collaboration and helping companies find the right people to take them to the next level.
San Francisco Recruiting Agencies and Companies to Know
- Honor
- Hired
- Handshake
- SmartRecruiters
- Lever
- Entelo
- Work4
- HackerEarth
Founded: 2013
What they do: Handshake provides career recruitment services to college students and companies looking to hire them, connecting students with full and part-time jobs in addition to paid and unpaid internship opportunities. With a primary focus on the tech industry, Handshake has connected university students to jobs at Wayfair, IBM, Ernst & Young, UL and other internationally leading companies.
Headquarters: 225 Bush St.
Founded: 2012
What they do: The team at Lever has built a software tool that companies seeking prospective hires can use to discover and onboard the right candidates for their open positions. Lever's full spectrum recruitment service suite empowers top companies like Netflix and Shopify to find talented hires and encourage their growth, as well as offering analytics tools to measure their progress and success.
Headquarters: 1125 Mission St.
Founded: 2014
What they do: Honor is a home care recruiting company that connects families and individuals with professional caregivers and home care agencies to meet their particular care needs. By partnering with home care agencies working on a local level, Honor can help its clients hone their search and conveniently find caregivers in their area who can provide services specific to their requirements.
Headquarters: 201 3rd St.
Founded: 2012
What they do: Hired is particularly focused on matching top talent with companies in the tech sector, providing its clients with a platform for scouting and vetting potential candidates. Operating as a hiring marketplace, Hired's platform gives companies the ability to get accurately matched with potential hires, schedule and conduct interviews, and compare applicants more efficiently.
Headquarters: 303 2nd St.
Founded: 2010
What they do: SmartRecruiters envisions a tech-powered future for recruiting, delivering a smart software platform that companies can use to discover, hire and retain talented job candidates. Through the cloud-computing technology, SmartRecruiters' open hiring marketplace helps companies make more holistic and informed decisions about their hires, giving them insight into experience, background, and comparisons between candidates.
Headquarters: 225 Bush St.
Founded: 2011
What they do: Entelo is a recruiting platform that utilizes AI and automation technology to discover talent and match them to the right companies. Trusted by top brands like Lyft, Paypal and Target, Entelo gives brands full insight into their hiring practices and how well certain candidates match up to their position requirements, helping to make hiring more successful.
Headquarters: 123 Mission St.
Founded: 2010
What they do: Work4 teams up with both startups and Fortune 500 companies to help them discover talented professionals to fill their open roles on popular social networking sites. By partnering with companies like Facebook and Twitter, Work4 effectively scours social media networks to find skilled talent for companies in their client base.
Headquarters: 118 Second St.
Founded: 2012
What they do: HackerEarth's unique software platform assesses talented developers from across the globe and builds profiles with which companies can make smarter decisions about hiring for their dev teams. Trusted by a network of over a thousand companies internationally, HackerEarth's advanced software helps companies increase their hiring success rates and helps reduce risks.
Headquarters: 550 Bryant St.
Founded: 2009
What they do: Betts Recruiting helps companies scout and onboard individuals for marketing, human resources and revenue management positions within their enterprise. Betts Recruiting partners with top companies across the globe to help them build their marketing teams, and operates out of several national offices in San Francisco, Chicago, Austin, New York and Los Angeles.
Headquarters: 234 Front St.
Founded: 2010
What they do: Maven Recruiting Group connects companies and venture capitalists in all industries to potential candidates for executive, administrative, operations and HR roles. Maven Recruiting Group has earned a number of awards for its work, including a designation as one of the top 100 Women-Owned Businesses by The San Francisco Business Journal for three consecutive years.
Headquarters: 490 Post St.
Founded: 2015
What they do: Triplebyte provides tech companies with a software testing platform with which they can test and measure the skill of their potential engineering hires. Designed to help companies reduce hiring risks and build strong teams, Triplybyte provides a testing program where potential candidates can display their engineering skills and get matched with the right roles.
Headquarters: 301 Howard St.
Founded: 2006
What they do: Scion Staffing conducts rigorous talent searches for its clients in the tech industry and beyond, connecting companies across the globe with hiring recruits that effectively fill gaps in their enterprise. Scion Staffing offers a variety of staffing options to its clients, from executive hiring search services to delivering temporary hire opportunities.
Headquarters: 576 Sacramento St.
Founded: 2017
What they do: Terminal's primary focus is on engineering talent, and its team scans tech talent from all over the world in order to build strong engineering teams for its tech industry clients. Terminal helps top tech companies within Silicon Valley and beyond identify competitive tech markets across the globe and gives them the ability to hand pick tech talent from each hub in order to more impactfully expand their operations.
Headquarters: 1 Letterman Dr.
