Some two-thirds of internal staff at staffing firms were recruited from just six industries, according to the By the Numbers column in the latest issue of Staffing Industry Review magazine.

Those six industries are:

• Business professional services, 14%
• Healthcare (hospital/clinical), 11%
• Technology/telecom, 11%
• Restaurant hospitality, 11%
• Retail trade, 9%
• Finance/insurance, 9%

Internal workers at staffing firms carry a number of different titles such as recruiter, salesperson and branch manager. One term for certain internal workers highlighted in Staffing Industry Analysts’ online Lexicon is “staffing consultant.” It’s also this week’s Staffing Word of the Week. The Lexicon says the term:

“Refers to the front-line staff within a staffing company who act as an intermediary between an organization wishing to recruit (the client) and the individual seeking a career move or temporary assignment (the candidate). In some staffing companies, the role of staffing consultant is split whereby one person engages with the client while another engages with the candidate.”

The full definition of staffing consultant is available in SIA’s free online Lexicon.