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Best Recruiting Agencies in Washington, DC

80 local agencies ranked by performance and reviews

Washington DC drives employment through federal agencies, lobbying, think tanks, and government contractors. Legal services, nonprofits, and international organizations cluster near the Capitol. Recruiters in Washington can help you fill federal, policy, legal, and nonprofit roles.

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The Midtown Group
4.5(217 reviews)

Founded in 1989, The Midtown Group pioneers 360-degree staffing services and solutions for organizations across both public and private sectors. Established as a certified women-owned business, Midtown is a rapidly expanding consultancy operating nationwide. Committed to delivering Red Carpet Service, Midtown ensures that all clients achieve their mission goals by providing customized staffing services and solutions with unparalleled speed and expertise, especially in mission-critical and urgent situations. The team lives by the promise that every employee should "Love What They Do", ensuring that all clients love the work delivered for them.

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First Class Workforce Solutions
4.5(78 reviews)

First Class Workforce Solutions is an industry-leading temporary staffing and management placement agency that specializes in recruiting high quality, skilled individuals for customers in the food service, hospitality and janitorial industries. We work with corporate cafeterias, hospitals, hotels, warehouses, sports complexes, catering companies, and much more. First Class Workforce has been providing employers with proven staffing solutions that help grow their business, reduce risk and boost their bottom line for more than 25 years.

28
The Choice Inc.
4.5(62 reviews)

Since 1983, we have been a trusted boutique recruiting and staffing agency in Washington, DC, proudly women-owned and led. We specialize in connecting top talent with mission-driven organizations across Virginia, Maryland, and the DC metro area, with a particular reputation for staffing the most prestigious nonprofits and associations in the region. Our services span temporary, temp-to-hire, and direct hire placements across administrative, program support, human resources, development and fundraising, marketing and communications, and meetings and events roles. Every candidate undergoes comprehensive in-house interviews, assessments, and background checks, and we stand behind our placements with a ninety-day replacement guarantee.

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At Your Service Staffing
4.5(20 reviews)

With over 35 years of experience, we are a premier front-of-house staffing solution for food service and catering companies across New York City, Long Island, Boston, Washington D.C., and Baltimore. We provide highly trained servers, bartenders, and captains to events and venues including corporate dining, universities such as Harvard and Boston College, and prestigious government institutions including the U.S. Senate and embassies. Our proprietary screening process ensures every professional is prepared to seamlessly blend in and deliver exceptional service. With more than 2,000 employees nationwide, we are committed to complete client success through an unwavering passion to serve.

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Contact 1
4.5(31 reviews)

WHO IS CONTACT 1? You know that local coffeeshop you love? The one with amazing coffee and friendly staff who know your order? At Contact 1, we bring that mentality to staffing and recruiting. We want to get to know you and your goals to find you your next hire or job opportunity. Contact 1 is your local DC staffing and recruiting firm. We're right down the street and we have the experience and integrity to deliver high quality service to our clients and candidates. Whether you're looking for a meaningful new career opportunity or a talented professional to support your team, we're in your corner.

31
Capital Restaurant Resources
4.5(10 reviews)

Capital Restaurant Resources (CRR) is a boutique staffing and recruiting company based in Washington, DC. We offer full time managerial recruiting services to assist in finding your next Exec Chef, GM, Sous Chef, or Assistant Manager. We also offer temporary staffing services in the hospitality, administrative, warehouse, and general labor fields.

32
Paladin
4.5(6 reviews)

Covid-19 Update: While most of our branches are now physically closed due to Covid-19 precautions, we are able to assist you remotely via the local staffing agency location phone number listed here, or you can dial 1-877-663-4748 to be directed to a recruiter. Call or visit our website for more information. Paladin San Francisco, CA is a professional staffing and recruitment firm dedicated to the marketing, creative and communications professions.

33
PoliTemps
4.5(2 reviews)

Since our founding, we have been the premier political and public affairs staffing agency serving the Washington, D.C. metro area, placing professionals who are both exceptionally skilled and politically astute. Our candidates fill administrative, legislative, research, communications, and PR roles for campaigns, associations, nonprofits, and government affairs organizations. With over one million hours of placements and 400-plus permanent hires under our belt, we understand this unique world and deliver talent that can hit the ground running on Capitol Hill and beyond.

