DENVER, Aug. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Staffing Referrals, the #1 automated referral management (ARM) platform for the staffing industry, proudly announces the winners of the 2025 Referral Impact Awards. These awards celebrate staffing firms that excel at cultivating talent communities and transforming those relationships into referral networks that drive business growth.
Exceptional talent experiences have become essential for staffing industry success. Today’s best-performing staffing firms understand that a thriving talent community is their top competitive advantage. A firm’s referral program performance directly reflects the strength and authenticity of its talent community relationships, and those relationships help drive business growth by opening doors to new candidates and new clients alike. Leading staffing firms source over 40% of their candidates through referrals, allowing them to deliver superior talent while reducing job board dependency.
By recognizing these industry leaders, the Referral Impact Awards demonstrate how strategic community building translates into measurable business results, setting a new standard for excellence in talent engagement and referral generation.
The 2025 Referral Impact Awards comprise four categories of excellence.
Community Builder
This award celebrates staffing firms that generate the most active participation with their referral program. The winners demonstrate exceptional engagement, fostering a supportive and interactive environment for their talent.
- Advantage Medical Professionals
- Amare Medical Network
- Code Talent
- ComResource
- Covelo Group
- FlexTrades
- Healthcare Staffing Professionals
- Heitmeyer Consulting
- Hire Energy
- I.K. Hofmann USA
- Integrity Staffing Solutions
- Job1USA
- Lucid Staffing Solutions
- Openwork
- Openwork Health
- Search Services
- Search Wizards
- Spark Talent Acquisition
- StaffHealth
- The Vision Companies
- TOPS Staffing
- Worx
Most Referred
This award recognizes the firms that earn the most candidate referrals from their ambassador network. It highlights the power of reputation and trust in the staffing industry.
- Atlas MedStaff
- Amare Medical Network
- Blue Chip Talent
- Bridgeview
- Care Team Solutions
- Cell Staff
- Code Talent
- ComResource
- CrossMed Healthcare
- FlexTrades
- HardHat Workforce Solutions
- Healthcare Staffing Professionals
- Heitmeyer Consulting
- Hire Energy
- I.K. Hofmann USA
- Integrity Staffing Solutions
- MAS Medical Staffing
- Murray Resources
- Openwork
- Openwork Health
- Per Sé Group
- Search Services
- Search Wizards
- Shiftfillers
- Spark Talent Acquisition
- StaffHealth
- TLC Nursing
- Worx
- Your Employment Solutions
Best-in-Class
This award honors the firms that most successfully harness referrals to grow their business. The winners have placed a significant percentage of referral candidates into jobs, showcasing the effectiveness of their referral programs.
- Atlas MedStaff
- Cardinal Services
- CrossMed Healthcare
- Doherty Staffing Solutions
- Fettig.jobs
- Integrity Staffing Solutions
- HardHat Workforce Solutions
- MAS Medical Staffing
- Partners Personnel
- Spark Talent Acquisition
- Worx
- WSI Talent
- Your Employment Solutions
Emerging Excellence
This award recognizes firms that have demonstrated remarkable momentum in building their referral programs. The winners have implemented innovative strategies and achieved impressive results that signal their commitment to referral program excellence and community-driven growth.
- CCS Construction Staffing
- CHG Healthcare
- CompHealth
- Employment Solutions
- F|Staff
- GHR Healthcare
- HireCall
- IDR Healthcare
- Incendia Partners
- Interim Physicians
- Pioneer Healthcare Services
- Trusted Talent
- VieMed Healthcare Staffing
- Weatherby Healthcare
The 2025 Referral Impact Awards recognize staffing firms that deliver what HR leaders need most: quality talent that stays. These winners have built exclusive talent communities where referred candidates are 12x more likely to get placed and stay significantly longer on contract. When 73% of candidates are passive job seekers, these firms are more than EORs; they are strategic partners for companies that care about quality.
“The Referral Impact Awards showcase the transformative power of authentic talent relationships,” said David Folwell, President at Staffing Referrals. “These winning firms prove that when you invest in building genuine connections with your talent community, you create a competitive advantage that drives sustainable growth. They’re setting the standard for how modern staffing firms can thrive through strategic community engagement.”
The 2025 Referral Impact Awards are based on data collected in the Staffing Referrals platform from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2024. Only firms with at least 6 months’ worth of data were included.
Interested in being considered for the 2026 awards? Sign up with Staffing Referrals and start leveraging your referral program to its fullest potential.
About Staffing Referrals
Staffing Referrals helps agencies build talent communities, enabling them to reduce job board dependency and create more value for their customers by delivering higher-quality talent.
To learn more about Staffing Referrals and to request a demo of the software, visit https://staffingreferrals.com/.