
Summer 2026 Staffing Update
Employers Take a Strategic Approach to Hiring as Fall Hiring Season Approaches
Updates on our company, business insights, and employment trends and opportunities.
Clark Davis wins award in August 2024 during challenging market conditions
We are pleased to announce winning this coveted award for our efforts in the staffing industry this year, especially in these challenging economic times! Everyone at our firm has worked tirelessly to keep us at the forefront of the staffing industry while keeping our clients fully staffed and helping people find new jobs. Our leadership team acknowledges that this award is a testament to the tenacity of our entire team and our hardworking ethic during a time of high interest rates and slower hiring across the labor markets, and we are so proud to receive this award!
If you visit our office, you will see the award displayed prominently on our wall.
Staffing services cited as a way to improve net profits
Many of our large corporate clients report that they are experiencing a challenging business environment as of this summer, and one consequence of that has been hiring for jobs, which has slowed down somewhat as compared to last year. While this is a common issue during election years and during periods of high interest rates, we are also hearing positive feedback from corporate clients saying that their HR processes are better optimized when using external staffing resources (like ours). Some of our clients have reported achieving a cost reduction of over 50 percent when using staffing services instead of conducting a job candidate search via their internal human resources teams!
Indeed, one key reason for us being able to present an opportunity for employers to save on their hiring costs is the fact that we have an already-large pool of well-qualified job candidates in our database, which enables us to quickly locate and connect job seekers with our clients' hiring managers. With over 43,500 experienced job candidates in our list of active contacts, we are uniquely positioned to enable our clients to reduce the time and expense associated with hiring new employees to fill open job positions. This is exactly what our large clients have reported to be one of the main reasons for turning to companies like ours to help them improve their bottom line!
If you are looking to hire now, or in the near future, we are here to help you save time and money in that process! For more information, please take a look at our guidelines for how to submit job requests to us.
Summer season slows down hiring but job demand to return by next month
The month of July has brought with it plenty of hot weather and many employers and their staff are taking their vacations now. This explains the current weakness in volume of new job listings throughout the staffing industry, but we are seeing indications from our clients that this trend will reverse itself soon. As pointed out by many hiring managers recently, the need to hire people to cover job churn and market opportunities has not changed, but it just does not make sense to hire people when your own team is at the beach or on the golf course! Yet our client HR management teams and executives are already making plans to resume job candidate searches as soon as their staff start returning to their jobs after summer vacation. We are thus projecting that new job listings will begin to rise steadily as we get closer to the months of August and September.
Given the optimistic outlook that we have for the upcoming fall hiring season, and the growing expectation that there will be a cut in the interest rates set by the Federal Reserve in September (which spurs hiring), we are encouraging people to start updating their resumes now. Once our clients give us the green light to start posting all the new job openings on our website, you will want to be ready to take your career to the next level. So once your updated resume is ready to go, be sure to send your resume or CV to Clark Davis Associates to kick off your job search!

Employers Take a Strategic Approach to Hiring as Fall Hiring Season Approaches

Hiring Smarter: How Staffing Services Help Companies Navigate Today’s Talent Market
Many companies today are navigating a more cautious hiring environment. While demand for skilled professionals remains strong, employers are taking a closer look at hiring decisions, focusing on efficiency, flexibility, and finding the right talent to support their business goals.

Clark Davis wins award in August, 2025
We are proud to announce that Clark Davis Associates has once again been recognized with the NJBIZ Top Executive Search Firms award for our continued commitment and success in the staffing industry.
Whether you’re looking for the next step in your career or new talent for your team, Clark Davis Associates is here to help ensure that you succeed.