Staffing Agencies and Recruiters in Chicago

Brilliant specialises in finance, accounting, and technology staffing in Chicago and the Midwest, with particular strength in financial services and corporate finance. They have built strong relationships with Chicago's financial institutions, private equity firms, and corporate accounting departments. Their technology practice covers roles at the intersection of finance and IT — ERP implementation, financial systems, and fintech.

Chicago staffing and search firm running contract staffing and direct hire search through dedicated specialty teams. The technology team splits into Product & Engineering, Data & Analytics, Cybersecurity, and Infrastructure & Cloud. Marketing and accounting & finance each have their own recruiting desks.

Chicago-headquartered recruiting firm that started as a few tech recruiters and now covers search, interim/embedded recruiting and RPO. It has function-specific practices for software engineering, product management, data & AI, creative/UX, marketing, and finance & accounting. Its site says it has been at it since 2001.

Women-owned staffing firm founded in Chicago in 2010, now based in Deerfield. It began in IT recruiting and expanded into accounting & finance, marketing, sales and operations. It screens candidates for skills match and for cultural and team fit, and fills direct-hire, long-term contract and contract-to-hire roles.

Evanston-based data, analytics and technology staffing firm with 15 years of analytics recruiting. It places data scientists, data engineers, ML/MLOps engineers and product and program managers on contract, as direct hires, or as fractional experts. Contractors are Burtch Works W2 employees with benefits, and 1099 is available.

Chicago-headquartered recruiting firm covering accounting, finance and technology since 1986. It handles retained search, contingency, direct-hire, contract, contract-to-hire and project work. Client testimonials on the site mention CFO searches, Big 4 public accountants and senior IT leadership.

Chicago-area IT recruiting firm that started in 1995 recruiting locally and now takes national searches. It places software engineers, programmers, network and systems engineers, DBAs and quantitative analysts, and has niches in trading-industry tech and healthcare IT. It works on contingency and says job-search services are free to candidates.

Engineering recruitment firm founded and still headquartered in Chicago, with more than 15 years in the field. Its software engineering practice covers backend, frontend, full-stack, API and embedded developers, and candidates get a technical interview with a recruiter. It also recruits manufacturing, electrical, test/quality and field-service engineers.

Staffing and recruiting firm headquartered in Chicago on West Randolph Street, with 28 US offices. It has practices in finance & accounting, information technology and digital marketing, plus HR, healthcare and administrative. It offers contract, contract-to-hire and permanent placement.

Boutique creative, digital and marketing staffing agency whose first office and current headquarters is in Chicago's West Loop, where it opened in 1988. It places designers (including UX), copywriters, marketing strategists and creative directors as freelancers, temp-to-perm or full-time. Its freelancers get medical, dental, 401(k) and paid vacation.