News Releases

May 20, 2025

Haley Marketing Group Acquires Polaris Recruitment Communications

Haley Marketing Group, the leading website development, content, and recruitment marketing firm serving the staffing and recruiting industries, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Polaris Recruitment Communications. This strategic acquisition further strengthens Haley Marketing’s recruitment marketing capabilities, providing clients with expanded expertise and solutions to optimize their talent acquisition strategies. Founded in 2004, Polaris Recruitment…

May 15, 2025

Staffing Legislation Decoded: What You Need to Know

In this Insight with Insiders podcast, Toby Malara, Vice President of Government Relations for the American Staffing Association, joins Julie Ann Bittner, TRICOM CEO, to discuss the latest burst of legislative activity that impacts the staffing industry on the federal and state levels. Toby advises on all staffing-related legislation and regulation, including the Affordable Care…

May 15, 2025

Economic Outlook for 2025

In this Insight with Insiders podcast, TRICOM CEO Julie Ann Bittner is joined by Jason Turner, Chief Investment Strategist for Great Lakes Advisors. In this role, Jason authors market and economic commentary, regularly presents in the media and to professional conferences, and works with client portfolio managers to support institutional and private clients. As the…

April 16, 2025

George Herat Joins Recruitment Tech Company Tracker as COO

TrackerRMS, a global leader in applicant tracking systems (ATS) and customer relationship management (CRM) software for the recruitment and staffing industry, has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of tech executive George Herat as Chief Operating Officer. Based in London, Herat has a demonstrated track record of driving revenue growth and operating leverage in private equity-backed…

March 24, 2025

How Sustainable Are Your Profits?

Overview The merger and acquisition (M&A) environment was changed in 2021, perhaps permanently. Following the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, in which the U.S. private equity (PE) deal count increased 1% despite draconian forecasts, the deal count increased 55% in 2021.1 As we noted in our “Q3 2024 Middle-Market M&A Insights,” there were record-setting activities from…

March 19, 2025

Avionté Launches Avionté SmartFund™, Powered by Kanmon, Delivering On-Demand Capital to Staffing Agencies

Today, Avionté launched Avionté SmartFund, powered by Kanmon, a fully integrated lending solution that puts staffing agencies in control of their financing by enabling fast, customizable access to capital. Avionté SmartFund is an innovative solution for staffing firms that find traditional funding options lacking. Securing funds from banks can be difficult, especially for smaller agencies. And bank response times are often…

March 17, 2025

ClearlyRated Announces The 2025 Best Staffing Firms For Women™ List

ClearlyRated®, the leading provider of client, talent, and employee satisfaction surveys and service quality research for staffing agencies, announced the firms that have qualified for inclusion on its third annual Best Staffing Firms for Women™ list on ClearlyRated.com. “I’m excited to unveil the companies recognized on this year’s third annual Best Staffing Firms for Women…

March 11, 2025

Avionté Launches Enterprise-Grade AI Solutions to Transform Staffing Industry Workflows

Avionté, a leading provider of staffing and recruiting software solutions, today announced that it is leveraging Anthropic and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to integrate advanced artificial intelligence capabilities directly into the AviontéBOLD platform. This enterprise-grade AI integration represents a significant advancement for the staffing industry, embedding powerful AI capabilities seamlessly into recruiters’ existing workflows. “In today’s competitive staffing environment,…

March 05, 2025

Recruitment Tech Platform Tracker Unveils the Future of AI for Staffing

TrackerRMS, a global leader in applicant tracking systems (ATS) and customer relationship management (CRM) software for the recruitment and staffing industry, today announced the most significant milestone to date in its movement toward artificial intelligence: the new Evolution Virtual Agent (“EVA”), a natural language voice assistant that will be available in the Tracker recruiting platform later this year.  Meet EVA  Exhibiting at…