34
Law Counsel Staffing
4.5(1 review)
35
Reaction Search International Inc.
4.5(1 review)

Reaction Search International is a nationally recognized executive search firm founded in 1995 and headquartered in San Ramon, California, with a global presence spanning North America, Europe, and Asia. We specialize in identifying and placing senior-level professionals across more than 35 vertical markets, expertly managing every phase of the search from pre-screening and assessments to final placement. Our consultants are skilled at evaluating both technical qualifications and cultural alignment, ensuring that the executives we place drive lasting organizational success. Ranked by Forbes among America's Best Executive Recruiting Firms, we deliver the reach and rigor our clients need to secure transformative leadership talent.

36
Global Employment Solutions
4.5(3 reviews)

Global Employment Solutions is a reliable staffing partner you can trust. With over 60 years of experience, we've supported clients through all phases of the business cycle and understand that the pressure to optimize costs and maximize efficiency has never been greater. As a preferred staffing partner to Fortune 500 including large health companies and government agencies across the United States, you'll partner with a staffing team who will work closely with you to understand your needs, then leverage our proven service delivery model to efficiently and quickly deliver qualified candidates who are thoroughly screened and prepared to deliver on day one.

37
Natna Staffing Solutions
4.5(4 reviews)

With over four years of experience in the hospitality staffing industry, we connect hotels, resorts, and hospitality businesses in the Washington, DC area with the reliable, experienced professionals they need to deliver exceptional guest experiences. Our deep relationships with the region's best hotel brands and companies have earned us a reputation for quality, responsiveness, and a commitment to matching the right talent to each role. We specialize in both temporary and permanent staffing solutions for front-of-house and back-of-house positions, giving hospitality employers the flexibility to meet seasonal demand and long-term workforce goals with confidence.

38
Scion Staffing
4.4(5 reviews)

At Scion Staffing Appleton, we are proud provide local, remote and national employers with top-notch staffing and recruiting services for the Southern U.S. and national markets. At Scion, we're focused on providing you with incredible talent options that match your unique working requirements and culture. Through our innovative team building and recruitment solutions, we close the gap in temporary staffing, contract-to-hire employees, direct-hire contingent search, as well as executive search needs. The Business Times has recognized Scion as a leading staffing firm for Retained, Contingent, and Temporary Services for the past sixteen years running, and Scion was recently awarded to the list of Best Executive Recruiting Firms in the World.

39
Garrison & Sisson, Inc.
4.4(1 review)

Since 1986, our Washington, DC-based legal search firm has placed over 2,000 attorneys into permanent positions at law firms and corporations across the country. We recruit lawyers and practice groups at all levels of seniority and across all substantive practice areas, with particular depth in government attorney placements and in-house counsel searches. Named the National Law Journal's number one legal recruiting firm in Washington, DC for seven consecutive years, we bring an equal mix of intellectual rigor and emotional intelligence to every search. Our mastery of the lateral attorney market means clients and candidates can trust us to make the right match.

40
Hawthorne Lane
4.4(86 reviews)

Hawthorne Lane specializes in the recruitment of administrative and operations professionals for direct-hire, temp-to-hire, and temporary positions. We take pride in our ability to match candidates with the unique requirements of each business and organization - whether in person, hybrid, or remote. Our mission is to do great work in the eyes of the people we are fortunate enough to serve. The quality of the match between our candidates and clients is the true measure of our success.

41
MindFinders, Inc.
4.4(7 reviews)

Founded in 2001 and based in Washington, D.C., we deliver mission-critical staffing and IT project solutions to federal agencies, state governments, nonprofits, and Fortune 500 corporations throughout the greater D.C. metro area. Our core service areas include accounting and finance recruitment, IT consulting and staffing, executive search, and administrative and operations placement, with deep capabilities in software development, business intelligence, database administration, network support, and systems maintenance. Over more than two decades we have successfully partnered with more than 17 federal agencies, 22 state government entities, and numerous commercial clients, building a reputation for the highest standards of business ethics and a consistent track record of placing the right professionals in mission-sensitive roles.

