John Nurthen
Executive Director, Global Research
John Nurthen manages the team that delivers Staffing Industry Analysts' international research content. He has over 25 years' experience in the staffing industry, having previously worked in senior managerial roles for three of the world's largest staffing companies: Select Appointments, Vedior and Randstad. He played an active role in major equity offerings and mergers.
Nurthen was a founder of the International Review of Employment, published in four languages, and DOVA, one of the largest global databases of online vacancies. He played a leading role in the development of common data standards with the creation of HR-XML SIDES.
He has held responsibility for internal and external communications, e-Business, technology matters, marketing, research, procurement and corporate social responsibility. Nurthen's experience makes him an authority on global recruitment and contingent workforce issues.
Recent Articles
Level Up Your Staffing Game with AI-Powered Recruiting
March 24, 2023
Join April Arteaga, Director of Sales, RPO & Staffing at PandoLogic, and John Nurthen, Executive Director of Global Research at SIA, to harness marketing strategies that will enhance your talent acquisition strategy.
Staffing Trends 2023
January 19, 2023
- This is the sixth in SIA’s series of annual Staffing Trends reports. The aim of this report is to highlight significant market trends that are likely to make 2023 different from prior years
- We also include a SWOT analysis highlighting the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats the... More
Online Job Advertising: 2022 Market Update
September 30, 2022
- SIA’s latest annual review of the online job advertising landscape includes market insights on job boards, job aggregators, online classifieds, social media sites, community sites and job advertising tools (programmatic job advertisers, job distributers, and job post optimizers)
- Includes a ranking... More
Software Integration Best Practices for Staffing Companies
August 19, 2022
- The proliferation of HR tech available to staffing companies enables them to create an extensive technology ecosystem connecting them with candidates, employees, and clients
- But, to deliver a seamless experience to all users and to make the extensive amounts of data operationally useful, attention... More
Unicorns in the Workforce Solutions Ecosystem
August 18, 2022
- There is much innovation happening in the Workforce Solutions Ecosystem and nowhere is that more apparent than among startups that have attracted enough investment interest to achieve unicorn status.
- This report identifies 72 such unicorns with company profiles and an analysis by category and... More
Workforce Solutions Ecosystem 2022
June 29, 2022
- This is our annual update which codifies and defines the various parts of the Workforce Solutions Ecosystem. It is an essential guide for those who operate within this Ecosystem and also those who procure services or products from it.
- 2021 has been a year in which the ecosystem has emerged strongly... More
EMEA SI Report Webinar - June 2022
June 24, 2022
In this webinar our expert Analysts share trends across the staffing industry, with an update on current legal developments across Europe.
Global Staffing Back Office Software Landscape
June 1, 2022
- Following our review of front office software at the end of 2021, this is SIA’s first detailed look at the vendor landscape for back office software
- This report provides a high level overview of 56 global back office software vendors together with a very detailed analysis of 19 of the leading... More
Outplacement Landscape 2022
April 29, 2022
- This is the third Outplacement Landscape published by SIA and provides an overview of the difficult market that unfolded in 2021
- At the same time, increasing career activism among organizations keen to retain workers in a market suffering from acute skills shortages has allowed outplacement firms... More
Staffing Industry Report Webinar - April 2022
April 6, 2022
- Economic and Employment Trends
- Outlook/Pulse Survey & Chatbots
- Platform Environment
- Temporary Staffing Platforms
- M&A Trends
- Watch the full, one-hour webinar on demand (available to corporate members only)