42
Computer Futures
4.4(2 reviews)
43
Help Unlimited Temps Inc.
4.4(8 reviews)

We are a certified small, women-owned boutique staffing agency with over 45 years of experience connecting Washington, DC area companies, nonprofits, law firms, museums, and government agencies with top-tier administrative, clerical, secretarial, and IT professionals. Conveniently headquartered in the downtown DC business district, we offer temporary staffing, temp-to-perm solutions, and direct hire placements tailored to the specific needs of each client. Our long tenure in the market has allowed us to build a deep candidate network and an intimate understanding of what DC-area employers require. We take pride in making matches that benefit both the organizations we serve and the professionals whose careers we help advance.

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HireQuest
4.4(19 reviews)

HireQuest Direct formerly known as Trojan Labor and Command Center specialize in skilled labor, general labor, restoration, janitorial, site clean-up, composite crew, demolition, administrative, hospitality, special events, certified flaggers, traffic control technicians and off-duty police officers. HireQuest Direct follows the strictest screening and application processes and has over 18 years of providing a consistent and qualified pool of labor to construction sites, hospitality, corporate and public building and design projects as well as long- term government and institutional contracts. HireQuest Direct is Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) WBE and DBE certified.

45
LLM Placements
4.3(1 review)
46
Adams & Martin Group
4.3(5 reviews)

Recognized as a leader in the legal staffing industry, we specialize in recruiting and placing legal secretaries, paralegals, attorneys, and legal support professionals across all practice areas at law firms and corporate legal departments nationwide. With offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Denver, Atlanta, Minneapolis, St. Louis, and Washington D.C., our dedicated legal recruiters provide temporary, temp-to-hire, direct-hire, attorney search, litigation solutions, and project team staffing. We take a personalized approach to every engagement, understanding the unique layers of each client and candidate. As a values-driven firm guided by honesty, ethics, and integrity, we deliver legal talent that makes a meaningful difference.

47
R & W Group
4.3(5 reviews)

R & W Group is a staffing agency for legal, IT, administrative and accounting/finance professionals. We have been placing candidates in temporary and permanent positions since 2009. Our focus is on the Washington, DC area, but many of our clients are national and ask for our help across the US. Our clients include law firms, corporations, and non-profit organizations.

48
SNI Companies
4.3(5 reviews)

With over two decades of building trusted partnerships nationwide, we connect exceptional talent with leading organizations across technology, accounting, finance, banking, legal, administrative, and energy sectors. Operating through 20 locations and seven specialized divisions, we serve diverse clients from startups and private equity firms to Fortune 100 companies. Our comprehensive staffing solutions span contract, temporary, and direct hire placements through executive search services, delivering satisfaction scores that are double the industry average. Our strong national network delivers exceptional talent from major metro areas to remote locations, and our targeted recruiting approach ensures we match not only skills but also cultural fit for lasting success.

49
Randstad
4.2(37 reviews)

Backed by over 65 years as the world's largest HR services provider, we deliver comprehensive staffing and workforce solutions across the United States through our specialized operating companies. Our teams place talent in technology, engineering, accounting and finance, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, logistics, and office administration. From temporary and direct hire placements to recruitment process outsourcing, managed services, and HR consulting, we serve as a total workforce solutions partner for businesses of all sizes. With more than 86,000 deployed workers across North America, we combine global scale with local expertise to match exceptional talent with opportunity.

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Star Enterprises
4.2(6 reviews)

Based in Washington, DC, we are a 100% woman and minority-owned workforce and facilities services firm holding 8(a), EDWOSB, CBE, and LDBE certifications, delivering staffing, janitorial and facilities management, training programs, deep cleaning, snow and ice management, and office management services to clients across the greater DC metropolitan area. Our staffing practice is focused on discovering, attracting, and placing exceptional individuals with employers in hospitality, government, commercial real estate, and residential property management. With our tagline of Performance, Not Promises, we bring a disciplined, service-oriented approach to every engagement, ensuring clients receive prompt and reliable support throughout the placement process.

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